About htop

htop is a cross-platform interactive process viewer. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Compared to the traditional top, htop provides a more user-friendly interface with color coding, tree view for processes, and the ability to scroll both horizontally and vertically.

Installation

apt

sudo apt install htop

snap

sudo snap install htop

brew

brew install htop

pacman

sudo pacman -S htop

User Reviews

User demo_user_1

Essential System Monitor

2025-08-26 09:18:39

htop is absolutely essential for any Linux user. The interface is intuitive and provides much more information than traditional top. Color coding makes it easy to spot resource hogs.

User demo_user_2

Much Better Than Top

2025-08-26 09:18:39

Great improvement over top. Love the tree view and the ability to kill processes directly from the interface.

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Tool Details

Version
3.3.0
License
GPL-2.0
Pricing
free
Last Updated
2024-01-15

System Requirements

RAM
1MB
Disk Space
100KB

Tags

process-viewer system-monitor performance cli