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24 alternatives to ClearDisk

Free up Space on Mac Hard Drive

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ClearDisk launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Analyze disk usage and free up disk space on your Mac

    2015 · daisydiskapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Automatically clean & backup your MacOS desktop in 1 click

    2022 · phuctm97.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    Take control of your Mac storage

    2024 · dreamdisk.app · its alternatives →

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    DuckDisk▲104

    Table-first storage analysis for Mac, cloud, and SSH

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Disk App▲114

    Create gigabytes of free space on your Mac

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    macOS disk cleanup tools and programmer friendly. Size < 4MB

    2022 · pretty-clean.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Clean, optimize, and maintain your Mac.

    2015 · macpaw.com · its alternatives →

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    Disk space visualization and management tool for Mac

    2021 · daisydiskapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I'm the CTO at Atola Technology, and we have launched MultiDrive: a free disk backup&#x2F;clone&#x2F;wipe tool that does things differently. After 17 years of work with drives, I got tired of seeing simple disk operations locked behind paywalls. Macrium killed their free version, EaseUS hides cloning in paid tiers, and so on and so forth. Another reason is that all the existing solutions are overly complicated. It must be simple enough for my mum to start erasing a USB stick or making a full drive backup. All in all, we thought the community deserved better. What makes MultiDrive…

    Dec 2025 · multidrive.io · its alternatives →

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    DaisyDisk▲161

    See & recover hidden gigabytes from your Mac disks

    2014 · daisydiskapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Built this after repeatedly running into “Disk is full” on macOS with no clear explanation. Started as a cleanup tool for dev environments (Xcode, Docker, node_modules), but the harder problem turned out to be understanding what’s actually taking space. macOS groups a lot of this into “System Data”, which isn’t very actionable. Recently, local AI tools made this worse. Model files and caches (Ollama, Hugging Face, Whisper, etc.) grow silently and are spread across different locations. The goal is to make disk usage more transparent before deciding what to remove. Would appreciate feedback,…

    Mar 2026 · roomservices.pro · its alternatives →

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    Clean your hard drive with just a few clicks

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Clean up your Mac hard drive

    2018 · nektony.com · its alternatives →

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    Deletes hidden Sketch history files.

    2017 · yo-op.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Analyze disk usage and free up disk space on your Mac

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN Ex YC&#x2F;Google engineer turned indie maker here - excited to share something I just shipped. The System Data in my Mac was taking up 300GB and it took me months to figure out how to clear the old cache, logs, junk and more. And CleanMyMac is a subscription - I refuse to pay subscription fees for Mac apps that run locally. So I built FreeUpMyMac an offline, lifetime Mac cleaner that clear junk with 1 click. And helps you visualize your storage with TreeMap&#x2F;Sunburst. Hope it’s helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback Tunde

    Jan 2026 · freeupmymac.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloud space has limits. Cloud Cleanup makes it feel infinite

    2025 · cleanmymac.com · its alternatives →

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    Purge▲12

    Free up your Mac. Safely.

    Jul 2026 · getpurge.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    The fast, native macOS storage cleaner

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mac cleaner: free space, remove junk & protect privacy

    Mar 2026 · cleandiskgo.com · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to clean old temporary files and caches from my macOS with a script instead of using a shady paid app, so I created a simple script for that. Pull requests are very welcome for other unused files to clean up storage space!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hover ← to see the pain. Install to end it.

    Nov 2025 · macdetox.com · its alternatives →

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    Export iCloud Drive data in one click

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    The premier macOS data recovery software

    2020 · cleverfiles.com · its alternatives →

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