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Drive Sonar

Drive Sonar is a fast, lightweight desktop disk usage explorer and analyzer built with Tauri, Rust, React, and TypeScript.

Drive Sonar scanning millions of items

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  • Mac
  • Windows  Windows 10 version 1709 (October 2017 Update) or later
  • Linux
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Drive Sonar running on Ubuntu via snap (WSL)
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  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Dark Mode
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  6.  No Tracking
  7.  Rust
  8.  Desktop Application
  9.  React

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What is Drive Sonar?

Drive Sonar is a fast, lightweight desktop disk usage explorer and analyzer built with Tauri, Rust, React, and TypeScript. Inspired by the simplicity of ncdu, Drive Sonar offers a clean, minimal user interface. The traditional directory listing is complemented by advanced visualizations to help you gain a better idea of your disk usage.

Drive Sonar runs entirely in user mode—no admin mode or elevated privileges are required to scan!

Features

  • Fast Parallel Scanning: Native fast-path scanning on Windows and a multi-threaded jwalk-based fallback for other platforms
  • Interactive Visualizations:

Space Distribution Map: High-performance storage treemap Extension Breakdown: Top file extensions by storage utilization File Age Analysis: Scatter plot visualizing file size vs. age

  • In-App File Management: Open files or folders directly in native OS file managers or safely move items to system trash (requires confirmation)
  • Security Hardened: Path canonicalization guards against relative traversal, strict Content Security Policy (CSP), and system root deletion protection
  • No Admin Required: Runs entirely in user mode, unlike many disk analyzers that need elevated privileges to scan protected directories

How does Drive Sonar fare versus other solutions? Here's a real disk scanner performance comparison:

Metric Drive Sonar WinDirStat WizTree Version tested 0.6.0 2.8.0 4.3.1 License Apache 2.0 GPL v2 Proprietary Installed size [MB] 5.7 7.1 20.0 Peak memory usage (median) [MB] 108.7 239.6 635.2 Warm scan time (median) [s] 3.3 9.1 6.5 Cold scan time (single run) [s] 10.6 22.9 17.2

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