GrandPerspective is a small utility application for macOS that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system.
It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space.
It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size.
Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.
Download GrandPerspective from Sourceforge for free or from the App Store for $2.99.
You'll get the same app either way.
So what's the difference?
When you get it from the App Store you know that it has passed Apple's review and quality control, you receive automatic updates, you help cover distribution costs and you support further development.
News
15 Dec 2024 GrandPerspective 3.5.1 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It includes updated translations for Finnish, French, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish and Dutch.
It also includes minor updates to the text in the user interface and fixes a crash that could occur when a scan data file was corrupt.
23 Nov 2024 GrandPerspective 3.5 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
Improvements have been made to storing and loading scan data.
Scan data files are now stored using compression and about ten times smaller.
Read performance has also been approved and is about ten times as fast as well.
24 Jul 2023 GrandPerspective 3.4.2 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge and the App Store.
It contains various minor improvements and fixes.
16 Jul 2023 GrandPerspective 3.4.1 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It contains minor improvements and fixes related to the recently added display focus functionality.
It improves default settings for various preferences and changes sorting for palettes in the Display panel; they are now sorted by palette size.
It also includes translation updates for nearly all localizations.
10 Jul 2023 GrandPerspective 3.4 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It revamps the toolbar; the icons introduced in 2008 have been replaced by more modern system symbols.
It also extends the main menu so that all toolbar functionality is also available from there.
It also includes updated translations for Greek, Italian and Turkish.
2 Jul 2023 GrandPerspective 3.3 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It adds one new feature: the ability to change the display focus.
It also fixes some problems with view refresh and a few cosmetic issues in the user interface.
18 Jun 2023 GrandPerspective 3.2 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
The scanning logic has been completely revamped and is significantly faster.
The speed up depends on the volume type and its contents, but can be twice as fast.
Thanks to Max Mueggler for suggesting these changes.
28 Apr 2023 GrandPerspective 3.1.1-L1 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge and the App Store.
It includes support for Greek.
26 Mar 2023 GrandPerspective 3.1.1 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It includes updates for the majority of supported localizations: German, Finnish, French, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish.
It also includes fixes for two bugs: one could cause a crash, the other was a layout issue in the UI.
12 Mar 2023 GrandPerspective 3.1.0 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It improves support for cloud storage:
a "no cloud files" filter is added, it is possible to apply this filter (or other filters) by default, and there's now help on how to scan cloud storage.
Code has also been updated; the recommended deployment target is now macOS 10.14.6.
Finally, the app is again available in Spanish, thanks to Jorge Ruiz Calpe.
14 Jan 2023 GrandPerspective 3.0.1 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It fixes just one bug. It was not possible to load scan data files larger than 4 GB.
Now it is, but it is still not recommended though as it is slow.
10 Jul 2022 GrandPerspective 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge and the App Store.
Most notably, it includes the ability to quickly refresh a view.
This functionality is very similar to re-scan but is much faster;
refresh only re-scans the contents of folder that have changed since the previous scan.
Implementing this functionality triggered significant changes to the implementation, which is the reason for bumping the major version.
17 Apr 2022 GrandPerspective 2.6.3 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It includes various fixes and one minor feature improvement: the progress panel shows folders where significant time is spent.
20 Feb 2022 GrandPerspective 2.6.2-L1 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It includes support for Finnish.
3 Feb 2022 GrandPerspective 2.6.2 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge and the App Store.
It fixes the known issue (unwanted black pixels during zoom-in animation) introduced in Version 2.6.1.
29 Jan 2022 GrandPerspective 2.6.1 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It now animates changes to the tree map view.
In particular, when you zoom in or out and when you change to the focus, the change is animated.
16 Jan 2022 GrandPerspective 2.6.0 has been released and is available for download from Sourceforge.
It provides keyboard navigation. Very useful. Why did this take so long?
Also minor improvements to the progress panel and selected item visibility.
For the historians amongst you, there are even records of older news.
