FolderSizes vs Space Wizard

FolderSizes is a Windows tool for examining file and folder space across local and network storage. It scans local drives, external drives, mapped network drives, UNC paths, and network shares, then presents results as treemap, sunburst, bar, and pie charts. Searches can be narrowed by age, name, attributes, size, owner, date, or depth-related criteria. Reports export to Excel, PDF, HTML, CSV, and XML; recurring scans can also send automated email reports. Disk and folder usage tracking, along with file system snapshots, can show changes over time. The free edition has no time limit and includes four visualizations, reports, advanced search, and scan filtering. The free trial has no feature limitations. A Personal Edition license costs $30 as a one-time purchase and is limited to personal and home network use; a Single-User Pro license costs $60 as a one-time purchase. Pro upgrades include priority technical support and free minor version upgrades. The maker says FolderSizes has been continuously developed since 2003.

Space Wizard scans files and folders on Windows, macOS and Linux, including external drives. Scan locations can include selected folders, whole drives, multiple drives, and shared or NAS folders. It can look for matches using SHA-256 content hashing, byte-for-byte exact matching, or recursive folder-content matching, and supports sending items to the Recycle Bin or Trash. Its Free plan costs nothing, is free forever, requires no card and covers the home drive up to 100 GB per scan. The product does not offer a treemap view, application sizes or a file-type breakdown. It also lacks automatic selection, so scan locations and matching methods are chosen by the user. Space Wizard is cross-platform and comes from a maker founded in 2024 and headquartered in Kragujevac, Serbia.