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 monitoring 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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    A manager for tasks on the Android platform. An excellent task manager & killer. It can also optimize memory, storage, & cache. It integrates well with ES File Explorer & users can easily switch between the two apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Kindle Fire
     
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    Security Process Explorer

    Give you detailed information about each and every process.

    Indicate whether a process is safe or not.

    Allow you to terminate process with a single click.

    Let you block any unwanted processes or malware.

    Simpl.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    A windows 8-like Task Manager for Windows 7 ,work in progress!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    SterJo Task Manager is a FREE and advanced utility for process managing which allows you to get details on everything that’s running on your computer. The program is divided in several sections covering the main parts of each system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access key system statistics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Process manager for Linux desktop environments, able to show process- and system-details and also run scripts on combineable process- and systemevents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    With ProcessScanner Uniblue takes the perspiration and guesswork out of researching the processes running on your PC. ProcessScanner not only generates a detailed list of the items already running on your PC, it then goes on to give you valuable information as to the programs...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    CPU Usage Limiter for Linux - cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much cpu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Glsof is two separate utilities (Queries & FileMonitor) to the command line utility Lsof by Vic Abell. Both applications are written in Java. Another fundamental requirement is the command line Lsof that has to be installed on your system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Security Task Manager shows comprehensible information about programs and processes running on the computer. For each Windows process, it improves on Windows Task Manager, providing:

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Ananicy (ANother Auto NICe daemon) — is a shell daemon created to manage processes' IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications (anyone may add their own rule via github's pull request mechanism). It's mainly for desktop usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    This PSmisc package is a set of some small useful utilities that use the proc filesystem. We're not about changing the world, but providing the system administrator with some help in common tasks. There is options for using SELinux if you need it and fuser understands IPv6.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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