Alternatives to godu

An interactive terminal utility written in Go for finding the files and folders filling a disk. 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 godu.

  • 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 more featured text interface for SSH servers, with parallel scanning, binary export and in-place deletion, and also has no Windows build.

  • gdu

    Find large directories with a terminal disk-usage analyzer.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    gdu is a Go terminal analyzer with parallel scans that also runs on Windows, under the MIT license.

  • dua-cli

    Explore disk usage and remove unwanted files in the terminal.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    dua-cli adds Windows support and optional deletion from its interactive terminal view, under the MIT license.

  • Dust

    See which directories consume space in a compact terminal tree.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Dust prints a compact size-bar tree instead of an interactive browser, and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

  • pdu (parallel-disk-usage)

    A command-line directory tree analyzer that measures disk usage in parallel and prints a size chart.

    FreeOpen sourceCommand line

    pdu prints a parallel-scanned size chart non-interactively, with shell completions, and cannot delete or move files.

  • erdtree

    A multi-threaded command-line tool that shows a directory tree together with disk usage.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    erdtree shows the file tree with disk usage in one multi-threaded command across platforms, without interactive browsing.

Also worth comparing

These listings name godu as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • diskus

    Measure the total size of a directory from the command line.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    godu is a free, open-source Go terminal utility for interactively browsing disk usage on macOS and Linux, rather than printing a directory total.

  • Duc

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    godu is a single Go binary for macOS and Linux that browses disk usage interactively in the terminal, with no graphical or web view.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.