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 Android apps. The best Usage alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. Other great apps like Usage are htop, witr, Glances and Pachtop.

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  1. lsof icon

    lsof

     8 likes

    Lsof lists open files for running UNIX processes. It is a descendent of ofiles, fstat, and lsof versions 1, 2, and 3.

    8 lsof alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. psutil icon

    psutil

     12 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    psutil screenshot 1
     
  4. nmon icon

    nmon

     13 likes

    This systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool gives you a huge amount of important performance information in one go. It can output the data in two ways

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Showing CPU/RAM/Disk utilisation , among other things
     
  5. Atop icon

    Atop

     7 likes

    An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on system-level and process-level.

    18 Atop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Atop screenshot 1
     
  6. ytop icon

    ytop

     7 likes

    A TUI system monitor written in Rust. Contribute to cjbassi/ytop development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    ytop screenshot from the officiel github repository.
     
  7. I

    Iotop

     8 likes

    Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    Iotop screenshot 1
     
  9. LXTask icon

    LXTask

     5 likes

    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
    LXTask screenshot 1
     
  10. Linux Process Explorer icon

    Linux Process Explorer

     10 likes

    Linux process explorer, behaves the same as the windows process explorer from Mark Russinovich.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Linux process explorer on ubuntu
     
  11. Python System Monitor icon

    Python System Monitor

     4 likes

    Python System Monitor (Psymon) is a cross-platform, task and performance monitor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Process table
     
  12. KillSwitch icon

    KillSwitch

     8 likes

    KillSwitch is an advanced system monitoring tool that is apart of Comodo Cleaning Essentials (CCE) it allows users to identify, monitor and stop potentially unsafe processes that are running on endpoint systems. Uniquely for a product of its type, KillSwitch leverages Comodo&#39.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    KillSwitch screenshot 1
     
  13. P

    px

     3 likes

    px tells you what processes are running on your system and how they are interconnected.

    27 px alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    px screenshot 1
     
  14. TaskExplorer by DavidXanatos icon

    TaskExplorer by DavidXanatos

     1 like

    Task Explorer is an advanced Task Manager tool with emphasis on, not just monitoring what applications are running, but on finding out what applications are doing. The UI focuses on expedience and getting real time data of what the processes are doing at any given moment.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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