Open Source Scanner Alternatives for Linux

Scanner is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best open source Linux alternative is Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Scanner and 15 are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to Scanner are SquirrelDisk, Filelight, ncdu and QDirStat.

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  1. 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.

    83 Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • GNOME
    • Homebrew
     
  2. SquirrelDisk icon
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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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  3. Filelight icon
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    Provides graphical disk usage analysis using interactive segmented rings, scans local, remote and removable disks, enables navigation and file management from within the interface, displays live info on hover, and integrates with KDE file managers for efficient data management.

    67 Filelight alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
     
  4. ncdu icon
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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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
     
  5. K4DirStat icon
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    K4DirStat, fork of KDirStat , is a small utility program that sums up disk usage for directory trees, very much like the Unix 'du' command. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree, both numerically and graphically.

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    • Linux
    • KDE
     
  6.  6 likes

    A disk usage free utility for Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  7. crossdirstat icon
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    Free open-source cross-platform file & directory statistics as found on Github

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Duc icon
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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.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9.  2 likes

    dua (-> Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible.

    55 dua-cli alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
     
  10. xdiskusage icon
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    xdiskusage is a user-friendly program to show you what is using up all your disk space. It is based on the design of xhttp://alternativeto.net/software/xdu/ written by Phillip C. Dykstra <dykstra at ieee dot org & gt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  11. gdu icon
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    Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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