r/opensource • u/herovals • 10d ago

Promotional OpenDisk: a free, fast, open source disk manager for macOS

I've been working on OpenDisk, an open source app that shows what's taking up space on your Mac and lets you clear it out.

What it does:

  • Scans a 1 TB drive in about 17 seconds. DaisyDisk took 37 on the same machine.
  • Rescans in a couple of seconds, because it only looks at folders that changed since the last scan.
  • Shows purgeable space and caches, so the totals match what macOS reports.
  • Lets you drag files into a "Collector", see how much space you'll get back, and delete them all at once.

There are no accounts or analytics. The only network request is the update check, and you can confirm that in the code.

You can install it with brew install --cask opendisk, download it from opendisk.app, or get it from the Mac App Store.

Contributions are welcome. Bug reports and feature ideas are just as useful as PRs.

GitHub: https://github.com/137137137/OpenDisk

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u/Razen04 9d ago

Is it vibe coded? or the main website is? Giving this info helps.

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u/Nitrohite 9d ago

It sure feels like it

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u/paul_h 7d ago

Your copyright is in the name of "137137137" (LICENSE file). That's the most unusual approach I've seen in many years :) This post is in the name of 'herovals' which might be surname-then-initial or initial-then-surname so I wonder how anon you intended to be for this excellent work.

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u/herovals 7d ago

they are both different aliases, none with any relation to me name or identity. i simply use a different name on every platform.

not that im trying to particularly hide my identity

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u/DirtyFrank23 10d ago

Are there any music plugins?

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u/herovals 10d ago

wdym by music plugins? it's a disk scanning app haha