disktree brings GPU-accelerated disk cleaning to your desktop

A blazing-fast disk visualizer built with Rust and GPUI brings sleek interactive treemaps to your desktop.

Open-source developer Tobi released disktree, a tool that maps your directories into a color-coded mosaic sized by actual disk usage. The project racked up over 900 GitHub stars in its first week. Built on the GPU-accelerated GPUI framework, it automatically highlights reclaimable space like caches and build artifacts with diagonal stripes.

Why it matters: Traditional disk space tools often crawl when indexing millions of files. disktree renders fast, lets you queue up files for removal, and shows live previews of freed disk space before you commit. It even checks git repositories for unpushed commits or uncommitted changes, so you don't accidentally wipe active work.

You can download prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows on GitHub. If you build from source, you will need Rust 1.97 or newer. macOS users should grant the app Full Disk Access in System Settings to scan protected system folders.

Your node_modules folders finally have nowhere left to hide.