btop AlternativesProcess Monitoring & Process Management Tools like btop

btop is described as 'Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes' and is a process monitoring tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to btop for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best btop alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. Other great apps like btop are htop, Mission Center, Resources and Glances.

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  1. Process Explorer icon

    Process Explorer

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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...

    74 Process Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    Windows app. Btop is mostly for Linux (although Windows version does exist).

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    • Process Explorer is the most popular Windows alternative to btop.

    • Process Explorer is the most popular free alternative to btop.

    • Process Explorer is Free and Proprietarybtop is Free and Open Source
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    htop

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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...

    72 htop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • htop is the most popular Linux alternative to btop.

    • htop is the most popular Open Source alternative to btop.

    • htop is Free and Open Sourcebtop is also Free and Open Source
  5. Resources icon

    Resources

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    Resources is a simple yet powerful monitor for your system resources and processes, written in Rust and using GTK 4 and libadwaita for its GUI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  6. Glances icon

    Glances

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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.

    67 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • Glances is the most popular Mac alternative to btop.

    • Glances is Free and Open Sourcebtop is also Free and Open Source
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    appstat

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    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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Pachtop icon

    Pachtop

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    Dashboard Real-time Metrics The dashboard shows real-time metrics of your system. Metrics include CPU usage, RAM usage, Swap usage, Disk usage, and Network usage.
     
  10. btop4win icon

    btop4win

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main UI showing details for a selected process (font: Terminess Powerline)
     
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    KSysGuard

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    KSysGuard, also known as KDE System Guard and KDE System Monitor, is designed to make simple process control available to a user without needing to do any special setup - the defaults are usually perfectly adequate.

    30 KSysGuard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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    NeoHtop

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    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    A view of NeoHtop when it is opened.
     
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