Alternatives to TrafficMonitor

A Windows floating window and taskbar widget showing network speed, CPU, memory and temperatures. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as TrafficMonitor.

  • Open Hardware Monitor

    Open-source reader for temperature, fan and voltage sensors.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    Open Hardware Monitor shows sensor readings in the tray or a desktop gadget on Windows and Linux, but upstream development stopped years ago.

  • Conky

    Display live system information in configurable desktop widgets.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Conky shows live system statistics in configurable desktop widgets on Linux instead of Windows, and useful layouts usually mean editing text files.

  • Stats

    See system resource use in the macOS menu bar.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOS

    Stats is a free, MIT-licensed monitor that puts system resource use in the macOS menu bar, so it moves you from Windows to Mac.

  • iStat Menus

    A macOS menu bar system monitor for CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors and battery.

    PaidProprietarymacOS

    iStat Menus is a paid, closed source macOS menu bar monitor with wide sensor coverage and highly customisable menu items, and it does not run on Windows.

Also worth comparing

These listings name TrafficMonitor as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • vnStat

    A console network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that logs interface usage over time.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    TrafficMonitor shows live network speed on the Windows taskbar, but it does not log interface usage over billing periods like vnStat.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.