Glances Alternatives

Glances is described as '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' and is a popular process management tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Glances for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Glances alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. Other great apps like Glances are htop, Process Monitor, System Informer and SystemExplorer.

Glances alternatives are mainly Process Management Tools but may also be Process Monitoring Tools or Network Monitors. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Glances.

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Glances

Free • Open Source
Process Management Tool

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Process Explorer
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Free • Proprietary
Process Monitoring Tool
Process Management Tool
Windows
PortableApps.com
72 Process Explorer alternatives
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...
- - Process Explorer is the most popular Windows alternative to Glances.
- - Process Explorer is the most popular free alternative to Glances.
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Process Explorer Features
1. PortableProcess Explorer can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
CPU Monitoring
Affinity Mask
htop
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Free • Open Source
Process Management Tool
Process Monitoring Tool
Mac
Linux
BSD
65 htop alternatives
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...
- - htop is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Glances.
- - htop is the most popular Open Source alternative to Glances.
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htop Features
1. Lightweighthtop consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Command line interfacehtop either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
3. Portablehtop can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
4. Ad-freehtop doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Runs on command line
Performance Monitoring
Opinions about htop as a Alternative to Glances
Almost everyone thinks htop is a great Glances alternative.
Process Monitor
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Free • Proprietary
Process Monitoring Tool
Windows
PortableApps.com
56 Process Monitor alternatives
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and...
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Process Monitor Features
1. PortableProcess Monitor can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Activity history
System Informer
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Free • Open Source
Process Monitoring Tool
Network Monitor
Windows
41 System Informer alternatives
System Informer is the official successor to Process Hacker and was originally created in 2008 by Wen Jia Liu as an open source alternative to programs such as Windows Task Manager and Process Explorer.
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System Informer Features
1. Ad-freeSystem Informer doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. LightweightSystem Informer consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. PortableSystem Informer can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Disk Monitoring
I/O Monitoring
CPU Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
SystemExplorer
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Free • Proprietary
Process Monitoring Tool
Process Management Tool
System Information Utility
Windows
PortableApps.com
52 SystemExplorer alternatives
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.
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SystemExplorer Features
1. PortableSystemExplorer can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Show hidden processes
Hardware Monitoring
Software Management
Autostart
Discontinued
While mostly functional it and its website hasn't been updated since 2017 and forums and support are gone.
Process Lasso
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Freemium • Proprietary
Process Management Tool
Process Monitoring Tool
Windows
32 Process Lasso alternatives
Process Lasso is NOT yet another task manager. It is a process priority optimization and system automation utility. Priority optimization, affinity optimization, core optimization, automated rules, automated power schemes, you name it and Process Lasso has it.
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Process Lasso Features
1. PortableProcess Lasso can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Affinity Mask
Windows Task Manager
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Free • Proprietary
Process Monitoring Tool
Process Management Tool
System Information Utility
Windows
66 Windows Task Manager alternatives
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...
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Windows Task Manager Features
Bundled with Windows
btop
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Free • Open Source
Process Management Tool
Process Monitoring Tool
Mac
Linux
FreeBSD
19 btop alternatives
Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
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btop Features
1. Ad-freebtop doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. Command line interfacebtop either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
3. Lightweightbtop consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
RAM Monitoring
CPU Monitoring
Resource monitoring
Bashtop
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Free • Open Source
Process Management Tool
Process Monitoring Tool
Mac
Linux
BSD
19 Bashtop alternatives
Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor.
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Bashtop Features
1. Command line interfaceBashtop either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Intuitive Interface
Graphs
BPYTOP
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Disk Usage Analyzer
Mac
Linux
BSD
13 BPYTOP alternatives
Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

Python port of bashtop.
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BPYTOP Features
Hardware Monitoring
Memory usage
GNOME System Monitor
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Free • Open Source
Process Monitoring Tool
Process Management Tool
Task Management Tool
Linux
BSD
GNOME
72 GNOME System Monitor alternatives
System Monitor is a tool to manage running processes and monitor system resources.
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GNOME System Monitor Features
1. Ad-freeGNOME System Monitor doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. LightweightGNOME System Monitor consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. Dark ModeGNOME System Monitor supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
Application Monitoring
Bottom
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Free • Open Source
Process Monitoring Tool
Process Management Tool
Network Monitor
Mac
Windows
Linux
10 Bottom alternatives
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
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Bottom Features
1. Command line interfaceBottom either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Terminal-based
Hardware Monitoring
Temperature Monitoring
Memory usage
Dashboard
Performance Monitoring
Customizable
Cross-Platform