Czkawka

Czkawka is a simple, fast, written in Rust and easy to use app to remove unnecessary files from your computer.

Features:

• Written in memory safe Rust
• Amazingly fast - due using more or less advanced algorithms and multithreading support
• Free, Open Source without ads
• Multiplatform - works on Linux, Windows and macOS
• Cache support - second and further scans should be a lot faster than the first one
• CLI frontend, very fast and powerful with rich help
• GUI GTK frontend - uses GTK 4 framework and looks similar to FSlint
• Rich search option - allows setting absolute included and excluded directories, set of allowed file extensions or excluded items with * wildcard
• No spying - Czkawka does not have access to the Internet, nor does it collect any user information or statistics
• Multiple tools to use:
• Duplicates - Finds duplicates basing on size(fast), hash(accurate), first 1MB of hash(moderate)
• Empty Folders - Finds empty folders with the help of advanced algorithm
• Big Files - Finds provided number of the biggest files in given location
• Empty Files - Looks for empty files across disk
• Temporary Files - Allows finding temporary files
• Similar Images - Finds images which are not exactly the same(different resolution, watermarks)
• Zeroed Files - Find files which are filled with zeros(usually corrupted)
• Same Music - Search for music with same artist, album etc.
• Invalid Symbolic Links - Shows symbolic links which point to non-existent files/directories
• Broken Files - Finds files with an invalid extension or that are corrupted
• Bad Extensions - Lists files whose content not match with their extension