Open source alternatives to WinDirStat

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what WinDirStat does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What WinDirStat does

Visualize disk usagecore
Find large files and folderscore
Usage by file type
Delete files from the view
Scan drives and folders
Cleanup actions

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
disktreeTreemap view for finding and removing what fills your disk	Replaces it81%	4.2k+137	132	41 days ago	34%	Install like an app	MIT
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Cleanup actions. Not shown: Usage by file type.See the evidence Visualize disk usagecoreYesIt draws every directory as a nested mosaic Find large files and folderscoreYesFind what is filling a disk Usage by file typeNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Delete files from the viewYesmark what should go, and remove it Scan drives and foldersYesthe whole disk it lives on Cleanup actionsPartlynothing happens until you review the list and commit

Vital signs from GitHub, checked weekly. How we read these · How setup is read

These also replace

DaisyDisk2

All repos

Sort

Form Platform Works with Theme License Setup Language

New repos every two days, stars refreshed daily. Visits are counted without cookies, and the numbers are public. How it works Data RSS Newsletter