Duplicate Detective Alternatives

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.

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    Remove duplicate files and do it fast. duplikaatti is designed to go through 50 TiB+ of data and hundreds of thousands of files and find duplicate files in few minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
     
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    FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  3. Aperito icon
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    Aperito is a somewhat scriptable duplicate file manager. It can simply used to cleanup a directory of duplicate files but it also allows you to perform much more complex deduplication. For example, if you want to delete all files under Dir3 that also exist under Dir1 or Dir2 but...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  4. Dupscout icon
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    DupScout is a powerful, fast and easy-to-use duplicate files finder utility allowing one to detect and cleanup duplicate files on local disks, networked computers and NAS storage devices. Users are provided with multiple product versions ranging from an easy-to-use free version...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    BDF, Bytessence DuplicateFinder is a freeware program designed to detect clones of the files stored on your computer. Duplicate files have a negative impact over your system's performance because they waste valuable space, they increase the antivirus scan time, they make...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. DupInOut icon
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    DupInOut Duplicate Finder helps you reclaim lost storage by deleting duplicate files. It also contains added features to organize files into your own folder structures, and compare two folders for same files, different files and additional files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Samanlainen is a command line duplicate file remover which uses SHA-512 hashes to identify identical files. It's inspired by Rdfind

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
     
  8. Foldermatch icon
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    FolderMatch is a program that compares directories and files, showing the differences clearly.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Duplicate File Finder, is designed to find and delete true duplicate files over home and corporate network while no software installed on other computer. Fast byte-to-byte and CRC32 comparison gives you the most accurate results and Duplicate File Finder searches duplicate file...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Disk Xray icon
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    Visual disk usage analyzer for Mac featuring byte-level duplicate file detection, detailed storage statistics, customizable folder scans, temporary file removal, undo safeguards, selective cleanup, support for large files, and dedicated modules for managing storage.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. DupDetector icon
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    Dup Detector finds duplicate and near duplicate images by opening and reading image pixel data. The program is easy to use, just specify the path and start the scan. You can specify a match % that is required to consider the image a duplicate and preview all found dups side by...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Duplicate Sweeper can quickly find and remove duplicate files on your PC. The free program demo lets you scan your computer for duplicate documents, images, contacts, music and other files. The amount of duplicate files on your hard drive could come as a bit of a surprise...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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