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




htop is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is btop++, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to htop and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to htop are Glances, witr, BPYTOP and NeoHtop.
Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.




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.




its cli based and works on windows. exactly what i googled and looked for.

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.

Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
Python port of bashtop.











It has lots of info in just one screen. It's even better than htop. Nonetheless I have both installed, just in case.


vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.

Vtop has pretty braile graphs, as well as tight vim styled key bindings.


ca. 2020-01-25 The original author of gotop started a new tool in Rust, called ytop, and deprecated his Go version. This repository is a fork of original gotop project with a new maintainer to keep the project alive and growing.

Gotop has most of the features of htop with an easier-to-use interface, and among the htop-like monitoring tools I've tried gotop's TUI is the most robust and consistent.


System Activity Monitor for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Customizable, precise, and lightweight apps to keep an eye on the activity and performance of your devices.




psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, users) in a portable way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by command line tools such as: ps, top, df...



I like Glances because it has more visible information