tiptop

Project: https://github.com/nschloe/tiptop↗

Author: Nico Schlömer

Alternative to: top

License: MIT

Language: Python

This page last updated: 2026-03-29

tiptop is a modern system monitor in the spirit of top, built with the Textual framework for a rich terminal UI. Rather than rows of numbers, it presents CPU, memory, network, and disk activity as live graphs that update in place, giving an immediate visual sense of system load over time.

tiptop showing system resource graphs in the terminal

It works on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and uses psutil under the hood for cross-platform system data. The --net flag lets you specify which network interface to monitor.

Basic usage

tiptop                   # Launch the monitor.
tiptop --net eth0        # Monitor a specific network interface.