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GrandPerspective

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. Created by Eriban

Free Personal $ $ $ Open Source
Mac

GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X 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. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the files size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.

GrandPerspective is listed in

macOS Disk Utilities

Links to official GrandPerspective sites

Official Website Source

Pricing Information

One time purchase (perpetual license) that cost about $2

Features

2D graphical representation of folders Lightweight Add a feature

Category

Tags

disk-space disk-usage fast-loading-time harddrive space treemap

GrandPerspective was added by Ola in Mar 2009 and the latest update was made in May 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Jan 2020. It's possible to update the information on GrandPerspective or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

GrandPerspective view after scanning a source. Showing dark mode compatibility (macOS Mojave only)

File view can be colored. This image shows coloring files by creation date

File view can be colored. This image shows coloring files by file type

much older version of GrandPerspective showing file view

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GrandPerspective Comments

Comment by kscalvert

about GrandPerspective · Jun 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Easy to use and gives immediate visual indicators of very large files.

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Open source, and verified development (for OS X installs)

Comment by manilc89

about GrandPerspective · May 2016 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

It doesn't need one to turn off verification on OS X, like the discontinued open source alternative, Disk Inventory X

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Comment by theundecided

about GrandPerspective · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Nice app. I still like Space Sniffer better...but so far this is the best mac version I have found

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