The easiest open source app you will ever use to detect huge files. Built with Rust + React (Tauri).

Squirreldisk is an open source alternative to softwares like: WinDirStat, WizTree, TreeSize and DaisyDisk.

Some features:

• Fast scan and deep directory scanning
• Disk scanning or pick a directory
• External disks real-time detection
• A sunburst chart to quickly visualize the disk usage
• Drag and drop: collect all items to be deleted
• Right click on a folder/file to open the file explorer
• Cross-Platform MacOS, Windows, Linux
• No telemetry, no analytics, no network connections — fully offline

SquirrelDisk is currently built from source. The steps below cover the requirements and build commands for each supported OS.

• Node.js (LTS)
• Rust (stable)
• Git

Clone the repository first:

git clone https://github.com/adileo/squirreldisk.git
cd squirreldisk

Native support for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

npm install

# Start the app in development mode
npm run tauri dev

# Build for the current architecture
npm run tauri build

# Build for a specific architecture
npm run tauri build -- --target aarch64-apple-darwin   # Apple Silicon
npm run tauri build -- --target x86_64-apple-darwin    # Intel

sudo apt-get install -y libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev

npm install
npm run tauri dev
npm run tauri build

Install Visual Studio Build Tools with the Desktop development with C++ workload before building.

npm install
npm run tauri dev
npm run tauri build

• App: 0.3.4
• Tauri: 1.2
• PDU (macOS): 0.21.1 — native ARM64 + x86_64 builds
• PDU (Windows/Linux): 0.8.4

This app was a project from 2 years ago built in Electron in 2 days, I decided to port it to Tauri to achieve better performances and to make it Open Source. Yay.

The code is still spaghetti and needs a lot of refactoring.

If you find any bugs, please report it by submitting an issue on our issue page with a detailed explanation. Giving some screenshots would also be very helpful.

You can also submit a feature request on our issue page or discussions and we will try to implement it as soon as possible.

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