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 Sep 9, 2022
  1. 1Tree Pro icon
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    1Tree Pro lets you see drives/directories/files size in 1 tree view, so as to let you to do manual disk cleaning work easily. It loads drives, folders and files with their sizes (sorted by size in descending order), and offers some common commands.

    51 1Tree Pro alternatives
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    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    1Tree Pro Features

    1.  Folder Size
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  2. SpaceObServer icon
     7 likes

    SpaceObServer is a powerful and flexible hard disk space manager for Windows. It scans local and network drives using a background service and stores their structure, sizes and properties in an SQL database. Linux and Unix filesystems can be scanned via SSH (Secure Shell).

    65 SpaceObServer alternatives
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    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    SpaceObServer Features

    1.  Historical charts
    2.  SSH
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  3. UtilStudio Disk Space Finder icon
     3 likes

    UtilStudio Disk Space Finder is a simple tool that you can use to find the files that occupy the most space on your computer. The application can scan any folder and display the file size, while also enabling you to preview the selected files.

    70 UtilStudio Disk Space Finder alternatives
    UtilStudio Disk Space Finder screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    UtilStudio Disk Space Finder Features

    1.  Disk Maintenance
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  4. Disk Analyzer Pro icon
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    Disk analyzer pro is the best disk space management software and storage analyzer which helps in managing and handling hard disk space and running your PC with the highest speed.

    78 Disk Analyzer Pro alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Disk Analyzer Pro iconScanner Icon

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  5. Diskitude icon
     8 likes

    Diskitude helps you figure out what is taking up space on your hard drive using a ring chart. Its intuitive and animated interface allows you to easily explore your file system and prune your files. Plus its super small (only 10 KB) so it loads really fast and wont take up any...

    55 Diskitude alternatives
    Diskitude screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Diskitude iconScanner Icon

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  6. GetFolderSize icon
     4 likes

    GetFoldersize allows you to determine the size of folders and sub-folders on your hard drive. Determine which programs are taking up your hard disk space. For each folder, you can display the total file size and the number of files and subfolders in the folder.

    65 GetFolderSize alternatives
    GetFolderSize screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    GetFolderSize Features

    1.  Folder Size
    Discontinued

    The product is no longer available on the company website. Last version, 3.1.10, released in August 2016, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine.

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  7. FilePro icon
     5 likes

    This free-for-personal-use software utility analyses storage disk usage, and then presents the gathered information in graphical format(s) viz. a directory tree, or a pie chart.

    75 FilePro alternatives
    FilePro screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    FilePro Features

    1.  Works Offline
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  8. Disk Space Analyzer icon
     26 likes

    Disk Space Analyzer allows you to easily find and remove the bulkiest content for your Mac or external storage. You can see your Mac disk usage, find folders that take up the most space, and manage hard drive space by moving or removing files.

    74 Disk Space Analyzer alternatives
    Disk Space Analyzer screenshot 1

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    Platforms

    • Mac

    Disk Space Analyzer Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Delete Temporary Files
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  9. Landiskape icon
     1 like

    Landiskape is a storage visualizer which tells you how your storage is being used by using an easy to understand 2D chart.

    59 Landiskape alternatives
    Tree Map visualizes the storage with blocks representing how large a file or folders are.

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone

    Landiskape Features

    1.  Hierarchical Structure
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Tree view
    4.  Disk usage statistics
    5.  Display files size
    6.  Visual navigation
    7.  Tree map
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  10. TDP x-Ray icon
     5 likes

    "TDP x-Ray is a visual tool intended for disk space administration. Displaying a clear graph showing the disk occupation, in which it is apparent immediately which files and folders occupy the most space.

    50 TDP x-Ray alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    Last release in 2009

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  11. FolderSize.WPF icon
     3 likes

    FolderSize is intended to be a simple application to determine what folders takes up place on your machine and to present it to you graphically.

    49 FolderSize.WPF alternatives
    FolderSize.WPF screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    FolderSize.WPF Features

    1.  Works Offline
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  12. xdiskusage icon
     4 likes

    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.

    60 xdiskusage alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    xdiskusage iconScanner Icon

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