Features
- Disk usage visualisation by way of tree maps
- Configurable display of views:
- Choice of color mapping schemes. Color files by their:
- name,
- extension,
- file type,
- parent folder,
- top folder,
- level in the folder hierarchy,
- creation time,
- modification time, or
- last access time
- Choice of color palettes
- Configurable mapping by file type
- Configurable display focus
- Optionally view package contents
- Optionally view the entire volume
- Convenient navigation of views:
- Traverse up and down the folder hierarchy
- Select files and folders in the view
- Use either the mouse or keyboard
- Open files with Finder
- Reveal files and folders in Finder
- Preview files and folders using Quick Look
- Delete files and folders from the view
- Search files by name
- Filter files and folders:
- Construct advanced filter tests based an item's name, path, size, file type, hard-link status, and package status
- Use these filters to:
- Mask files in the view
- Filter files from the view
- Exclude files and folders when scanning a disk
- Filters and filter tests are automatically stored in the user preferences
- Multiple view support:
- Refresh or re-scan a view to compare results before and after clean-up
- Twin or duplicate a view for different displays of the same data
- Support for special files and folders:
- Hard-links: Analyse Time Machine back-ups
- Remote cloud files: Analyse your cloud storage
- Save results of disk scanning operations:
- Reload and view again at any time
- Export scan results:
- Configurable user preferences
- Snappy and responsive GUI:
- Optimized drawing of views
- Drawing and scanning are carried out in background threads
- Changes in view content are animated
- Small memory and disk footprint
- Fully internationalized:
- Up-to-date localizations available in English, Chinese, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch
- Extensive help documentation
Download it
GrandPerspective has been released as Open Source under the GNU General Public License.
The official release files are available from the GrandPerspective download area at SourceForge.
The latest release (Version 3.5.1) consists of two files:
-
GrandPerspective-3_5_1.dmg
This is the main release file.
It contains all you need to run the application.
To install it, open the disk image and drag the application icon onto your Applications
folder, or wherever you want to put it onto your file system.
Next run the application by clicking on the icon.
This file also contains translations in:
- Chinese (Simplified),
- Finnish,
- French,
- German,
- Greek,
- Italian,
- Portuguese,
- Spannish,
- Turkish, and
- Dutch
-
GrandPerspective-3_5_1-src.tgz
This contains the source code of the application.
It consists of the Objective C source code, as well as various auxiliary files, such as the XIB files that are used to construct the GUI.
System requirements
The latest release requires the following:
- macOS 11.0 or higher
- An Apple silicon or Intel-based processor
If you are on a meanwhile unsupported version of macOS, you need to use an old version of GrandPerspective:
App Store
GrandPerspective is also distributed via the App Store as requested by several users.
This exposes the app to a wider audience, including some who will only install software distributed via the App Store.
I charge a small fee of $2.99 for the app when it is downloaded from there to cover the required developer program membership and other development costs.
Note: Updates here lag the releases available via SourceForge by a few weeks.
Should SourceForge users find bugs in the new release, these will be fixed before making the (updated) application available on the App Store.
Release notifications
Subscribe to the GrandPerspective announcement mailing list if you want to be notified about new releases.
Support
You can support development of GrandPerspective by:
Thanks!
If you need support, you should first check the extensive help documentation that comes with the application.
Should that does not help, you can try the Help forum.
Feedback
You can provide feedback about GrandPerspective in various ways:
Localization
GrandPerspective is fully internationalized.
This means that it can be localized to support languages other than English.
I can manage the translation into Dutch, but for any other language, I will need your help.
You can help to complete existing localizations, which is relatively little effort, or provide an entirely new localiation, which is significantly more work.
The table below summarizes the status of currently available localizations.
| Localization |
Missing translations | Percentage translated |
|---|
| Dutch |
0 | 100% |
| Chinese (Simplified) |
0 | 100% |
| Finnish |
0 | 100% |
| French |
0 | 100% |
| German |
4 | 100% |
| Greek |
4 | 100% |
| Italian |
0 | 100% |
| Spanish |
4 | 100% |
| Portuguese |
4 | 100% |
| Turkish |
0 | 100% |
So, hereby a call for volunteers.
If you want to help out with making GrandPerspective available in your mother tongue, or any other language you speak fluently, find out how you can help.
Donations
You can show your appreciation for GrandPerspective and support further development by making a donation.
Related software
GrandPerspective has been around for many years but is certainly not the first of its kind.
Tree maps have been around much longer and their application to file systems is not novel either.
A few other disk usage visualisation tools that employ tree maps are:
So, why GrandPerspective?
It started purely as a fun coding exercise when I got my first Mac Mini.
It has a few things going for it though.
Firstly, GrandPerspective is developed specifically for macOS, which narrows the immediate competition down to Disk Inventory X.
Secondly, GrandPerspective has its own way of visualising directory trees.
The layout algorithm that is used is simple and effective, but novel to the best of my knowledge.
