Open Source WinDirStat Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to WinDirStat for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is Czkawka. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to WinDirStat and 11 are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to WinDirStat are Filelight, SquirrelDisk, Space Radar and dua-cli.

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WinDirStat alternatives are mainly Disk Usage Analyzers, but if you're looking for System Cleaners 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. Filelight icon
     80 likes

    Provides graphical disk usage analysis using interactive segmented rings, scans local, remote and removable disks, enables navigation and file management from within the interface, displays live info on hover, and integrates with KDE file managers for efficient data management.

    70 Filelight alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

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

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

    Better UI, faster scanning, OpenSource

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Filelight is Free and Open SourceWinDirStat is also Free and Open Source
  2. SquirrelDisk icon
     66 likes

    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.

    90 SquirrelDisk alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    SquirrelDisk vs WinDirStat Comments
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    Fast, free, simple, can drag & delete files and folders (asks for confirmation).

    • SquirrelDisk is Free and Open SourceWinDirStat is also Free and Open Source
    • SquirrelDisk is Privacy focusedWinDirStat is not according to our users
  3. Space Radar icon
     10 likes

    SpaceRadar allows interactive visualization of disk space and memory. It currently supports Sunburst, Treemap, and Flamegraph charts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron
    • Debian
    • AppImage
     
  4.  2 likes

    dua (-> Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
     
  5. crossdirstat icon
     4 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. diskonaut icon
     Like

    diskonaut is a terminal disk space navigator. Given a path on your hard-drive (which could also be the root path, eg. /). diskonaut scans it and indexes its metadata to memory so that you could explore its contents (even while still scanning!).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. ferris-scan icon
     1 like

    ferris-scan is a lightweight and fast both terminal user interface (TUI) and graphic user interface (GUI) alternative to WinDirStat. Built with Rust and ratatui, it scans your disk in parallel using a thread pool, allowing you to quickly navigate directories directly from the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8.  3 likes

    Program to view and print directories tree.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. gdu icon
     3 likes

    Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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