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 Flathub apps. The best Scanner alternative is WinDirStat, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Scanner are WizTree, TreeSize, Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer and SquirrelDisk.

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  1. ShowMan icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    • ShowMan is Paid and ProprietaryScanner is Free and Proprietary
  2. i.Disk icon
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    i.Disk scans directory trees and displays the total space used by each directory in an easy to use form.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. SupaView icon
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    SupaView is a tool to help you locate big folders and big files on your hard disk. Every file is represented by a square, which size is proportional to it's size.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    A lightweight macOS tool for managing disk space by identifying and deleting large files, including Homebrew packages. Interactive and user-friendly CLI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. TreeMap icon
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    Modern Graphical Disk Space Analyzer, 3 times faster than WinDirStat.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. TreePie icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. gdu icon
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    Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    A disk usage calculator for Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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