htop AlternativesTop Process Management & Process Monitoring Tools like htop

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

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  1. Process Explorer icon

    Process Explorer

     784 likes

    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...

    81 Process Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    Comments about Process Explorer as an Alternative to htop
    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 icon
    Process Explorer icon

    • Most users think Process Explorer is a great htop alternative.

    • Process Explorer is Free and Proprietaryhtop is Free and Open Source
  4. btop icon

    btop

     33 likes

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

    28 btop alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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  5. Glances icon

    Glances

     68 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.

    69 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Comments about Glances as an Alternative to htop
    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 icon
    Glances icon

    • Almost everyone thinks Glances is a great htop alternative.

    • Glances is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
  6. Mission Center icon

    Mission Center

     28 likes

    Monitor your CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage.

    120 Mission Center alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
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    Comments about Mission Center as an Alternative to htop
    Michal D.
    Negative
    0

    Minimal functionality and setting, focused on displaying graph's, Process manager tab requires a loot of work

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Mission Center icon
    • Mission Center is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
    • Mission Center is Privacy focusedhtop is not according to our users
  7. Resources icon

    Resources

     23 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  9. Task Manager icon

    Task Manager

     67 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...

    75 Task Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Comments about Task Manager as an Alternative to htop
    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 icon
    Task Manager icon

    • This alternative is disputed. Task Manager is a legitimate htop alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Task Manager is Free and Proprietaryhtop is Free and Open Source
  10. SystemExplorer icon

    SystemExplorer

     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.

    57 SystemExplorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  11. appstat icon

    appstat

     8 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. KSysGuard icon

    KSysGuard

     27 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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    Comments about KSysGuard as an Alternative to htop
    ab1
    Negative
    0

    You can monitor GPUs with ksysguard-gpu.

    Guest
    Positive
    1

    It's a great alternative but it's not terminal

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    more options and better UI

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    KSysGuard icon
    • KSysGuard is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
  13. BPYTOP icon

    BPYTOP

     12 likes

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

    Python port of bashtop.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Main
     
  14. NeoHtop icon

    NeoHtop

     3 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
    A view of NeoHtop when it is opened.
     
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