WinDirStat Alternatives
WinDirStat visualizes storage with treemap displays to quickly spot large files and folders, including on network drives. Users value its open-source nature and treemap-based disk visualization, but often switch due to speed and update concerns. Users complain that it can be slow, especially when scanning large drives or complex directory trees.
WizTree is the top-ranked alternative and reads the NTFS Master File Table directly, so scans can finish in seconds rather than minutes on Windows. SpaceSniffer ranks second with an easy-to-read treemap layout that users call simpler to understand, featuring a sober color scheme and labeled squares. TreeSize offers quicker scans and a friendlier UI with a separate free edition users say is "enough."
Disk analyzers split between Windows-first treemap tools and cross-platform open-source options, with QDirStat providing a WinDirStat-like experience for Linux users.
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WinDirStat is a disk usage analyzer that helps visualize storage consumption through treemap displays. For open source transparency, Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer, Czkawka, and Filelight are community-driven options across Linux and macOS platforms. Linux users can choose Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer with GNOME integration, QDirStat for a WinDirStat-like UI, or ncdu for terminal-first analysis. Windows users seeking speed and polish have WizTree, TreeSize, and SpaceSniffer as frequently recommended disk analyzers with strong visual layouts.
If duplicates matter more than charts, Czkawka offers content-based comparison alongside its disk analysis features, while WizTree includes duplicate locator functionality. Terminal workflows benefit from ncdu, which is built for ncurses use over SSH, and dua-cli as another terminal-based directory analyzer for sysadmins working remotely. Android users managing phone storage can use DiskUsage for zoomable directory diagrams or disky for storage breakdown by directory and apps.
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A file manager with a focus on storage side of things: Monitoring, classing, storage, duplicate cleanup, archiving, and moving.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Electron / Atom Shell
Inspect your disk and find the files that occupy the most space or that haven’t been modified in a long time.
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78 DiskSavvy alternativesDiskSavvy 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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40 OmniDiskSweeper alternativesOmniDiskSweeper is a Mac OS X utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and making space on your hard disks. OmniDiskSweeper scans your disks and highlights the biggest files, so you can determine what's using up your disk space.
79 Disk Analyzer Pro alternativesDisk 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.
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).
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- Proprietary
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- Windows
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.
Folder Size analyzes your hard drives and displays file and folder sizes so that you can easily check the distribution of your disk space. The application will display the sizes of the folders and files and also the percentage of the total disk size that they occupy in a bar...
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89 crossdirstat alternativesFree open-source cross-platform file & directory statistics as found on Github
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Landiskape is a storage visualizer which tells you how your storage is being used by using an easy to understand 2D chart.
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