dua
The facts below are what the maker publishes about dua, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From dua's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| dua-cli | Free | MIT-licensed command-line tool · no paid plans listed |
The facts
Each one read from dua's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- APFS support
- On macOS, an opt-in traversal option counts fully shared APFS file clones only once, with a performance cost for collecting extra metadata.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Cleanup discovery
- The clean command finds disposable directories such as Node dependencies, Python caches and virtual environments, Cargo build output, and Zig caches.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Deletion safety
- The clean command lists candidates without deleting them automatically, and the interactive mode uses a multi-stage process intended to prevent accidental deletion.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Exportable reports
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- File-type breakdown
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Ignore patterns
- The --ignore-from option accepts gitignore-style patterns in aggregate and interactive modes.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The project documents installation through Homebrew, MacPorts, Scoop, WinGet, Cargo, and several Linux or BSD package managers.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Interactive mode
- The interactive mode lets users explore files and directories and mark them for deletion.checked 9 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies its license as MIT.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Limitations
- Interactive mode uses about 60 MB of memory per million entries and is limited to fewer than 2^32 entries.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Localization
- The interactive interface supports English, German, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese locales.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Parallel scans
- Directory scanning is parallel by default and aims to use the SSD’s available throughput.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- dua (Disk Usage Analyzer) reports disk-space usage for a directory and can delete unwanted data.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Reports
- Aggregate mode can print a directory tree, and stacks or flamegraph commands can produce data for disk-usage flame graphs.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Scan scope
- files_folderschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Supply-chain verification
- Release archives include build provenance attestations that users can verify with GitHub CLI.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Treemap view
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Application sizes
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Desktop platforms
- macOS,Linux,Windowschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Platform caveat
- The README says Windows installation through Cargo currently requires nightly Rust features.checked 9 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
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