htop Alternatives

htop is described as 'Interactive process viewer for Linux. It 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' and is a very popular process management tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to htop for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best htop alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. Other great apps like htop are System Informer, btop, Glances and Mission Center.

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  1.  11 likes

    Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. btop4win icon
     4 likes

    The Windows version of btop++, which is itself the re-implementation and continuation of bashtop and bpytop written in C++. A rich, featureful terminal-based resource monitor that shows usage and statistics for processor, memory, disks, network, processes and services.

    18 btop4win alternatives

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    • Windows
     
  3. witr icon
     6 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.

    24 witr alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  4. 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
     
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    Comments about vtop as an Alternative to htop
    Guest
    Positive
    -1

    Vtop has pretty braile graphs, as well as tight vim styled key bindings.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    vtop icon
    • vtop is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
  5. Bashtop icon
     12 likes

    Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor.

    23 Bashtop alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
     
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    Comments about Bashtop as an Alternative to htop
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    It has lots of info in just one screen. It's even better than htop. Nonetheless I have both installed, just in case.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Bashtop icon
    • Bashtop is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
  6. Atop icon
     7 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. gotop icon
     8 likes

    ca. 2020-01-25 The original author of gotop started a new tool in Rust, called ytop, and deprecated his Go version. This repository is a fork of original gotop project with a new maintainer to keep the project alive and growing.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about gotop as an Alternative to htop
    dadoomer
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    0

    Gotop has most of the features of htop with an easier-to-use interface, and among the htop-like monitoring tools I've tried gotop's TUI is the most robust and consistent.

    gotop icon
    gotop icon
    • gotop is Free and Open Sourcehtop is also Free and Open Source
  8. 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
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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
     
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