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Mac Monitor vs ProcessActivityView: catalog facts
Mac Monitor	ProcessActivityView
Free Free and open source on GitHub.	Free Freeware from NirSoft, free to use and redistribute unmodified.
macOS	Windows
Records Endpoint Security events like ProcMon does on Windows Graphical view of enriched system events	Per-file counts of opens, reads, writes and bytes Shows which DLL opened each file
macOS only Relies on a system extension that must be approved	The published requirements list versions through Windows 8 Injects a DLL into the inspected process
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License not stated	License: Freeware
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026

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