Disk Map: Visualize Disk Usage App Reviews

I paid for thgs app… I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ADS!!!!

It’s nice and quick and does a good job of showing where there’s a mess of stuff taking up space. Sadly, the developer is following the trend of shoving a startup ad in your face now and again for their other offerings. No one wants that. Ever. Stuff like that makes me trash apps, even ones I’ve paid for.

The main reason I bought this is that I thought it would be faster than the free alternatives, it’s actually marginally slower. It should be instant using the B-tree catalog file and/or spotlight index. But the really annoying part is that it constantly nags me to purchase other apps. Also, why do I have to click Next after it’s finished scanning? Trivial, but unnecessary. It also doesn’t have a full screen option. Once you finally get to the main window, it’s slightly better looking than the free options. UPDATE for version 2.0: It’s even slower now (10 minutes to scan 5% of a very fast 256 gig SSD). And the nagging advertisements are even worse, they added one more ad dialog box. UPDATE for version 2.1: I think they’re just releasing new versions to hide the bad reviews of their nagging ads. I can’t even tell what is different anymore.

The map supplied by this app is not very useful. Yes, one can see large files and folders. But one still had better use the finder to determine whether on wants delete anything.

This a great tool if you know what you want to do with the info provided, lets you go to the inflated file or folder and then you decide how to move, delete or zip the file. Its based on a pc app called spacemonger but this one does a very god job with an elegant ui and very nice colours.

Simple, obvious interface, clean summary. My favourite “bonus” (unexpected) feature is the option to refresh only one subdirectory of the directory mapped. Definitely worth the price.

On a fast Macbook Pro with solid state drive, the software performs very quickly at scanning almost 1.8 million files - less than a minute. The resulting display is attractive and intuitively useful for quickly identifying the disk hogs. (I didn’t know that Outlook files and their archives were taking more than 30Gb of drive space, for example.) The software offers basic tools for compressing and deleting files. However it’s missing a glaring - IMO - requirement and has a few other niggling shortcomings. The disk map displays in a relatively pint-sized window on a 15-inch display, and on my busy system it isn’t nearly big enough for useful information. The map window doesn’t have the maximize icon in the upper right; it must be dragged to fill the screen, and the software doesn’t remember the size at which you last used it. Nor is there an option in Preferences to specify that it should always display the map full-screen. I’ve used it twice and already annoyed at having to manually re-size the map display. Further niggles: the software doesn’t remember the folder or drive you last scanned, you have to tell it each time what you want to scan, which may often be the same drive/folder as last time, and the software requires a couple more clicks on a Next button than should be required to do the obvious task… just display my last scan location and let me click once to get to work.

Does what it says on the tin. The information is presented so that at a glance you can see where your disk usage is. Met my needs exactly. Good job developers!

I have two computers with a 512gb SSD, and a 256 SSD on the other. Hard drives fill up quick and this is a very useful application to find fast ways to reorganize migrate data to an external hard drive. Great!

Came in handy when trying to clean up space. Saw where my VMs were hogging more space than I realized.

This is one of the greatest apps ive ever used! My hard drive has been filling up and didnt know what was using up so much space… with this app I found files in sub-folders that I didnt even know I still had, even found some files that brought back good memories :). its a must have if your not sure what is eating up your space!

Love this app. Finally I can see what is consuming the most space in any directory or in any hard disk.

This is the easiest way to see where your HD space is allocated. It is very easy to follow and pinpoint where all of your storage is being taken up. It has a very easy to read graphical interface that allows you to drill down and locate the large folders for you. The larger the folder in the image, the more data it is using. Just Brilliant!

Just transferred 3 years of “material” to new MacBook. Had 60 gigs of movies, audio and “other”.. Buried in subfolders.. took 30 minutes to dig around and found nothing. Downloaded this App and in 20 minutes I found over 25 gigs of material, moved to my new external hard drive and Whaaa Freaking La La.. Done. I am exhausted after all that heavy lifting.. time for a nap :)

Disk Map displays drive information graphically so that each folder takes up the proportional amount of visual space as it takes up disk space. Its amazing. It helped me understand my disk use and optimize whats stored where faster than any other disk tool Ive used. I highly, highly recommend it.

I wasn’t sure if I woudl like the block-diagram approach, but it turns out to be super-clear and quick to isolate those SSD-space-hogging-files.

Buy DiskMap and DiskDoctor and quickly recover space on your SSD (or hard drive). Great Product. Easy to use. Buy it!

I was running out of space, and searched everywhere I could for large files and folders. Using Disk map I saw instantly that my ‘mobile applications backups’ folder had a wopping 30GB used for multiple iPods, iPads, iPhones. I backed up the folder to a external hard drive (just in case) and deleted the backups using iTunes. Along with some other removal of unused apps taking up GB’s of space etc I cleared up 50GB! Perfect!

I suppose it is OK. Tried to drag from the Sidebar in Finder. That doesn’t work. You have to drag a real folder. Ok, it presents a good relatively sized map. However, if you have it in full-screen mode, the “mouse-over” text will be truncated at the end of the screen. And, yes, I have a little area of 133 files there as well. Would have been nice to drill down and see them like Spacemap (I think that is a Windows program) does. Ok, for $2, I suppose it is OK. I did find something to delete.

Does exactly what it says - elucidates where your disk is being wasted on old files. Simple and great.