Purple Tree is a powerful visual disk space analyzer for macOS. Its interactive treemap visualization provides an immediate overview of your storage usage, helping you quickly identify large files, folders, and duplicate content. Whether you’re cleaning up a crowded drive or simply curious about what’s taking up space, Purple Tree makes storage management fast, intuitive, and enjoyable.
Key Features
• Quickly discover the largest files and folders on your drives and gain a clear overview of your storage usage.
• Identify files by content type (Photos, Music, Movies, Documents, and more) using intuitive color coding.
• Highlight recently modified files with Date Modified color heatmap.
• Find, browse, and manage duplicate files.
• Navigate your folder hierarchy by zooming in and out of the treemap. View detailed information for selected items.
• Delete unwanted files and folders directly from the application to free up disk space.
• Scan external drives available in the startup window.
• Exclude specific folders and locations from scans to improve performance.
• Save frequently used scan locations as favorites for quick access.
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One of the best Mac apps
Giovanni Bizzarro
Definitely the best disk scanner on the app store. The others don't scan my entire disk for some reason. This one scanned my entire disk, and is also by far the most well-designed. It looks amazing, comprehensive and easy to read! As a bonus, you can even watch it tally everything up as you're waiting for it to finish scanning so you don't sit there at a blank screen like other apps. Hands down one of the best mac apps.
Absolutely Amazing - best value app on the store
B-i-g-D
I stumbled across Purple Tree for a buck. It’s amazing - also safe for detecting and removing duplicates - and lets you see where the space is being eaten up.I used to use Grand Perspective.This alternative is extremely slick and intuitive and amazingly fast. I used to finally undo the damage that Gemini did to my file system and safely removed the unwanted duplicates while also finding where the space was being wasted.I wish it could do one more magical thing: allow the user to purge specific purgeable files. It is an amazing and invaluable tool for you mac. You will not be disappointed. I think that they should charge $4.99 but I would happily pay $9.99. Buy it while it’s cheap!
Best disk mapping app I’ve seen, great visual representations
RichardP-CO
Scans take very little time to complete, and I haven’t had to grant the app any special permissions (scanned /Library, /System, /Applications, ~ so far). The colormaps, representing the sizes of the sub-folders, are well-labeled and easy to understand. I’m very happy with my $1 purchase :)
One of the best utilities ever
WillCate1960
I can't say enough good things about Purple Tree. Find those huge files lurking deep in your drive so that you might free up some disk space. Hats off to Thomas Jgenti for this great app.
- Refreshed duplicate list UI: simpler, yet more powerful.
- Fixed a memory issue during duplicate detection.
- Sparse files now appear dimmed, with their real size on disk displayed alongside their logical size.
- Improved contrast for the Date colormap.
Version 3.7
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