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Duplicate Detective is described as 'Scans your Mac for duplicate files and folders. It then displays a list of matching duplicates, allowing you to easily select those that you wish to delete in order to free up precious disk space. Awarded a MacWorld 'Mac Gem'' and is a duplicate file finder in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Duplicate Detective for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best Duplicate Detective alternative is Czkawka, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Duplicate Detective are dupeGuru, Duplicate Cleaner, AllDup and FSlint.




Anti-Twin is a small software application which compares files, i.e. it searches for duplicate or similar files on your hard disk drive. All similar or identical files that were found can either be sent to the recycle bin or directly deleted.

Statistics for duplicate files, disk space used by duplicate files and number of duplicate files.


Duplicate & Same Files Searcher is an application for searching duplicate files (clones) and NTFS hard links to the same file. It searches duplicate file contents regardless of file name (true byte-to-byte comparison is used).






Fast Duplicate File Finder will help you find fast all duplicate files in a folder and its sub folders. The applications will compare the content of your files so it will find duplicates even if they are using different file names.


Rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files. It is useful for compressing backup directories or just finding duplicate files. It compares files based on their content, NOT on their file names.
A commandline tool to find unnecessary files (duplicates, tmpfiles, unstripped binaries and more)

Duplicate Media Finder locates and deletes identical files and similar media (Photos, music, videos) on your PC smartphones (Android, iPhone, ...) or cloud.



Duplicate file finder/remover supporting the following hash algorithms: MDA, SHA1, SHA256, SHA256Cng, SHA384, SHA512 and BLAKE2B.



Finddupe is a tool for quick detecting of duplicate files on a hard drive under Windows. Duplicate files can be detected, hardlinked, or deleted. Finddupe can also search for hardlinked files on your computer.
