dust disk usage analyzer
Ranked 6 of 7 disk usage analyzers by recommenders
People recommend dust as a clearer, more readable alternative to du for seeing which folders take up disk space. No critics were recorded.
People recommend dust as a clearer, more readable alternative to du for seeing which folders take up disk space. No critics were recorded.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful for seeing disk usage
“to give me an idea of what is going on with disk usage”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning” “This has ben immensely useful for me”
Comment from 16 Aug 2026 on Hacker News
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| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ncdu | 22 | 1 | 96% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Leaves | 16 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| WizTree | 12 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | Approved |
| GrandPerspective | 11 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | Approved |
| dust disk usage analyzerThis page | 8 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“This has ben immensely useful for me”
“I like erdtree or dust instead of du.”
“I can't recommend `dust` enough”
“I kept hitting this wall, so I created the missing layer.”
“to give me an idea of what is going on with disk usage”
“i remember playing one similiar a lot as a kid”
“The quality level is consistently high, if not quite Hollywood budget.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.