Keep an eye on your PC's temperatures.

Yes - completely. Thermal Buddy is our way of saying thanks for buying an Inferno Creative Studio product. There's no trial, no upsell, and no catch.

When you purchase any Inferno Creative Studio product - Drive Browser, Mesh2Print, or SideBar Buddy - your free Thermal Buddy code is included right in your receipt email. Download Thermal Buddy, run it, and enter that code when asked.

Yes. Thermal Buddy floats above your other windows - including borderless and fullscreen-windowed games (the modern default) - without stealing focus, so you can keep an eye on temps while you play. You can also fade it back so it's barely there, or drag it anywhere on screen. If a game uses old-style exclusive fullscreen and the overlay disappears, switch that game to Borderless in its display settings.

Absolutely. Tuck it away in the system tray and set it to pop to the front only when your CPU or GPU hits the red - so it stays out of your way until it actually matters.

No installer at all. Thermal Buddy is a single .exe - just download it and double-click to run.

That's expected. Windows only lets a program read your CPU, motherboard, and fan sensors with administrator rights, so Thermal Buddy asks for them once at launch - the "Do you want to allow this app to make changes?" prompt. It uses that access purely to read temperatures, loads, and fan speeds; it doesn't change your system settings or touch anything else on your PC. Thermal Buddy is also digitally signed, so Windows shows a verified publisher rather than an "unknown publisher" warning.

Yes. Your code works on several of your machines, so you can run Thermal Buddy on your desktop and your laptop. (Each code is good for a limited number of installs, which keeps it fair - it's meant for you, not the whole internet.)

No problem. Use the contact form below with the email you purchased under, and we'll get your code back to you.

Not at all. Thermal Buddy is deliberately lightweight - it reads your sensors every couple of seconds and sips memory, so it won't cost you frames in a game or slow anything down.

Yes. Beyond the overall CPU temperature, Thermal Buddy can list each individual core on its own line, so you can watch them rise and fall one by one. Just switch on "Per-core temperatures" in Settings. It's off by default - a modern CPU can have a lot of cores, which makes the widget tall - but flip it on any time you want the full breakdown.

Thermal Buddy only shows what your hardware actually reports - it can't invent a reading that isn't there. Fan speed is the most common one to go missing: many laptops (and a few desktops) run their fans through an embedded controller that Windows can't read an RPM from, so no fan row appears - that's normal and nothing is wrong. Desktops with a standard motherboard sensor chip usually show fan RPM automatically. The same idea applies to any sensor your particular PC doesn't expose.