Also, the file rectangles are drawn to be as clear and unobtrusive as possible.
Thirdly, GrandPerspective aims do one thing only but do it well.
As a result, it is a lean and mean application with minimal memory and disk footprint.
For those concerned about disk space, that should count for something, right?
Finally, it has a cute logo that will enhance anyone's Dock.
In the limelight
Various web sites have helped to get the word out about GrandPerspective. Thanks to all.
Reviews and recommendations
- medium.com/macoclock:
"The only 4 apps I'd pick, if I were forced to use only 4 for the rest of my life."
"This 20-year old app is truly unsexy. [...]
So unlike other apps that only show the top few largest files, GP shows all the files in a grand, bird's-eye perspective.
So I can easily find useless files to delete."
- imore.com:
"Seeing what's on your Mac has never looked so beautiful."
"Don't let your disk space go to waste in 2024,
GrandPerspective lets you take control of your Mac's storage in an app that's powerful, customizable, and packed with user-friendly features."
- MacResearch.org:
"a very effective way to immediately see what is eating up your file system"
- TidBITS.com:
Recommends GrandPerspective for identifying large files as "I'm partial to GrandPerspective's graphical view"
- kubadownload.com:
"Using free software like GrandPerspective it's easy to manage your disk and spot the largest files on your Mac"
- Rocket Matter:
"In one hour, I freed up over 60 GB of space on my hard drive. Thanks so much, Grand Perspective."
- nswits.com.au:
"It is really a wonderful, little tiny disk utility."
- iLounge.com:
"Our favorite Mac applications for managing hard disks are GrandPerspective and Onyx"
(excellent tutorial on the use of filters)
- 9to5mac.com:
"As its name suggests, GrandPerspective instead gives you a sense of the big picture folders that are taking up space."
(short tutorial)
- michaelvanputten.com:
Includes GrandPerspective in his list of favourite OS X applications
- Geek Like Me:
"There aren't very many Mac utility programs I find useful on a regular basis, but GrandPerspective is one of them."
- cnet.com:
"Having a tool like GrandPerspective (another similar tool is Daisy Disk) that will show you the relative size of the files on your disk is a great option to have, and can greatly help you pinpoint whether disk usage is from a problematic log file, duplicate files, or simply having too many files on your disk."
- ericholsinger.com:
"When I saw the first screenshot on the website, I was ready to look for another option. But, I had second thoughts and tried it out. I'm glad I did. It does exactly what I want."
- tutsplus.com:
"GrandPerspective is an extremely powerful tool, but it may overwhelm some beginner users."
- EasyOSX.wordpress.com:
"App of the Week"
- macenstein.com:
"while true Apple geeks can use terminal to search for space hogs, and the very patient can choose "Calculate Folder Sizes" in Finder [...] this is a much faster, and more fun way to reclaim drive space."
- notebooks.co
"GrandPerspective makes it easy to check the what's taking up the space."
- CultOfMac.com:
"This excellent free application scans your hard disk [...] and measures exactly what's what and how big it is."
- maccast.com:
"if offers a beautiful visual representation of your data"
- mac.elated.com:
"It's a fantastically quick and intuitive way to find those giant files that are sucking up your disk space."
- ars technica:
"As this screenshot shows, some files are enormous. See that big red blob? That's my laptop's hibernation file."
- forwheelers.net:
Recommends GrandPerspective as a great Mac application.
- MacWorld.com:
"One easy way to locate other large files that you can delete, move, or skip when migrating to your MacBook Air is to use a program like the free GrandPerspective."
- kayray.org:
"one of my favorite utilities for OS X"
- TidBITS.com:
"With GrandPerspective it's trivial to see when a couple of very large files are responsible for the disk filling up."
- Roumazeilles.net:
"Recommended"
- APLawrence.com:
"A simple and very direct application."
- Jemima's Chevron blog:
"I downloaded GrandPerspective on a whim, and ended up finding and deleting about 3 GB of cruft from my hard drive."
- I Heart To Blog:
"I was astonished to find files I didn't even know existed on my machine!"
- eli4d.com:
"GrandPerspective is a wonderful tiny disk utility. [...] The program is amazingly quick at scanning a folder of any size."
(an extensive review with walkthrough on how to use the application. It is very positive about the application and its author... blush)
- inputmag.com:
"The name of this one will give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect. [...]
It's one of the most responsive disk mapping apps I've tried"
- knowtechie.com:
"The simple visual interface makes manually managing your Mac's storage as easy as it should be."
