Alternatives to Disk Usage Analyzer

A GNOME app that shows which folders are using disk space, as a tree and chart. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Disk Usage Analyzer.

  • QDirStat

    A Qt-based graphical disk usage analyser with a directory tree and treemap view.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOSLinux

    QDirStat is a free, open-source Qt disk usage analyser with a tree and treemap view, no KDE dependencies, and a macOS build, though its interface is dense.

  • Filelight

    Shows disk usage as concentric rings you can click into.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    Filelight shows disk usage as clickable concentric rings, scans remote and network locations, and runs on Windows and Linux, but pulls in KDE libraries on GNOME desktops.

  • K4DirStat

    A KDE utility that adds up disk usage for directory trees and shows it as a treemap.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    K4DirStat shows directory sizes as a list and a treemap and is packaged in Debian, but it is built on Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5, fitting KDE best.

  • ncdu

    A disk usage analyser with a text interface, built for finding what is filling a remote server you can only reach over SSH.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOSLinuxCommand line

    ncdu is a free, open-source text-interface analyser that works over SSH on servers without a desktop and can delete files inside the interface, trading charts for a list.

  • gdu

    Find large directories with a terminal disk-usage analyzer.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    gdu is a free, open-source terminal disk-usage analyzer with parallel scanning and interactive size inspection, running on Windows, macOS and Linux instead of the GNOME desktop only.

  • dua-cli

    Explore disk usage and remove unwanted files in the terminal.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    dua-cli is a free, MIT-licensed terminal tool for exploring disk usage on Windows, macOS and Linux, and it adds optional deletion, which is permanent.

  • Duc

    A set of tools that index disk usage into a database and show it in several interfaces.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Duc indexes disk usage into a database with console, ncurses, graphical and web interfaces, scaling to very large filesystems but showing last-index results.

  • Dust

    See which directories consume space in a compact terminal tree.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Dust is a free, Apache-2.0 terminal tool that prints a compact directory tree with size bars, running on Windows, macOS and Linux, without a graphical chart.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.