Free WinDirStat Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to WinDirStat for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is WizTree. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try WizTree or SpaceSniffer. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to WinDirStat and many of them are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to WinDirStat are Czkawka, SquirrelDisk, Filelight and JDiskReport.

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WinDirStat alternatives are mainly Disk Usage Analyzers, but if you're looking for Duplicate File Finders or File Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Android, Mac, Windows, Mac + Disk Usage Analysis, Windows + Free and Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to WinDirStat.
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  1. WizTree icon
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    Comprehensive disk usage analyzer providing ultra-fast insight into space consumption by directly reading NTFS file systems. Identify top space hogs, sort content by size, and enjoy features like portability, offline access, dark mode, and no registration needs. Exclusive to NTFS drives.

    88 WizTree alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    Comments about WizTree as an Alternative to WinDirStat
    Comment summary: WizTree consistently receives praise for its remarkable speed compared to WinDirStat. Users highlight its efficient scanning capabilities, often achieving results in seconds rather than minutes. Despite not being open source, WizTree maintains a similar user interface to WinDirStat, ensuring visual familiarity. Its active development and stability are additional benefits, making it a favored alternative.
    Top Positive Comment
    webzooks
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    It's way more faster than WinDirStat

    Top Negative Comment
    Kezxo
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    All the comments about WizTree being faster are outdated, since the 2.0.1 in october 2024 WinDirStat is as fast if not faster than Wiztree. Reasons that make WindirStat a better option include:

    • No annoying vibrating animated donation button every time you use it.
    • It's open source.

    only real downside is the lack of a dark theme.

    JDemiDawg
    Positive
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    Faster than WinDirStat but not open source

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks WizTree is a great WinDirStat alternative.

    • WizTree is the most popular Windows alternative to WinDirStat.

    • WizTree is the most popular free alternative to WinDirStat.

    • WizTree is Free Personal and ProprietaryWinDirStat is Free and Open Source
    • WizTree is Privacy focusedWinDirStat is not according to our users
  2. SpaceSniffer icon
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    SpaceSniffer is a tool application that gives you an idea of how folders and files are structured on your disks. By using a Treemap visualization layout, you have immediate perception of where big folders and files are situated on your devices.

    66 SpaceSniffer alternatives

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    • Free
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    Guest
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    The color scheme is sober and does not hit the eye - better UI

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Kezxo
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    Windirstat is great but this is a bit simpler to understand visuals with the labeled squares etc. It's portable by design and there's no nagware animated donation buttons just like WinDirStat.

    It hasn't been updated in a while and might give you an error message sometimes but other than that it's an excellent alternative. You should have both this and WinDirStat installed.

    fabthezen
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    The visualization scheme is very effective and modern

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    • Almost everyone thinks SpaceSniffer is a great WinDirStat alternative.

    • SpaceSniffer is Free and ProprietaryWinDirStat is Free and Open Source
  3. TreeSize icon
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    Comprehensively analyze disk space usage with TreeSize across local, network drives, and mobile devices. Features include folder sizes, subfolders, file counts, NTFS compression rates, interactive 3D charts, and the ability to target large, temporary, and duplicate files, even via MTP and WebDAV.

    90 TreeSize alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
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    TreeSize works simiar as WinDirStat and its UI looks better and is quicker.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    shankyspidey
    Positive
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    The UI is great. There is a portable version and it's very quick!

    RemovedUser
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    There is two version and can be downloaded separately. The free version has enough features to become an alternative to WinDirStat. But is really user friendly.

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    • Almost everyone thinks TreeSize is a great WinDirStat alternative.

    • TreeSize is Freemium and ProprietaryWinDirStat is Free and Open Source
  4. 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.

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    • Discontinued

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    Fast, free, simple, can drag & delete files and folders (asks for confirmation).

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    • SquirrelDisk is Free and Open SourceWinDirStat is also Free and Open Source
    • SquirrelDisk is Privacy focusedWinDirStat is not according to our users
  5. Filelight icon
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    Filelight is an application to visualize the disk usage on your computer.

    67 Filelight alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Mac
     
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    Neat interface. Easy to find huge files by clicking on directories.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    0

    Better UI, faster scanning, OpenSource

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Filelight is a great WinDirStat alternative.

    • Filelight is Free and Open SourceWinDirStat is also Free and Open Source
  6. JDiskReport icon
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    JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders.

    70 JDiskReport alternatives

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    • Free
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    • Mac
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  7. Scanner icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    Comments about Scanner as an Alternative to WinDirStat
    harpo2448
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    More intuitive overview display of disk storage allocation.

    Golfy
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    With it pie chart, it still a great tool, to have a full view of your disk.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Scanner is a great WinDirStat alternative.

    • Scanner is Free and ProprietaryWinDirStat is Free and Open Source
  8. FilePro icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  9. RidNacs icon
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    RidNacs is a very fast disk space usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows. It scans your local drives, network drives or single directories and produces a tree view with a percentage bar chart column. This gives the user a quick and easy way to identify the largest directories and...

    73 RidNacs alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  10. Space Radar icon
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    Space Radar is a disk and memory space visualization app built with Electron and D3.js. It currently supports Sunburst, Treemap, and Flamegraph charts and is available for Mac and Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  11. DiskSavvy icon
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    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.

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    • Freemium
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    • Windows
     
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