htop VS exa

Compare htop vs exa and see what are their differences.

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htop exa
54 129
5,891 23,271
2.5% -
9.2 3.2
7 days ago 17 days ago
C Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

htop

Posts with mentions or reviews of htop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-25.

exa

Posts with mentions or reviews of exa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing htop and exa you can also consider the following projects:

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

lsd - The next gen ls command

btop - A monitor of resources

colorls - A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:

gotop - A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop

fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.

gtop - System monitoring dashboard for terminal

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

vtop - Wow such top. So stats. More better than regular top.

coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

glances - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.