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btop

Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
5.0
Excellent8 reviews
33likes
3comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Process Monitoring
  2.  RAM Monitoring
  3.  CPU Monitoring
  4.  Resource monitoring
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Command line interface
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  No Tracking
  9.  No registration required

 Tags

  • system-information-utilities

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Sleeves Anon
4

Cool and compact, makes me look smarter than I am.

fikio
0

Very nice and detailed system monitor, and very light on resources. Aesthetically very pleasing. Installed on Manjaro Linux, over AUR

arsCynic
1

Aesthetically pleasing. Quite customizable as well.

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What is btop?

Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop.

  • Easy to use, with a game inspired menu system.
  • Full mouse support, all buttons with a highlighted key is clickable and mouse scroll works in process list and menu boxes.
  • Fast and responsive UI with UP, DOWN keys process selection.
  • Function for showing detailed stats for selected process.
  • Ability to filter processes.
  • Easy switching between sorting options.
  • Tree view of processes.
  • Send any signal to selected process.
  • UI menu for changing all config file options.
  • Auto scaling graph for network usage.
  • Shows IO activity and speeds for disks.
  • Battery meter
  • Selectable symbols for the graphs.
  • Custom presets

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btop information

  • Developed by

    Jakob P. Liljenberg
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    27 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

OS & UtilitiesSystem & HardwareNetwork & Admin

GitHub repository

  •  29,577 Stars
  •  892 Forks
  •  448 Open Issues
  •   Updated  
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about btop, and it has gotten 33 likes

btop was added to AlternativeTo by Vitaly Zdanevich on and this page was last updated .