Leaves
Ranked 2 of 7 disk usage analyzers by recommenders
Recommended as a simpler, nicer alternative to ncdu that shows where disk space goes as a treemap in the terminal.
Recommended as a simpler, nicer alternative to ncdu that shows where disk space goes as a treemap in the terminal.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 16
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 16 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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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
Treemap view in terminal
“really smart addition to handle the limitations of block characters”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer” “Ooo a TUI version of Sequoia view”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer” Better alternative to ncdu
“This is super cool, I've always used ncdu for this kinda thing but I like this a lot better.”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer” “this looks like an even better version of that, pretty cool”
Comment from 18 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Wants offline index support
“What I really also want is a way to do an offline index that this reads”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer”
Other disk usage analyzers people recommend
The four most recommended other disk usage analyzers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ncdu | 22 | 1 | 96% | 7 | — | Approved |
| LeavesThis page | 16 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| WizTree | 12 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | Approved |
| GrandPerspective | 11 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | Approved |
| WinDirStat | 11 | 2 | 85% | 5 | — | Approved |
What people said
8 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I found the bottom-right corner of things in my home dir I had no idea about was the lowest hanging fruit.”
“I really appreciate how simple and focused this looks”
“this looks like an even better version of that, pretty cool”
“I might borrow a little from that CI workflow for cross-compilation.”
“Ooo a TUI version of Sequoia view”
“This is super cool, I've always used ncdu for this kinda thing but I like this a lot better.”
“What I really also want is a way to do an offline index that this reads”
“really smart addition to handle the limitations of block characters”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.