htop AlternativesProcess Management & Process Monitoring Tools like htop

Apps similar to htop include Process Explorer, which is free. Other options are System Informer, btop++, witr and Mission Center. There's no shortage of Process Management Tools like htop, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone.

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  1. Process Explorer icon
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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...

    90 Process Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  2. System Informer icon
     56 likes

    A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Official successor to Process Hacker.

    61 System Informer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. witr icon
     23 likes

    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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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  4. Mission Center icon
     33 likes

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

    131 Mission Center alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
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  5. Resources icon
     28 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.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
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  6. Glances icon
     70 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.

    74 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. Task Manager icon
     70 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...

    83 Task Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  8. SystemExplorer icon
     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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  9. KSysGuard icon
     29 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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  10. BPYTOP icon
     12 likes

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

    Python port of bashtop.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. NeoHtop icon
     4 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
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