We appreciate your feedback and if you have additional questions or suggestions, feel free to contact our support! In short, it's because human mind compares visual objects' sizes much faster and easier than it reads strings of text and numbers. ![]() And again, according to our experiments, DaisyDisk's map is proving to be the most efficient method of the data presentation, in most cases. The visualization is what determines your efficiency of finding and removing the biggest space wasters. Also note that the scanning speed, while an important factor, is not all you'd want from a disk analyzing app. In all our tests, DaisyDisk has demonstrated the fastest scanning performance, in range of 3 to 20 times faster than other apps, because we put special emphasis on the scanning speed and our engineers have developed unique know-hows to achieve this. Maybe you were misled by the intermediate scanning results that the other app shows during scanning? Note that those are not really useful until the scanning completes. I've just launched the said app and it's completed scanning of my home folder in 31.4 sec, while DaisyDisk scanned the same folder in 10.4 sec, i.e. Thanks for your feedback, but the reported numbers may be inexact. I’m pretty sure the human brain is better equipped to compare the size of bars oriented in one direction to “pie slices” all oriented in different directions. The latter is also visual, despite what the developers of Daisy Disk imply, and in fact while not as pretty, it is actually easier to visualize file sizes because they display as horizontal bars. I did another test: Daisy Disk scanned my entire home directory in 48 seconds Disk Xray Lite in 08 seconds (OK, only 6X faster). UPDATE November 2018: I appreciate the developer’s response, which I received by email (don’t know where to find it here). Disk Xray Lite lacks the visual appeal, but is free and 10-15X faster at scanning large directories (which in my case are not even that large: <90 GB). If you care about that sort of thing (and I understand if you don’t), this is a superb tool, and well worth the price. I’ve used Daisy Disk since early 2013, and it is a delight: visually appealing, and an extremely effective way of finding and removing clutter on your computer, or identifying space hogs that might be candidates for optimizing.
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