# Leaves

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Leaves and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a simpler, nicer alternative to ncdu that shows where disk space goes as a treemap in the terminal.

## Why people recommend it

- Treemap view in terminal (2 comments): "really smart addition to handle the limitations of block characters" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938098)) "Ooo a TUI version of Sequoia view" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939004))
- Better alternative to ncdu (2 comments): "This is super cool, I've always used ncdu for this kinda thing but I like this a lot better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938568)) "this looks like an even better version of that, pretty cool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954273))

## What people warn about

- Wants offline index support (1 comments): "What I really also want is a way to do an offline index that this reads" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938165))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [ncdu](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ncdu.md): 22 recommend
- [dust disk usage analyzer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dust.md): 8 recommend
- [gdu disk usage analyzer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gdu.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Leaves", https://hackerapproved.com/p/leaves/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).