Bottom AlternativesProcess Monitoring & Process Management Tools like Bottom

Bottom is described as 'Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor' and is a process monitoring tool in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Bottom for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and FreeBSD apps. The best Bottom alternative is htop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Bottom are btop++, witr, Glances and Pachtop.

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  1. htop icon
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    htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. htop is an interactive top replacement that runs in the terminal. The available columns are: PID, STATE, PPID, PGRP, SESSION, TTY_NR, TPGID, MINFLT...

    76 htop alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. witr icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  3. Glances icon
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    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.

    71 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Pachtop icon
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    Pachtop is a lightweight, performant, and opensource system monitor that provides real-time monitoring of your system's performance, application monitoring, and detailed system information. Built with Rust and Tauri

    59 Pachtop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  5. btop4win icon
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    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.

    20 btop4win alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. BPYTOP icon
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    Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

    Python port of bashtop.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. vtop icon
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    vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Historical resource monitoring, powerful controls for managing troublesome apps, and detailed visibility into hidden behavior that impacts your PC’s performance, privacy, and security.

    29 AppControl - Power Up Your Task Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. pstop icon
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    pstop is a native Windows terminal system monitor inspired by htop. It brings per core CPU usage bars, memory and network meters, process tree view, search, filtering, and kill shortcuts directly to PowerShell with familiar htop style keybindings.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PowerShell
     
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