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, Pachtop and Task Manager.

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  1. Filez: Ultimate File Manager for Android built with bleeding edge technologies. Get access to your recent files, images, media and documents in one tap. Browse your file system with no restrictions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
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  2. psutil icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. Resource Monitor is a system application in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is used to view information about the use of hardware (CPU, memory, disk, and network) and software (file handles and modules) resources in real time.

    56 Resource Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. lsof icon
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    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
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  5. nmon icon
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    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

    21 nmon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7.  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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. 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.

    62 LXTask alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. ytop icon
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    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
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  10. KillSwitch icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11.  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
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