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Sloth has some features that seem more Mac specific like filtering out non-user applications and such. Also, one is java vs a native (mac-only) app.

Lsof is Unix-standard, part of coreutils, and can be used anywhere, piped and automated.

Sloth exists only on OSX and is a GUI app.

I’d ask the opposite: Any reason anyone would anyone use Sloth over lsof?

> Lsof is Unix-standard

lsof is pretty common, but I don't think it is actually standard in any way, for example it is not part of POSIX or SUS which arguably are the two most influential UNIX related standards.

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html (ctrl-f lsof)

It works very well on macOS, which is an OS that I use for a large amount of time?

Does lsof not work very well on MacOS?

It works, but supposedly this works better.

It's a wrapper around a tool. Just try it!