Task Manager Alternatives

Task Manager is described as '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' and is a popular process monitoring tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Task Manager for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Task Manager alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. Other great apps like Task Manager are htop, System Informer, Mission Center and Resources.

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    Yet Another (remote) Process Monitor (YAPM) is a powerful application that allows to view and manage your running tasks, processes, threads, modules...etc. and your services on a local or on a remote machine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. gtop icon
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    System monitoring dashboard for terminal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Sysmon View: an off-line Sysmon log visualization tool. Sysmon View helps in tracking and visualizing Sysmon logs by logically grouping and correlating the various Sysmon events together, using existing events data, such as executables names, session GUIDs, event creation time...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    A free and portable process database on your Windows computer that helps you find portable applications run from anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Remote Process Explorer is a powerful tool for managing, monitoring and analyzing processes on a local or remote computer. You can use Remote Process Explorer not only to get the list of processes running on a remote or local computer, but also to run a new a process, kill it or...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors. CPU / GPU / RAM usage, power consumption & temperature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
     
  7. LXTask icon
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    LXTask is the standard task manager and system monitor of LXDE. It starts via Ctrl+Alt+Del and is extremely lightweight.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    What's Running is a product that gives you an inside look into your Windows system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Daphne is a small (system tray) application for killing, controlling and debugging Windows' processes. It was born to kill a Windows process and became almost a task manager replacement. You can kill a process by dragging the mouse over the windows, by right-clicking the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  10. Ctop icon
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    Top-like interface for container metrics. ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers as well as a single container view for inspecting a specific container.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
     
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