BalaneDisk

Finally see what your machine is doing

The machine slows down, the disk fills up, something is chattering in the background — and the only thing the system tells you is a bar reading "Other: 214 GB". BalaneDisk makes the inside visible: processes, memory, disk, network — not as a wall of numbers, but as a picture you read in three seconds. Runs unsandboxed so it can read the whole disk, and without a cloud: not a byte leaves the machine. For macOS and Windows.

The sonar — every process a mark

At its heart is a radar. Every running process is a mark, split into sectors by origin — the system, your own programs, the network. Distance from the centre is memory: whatever holds a lot sits far out. Each mark only updates when the beam sweeps over it, so you see movement instead of flicker. Click a mark and it tells you what it is and where it came from.

Where the space actually went

The disk view is a heatmap where colour carries the statement, not size — a small, deep-red patch catches your eye faster than a large pale one, and that small patch is usually the problem. Alongside it, a full account of the entire drive: including the hidden volumes Finder never shows. And whatever couldn't be attributed is stated plainly as "unattributed" — rather than as a soothing "Other" that explains nothing.

The leftovers nobody needs anymore

Programs leave; their remains stay: caches, preferences, application-support folders from apps you deleted a year ago. BalaneDisk finds them and groups them by confidence — from "clear case" to "look first" — and for each one shows every file and its size. What goes is your call: on request, a dead app moves to the Bin (never a real delete), and before it does you see every single path you're agreeing to.

Where your machine talks to the world

A world map shows which countries your programs talk to, shaded by how much data went to each — and who is behind it: a cryptic address becomes the company that runs the server. The important part is how it works: the country, operator and tracker databases live entirely inside the app. No geolocation service, no online lookup. Looking at where your machine sends never reveals where you are.

The standing report — what happened, what's coming

Instead of a single instant reading, BalaneDisk tells a story: what happened over the last hours, and where it leads if nothing changes. Small history curves show whether memory is really climbing or just breathing. And the menu bar carries the status even when the window is closed — you don't have to keep the app open to know things are quiet.

It deletes nothing. Ever.

That's the difference from the cleanup tools that frighten you first and sell you the delete second. BalaneDisk measures, explains — and you decide. The only thing it ever does to a file is move it to the Bin: reversible, on your confirmation, with every path in front of you. No cleanup app carries the liability for damage anyway — so the deleting stays with you, where it belongs.

What leaves the machine: your licence key. Nothing else.

Every table BalaneDisk uses to name a country, a company or a tracker is bundled inside the app — precisely so that looking something up never becomes a request. File contents, paths, process names, addresses: they never leave. What goes out is your key when you activate, and the check for updates. That is the entire list.

Free to use, pay for the memory

Everything that is true right now — every process, every file, the whole disk, the map — is free forever. The subscription doesn't unlock a feature you'd otherwise miss; it buys memory. Free, you see the last two hours of history; with a subscription, the whole day and further back — the answer to "what happened while I was away". €4.99 a month, €24.99 a year. One computer per licence, and you can move it yourself at any time.

Further reading

The product site goes into detail on how the measurements are taken — and what the numbers your system keeps to itself actually mean:

• →Windows storage full: where the space actually goes — WinSxS, hiberfil.sys, WSL disks and the twelve other places
• →Mac storage full: where the gigabytes actually hide — what "System Data" really contains
• →Antimalware Service Executable: why MsMpEng.exe eats your CPU
• →Where does my PC send data? · and on a Mac
• →A DaisyDisk alternative that tells you what the folder is · a CleanMyMac alternative that doesn't clean anything · a Little Snitch alternative that watches without blocking
• →Why BalaneDisk never deletes anything — the reasoning behind the one design decision

Still a preview

BalaneDisk is in development. What you see here is an early, honest preview — usable already, but not finished. Feedback goes straight into the next versions.