Scanner Alternatives

Scanner is described as 'This tool uses a sunburst chart to display the usage of your hard disk or other media. The chart shows all major files and folders from all directory levels at once' and is a popular disk usage analyzer in the system & hardware category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Scanner for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Scanner alternative is WinDirStat, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Scanner are WizTree, Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer, TreeSize and SquirrelDisk.

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  1. Xinorbis icon
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    Xinorbis is a completely FREE, powerful Windows-based data storage analyser for single users or network administrators. Provides an instant visual display of the contents of a hard disk, single or multiple directories. Output reports to XML, CSV, HTML or plain ASCII.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. RidNacs icon
     17 likes

    RidNacs is a very fast disk space usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows. It scans your local drives, network drives or single directories and produces a tree view with a percentage bar chart column. This gives the user a quick and easy way to identify the largest directories and...

    73 RidNacs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. DiskSavvy icon
     6 likes

    DiskSavvy is a free, fast and easy-to-use disk space analyzer utility allowing one to analyze disk usage in one or more disks, directories, network shares and/or NAS storage devices.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Disk Space Analyzer allows you to easily find and remove the bulkiest content for your Mac or external storage. You can see your Mac disk usage, find folders that take up the most space, and manage hard drive space by moving or removing files.

    77 Disk Space Analyzer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. 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
     
  6. Disk Space Visualizer digs for a free disk space. This freeware program was created to simplify "garbage collection" procedures. In a typical usage the hard drive space is slowly filled up by the useless data. This may include temporary files, rarely used software, and.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Duc icon
     5 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. HDGraph icon
     9 likes

    HDGraph helps you to free disk space : it finds for you the largest folders on your drive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Comments about HDGraph as an Alternative to Scanner
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    Faster than e.g. WinDirStat and more intuitive thanks to sunburst chart. More up-to-date than Scanner, but possibly discontinued as well.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • HDGraph is Free and ProprietaryScanner is also Free and Proprietary
  9. Space Radar icon
     8 likes

    Space Radar is a disk and memory space visualization app built with Electron and D3.js. It currently supports Sunburst, Treemap, and Flamegraph charts and is available for Mac and Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  10. DiskSight icon
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    Easily find and remove unneeded files you may have forgotten about.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Diskitude icon
     8 likes

    Diskitude helps you figure out what is taking up space on your hard drive using a ring chart. Its intuitive and animated interface allows you to easily explore your file system and prune your files. Plus its super small (only 10 KB) so it loads really fast and wont take up any...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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