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Drive Sonar

Drive Sonar is a fast, lightweight desktop disk usage explorer and analyzer built with Tauri, Rust, React, and TypeScript.

Drive Sonar scanning millions of items

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  • Windows  Windows 10 version 1709 (October 2017 Update) or later
  • Mac
  • Linux
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  1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  2.  Rust
  3.  Desktop Application
  4.  React

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  • Developed by

    barun-saha

  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  4 Open Issues
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What is Drive Sonar?

Drive Sonar is a fast, lightweight desktop disk usage explorer and analyzer built with Tauri, Rust, React, and TypeScript. Inspired by the simplicity of ncdu, Drive Sonar offers a clean, minimal user interface. The traditional directory listing is complemented by advanced visualizations to help you gain a better idea of your disk usage.

Drive Sonar runs entirely in user mode—no admin mode or elevated privileges are required to scan!

? Features

  • Fast Parallel Scanning: Native fast-path scanning on Windows and a multi-threaded jwalk-based fallback for other platforms
  • Interactive Visualizations:

Space Distribution Map: High-performance storage treemap Extension Breakdown: Top file extensions by storage utilization File Age Analysis: Scatter plot visualizing file size vs. age

  • In-App File Management: Open files or folders directly in native OS file managers or safely move items to system trash (requires confirmation)
  • Security Hardened: Path canonicalization guards against relative traversal, strict Content Security Policy (CSP), and system root deletion protection
  • No Admin Required: Runs entirely in user mode, unlike many disk analyzers that need elevated privileges to scan protected directories

How does Drive Sonar fare versus other solutions? Here's a real disk scanner performance comparison:

Metric Drive Sonar WinDirStat WizTree Version tested 0.6.0 2.8.0 4.3.1 License Apache 2.0 GPL v2 Proprietary Runs in user mode (no admin required) ? ? ?1 Installed size [MB] 5.7 7.1 20.0 Peak memory usage (median)2 [MB] 108.7 239.6 635.2 Warm scan time (median)3 [s] 3.3 9.1 6.5 Cold scan time (single run)4 [s] 10.6 22.9 17.2