gdu

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Three barsScore 7.2

gdu is ranked #13 of 104 in disk space analyzers on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Web, Windows. There is a free plan.

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Free Free MIT-licensed software github.com · 5 Oct 2026

Purpose: Gdu is a fast disk usage analyzer with a console interface, written in Go.
Scanning: It is intended primarily for SSDs, where it can fully use parallel processing; HDDs also work.
Interfaces: Gdu supports interactive, non-interactive, and JSON export modes, and can serve a browser-based interface.
Web interface: The browser UI includes a donut chart, sortable table, size bars, breadcrumb navigation, and a treemap.
Archive support: An option enables browsing ZIP, JAR, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, and TAR.XZ archives.
Saved scans: Analysis data can be saved and reloaded using SQLite or BadgerDB.
Integrations: The project lists installation options including Homebrew, Winget, Scoop, Snap, Conda, and Go, and also documents Docker usage.
Web security: The web UI has no authentication and exposes file names and sizes to clients that can reach its port; the project recommends keeping it bound to localhost.
Web actions: Web UI reveal and delete actions require a loopback-origin request with a random token generated for each server run.
Deletion controls: The project documents a --no-delete flag that prevents deletion operations.
License: The software is distributed under the MIT license, which grants use, modification, and redistribution subject to its stated conditions.
Maintainer: The GitHub profile identifies the maintainer as Daniel Milde and lists Prague.
Price from: Free

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