Process Hacker AlternativesTop Process Monitoring & Process Management Tools like Process Hacker

Process Hacker is described as 'A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware' and is a very popular process monitoring tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Process Hacker for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Process Hacker alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. Other great apps like Process Hacker are htop, System Informer, Mission Center and Glances.

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  1. Process Explorer icon

    Process Explorer

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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...

    79 Process Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    Comments about Process Explorer as an Alternative to Process Hacker
    Guest
    Positive
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    The Process Hacker is invasive, but process explorer no. (Virus detection)

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Process Explorer is a great Process Hacker alternative.

    • Process Explorer is the most popular Windows alternative to Process Hacker.

    • Process Explorer is the most popular free alternative to Process Hacker.

    • Process Explorer is Free and ProprietaryProcess Hacker is Free and Open Source
  2. htop icon

    htop

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    htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a 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...

    72 htop alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • Almost everyone thinks htop is a great Process Hacker alternative.

    • htop is the most popular Linux alternative to Process Hacker.

    • htop is the most popular Open Source alternative to Process Hacker.

    • htop is Free and Open SourceProcess Hacker is also Free and Open Source
    • htop is LightweightProcess Hacker is not according to our users
  4. System Informer icon

    System Informer

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

    49 System Informer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Comments about System Informer as an Alternative to Process Hacker
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    works to inject .dll files in running programs

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • System Informer is Free and Open SourceProcess Hacker is also Free and Open Source
    • System Informer is LightweightProcess Hacker is not according to our users
  6. Glances icon

    Glances

     67 likes
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    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.

    67 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • Glances is the most popular Mac alternative to Process Hacker.

    • Glances is Free and Open SourceProcess Hacker is also Free and Open Source
    • Glances is LightweightProcess Hacker is not according to our users
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    Task Manager

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    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...

    70 Task Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Comments about Task Manager as an Alternative to Process Hacker
    Bananas
    Negative
    0

    process hacker has many more features and can help detect bad acting apps and malware, can also scan with virustotal

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Task Manager is Free and ProprietaryProcess Hacker is Free and Open Source
    • Task Manager is LightweightProcess Hacker is not according to our users
  10. SystemExplorer icon

    SystemExplorer

     97 likes
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    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 types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    Comments about SystemExplorer as an Alternative to Process Hacker
    Clemens_Ratte_Polle
    Positive
    0

    Detects all Startup and Autostart apps

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    • SystemExplorer is Free and ProprietaryProcess Hacker is Free and Open Source
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    appstat

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    Real-time monitoring of CPU, memory, disk, and thread metrics for running applications without workflow interruptions. Identify resource bottlenecks, memory leaks, and performance spikes. Freeware with no registration required, featuring dark/light modes, always-on-top option, and exportable logs for team analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    KSysGuard

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    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.

    30 KSysGuard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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  13. vtop icon

    vtop

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  14. MiTeC Task Manager Deluxe icon

    MiTeC Task Manager Deluxe

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    Task Manager DeLuxe (TMX) is based on MiTeC System Information Component Suite and offers powerful features available in standard Windows Task Manager in lightweight portable package with many more enhancements.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • MiTeC Task Manager Deluxe is the most popular commercial alternative to Process Hacker.

    • MiTeC Task Manager Deluxe is Paid and ProprietaryProcess Hacker is Free and Open Source
    • MiTeC Task Manager Deluxe is LightweightProcess Hacker is not according to our users
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