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bottom	System Informer
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows
Plots CPU, memory, network, temperature and disk I/O over time, with a zoomable interval Process widget with sorting, searching, tree mode and kill signals	Open source under the MIT licence, unlike the Sysinternals equivalents Detailed stack traces with kernel-mode, WOW64 and .NET support
Some sensors and metrics are only available on some platforms Charts take terminal space; a small window gets cramped	Windows 10 or later only Its kernel driver is sometimes flagged by security software
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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