- lifehacker.com:
"Download of the day"
- isource.com:
"Picks of the Week - 2011 Week 34"
- MakeTechEasier.com:
"GrandPerspective has a nice live highlighting feature that is actually very helpful with navigation."
- uk.businessinsider.com:
"Luckily, there are apps out there that are a godsend for helping you map your hard drive so you can figure out what's taking up so much space. My favourite for Macs is called GrandPerspective"
Videos
- ScreenCastsOnline.com has provided an excellent tutorial on monitoring disk usage featuring GrandPerspective and OmniDiskSweeper
- Snazzy Labs: "There'a lot of sexy new apps out there that help you free up disk space but none do a better job than GrandPerspective, which is ugly but really, really good"
- Worker Bee Supply: "We love this app and use it on all of our computers"
- techdemos4you provides a good, well-paced introduction to GrandPerspective
- Kelson01: "It's a great application. I use it all the time"
- MacAppGuide: "GrandPerspective really is a great program that allows you to see files that you may have previously forgotten about that are still taking up pointless space" (this is the most informative video of them all)
- Björn Albers: "Ein ziemlich genialen App" (a very clear introduction to the app in German)
- Andrew Tsai's Tips shows how to use GrandPerspective to clean up "Other Files"
- BradOFarell: "Coolest Mac program ever"
- themacbookone: "One of the Best apps I have seen"
- MacTipper: "Really, really nice"
- OSX509: "It's a really neat app"
- Shutter Swoo: "In summary, I highly recommend my friends to use GrandPerspective to explore your disk usage"
- cjdanilecki: "great application"
- thedevilofpower: "Just get it, it's really good"
- PwnageTutorials: "Those are like little ants" (this is the funniest of them all)
- callsignHUSKER (Warning: also featuring slightly disturbing footage with guns and babes): "It really should be built into the computer. A great way to see everything on your computer."
- jimmyrcom: "The coolest program I have never seen"
- bhd11120: "It's pretty cool. I like it."
- bulbasuar17: "GrandPerspective is a really nice Mac app. [...] I highly recommend that you just don't go deleting random files."
- InstrumentManiac: "Very good program. [...] I have been using it to find where I can save space on my computer."
- giorgio1apple: "It's a very nice app."
- iTalkApple: "Once it's done scanning you get a really cool looking window"
- CBGFilms: "It's a really good application"
- theworldofapple: "When I clean up my harddrive I heavily rely on an application called GrandPerspective"
- machelptips: "It's just a really good application if you want to clean up your computer"
- iMacWorld: "It's a great way to show what you're using and delete the useless stuff"
- Refillkid: "an awesome application"
- gofiltered: "[...] and that is how I use GrandPerspective in order to clean up my harddrive every once in a while"
- davidcallaway: "it helps you locate problem files"
- TheMacOracle: "it's really cool, it shows you what you have"
- WindowsAndMacintosh: "you can actually see how much each program takes up"
- TheTechJoint: "a really visual and cool way to figure out what is taking up the space"
- ZAMtech1994: "this actually saved me about 20GB worth of harddrive space"
- iAppleTalker: "makes a pretty cool desktop background of your whole harddrive, if you're that geeky"
- macwinexpert: "you can use it to find disk space that you do not need"
- ChrisTheAppleOne: "I went from 34GB to 72GB [free space] so that really helped"
- macdemos: "a very clever little application"
- SwitchMY: "A very useful tool to figure out what is taking up so much space"
- firehydrant3 gives various useful tips
- Ziyph provides a peaceful, short intro
- Big Man, Black T-shirt: "a neat little app that shows you, via colored blocks, all the files on your hard drive"
- MacGuy1000
- themacbookexpert
- TerryCPiano
- xXNinj00nzXx
- MSBTCvideo
Software catalogs
The most up-to-date entries are listed at the top.
The bottom of the list contains some very old entries.
