Hi,
FanControl dev here,
Just saw this. Indeed the name and overall UI seem similar. Some recognizable names in the industry have contacted me in the last year, but CoolerMaster was not one of them.
Now about the software looking like FanControl, I'm not upset or mad at it. As people said, I didn't create that UI design, just type in "material design dashboard" on google and you'll see. They just figured out what a good/simple modern layout looks like.
Side note, I *do* have a monetization scheme for FanControl, it's called a donationware. Since Jay'z video, that amount is non-negligible, but money was never the priority here, it just gives me extra flexibility and motivation to keep on going.
What makes FanControl, well FanControl (IMO, I'm biased), is its feature set and overall premise:
* free
* the hardware support aspect is open-source https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor
* plugins: the selection getting better over the year (https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases#plugins)
* minimal design/footprint 100 mb of RAM with UI on, drops to 15-30 with UI off. Next to 0% cpu usage.
* the "modular" aspect of constructing your config from small building blocks/functions into a complex logic pattern
Right now they seem to be aiming it as a "center hub" for your lightning, cooling, monitoring and so on, kinda like every manufacturer's software right now, so nothing new here. So you can probably forget about the small footprint. I'd be curious about the cooling feature set, and what kind of hardware support (motherboard fan control, especially) they offer beyond the typical monitoring and their own stuff. Also curious if they will try to make it expandable to import new sensors/hardware into it, and how that plays out. I'll keep a curious eye open.
That custom image/background look cute though, might be "inspired" by it