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 16 are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to DaisyDisk are ncdu, SquirrelDisk, GrandPerspective and JDiskReport.

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With DaisyDisk you can free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. The program scans any mounted disk and displays it on the sunburst map, where segments mean files and folders, proportionally to...

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  1. Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer icon
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    Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer

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    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).

    80 Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer alternatives
    Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • GNOME
    • Homebrew
    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Sunburst chart
    2.  Does not show ZFS filesystems
    3.  Ad-free
    Baobab on Xubuntu
    Full scan, rings chart
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    Full scan, treemap chart
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    ultome

    It's powerful and very nice graphically

    Positive comment •Dec 5, 2020
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    Guest

    windows-based when Daisy Disk is Mac

    Negative comment •Oct 10, 2018
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    • Most users think Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is a great DaisyDisk alternative.

    • Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to DaisyDisk.

    • 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
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    ncdu

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    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...

    38 ncdu alternatives
    ncdu screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    ncdu screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Optimal performance
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Terminal-based
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Works in a terminal
    4.  Display files size
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  No Tracking
    7.  No registration required
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  Delete Temporary Files
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  4. SquirrelDisk icon
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    SquirrelDisk

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    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.

    83 SquirrelDisk alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Display files size
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Sunburst chart
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  No registration required
    7.  Delete Temporary Files
    8.  File Tagging
    9.  No Tracking
    10.  Portable
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  5. GrandPerspective icon
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    GrandPerspective

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    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.

    72 GrandPerspective alternatives
    GrandPerspective view after scanning a source. Showing dark mode compatibility (macOS Mojave only)

    License model

    • Free Personal • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Portable
    File view can be colored. This image shows coloring files by creation date
    File view can be colored. This image shows coloring files by file type
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    much older version of GrandPerspective showing file view
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  6. JDiskReport icon
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    JDiskReport

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    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.

    66 JDiskReport alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    JDiskReport Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Portable
    3.  Sync with Amazon Drive
    4.  Categories
    5.  32-bit support
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  7. Disko icon
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    Disko

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    Disko is a small minimalist MacOS application that allows you to see how much disk space individual application are using. It is broadly inspired by the Disk Usage Analyzer application on GNU/Linux.

    13 Disko alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Portable
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  Local Storage
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  9. OmniDiskSweeper icon
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    OmniDiskSweeper

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    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.

    36 OmniDiskSweeper alternatives
    OmniDiskSweeper screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Space Radar icon
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    Space Radar

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    Space Radar is a disk and memory space visualization app built with Electron and D3.js. It currently supports Sunburst, Treemap, and Flamegraph charts and is available for Mac and Windows.

    82 Space Radar alternatives
    Space Radar screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Electron / Atom Shell
    Space Radar screenshot 1

    Space Radar Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Portable
    3.  Electron based
    4.  HDD Visualization
    5.  Built-in File Manager
    Discontinued

    The last release (version 5) is from September 2017.

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  11. DelightDisk icon
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    DelightDisk

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    Analyze Mac storage & claim more space.

    53 DelightDisk alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  No Tracking
    3.  Works Offline
    DelightDisk screenshot 1
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  12. Duc icon
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    Duc

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    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.

    69 Duc alternatives
    Duc screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Duc Features

    1.  Sunburst chart
    2.  Disk usage statistics
    3.  Disk Maintenance
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  13. crossdirstat icon
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    crossdirstat

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    Free open-source cross-platform file & directory statistics as found on Github

    85 crossdirstat alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  File Storage
    crossdirstat screenshot 1
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  14. DiskWave icon
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    DiskWave

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    DiskWave is a free utility to help you determine where most of your hard drive space is consumed.

    73 DiskWave alternatives
    Main Window

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    DiskWave Features

    1.  Folder Size
    Discontinued

    The program seems to be dead, as announced in a tweet of the author: https://twitter.com/bartheph/status/742596462807265280 . The website and the changelog look abandoned. Last version, 0.4.3, released by the end of 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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