Quotes from the dead
Below are quotes from websites that spoke kindly about GrandPerspective, but meanwhile stopped existing:
- "A really pretty graphical representation. ... Very cool."
www.macuser.com/software/what_a_grandperspective.php
- "GrandPerspective is a welcomed utility in my book"
www.macuser.com/software/get_a_grandperspective_of_your.php
- "I've used other tools, but this one makes it trivial to locate unusually large files as well as unusually large directories with one picture."
www.timbomb.net/blog/2007/03/03/grandperspective/
- "One of the coolest free utilities I have used in a while."
www.leefalin.com/2006/04/11/a-grandperspective-of-my-disk-usage/
- "You can change a viewpoint arrangement basement criteria around a pull-down menu in a drawer"
appleigaga.com/mac-software/hands-on-with-grandperspective-1-5-0-free-graphic-disk-usage-monitor.html
- I can only assume (hope) that this article has been generated by an automatic translation from an article in another language
- "It's a fantastic and aesthetically pleasing way of seeing where your hard drive space is going"
brianragle.com/main/?p=1028
- "it is a very useful tool for checking for files hogging space on your Mac."
ogasawalrus.com/blog/node/568
- "Fortunately, there is a GREAT tool to help you squeeze the most out of your drive, GrandPerspective"
davidjduran.com/2008/05/18/time-machine-grand-perspective-far-better-utilization-of-your-backup-drive/
- "Great for finding the giant things that just sit there wasting space."
klitaka.livejournal.com/348470.html#cutid1
- "a neat little open source tool for MacOSX."
life.firelace.com/2007/08/grandperspective_1.php
- "Pretty spiffy - eh?"
www.zolton.org/2006/04/grandperspective-nifty-mac-application.html
- "a very handy app that I use often."
www.randrambles.com/featured-app-grandperspective-for-mac/
- "quite entertaining"
www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/grandperspective_0912_graphic_disk_usage_monitor
- "a nifty freeware application for OS X"
www.wakingupcosts.net/646
- "I'm a big fan of SSD's. The one downside is their size. This is where Grand Perspective comes in handy."
www.amsys.co.uk/2012/blog/where-has-all-my-space-gone/
- "Check it out. Cool tool."
www.tim-mansfield.com/node/25
- "My new favorite little bit of freeware for OS X."
www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/04/download_of_the_day_grandpersp.html
- "It's free and open source, so give it a try. You won't be disappointed."
www.mac-and-i.net/2011/03/grandperspective-graphically-disk-usage.html
- "This is a great Mac app on principle alone - it's both functional and really cool!"
www.freemacware.com/grandperspective/
- "With a quick glance at GrandPerspective, I was able to find nearly 9GB of virtual litter on my boot drive."
www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2006/04/spaceutilities/index.php
- "One of my favorite tools for finding space-hogging files and folders you're not aware of is Eriban's free GrandPerspective."
www.macworld.com/article/133730/2008/06/maintenance_routines.html
- "GrandPerspective is an awesome utility"
freemacappaday.com/grandperspective
- "GrandPerspective is an essential application that will keep your hard drive free of unnecessary files"
appyourmac.com/2009/05/31/free-up-hard-drive-space-with-grandperspective/
- "This is a very good application. It does its job perfectly."
www.ilovemacapps.com/utility/grandperspective-view-how-much-space-files-take-up
- "Another good utility to prep your files and applications for running on a MacBook Air is GrandPerspective."
mac.blorge.com/2008/02/01/how-to-fit-your-essential-files-on-your-new-macbook-air/
- "GrandPerspective is really a great little application, and one I use on a regular basis when helping my clients tidy up their Apple computers."
www.it-support.com.au/how-to-free-up-drive-space/2012/08/
- "Great little app for Mac users who have huge hard drives that are... full all of a sudden"
dosemagazine.com/2007/03/28/grandperspective-see-your-memory/
- "GrandPerspective is great for people who would rather have a visual representation of their hard drives"
macapper.com/2007/06/11/from-cleaning-to-backing-up-your-hard-drive-and-you/
- "A great tool for [identifying big files and folders to delete] and I suggest you use it."
www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/02/deleting-big-unused-files-to-save-disk.html
- "It's a fantastically quick and intuitive way to find those giant files that are sucking up your disk space"
www.macpassword.com/quickly-find-mac-large-files-with-grandperspective.html
- "Very handy for spotting the space-wasters when you're doing spring cleaning."
shouldveaskedme.blogspot.com/2007/04/file-utilities-that-rock-and-one-non.html
- "I really enjoy using this program to see the big picture"
www.bestbizware.com/2006/09/digital_pack_rat.html
- "Really good way to find big files that you should be rid of"
davidlowry.co.uk/get-yourself-a-grand-perspective/
- "Ah, finally a visual way to keep the ol' mac hard drive clean..."
blog.gentry.io/2007/04/15/grandperspective/
- "Good for rooting out space hogs."
