The bashtop is an impressive Linux resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, and network. However, it suffers from bash itself, and cross-platform support is a nightmare. Now we have the Python port of bashtop. We can use a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for CPU, RAM, SSD (hard disk), network, and processes information in a lovely format.
run multiple commands with sudo on your macOS, Linux and Unix
Debian 11
We use the apt command:$ sudo sh -c 'apt update && apt -y upgrade && apt -y install bpytop'
RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 or Fedora users
For RHEL 8 enable EPEL (see how to enable and use EPEL on CentOS 8) and then type the dnf command:$ sudo sh -c 'dnf update && dnf install bpytop'
FreeBSD install bpytop
Run the pkg command to install bpytop:$ sudo pkg install bpytop
Ubuntu snap installation
Execute the following snap command:$ sudo snap install bpytop
However, you need to grant additional permissions too:sudo snap connect bpytop:mount-observe
sudo snap connect bpytop:network-control
sudo snap connect bpytop:hardware-observe
sudo snap connect bpytop:system-observe
sudo snap connect bpytop:process-control
sudo snap connect bpytop:physical-memory-observe
Install bpytop on macOS using homebrew
Install install Homebrew on macOS if not already installed and then type the following commands:brew install python3 git
python3 -m pip install psutil
brew install hacker1024/hacker1024/coretemp
brew install osx-cpu-temp
brew install bpytop
macOS users please use iTerm2.
How to install Linux, OSX and FreeBSD manually
Clone the repo and run:git clone https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop.git
cd bpytop
sudo make install
We can uninstall it if not needed as follows:$ sudo make uninstall
How do I use bpytop?
All we have to do is type:$ bpytop
And boom:


bytop running on my laptop powered by Ubuntu
That’s pretty great. Here is a quick video demo for you:
check out the project page too.