Ananicy Alternatives

Ananicy is described as '(ANother Auto NICe daemon) — is a shell daemon created to manage processes' IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications (anyone may add their own rule via github's pull request mechanism). It's mainly for desktop usage' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Ananicy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and iPad apps. The best Ananicy alternative is htop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ananicy are Process Lasso, vtop, Process Tamer and Usage.

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  1. 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...

    74 htop alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Process Lasso icon
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    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.

    43 Process Lasso alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. vtop icon
     15 likes

    vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Process Tamer icon
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    Process Tamer is a tiny utility that monitors the CPU usage of running processes and automatically lowers the priority of processes that are overloading the CPU until their CPU usage returns to a reasonable level.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Usage icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  6. This tool controls programs, disk, CPU. Replace task manager, tweak and tune up XP or Vista. Speed up windows startup. Get rid of spyware and viruses.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Ananicy Cpp icon
     1 like

    Ananicy rewritten in C++ for much lower CPU and memory usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Ctop icon
     3 likes

    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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
     
  9. Mz CPU Accelerator is an application that automatically changes the priority of the foreground window, by allocating more CPU power to the currently active application (program-game). It automatically de-allocates CPU priority when a new active application is used.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. cpulimit icon
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    CPU Usage Limiter for Linux - cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much cpu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. CPU Limiter icon
     1 like

    Limits CPU power to applications based on percentage CPU limit (per target process) ou or suspend target processes. The program permit add process using wildcard and actions triggered.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Qt
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
     
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    timelimit executes a command and terminates the spawned process after a given time with a given signal. A “warning” signal is sent first, then, after a timeout, a “kill” signal, similar to the way init(8) operates on shutdown.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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