bllindgrls.officiallydumb.com/blog/
- "GrandPerspective works very well and is a great aid to cleaning up your hard drive."
www.aaronfreedman.com/blog/2007/04/22/due-some-spring-hard-drive-cleaning-with-grandperspective/
- "It's a great little utility, a must have for your laptop."
theappleblog.com/2007/07/18/whats-eating-my-disk-space/
- "This critter is going to be a fairly constant companion..."
www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2007/10/27/grandperspective/
- "What sets GrandPerspective apart is that it is simple, fluid and most importantly, free."
smumacness.com/reviews/maintenance-grandperspective/
- "Daily Mac App - July 26 2011"
www.tuaw.com
- "It's probably one of the most useful applications I have."
techtyrantnews.com/2009/09/07/9-ways-to-keep-your-mac-running-squeaky-clean/
- "GrandPerspective is free, entertaining, a quick 733 kB download, and may even be useful. What's not to like?"
www.technologytell.com/apple/95262/hands-on-with-grandperspective-1-5-0-free-graphic-disk-usage-monitor/
- "You might also have space-hogging files and folders you're not aware of. My favorite tool for finding them is Eriban's free GrandPerspective."
macsinlife.com/2010/03/09/mac-maintenance/
- "lets you quickly find what's been hogging the most room and causing those scary 'you are about to run out of space' warning messages."
silverclipboard.com/2008/01/22/free-hard-drive-space-with-grandperspective/
- "Excellent little program, no doubt! [...] It is also an interesting background generator"
patchpanel.blogspot.com/2010/07/grandperspective.html
- "Using GrandPerspective I was able to reclaim several gigabytes of space used up by caches, out of control log files and forgotten downloads and back ups that I no longer needed."
www.forgeniuses.com/2010/09/30/reclaiming-disk-space-on-os-x-grandperspective/
- "The colours are god-awful, but if you want to clean stuff out, it's a great way to find out what is taken up all the space on your harddrive."
hughmcguire.net/2009/12/06/some-software-that-makes-life-better/
- "Scanning is really fast, so that you even could scan the root of any mass storage device."
www.markuszeller.com/?p=960
- "[one] of my favorite free OS X applications."
www.michaelvanputten.com/2008/06/10/a-few-of-my-favorite-free-os-x-applications/
- "If you don't have it, you should download it now."
karenism.com/blog/2009/01/05/bigtime-hearts-to-grand-perspective/
- "What a great tool!"
blog.hochit.com/2008/09/11/grandperspective/
- "Auntie is a huge fan of Grand Perspective."
www.tuaw.com/2012/03/01/dear-aunt-tuaw-help-me-manage-my-dropbox/
- "It's native and really fast."
www.macwork.com/2007/03/10/hard-drive-full-dont-know-why/
- "An easy way to find those huge files and get rid of them fast."
leanmac.com/post/2308427595/find-and-delete-big-files-easily-with-grandperspective
- "a great, simple tool that allows you to monitor how your hard drive space is being used."
leanmac.com/post/2308427595/find-and-delete-big-files-easily-with-grandperspective
- "I don't think any Mac user should be without this program."
www.podfeet.com/wordpress/2007/05/20/show-97-...-brian-regan/
- "Really nice"
mactipper.blogspot.com/2007/02/finding-big-files.html
Other stuff
- grandperspective-scan
is a small utility created by Rob Haswell that lets you scan folders on platforms other than macOS.
It generates a GrandPerspective scan file, which you can then import and visualize in GrandPerspective.
- gp4yd
is a snippet created by abcdenis that collects file info from Yandex Disk cloud storage.
It generates a GrandPerspective scan file, which you can then import and visualize in GrandPerspective.
- gpscan
is a small utility in Rust created by kojix2 (with help of AI).
It also generates a GrandPerspective scan file that you can import and visualize in GrandPerspective.
When you build it from source, you should be able to visualize disk usage on systems other than macOS.
- Running GrandPerspective while you sleep:
esaruoho describes how to schedule GrandPerspective scans using iCal and Applescript
- How to install GrandPerspective with Brew:
Dylan Pierce provides instructions for installing GrandPerspective using brew
- The Naked Truth!:
Jean Constant has used images generated by GrandPerspective for creating an interesting collection of digital art
- Wikipedia.org:
GrandPerspective even has a Wikipedia entry! It's tiny, but still larger than that of Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :-)
And now... something completely different
Still here? Well, then you might also be interested in checking out other stuff I have made:
