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 dskDitto.

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  1. rmlint icon
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    A commandline tool to find unnecessary files (duplicates, tmpfiles, unstripped binaries and more)

    77 rmlint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

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

    56 fdupes alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. dupeKill icon
     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. DuoBolt icon
     1 like

    DuoBolt is a high-performance desktop application for reclaiming disk space, with two engines.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. FindDupe icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. 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...

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  7.  1 like

    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

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    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  8. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Foldermatch icon
     4 likes

    FolderMatch is a program that compares directories and files, showing the differences clearly.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Dupscout icon
     5 likes

    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
     
  11. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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