Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to SlimWin
Reclaim disk space your dev tools left behind
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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DevCleaner▲157Free the gigabytes your dev tools and AI apps hoard
Jun 2026 · devcleaner.app · its alternatives →
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DaisyDisk▲161See & recover hidden gigabytes from your Mac disks
2014 · daisydiskapp.com · its alternatives →
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Define rules to find regenerable files & save disk space
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Daisy Disk 4.0▲366Analyze disk usage and free up disk space on your Mac
2015 · daisydiskapp.com · its alternatives →
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Room Service▲128Built 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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Pretty Clean▲139macOS disk cleanup tools and programmer friendly. Size < 4MB
2022 · pretty-clean.github.io · its alternatives →
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Ground Zero▲142Reset macOS apps back to their original installed state
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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FreeUpMyMac▲110Hey HN Ex YC/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/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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Reclaim gigabytes of your storage used for Xcode cache
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Removes code bloat from (docker) containers at runtime
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tidey▲90Hey HN! I built Tidey because my Desktop was always a mess. The problem: Files pile up on Desktop and Downloads. Screenshots, PDFs, random downloads. You save them "temporarily" and forget about them for months. The solution: Tidey sits in your menubar and watches those folders. When you're ready to clean up, it shows you each file one by one. You preview it, then click Delete (goes to Trash) or Keep (moves to ~/Documents/Kept/, organized by year/month). That's it. No complex rules, no automation magic. Just a fast way to make decisions about files you've been ignoring.…
Jan 2026 · trytidey.com · its alternatives →
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Turn PDFs into audiobooks. AI voices + built-in OCR offline.
Apr 2026 · bradleynash.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Disk space visualization and management tool for Mac
2021 · daisydiskapp.com · its alternatives →
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Quickly find out where your disk space is going
2025 · eastcoastsoft.com · its alternatives →
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A simple CLI tool to reclaim space on your Windows C: drive safely - ricardoborges/DiskTriage
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’ve been running GitHub Actions workflows for a while, and when GitHub announced the new ubuntu-slim runners as a cheaper alternative to ubuntu-latest, I wanted to migrate—but figuring out which workflows are safe to switch turned out to be surprisingly tedious. You need to check for Docker usage, services, containers, step failures due to missing packages, and whether jobs rely on tools not available in the slim image. So I built gh-slimify, a GitHub CLI extension that automates all of this. It scans your repository, detects which jobs can be migrated, flags incompatible patterns,…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Clean your node modules in seconds ⚡
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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backup, disk wipe, data recovery, Windows, hard drive
2024 · m3datarecovery.com · its alternatives →
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Hello world! I would like to share that I have created a simple open-source Python CLI app to check what's hogging all the disk space! You can install it with pip. It's like space but Zpace. pip install zpace and find the big files consuming your disk space. Be it apps, virtual environments, machine learning models etc. Just run zpace Once you find one, that you can say "bye" to, just run rm -rf /i_dont_need/this/file/right_now to get rid of it. It was born out of frustration while lack of disk space prevented me to use my laptop properly. It has been very useful to me so…
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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