htop Alternatives

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. Task Explorer is an advanced Task Manager tool with emphasis on, not just monitoring what applications are running, but on finding out what applications are doing. The UI focuses on expedience and getting real time data of what the processes are doing at any given moment.

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    • Windows
     
  2. An application for monitoring system resources. Plasma System Monitor provides an interface for monitoring system sensors, process information and other system resources. It is built on top of the faces system also used to provide widgets for plasma-desktop and makes use of the...

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
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    KillSwitch is an advanced system monitoring tool that is apart of Comodo Cleaning Essentials (CCE) it allows users to identify, monitor and stop potentially unsafe processes that are running on endpoint systems. Uniquely for a product of its type, KillSwitch leverages Comodo&#39.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. jdSystemMonitor is an advanced, desktop-independent system monitor for Linux. Its goal is to provide as much information about your system as possible, with a focus on process management.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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    Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. LXTask icon
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    LXTask is the standard task manager and system monitor of LXDE. It starts via Ctrl+Alt+Del and is extremely lightweight.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  7. Kiwi application monitor is a small program which lets you monitor your applications/processes, Windows and User activity...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. lsof icon
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    Lsof lists open files for running UNIX processes. It is a descendent of ofiles, fstat, and lsof versions 1, 2, and 3.

    8 lsof alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. ttop icon
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    System monitoring tool with TUI and historical data service.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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  10. Tux Manager icon
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    A Linux Task Manager alternative built with Qt6, inspired by the Windows Task Manager but designed to go further - providing deep visibility into system processes, performance metrics, users, and services.

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    • Linux
     
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    CoreFreq, a CPU monitoring software with BIOS like functionalities, is designed for the 64-bits Processors of architecture Intel Atom, Core2, Nehalem, SandyBridge and superiors; AMD Families from 0Fh ... up to 17h (Zen , Zen+ , Zen2), 18h (Hygon Dhyana), 19h (Zen3)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • openSUSE
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo Linux
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Red Hat
     
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