Free DaisyDisk Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to DaisyDisk for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Mac alternative is Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to DaisyDisk and many of them are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to DaisyDisk are SquirrelDisk, Filelight, GrandPerspective and ncdu.

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DaisyDisk alternatives are mainly Disk Usage Analyzers, but if you're looking for System Cleaners or Duplicate File Finders you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Open Source, Mac + Free, Mac, Linux and Windows + Disk Usage Analysis. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to DaisyDisk.
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  1. Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer icon

    Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer

     243 likes

    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.

    83 Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • GNOME
    • Homebrew
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    Comments about Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer as an Alternative to DaisyDisk
    ultome
    Positive
    0

    It's powerful and very nice graphically

    Guest
    Negative
    -9

    windows-based when Daisy Disk is Mac

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer icon

    • Most users think Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is a great DaisyDisk alternative.

    • Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is Free and Open SourceDaisyDisk is Paid and Proprietary
    • Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is LightweightDaisyDisk is not according to our users
  2. SquirrelDisk icon

    SquirrelDisk

     65 likes

    SquirrelDisk shows you exactly what's taking up all that space and helps you clear it out. Using SquirrelDisk is a matter of clicking one button to easily find all the huge files on your computer.

    89 SquirrelDisk alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Filelight icon

    Filelight

     67 likes

    Provides graphical disk usage analysis using interactive segmented rings, scans local, remote and removable disks, enables navigation and file management from within the interface, displays live info on hover, and integrates with KDE file managers for efficient data management.

    67 Filelight alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
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  5. GrandPerspective icon

    GrandPerspective

     90 likes

    GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space.

    75 GrandPerspective alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. ncdu icon

    ncdu

     133 likes

    A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface, aimed to be run on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup, but have to do with a simple SSH connection. ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like...

    43 ncdu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
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  7. DiskPoint icon

    DiskPoint

     11 likes

    Cross-platform disk cleaning tool offering private, local file operations with no data tracking, no cloud uploads, no ads, no cost, and an intuitive interface. Fast performance, efficient space recovery, and full functionality for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. Mole icon

    Mole

     13 likes

    Open source Mac command line utility integrating disk cleanup, deep app uninstallation with artifact removal, disk analysis, optimization tasks, and a live terminal dashboard for real-time CPU, GPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring with interactive options.

    51 Mole alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. JDiskReport icon

    JDiskReport

     93 likes

    JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. OmniDiskSweeper icon

    OmniDiskSweeper

     16 likes

    OmniDiskSweeper is a Mac OS X utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and making space on your hard disks. OmniDiskSweeper scans your disks and highlights the biggest files, so you can determine what's using up your disk space.

    40 OmniDiskSweeper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  13. dua-cli

     2 likes

    dua (-> Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible.

    55 dua-cli alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
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  14. Duc icon

    Duc

     5 likes

    Duc is a collection of tools for inspecting and visualizing disk usage.

    Duc scales quite well, it has been tested on systems with more than 500 million files and several petabytes of storage.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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