WinDirStat
Comprehensive disk analysis tool offering treemap visualizations to identify large files, duplicate detection, and versatile cleanup actions. Operates offline, ad-free, and open-source, it runs portably on Windows without registration, providing a lightweight solution to manage disk storage.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Customizable
Features
- Display files size
- Tree view
- Ad-free
- Disk usage statistics
- Hierarchical Structure
- No registration required
- Portable
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- Disk Maintenance
- Duplicate File Finder
- Multiple languages
Tags
- Disk Cleaner
- treemap
WinDirStat News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about WinDirStat
WinDirStat 2.2.0 released with several enhancements, performance boosts, and bug fixesWinDirStat, a popular disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup assistant for Microsoft Windows, has...
- POX published news article about WinDirStat
WinDirStat releases first update in 19 years with many new features and improvementsWinDirStat, the well-known disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows, has launched ...
Recent activities
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What is WinDirStat?
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool, inspired by 
KDirStat .
WinDirStat is a program that allows you to find drive space hogs at a glance. It achieves that by displaying a drive, drives or directories in a treemap that assigns bigger areas to bigger files and directories. Making those areas visually separate by coloring and other means allows you to see literally at a glance what the space hogs are and where to dig deeper.
The directory tree is simultaneously shown as a tree list and as a treemap. One can effortlessly gain an impression of the proportions on the drive(s).
Major features
- Three views: Directory Tree, Treemap, and Extension
- Duplicate file detection
- Built-in cleanup actions including Open, Delete, Show Properties
- User-defined cleanup actions (command line based)
Copyright / Licenses
- Copyright © 2003-2005 Bernhard Seifert (bseifert@users.sourceforge.net)
- Copyright © 2004-2024 WinDirStat Team (windirstat.net)
The application itself is distributed under the terms of the GPL v2, but parts of the source code are also available under more lenient license terms.
Note: you are not at liberty to upgrade the GPL version to anything later than v2 at this moment.
The logo and all derivatives are available under the terms of the Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0. The logo was generously designed and contributed to the project by Robin "tuqueque" Marín.
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Comments and Reviews
Last commit date: 2014-02-17
https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat/commits/all http://sourceforge.net/p/windirstat/code/commit_browser
Resumed in 2018
There is active development in 2025. And they have improved dramatically reducing the running time.
I came here to find an alternative of the nice GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer (Baobab) for Windows systems. WinDirStat is open source but it's a million times more messy than SpaceSniffer.
SpaceSniffer is portable, and it shows the folders where the files are in the graph! It's simpler to use and visualize your disk in the way you organized it: in folders. You can visually explore your disk with single or double-clicking the folders.
Looks like the same thing but not open source. I'd stay away.
Without a competent open source alternative SpaceSniffer will be my option. I've been using it for a long time without issues.
I wouldn't trust you to be capable of identifying issues tbh
Yeah, sure, my whole HDD is being uploaded to terrorists, definitely. </irony>
fast, clear clickable graphics, easy to use, very useful
Love all the features this app offers. Super easy to visualize your storage at a glance. I wish it was also ported to Linux as well, then I might consider switching from ncdu to this instead
Very useful tool. See what is consuming your drive space.
On the opposite end of the spectrum from KDE's equivalent offering is this gem -- their web page exists, but only just about.
When I read that WinDirStat supports all versions of Windows from 95 onwards, I leapt for joy, which was but short-lived!
The Windows' installable files have DISAPPEARED from, both, SourceForge, and it's mirror. What a sad experience!
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An excellent tool to have when your looking to cleanup your pc. Find out which directories are the biggest & which files are as well. The square map at the bottom is easy to understand click to hop right to the location. This app is only missing a dark mode!