ncdu Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to ncdu for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to ncdu and 18 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to ncdu are SquirrelDisk, Filelight, QDirStat and gdu.

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ncdu alternatives are mainly Disk Usage Analyzers, but if you're looking for File Managers or System Cleaners you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Linux and Mac. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to ncdu.
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  1. Powerful GNOME application that provides in-depth disk usage analysis with graphical representation. It supports scanning of volumes, specific directories, and network folders, offering insights into space allocation both locally and remotely.

    83 Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • GNOME
    • Homebrew
     
    • Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to ncdu.

    • Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer is Free and Open Sourcencdu is also Free and Open Source
  2. SquirrelDisk icon
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    SquirrelDisk shows you exactly what's taking up all that space and helps you clear it out. Using SquirrelDisk is a matter of clicking one button to easily find all the huge files on your computer.

    89 SquirrelDisk alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. gdu icon
     3 likes

    Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Duc icon
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    Duc is a collection of tools for inspecting and visualizing disk usage.

    Duc scales quite well, it has been tested on systems with more than 500 million files and several petabytes of storage.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5.  6 likes

    A disk usage free utility for Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6.  2 likes

    dua (-> Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible.

    55 dua-cli alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
     
  7. JDiskReport icon
     93 likes

    JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. K4DirStat icon
     11 likes

    K4DirStat, fork of KDirStat , is a small utility program that sums up disk usage for directory trees, very much like the Unix 'du' command. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree, both numerically and graphically.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
     
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    A disk usage calculator for Linux.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. crossdirstat icon
     4 likes

    Free open-source cross-platform file & directory statistics as found on Github

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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