Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux

Apps similar to px include Process Explorer, which is free. Other options are htop, Mission Center, Task Manager and Glances. There's no shortage of Process Monitoring Tools like px, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Linux, Windows, iPad and iPhone.

Native Apple Silicon monitoring for macOS with CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, memory, SMC sensors, processes, disks, SMART data and network views. It adds menu bar modules, floating panels, health alerts, disk treemaps, CSV exports and CPU, memory, disk and Metal benchmarks.


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

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.




The Windows version of btop++, which is itself the re-implementation and continuation of bashtop and bpytop written in C++. A rich, featureful terminal-based resource monitor that shows usage and statistics for processor, memory, disks, network, processes and services.











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.




pstop is a native Windows terminal system monitor inspired by htop. It brings per core CPU usage bars, memory and network meters, process tree view, search, filtering, and kill shortcuts directly to PowerShell with familiar htop style keybindings.

Provides real-time statistics for CPU, memory, disk, and network usage on macOS, allows users to view, organize, and terminate processes, analyze system resource consumption, view data in graphs and tables, check current transfers, and monitor system health.




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...


