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DiskX 1.0.0 — first public release

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@avantigroupai avantigroupai released this 11 Aug 14:55
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1.0.0
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Caution

Superseded — this build contains a reproducible crash. A folder holding sparse files with very large reported sizes (zero bytes on disk, and shippable inside an archive or served by a network mount) aborts the app mid-scan and does so on every retry. Fixed in 1.0.2 — please update.

The first public release of DiskX — a free, open-source macOS disk space analyzer that sorts by what's safe to delete first, not just by size.

Install

  1. Download DiskX-1.0.0.dmg below, open it, drag DiskX to Applications.
  2. This build is ad-hoc signed and not yet notarized (notarization requires a paid Apple Developer account), so macOS will block it on first launch. Open it once with right-click → Open → Open, or clear the quarantine flag:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/DiskX.app
  1. To scan ~/Library and system paths, grant Full Disk Access in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Without it DiskX shows an honest "N folders unreadable" chip rather than silently undercounting.

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel).

What's in it

  • Reclaim Sort — the default ordering: reclaimable bytes × safety tier × staleness. Deterministic and inspectable, never AI. Every row carries a plain-language WHY line.
  • Ghost-row hoisting — deep junk like DerivedData or node_modules is lifted to the top level as ↳ …/Xcode/DerivedData · 6 levels deep, so you never drill down repeatedly.
  • Truth Bar — capacity accounting that reconciles with Finder, including an honest explanation of "System Data" and purgeable space.
  • 100 % keyboard — jk/arrows to move, X to mark across folders, Space to Quick Look, 1–5 to re-sort, G for goal mode, ? for the cheat sheet.
  • Fear-free deletion — select any mix, press Delete, confirm with Return/Y (or Esc/N to cancel). Risk-proportional: if anything is yours, Return goes inert and an explicit Y is required. Everything goes to the Trash — never a permanent delete — and ⌘Z restores the whole batch.
  • Fast — 1.33M files in 45s (~29,000 files/sec), about 2.4× faster than du on the same tree; whole-tree reclaim analysis in ~1.2s.
  • Private — entirely on-device. No telemetry, no network calls, no background agents.

Verify the download

SHA-256  5b8f516cde17f68f53a09946e4680332376f25faad7b88940b3d583d0b5d2c4a

Known limitations

  • Not notarized yet (see install step 2). A notarized and Mac App Store build is planned.
  • The sandboxed App Store variant can only scan folders you explicitly grant.
  • Duplicate-file detection and scheduled baselines are not in 1.0.

Built with a multi-agent AI orchestration pipeline — see How it was built.

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