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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Scanner alternatives are mainly Disk Usage Analyzers but may also be Duplicate File Finders or System Cleaners.  Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Scanner.
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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 Oct 16, 2024
  1. TreePie icon
     5 likes

    TreePie : a simple way to display disk usage. It shows the distribution of size in a tree of directories by using an interactive multilevel pie (sunburst diagram). Really small and simple.

    62 TreePie alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    TreePie iconScanner Icon

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  2. ShowMan icon
     1 like

    Program to help recover disk space. Gives pie-chart view of disk usage, including unused space, with the ability to drill down into folders. Shows actual or nominal space occupied. Knows about the effects of cluster sizes.

    53 ShowMan alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online

    ShowMan Features

    1.  Charts
    ShowMan iconScanner Icon

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    • ShowMan is the most popular Web-based alternative to Scanner.

    • ShowMan is Paid and ProprietaryScanner is Free and Proprietary
  3. Precious Disk icon
     2 likes

    Recover disk space by removing gigabytes of unwanted and forgotten files!

    Do you forget to remove old and heavy files? Are you often forgetting where you put your files?

    If at least one of your answers is Yes, try Precious Disk!

    Precious Disk carries out this task by scanni.

    37 Precious Disk alternatives
    Recover gigabytes of free space!

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Precious Disk Features

    1.  Disk Maintenance
    Precious Disk iconScanner Icon

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    Disk usage or other tree data display program. Typical usage: du -xm / | xdu -n

    52 xdu alternatives
    xdu screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    xdu Features

    1.  X server
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  5. Disk Space Pro icon
     1 like

    Scans your home folder and reports folders and file disk space use.

    50 Disk Space Pro alternatives
    Disk Space Pro screenshot 1

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Disk Space Pro Features

    1.  Folder Size
    Disk Space Pro iconScanner Icon

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  6. Diskvision icon
     2 likes

    DiskVision shows you, visually, how much space each file and folder consumes. This makes it easy to track down files, folders, and applications that are wasting space.

    49 Diskvision alternatives
    Displays file and folder sizes in easy-to-understand nested rectangles

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Diskvision Features

    1.  Folders
    Diskvision iconScanner Icon

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  7. ClearDisk icon
     21 likes

    ClearDisk is a Mac OS X utility designed to clean the hard disk of unnecessary files which clog up the disk space. The goal of ClearDisk is just to find unused files on your computer and remove them. ClearDisk saves your time by cleaning your disk in a fast and intuitive manner.

    66 ClearDisk alternatives
    ClearDisk screenshot 1

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    ClearDisk Features

    1.  Delete Temporary Files
    ClearDisk iconScanner Icon

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  8. DiskMapper icon
     1 like

    "DiskMapper is a remarkable utility that frees up megabytes and megabytes of hard disk space - quickly and easily by showing you a useful, graphical, color-coded map of your hard disk. DiskMapper lets you quickly delete or compress programs and files you dont need or rarely...

    63 DiskMapper alternatives
    DiskMapper screenshot 1

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    DiskMapper iconScanner Icon

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  9. Disk Space Fan Pro icon
     2 likes

    Disk Space Fan Pro is a is not only a duplicate file finder, but also a powerful disk space analysis tool for Windows. It helps you to free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files.

    63 Disk Space Fan Pro alternatives
    disk space usage showing by flower chart

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Disk Space Fan Pro iconScanner Icon

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  10. PA Storage Monitor icon
     4 likes

    PA Storage Monitor shows what you are storing and supports your storage manager tasks. Many rich file reports, including file owner information available.

    30 PA Storage Monitor alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    PA Storage Monitor iconScanner Icon

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    Disk Usage Analyzer - a free program to analyze disk space of the computer. It helps you to quickly and easily determine the size of folders on your computer, as well as the number of files they contain.

    62 Disk Usage Analyzer alternatives
    Disk Usage Analyzer screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Scanner Icon

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  12. FSV icon
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    fsv (pronounced eff-ess-vee) is a file system visualizer in cyberspace. It lays out files and directories in three dimensions, geometrically representing the file system hierarchy to allow visual overview and analysis.

    14 FSV alternatives
    FSV screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux

    FSV Features

    1.  Filesystem
    2.  File Organizer
    FSV iconScanner Icon

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