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 witr.

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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...

    85 Process Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    Process Explorer vs htop Comments
    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 is Free and Proprietaryhtop is Free and Open Source
  2. 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.

    72 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Glances vs htop Comments
    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.

    • Glances is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
    • Glances is a Process Monitoring htop is a Process Management Tool
  3. witr icon
     21 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.

    26 witr alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

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

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

    127 Mission Center alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
     
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    Mission Center vs htop Comments
    Michal D.
    Negative
    0

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

    • Mission Center is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
    • Mission Center is a System Information htop is a Process Management Tool
    • Mission Center is Privacy focusedhtop is not according to our users
  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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
     
  6. Task Manager icon
     69 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...

    81 Task Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Task Manager vs htop Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    2

    Performance\CPU\ right-click on graph Change graph to > Overall utilization (default), Logical processors, NUMA nodes

    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.

    • Task Manager is Free and Proprietaryhtop is Free and Open Source
    • Task Manager is a Process Monitoring htop is a Process Management Tool
  7. 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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  8. 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.

    38 KSysGuard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
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    Discontinued

    This app is unmaintained and no longer released by the KDE community. You can take a look at Plasma System Monitor icon Plasma System Monitor instead.

    KSysGuard vs htop Comments
    ab1
    Negative
    0

    You can monitor GPUs with ksysguard-gpu.

    Guest
    Positive
    1

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

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    more options and better UI

    • KSysGuard is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
    • KSysGuard is a Process Monitoring htop is a Process Management Tool
  9. BPYTOP icon
     12 likes

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

    Python port of bashtop.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. 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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