Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer
Powerful GNOME application that provides in-depth disk usage analysis with graphical representation. It supports scanning of volumes, specific directories, and network folders, offering insights into space allocation both locally and remotely.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- FreeBSD
- GNOME
- Homebrew
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Sunburst chart
- Does not show ZFS filesystems
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Works Offline
Tags
- GNOME
- treemap
- free-disk-space
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Great app, but unfortunately it is a nightmare to install.
On linux, use the flatpack from the website: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.baobab
Meanwhile on MacOS, you have to use homebrew: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/baobab and launch the app from the command line by typing "baobab" (The macports package is years out of date, don't use it.)
If the above is too much of a hastle, try "SquirrelDisk" it has a nice download button on the website, that takes you to an equally nice github...
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What is Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer?
Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical application to analyse disk usage in any Gnome environment. Disk Usage Analyzer can easily scan device volumes or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote). Once the scan is complete Disk Usage Analyzer provides a graphical representation of each selected folder.
It can report disk usage for root (/). It can report disk usage for current working directory (.).
Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer information
Developed by
The GNOME Project Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.2Alternatives
83 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
simple and does the job
du can be used in more situations. sudo du / --human-readable --threshold=+1024MB --one-file-system
Great app, but unfortunately it is a nightmare to install.
On linux, use the flatpack from the website: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.baobab
Meanwhile on MacOS, you have to use homebrew: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/baobab and launch the app from the command line by typing "baobab" (The macports package is years out of date, don't use it.)
If the above is too much of a hastle, try "SquirrelDisk" it has a nice download button on the website, that takes you to an equally nice github release page.
Don't use on MacOS, it is terribly slow at scanning, and the "Move to Trash" doesn't move it to the ~/.Trash but deletes it. Also, Baobab is just generally confusing in the folder structure for some reason.
Use SquirellDisk instead. It is relatively fast and works well.
It works with any Gnome environment and lets you scan local or remote directories. You can also view the results as charts or treemaps.
One of the few Linux apps I really miss on Mac. Okay, it has MacPorts, but it is not native.
Having difficulty locating the download link
Baobab is a disk space analyzer for GNOME, but I'm looking for a disk space analyzer for Mac.
Baobab can be installed on Mac using MacPorts or Homebrew. I have just added this note on the app page