Task Manager AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Process Management Tools

The best Process Management alternative to Task Manager is Process Explorer, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Task Manager and many of them are Process Management Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Process Management Tool alternatives to Task Manager are htop, System Informer, witr and Mission Center.

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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...

    90 Process Explorer alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  2. htop icon
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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...

    78 htop alternatives

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

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

    61 System Informer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  4. witr icon
     23 likes

    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.

    27 witr alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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  5. Mission Center icon
     34 likes

    Monitor your CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage.

    131 Mission Center alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
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  6. Process Lasso icon
     71 likes

    Real-time process and CPU affinity optimization utility with ProBalance technology to preserve responsiveness. Automates rules, power schemes, and core selection. Mitigates system slowdowns, enables persistent affinities, watchdog monitoring, and instance limits, running lightweight.

    47 Process Lasso alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. 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.

    127 Resources alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
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  8. Glances icon
     71 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.

    74 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. SystemExplorer icon
     98 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  10. Stacer icon
     59 likes

    Stacer is an open source system optimizer and application monitor that helps users to manage entire system with different aspects, its an all in one system utility.

    35 Stacer alternatives

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    • Linux
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  11. 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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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