Mystral for Mac
Menu bar fan-control utility with custom curves, auto-switching profiles, and live thermal charts.
By fexxdev. Free and open source, MIT licence.
Mystral at a glance
- Version
- 1.1.5
- Released
- 27 August 2026
- Download size
- 2.5 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Menu Bar and Notch
- Developer
- fexxdev
- GitHub stars
- 10
About Mystral
A native macOS menu bar app for controlling fan curves on Apple Silicon Macs.
Screenshots
How to install Mystral on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Mystral and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.1.5 from fexxdev's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to Mystral show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Mystral-1.1.5.dmg (2.5 MB).
What is new in Mystral 1.1.5
## Fixed - Prevented a crash after macOS wake when thermal or workspace notifications arrive off the main actor. - Wake callbacks now reapply fan control on the main actor. ## Added - Regression tests for thermal and screen-wake notifications delivered from a background queue. The DMG is ad-hoc signed. On first launch, macOS may require right-clicking Mystral.app and choosing Open.
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