Scanner Alternatives

Scanner is described as 'This tool uses a sunburst chart to display the usage of your hard disk or other media. The chart shows all major files and folders from all directory levels at once' and is a popular disk usage analyzer in the system & hardware category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Scanner for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and KDE Plasma apps. The best Scanner alternative is WinDirStat, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Scanner are WizTree, Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer, TreeSize and ncdu.

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This tool uses a sunburst chart to display the usage of your hard disk or other media. The chart shows all major files and folders from all directory levels at once.

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Scanner alternatives page was last updated May 12, 2023
  1. crossdirstat icon
     4 likes

    Free open-source cross-platform file & directory statistics as found on Github

    85 crossdirstat alternatives
    crossdirstat screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  File Storage
    crossdirstat iconScanner Icon

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  2. SequoiaView icon
     26 likes

    Create a visual representation of the amount of space each file is taking on your hard drive. It creates a "squarified treemap" that makes it easy to see where all your space is going.

    72 SequoiaView alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.3, released in June 2006, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.

    SequoiaView iconScanner Icon

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  3. MeinPlatz icon
     1 like

    MeinPlatz "My-Place" offers an easy and fast way to scan the hard disk for lost disk space. With analysis on a percentage basis and grouping by folders, file types, size or date. It has also a nice print and export function.

    55 MeinPlatz alternatives
    MeinPlatz screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    MeinPlatz Features

    1.  Display files size
    2.  Tree view
    3.  Disk Maintenance
    4.  Disk usage statistics
    MeinPlatz iconScanner Icon

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  4. i.Disk icon
     3 likes

    i.Disk scans directory trees and displays the total space used by each directory in an easy to use form.

    86 i.Disk alternatives
    i.Disk screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    i.Disk iconScanner Icon

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  5. DiskWave icon
     16 likes

    DiskWave is a free utility to help you determine where most of your hard drive space is consumed.

    73 DiskWave alternatives
    Main Window

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    DiskWave Features

    1.  Folder Size
    Discontinued

    The program seems to be dead, as announced in a tweet of the author: https://twitter.com/bartheph/status/742596462807265280 . The website and the changelog look abandoned. Last version, 0.4.3, released by the end of 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.

    DiskWave iconScanner Icon

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  6. DiskSavvy icon
     6 likes

    DiskSavvy is a free, fast and easy-to-use disk space analyzer utility allowing one to analyze disk usage in one or more disks, directories, network shares and/or NAS storage devices.

    74 DiskSavvy alternatives
    DiskSavvy Main GUI Application

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    DiskSavvy iconScanner Icon

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  7. K4DirStat icon
     11 likes

    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.

    68 K4DirStat alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE

    K4DirStat Features

    1.  File-system view
    2.  Disk Maintenance
    K4DirStat iconScanner Icon

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  8. 1Tree icon
     1 like

    1Tree (100% FREE) lets you see all directories/files size in 1 tree, in order to let you to do the manual disk cleaning work easily. It loads drives, folders and files with their sizes (sorted by size), and provides you with the common commands.

    46 1Tree alternatives
    1Tree screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    1Tree Features

    1.  Folder Size
    1Tree iconScanner Icon

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  9. Disk Space Fan icon
     10 likes

    Disk Space Fan is a powerful disk space analysis tool for Windows and it is a freeware. It helps you to free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. It displays disk space usage with a nice chart. You can navigate the folders easily with the chart.

    58 Disk Space Fan alternatives
    Disk Space Fan screenshot 1

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Disk Space Fan Features

    1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    2.  Sunburst chart
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  10. HDGraph icon
     9 likes

    HDGraph helps you to free disk space : it finds for you the largest folders on your drive.

    71 HDGraph alternatives
    HDGraph screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    HDGraph Features

    1.  Sunburst chart
    Discontinued

    From their website, the last download is:HDGraph 1.5.1(11/08/2015)

    HDGraph iconScanner Icon

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    Comments about HDGraph as an Alternative to Scanner
     
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    Faster than e.g. WinDirStat and more intuitive thanks to sunburst chart. More up-to-date than Scanner, but possibly discontinued as well.

    Positive commentJan 7, 2019
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    HDGraph icon
    • HDGraph is Free and ProprietaryScanner is also Free and Proprietary
  11. Disk Xray icon
     5 likes

    Disk Xray is a disk usage statistics viewer, duplicate files/folders finder and cleanup tool for Mac OS X.

    310 Disk Xray alternatives
    Disk Xray screenshot 1

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Portable
    Disk Xray iconScanner Icon

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  12. WhatSize icon
     12 likes

    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.

    67 WhatSize alternatives
    Main Screen

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac

    WhatSize Features

    1.  Folder Size
    2.  Folders
    3.  Display files size
    WhatSize iconScanner Icon

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