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 50 alternatives to Process Hacker for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com 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 Resources.

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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...

    86 Process Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    Process Explorer vs Process Hacker Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    -4

    The Process Hacker is invasive, but process explorer no. (Virus detection)

    • Process Explorer is Free and ProprietaryProcess Hacker is Free and Open Source
    • Process Explorer is a Process Management Process Hacker is a Process Monitoring Tool
  2. htop icon
     285 likes

    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...

    78 htop alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
     
  3. System Informer icon
     56 likes

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

    60 System Informer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    System Informer vs Process Hacker Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    works to inject .dll files in running programs

    • 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
  4. 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
     
  5. 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
     
  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 Process Hacker Comments
    Bananas
    Negative
    0

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

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

    63 SystemExplorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    Discontinued

    While mostly functional it and its website hasn't been updated since 2017 and forums and support are gone.

    SystemExplorer vs Process Hacker Comments
    Clemens_Ratte_Polle
    Positive
    0

    Detects all Startup and Autostart apps

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
  9. appstat icon
     9 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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