Usage Alternatives

Usage is described as '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' and is a system information utility in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Usage for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Usage alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. Other great apps like Usage are htop, appstat, Glances and Windows Task Manager.

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Usage alternatives page was last updated Mar 5, 2025
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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...

    76 Process Explorer alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    Process Explorer screenshot 1

    Process Explorer Features

    1.  Process Monitoring
    2.  CPU Monitoring
    3.  Affinity Mask
    4.  Portable

    Process Explorer VS Usage

     

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

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

    • Process Explorer is Free and ProprietaryUsage is Freemium and Proprietary
  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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    htop Screenshot

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Runs on command line
    2.  Performance Monitoring
    3.  Command line interface
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  Portable

    htop VS Usage

     

    • htop is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Usage.

    • htop is the most popular Open Source alternative to Usage.

    • htop is Free and Open SourceUsage is Freemium and Proprietary
    • htop is LightweightUsage is not according to our users
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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.

    51 appstat alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    appstat screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Resource monitoring
    6.  CPU Monitoring
    7.  Memory Monitoring
    8.  Metrics
    9.  On top
    10.  Export to CSV
    11.  Disk Monitoring

    appstat VS Usage

     
  5. Glances icon

    Glances

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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.

    64 Glances alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Glances screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Hardware Monitoring
    3.  Filesystem
    4.  Custom Plugins
    5.  Website Monitoring

    Glances VS Usage

     
  6. Windows Task Manager icon

    Windows 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...

    73 Windows Task Manager alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Windows Task Manager screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Process Monitoring
    2.  Bundled with Windows
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Dark Mode

    Windows Task Manager VS Usage

     
  7. SystemExplorer icon

    SystemExplorer

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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.

    56 SystemExplorer alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    SystemExplorer screenshot 1
    Discontinued

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

    SystemExplorer Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Show hidden processes
    3.  Hardware Monitoring
    4.  Software Management
    5.  Autostart

    SystemExplorer VS Usage

     
  9. KSysGuard icon

    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.

    27 KSysGuard alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    KSysGuard screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    This app is unmaintained and no longer released by the KDE community. You can take a look at Plasma System Monitor icon Plasma System Monitor instead.

    KSysGuard Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No Tracking
    3.  Hardware Monitoring
    4.  CPU Monitoring
    5.  History graphs

    KSysGuard VS Usage

     
  10. BPYTOP icon

    BPYTOP

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    Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

    Python port of bashtop.

    13 BPYTOP alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Main

    BPYTOP Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Hardware Monitoring

    BPYTOP VS Usage

     
  11. Xfce Task Manager icon

    Xfce Task Manager

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    Easy to use application for monitoring and controlling running processes.

    66 Xfce Task Manager alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Xfce4 Task Manager v1.1.0

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Xfce Task Manager VS Usage

     
  12. GNOME System Monitor icon

    GNOME System Monitor

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    System Monitor is a tool to manage running processes and monitor system resources.

    81 GNOME System Monitor alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GNOME
    GNOME System Monitor screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Application Monitoring

    GNOME System Monitor VS Usage

     
  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.

    48 vtop alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    vtop screenshot 1

    vtop Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Terminal-based
    3.  Hardware Monitoring
    4.  Vim Key Mapping

    vtop VS Usage

     
  14. Bashtop icon

    Bashtop

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    Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor.

    20 Bashtop alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Bashtop screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Intuitive Interface

    Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Graphs

    Bashtop VS Usage

     
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