Comparisons & alternatives · Disk-space analysers
How does Storage Studio compare with disk visualisers like DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective?
Short answer: Visualisers draw a map of your disk so you can find and delete big things. Storage Studio's Storage Inspector also finds them, then lets you move them to an external drive with a link left behind, and shows snapshot-held space separately.
Disk visualisers are excellent at one thing: drawing a picture of what's on a disk so you can spot what's big and delete it. Storage Studio's Storage Inspector also finds what's big — your largest folders, drillable to any depth, plus a curated list of usual suspects like iOS backups, Xcode data and app caches — but it's built to act on what it finds:
- Move to fast drive on the rows worth moving, with a link left behind;
- a Relocated panel with one-click Move back;
- space held by your Mac's snapshots shown separately, so you don't delete things that won't free anything.
If you mainly enjoy exploring a visual map of your disk, a visualiser is a nice companion; Storage Studio is happy to run alongside it. See What's Using Space.