Filelight Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Filelight for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Filelight and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Filelight are SquirrelDisk, ncdu, GrandPerspective and DaisyDisk.

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Filelight alternatives are mainly Disk Usage Analyzers, but if you're looking for System Cleaners or Duplicate File Finders you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows and Mac. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Filelight.
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  1. Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer icon

    Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer

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    Powerful GNOME application that provides in-depth disk usage analysis with graphical representation. It supports scanning of volumes, specific directories, and network folders, offering insights into space allocation both locally and remotely.

    82 Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • GNOME
    • Homebrew
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    • Almost everyone thinks Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is a great Filelight alternative.

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

    • Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is Free and Open SourceFilelight is also Free and Open Source
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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.

    89 SquirrelDisk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    simple, no bloat, free software

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • SquirrelDisk is Free and Open SourceFilelight is also Free and Open Source
    • SquirrelDisk is Privacy focusedFilelight is not according to our users
  4. ncdu icon

    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...

    43 ncdu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
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    Disk Xray

    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 de...

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  6. GrandPerspective icon

    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.

    75 GrandPerspective alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    GrandPerspective view after scanning a source. Showing dark mode compatibility (macOS Mojave only)
     
  7. DaisyDisk icon

    DaisyDisk

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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 their sizes. The map is easy to read and navigate.

    87 DaisyDisk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    DaisyDisk 4 showing HD level scan, including free space on the disk. Hidden volumes are revealed in DaisyDisk that you normally can't see in Apple's utilities.
     

    • DaisyDisk is the most popular commercial alternative to Filelight.

    • DaisyDisk is Paid and ProprietaryFilelight is Free and Open Source
  8. DiskPoint icon

    DiskPoint

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    Cross-platform disk cleaning tool offering private, local file operations with no data tracking, no cloud uploads, no ads, no cost, and an intuitive interface. Fast performance, efficient space recovery, and full functionality for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. JDiskReport icon

    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.

    70 JDiskReport alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  12. DiskSight icon

    DiskSight

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    Easily find and remove unneeded files you may have forgotten about.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  13. WhatSize icon

    WhatSize

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    WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks.

    68 WhatSize alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  14. Duc icon

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  15. Space Radar icon

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Electron / Atom Shell
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