htop Alternatives for Windows

htop is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to htop and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to htop are System Informer, Glances, witr and Task Manager.

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  1. Process Explorer icon
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    Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The display consists of two sub-windows. The top always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information...

    85 Process Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    Process Explorer vs htop Comments
    dadoomer
    Negative
    8

    Made for Windows, this program is not similar enough to htop to count as an alternative.

    ab1
    Positive
    0

    Process Explorer can monitor GPUs out of box.

    • Process Explorer is Free and Proprietaryhtop is Free and Open Source
  2. Glances icon
     70 likes

    Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface.

    72 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Glances vs htop Comments
    wanwel
    Positive
    0

    I like Glances because it has more visible information

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    its cli based and works on windows. exactly what i googled and looked for.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Glances is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
  3. witr icon
     17 likes

    CLI diagnostic tool for tracing processes and their causal ancestry, explaining origins, supervising service, context like directories and containers, risk signals, with support for Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, platform-specific inspection, JSON output, and open licensing.

    26 witr alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  4. Task Manager icon
     68 likes

    Windows Task Manager is a task manager application included with Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that provides detailed information about computer performance and running applications, processes and CPU usage, commit charge and memory information, network...

    81 Task Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Task Manager vs htop Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    2

    Performance\CPU\ right-click on graph Change graph to > Overall utilization (default), Logical processors, NUMA nodes

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    -7

    Using htop we can see the load on every core separately while Task Manager just shows us an overview of all the cores, and not in details.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Task Manager is Free and Proprietaryhtop is Free and Open Source
  5. SystemExplorer icon
     97 likes

    System Explorer is an enhanced Taskmanager that provides detailed information about running processes, startup programs, IE add-ons (BHOs), drivers, services network connections, system resources and more.

    63 SystemExplorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  6. NeoHtop icon
     4 likes

    NeoHtop is a terminal based interactive resource monitor with a modern UI that works both on Linux, Windows and macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  7. appstat icon
     9 likes

    Real-time monitoring of CPU, memory, disk, and thread metrics for running applications without workflow interruptions. Identify resource bottlenecks, memory leaks, and performance spikes. Freeware with no registration required, featuring dark/light modes, always-on-top option, and exportable logs for team analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Bottom icon
     12 likes

    Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Bottom vs htop Comments
    Soy_Asher
    Positive
    0

    Fully customizable .toml file

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Bottom is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
    • Bottom is Customizablehtop is not according to our users
  9. btop4win icon
     4 likes

    The Windows version of btop++, which is itself the re-implementation and continuation of bashtop and bpytop written in C++. A rich, featureful terminal-based resource monitor that shows usage and statistics for processor, memory, disks, network, processes and services.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. This tool controls programs, disk, CPU. Replace task manager, tweak and tune up XP or Vista. Speed up windows startup. Get rid of spyware and viruses.

    44 AnVir Task Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. gotop icon
     8 likes

    ca. 2020-01-25 The original author of gotop started a new tool in Rust, called ytop, and deprecated his Go version. This repository is a fork of original gotop project with a new maintainer to keep the project alive and growing.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Discontinued

    The latest version (3.0.0) is from 2019, and the GitHub repository has been archived.

    gotop vs htop Comments
    dadoomer
    Positive
    0

    Gotop has most of the features of htop with an easier-to-use interface, and among the htop-like monitoring tools I've tried gotop's TUI is the most robust and consistent.

    • gotop is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
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