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10 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Process Managers

Process management software helps users launch, supervise and control long-running applications and background services.

Pueue is a command-line task manager for sequential and parallel execution of long-running shell commands.

gob is a command-line process manager designed for developers and AI coding agents to run, monitor, and control background processes.

Overitall is a terminal user interface for managing multiple processes and viewing their logs from a single interactive display.

Overmind uses tmux to run multiple application processes in a single terminal while retaining access to each process individually.

Procman provides a unified dashboard for monitoring, controlling and interacting with multiple development processes.

PM2 is a production process manager designed primarily for Node.js and Bun applications.

Process Compose is a process manager, scheduler and orchestrator for running non-containerized applications.

proctmux is a terminal-based process manager for running and controlling long-lived processes and scripts.

OxMgr is a lightweight process manager for supervising long-running services across Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Hexus is a process manager built using .NET 10 designed to work on Linux and Windows seamlessly.