DiskClue

Also known as: DiskClue: Disk Space Analyzer

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Native macOS (14+) disk space analyzer by solo developer Shubhankar Dhawade: a color-coded treemap ('Storage Map') with file-type colors, drill-down and a list view; content-verified duplicate finder; 'What Changed?' scan comparison; cleanup queue and a Pro app uninstaller covering app bundles plus Library leftovers; System Monitor and opt-in Quick Search. Labels developer clutter (Xcode DerivedData, simulators, node_modules, Docker images, package caches), local AI models (Ollama, Hugging Face) and 'System Data', with each figure marked Measured, Reported by macOS or Estimate. Scanning is read-only and reviewed items go to the Trash after a per-file re-check. Free tier covers the first map level and findings; Pro ($12.99 once) adds full drill-down, Full Mac scans and cleanup. Distributed as a Developer-ID-signed, Apple-notarized direct DMG and a folder-scoped Mac App Store edition.

Platforms

• macOS

Interface

• GUI

Features

• Disk Space Visualizer
• Duplicate Finder
• App Uninstaller
• Uninstall Leftovers
• Dev Junk Cleaner
• Ai Model Cache Cleaner
• Macos System Data Cleaner
• Storage Tracker

Dev-junk cleaning

One of its features

Development

Solo developer · original author still leads

shubhankar-dhawade

Shubhankar Dhawade, solo developer; day job is PMO analyst at Cloudwerx (Salesforce partner, Pune, India), previously an Accenture associate software engineer - a side project and his only App Store app

License

Proprietary

Proprietary

Price

Freemium

Free tier (top-level Storage Map, large files, duplicate groups, app footprints, System Monitor); DiskClue Pro $12.99 one-time, no subscription, 14-day refund; direct sales via Dodo Payments

Launched

Oct 30, 2026

Mac App Store listing release date; the diskclue.com direct-download edition was already listed on AlternativeTo on 2026-10-01

First release

Oct 1, 2026

Domain registered

Sep 1, 2026 (diskclue.com)

Last seen alive

Nov 2, 2026

Checks

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• Closed source; the direct DMG is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple, and the App Store edition is Apple-signed and sandboxed
• Only contact is hello@diskclue.com on the privacy page; no security contact or disclosure policy
• Privacy policy (updated 2026-10-15): no analytics or crash-reporting SDK and no uploads of names, paths or scan data; the App Store edition 'makes no network connections'; the direct edition contacts Dodo Payments only for Pro licence activation/check (~daily), sending licence key and Mac name
• Runs unprivileged: the App Store edition is folder-scoped via security-scoped bookmarks; the direct edition's Full Mac scan uses user-granted Full Disk Access - a macOS permission, not elevation
• Update mechanism for the direct-download edition is not documented; the App Store edition rides Apple's channel

Relations

• peer wave CleanMacster, Diskly (catalog entries cleanmacster, diskly-akbas)

  Same Oct-Nov 2026 wave of macOS disk analyzers pitching privacy and safe deletion; DiskClue's site names DaisyDisk as the incumbent it differentiates against.

Research notes

• Solo side project: developer Shubhankar Dhawade's day job is PMO analyst at Cloudwerx, a Salesforce consultancy in Pune, after ~2 years as an associate software engineer at Accenture. DiskClue is the only app under his App Store developer account (artistId 6818449884).
• Keyword-stuffed App Store title 'DiskClue: Disk Space Analyzer'; the product's own site and branding use plain 'DiskClue'.
• Launched direct-download first: diskclue.com registered 2026-09-01 and the developer self-added the AlternativeTo listing on 2026-10-01, four weeks before the Mac App Store debut (2026-10-30). No reddit, Product Hunt or Hacker News launch found; the AlternativeTo listing is the earliest promotion found.
• Deletion design is conservative: scanning is read-only, every cleanup passes a review sheet, items go to the macOS Trash after a per-file re-check, and duplicate cleanup is content-verified and always keeps one copy.
• Site pitches itself against DaisyDisk ('Why not just use DaisyDisk?'), differentiating on Trash-not-delete, plain-language folder 'clues' and sizes labelled Measured/Reported by macOS/Estimate.
• Broad feature set for a one-month-old solo app: treemap, content-verified duplicates, scan-diff 'What Changed?', Pro app uninstaller with Library leftovers, cleanup queue, System Monitor and opt-in Quick Search.

Sources

Established alternatives

• CleanMyMac
• DaisyDisk
• Cleaner One Pro
• AVG TuneUp
• CCleaner

Related tools

• ByteSweep
• Bytewell
• Diskly
• Tidymint
• DiskDrop

Wrong, stale, or missing something? Flag this listing: corrections reach the site operator, not DiskClue's developer. Last reviewed Nov 2, 2026.