DaisyDisk Blog

Update: DaisyDisk 4.33 adds dark and liquid glass icons, improves support of macOS Tahoe

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This update of DaisyDisk addresses some compatibility issues related to the recently released macOS 26 Tahoe.

Added dark and liquid glass icons to match the new style of macOS Tahoe.
Improved support of macOS Tahoe, fixed related bugs.
Improved accuracy of the hidden space estimation.
Fixed bug with the wrong size estimation on FAT32 and exFAT file systems.
Added more social networks to post your achievements to.
Many other bug fixes and improvements.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

Bug in macOS 26 Tahoe makes DaisyDisk “forget” granted sandbox access (App Store version only)

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

If you are using the App Store version of DaisyDisk and recently updated to macOS 26 Tahoe, some of you may have noticed that every time you launch DaisyDisk, it asks you to “Unlock” the startup disk, while normally, such “Unlock” command is done only once, and then DaisyDisk remembers the granted access to the disk on the next launch.

Turns out, this issue is caused by a bug in macOS Tahoe itself. The issue (r. 157722315) was confirmed by Apple and expected to be fixed in future minor updates of the operating system. So far it hasn’t been fixed in macOS 26.0.1, but if you are reading this later, try to update your system to the newest version.

Alternatively, you can switch to the more powerful stand-alone version of DaisyDisk, free of charge, using this link.

P.S. Sandbox access, granted by the “Unlock” command, is unrelated to the so called “full disk access”, which is a different, independent plane of macOS security.

UPDATE: A workaround has been found, now fixed in the update 4.33.

DaisyDisk 4.32 adds compatibility with macOS 26 Tahoe

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This update of DaisyDisk addresses some compatibility issues related to the recently released macOS 26 Tahoe.

Also added are minor tweaks and bug fixes.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.31 adds support for APFS dataless files, fixes bugs

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

New versions of APFS have introduced the so-called “dataless” files, i.e. the files that are offloaded to the cloud and do not consume local disk space. DaisyDisk 4.31 is now able to correctly handle such dataless files.

Also added are minor tweaks and bug fixes.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk regains “Verified” status for Google Drive

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As some of you may have noticed in recent few weeks, new users have been unable to connect their Google Drive account to DaisyDisk, getting the “This app is blocked” error message from Google’s authentication page.

Turns out, Google has recently changed their authorization policy for third-party apps to access the Google Drive API. Even though DaisyDisk was previously approved by Google, the “Verified” status was revoked due to the change in policy.

According to the new rules, developers must now annually submit their source code to a partner security company, which scans the code for potential vulnerabilities, and sends a letter of acknowledgment back to Google. The procedure is quite costly, and takes a lot of time due to various technical issues.

Despite these challenges, DaisyDisk has been able to finally accomplish this mission, and its “Verified” status for Google Drive has been reinstated.

The support of Google Drive in DaisyDisk is now back to fully functional ✅

DaisyDisk 4.30 redesigns icon

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk has been happily round for many years, and when macOS Big Sur introduced the new icon shape standard, we’ve had a lot of doubts about how the proposed change may affect the aesthetics and recogizability of DaisyDisk’s brand.

After a lot of thought, we have finally decided to update DaisyDisk’s icon to match the new style of macOS.

We hope you like it as much as we do!

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.26.1 offers a workaround for slow scanning on macOS Sonoma

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A few users who have upgraded to macOS Sonoma have reported that scanning with DaisyDisk on macOS Sonoma began to freeze on a certain point for a significant time, resulting in a much onger overall scanning time.

Our investigation has shown that the slowdown on Sonoma happens in ~/Library/Containers and ~/Library/Group Containers folders and is caused by a new privacy feature introduced by macOS Sonoma.

Luckily, only a small number of Sonoma users will likely experience this slowdown. It only becomes noticeable when you have a lot of stuff in the mentioned folders, i.e. when you use specific apps that tend to spawn lots of files and folders in their data.

The Containers and Group Containers folders are the conventional place where user’s sandboxed applications store their data. Aiming to additionally protect user’s privacy, the operating system now performs additional checks when a third-party app tries to access these folders, in particular when DaisyDisk does its scanning to build the size report.

Unfortunately, it seems that Sonoma’s code for these access checks was written suboptimally, and can cause significant delays in client apps, even after the user has granted the access.

We have filed a bug report to Apple, and received an acknowledgment of the problem. Hopefully, Apple will address it in future versions of macOS.

In the meantime, this new version of DaisyDisk offers a temporary workaround, allowing you to still scan your disk with DaisyDisk at full speed.

In order to use this option, press the Option key on the keyboard while you are clicking the Scan button (or while selecting the Scan as Administrator menu command).

This will exclude the slow folders from scanning, allowing the scan to complete super fast, but this may also somewhat increase the hidden space, respectively.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.26 improves compatibility with macOS Sonoma

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

macOS Sonoma has presented a few new challenges to third-party apps that analyze disk space usage. This update addresses and fixes a few new compatibility issues.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.25 improves hidden space discovery, adds keyboard navigation & more

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In DaisyDisk 4.25 we have added lots of important and cool features and improvements.

In particular:

Significantly improved discovery of hidden space by including more system areas into the scan. In many cases nearly all hidden space can be revealed.
Added keyboard navigation in the scanned report (yes, finally!)
Added the “Expand “smaller objects”” and the “Always expand “smaller objects”” commands to the Go menu. The expanded state is now remembered for each folder.
Added the ability to drag & drop app bundles and packages onto DaisyDisk to be scanned as folders.
Added Portuguese 🇵🇹 language.
Fixed display of network disks host names.
Cloud: Added the separate Scan Cloud button for better discoverability (previously it was located under the Scan Folder button).
Cloud: Added support for Dropbox team accounts – now the shared team folders are included into the scanned result.
Cloud: Fixed the bug which caused very long scans of Google Drive to fail with authorization error.
Cloud: Added distinct descriptions of OneDrive accounts, in case you have both business and personal accounts for the same email address.
Lots of bug fixes and tweaks.
Dropped support of legacy macOS versions: Yosemite (10.10), El Capitan (10.11) and Sierra (10.12). Now the minimum required macOS version is High Sierra (10.13).

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

Meet DaisyDisk’s New Website

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We’re excited to present you DaisyDisk’s new website! 🤩😎

Rethought, redesigned & rebuilt from scratch, it’s become more informative and looks really cool!

Check it out: daisydiskapp.com.

Tell us what you think! Feedbacks & bug reports are welcome!

DaisyDisk 4.24 improves compatibility with macOS Ventura

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In DaisyDisk 4.24 we have fixed some minor compatibility issues with the newly released macOS Ventura.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.23 adds support for Box™ cloud storage, adds Turkish language

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In addition to the already supported Dropbox™, Google Drive™ and Microsoft OneDrive™, the new DaisyDisk 4.23 allows you to connect, scan and manage disk space in your Box™ cloud account.

Besides, we have added the 🇹🇷 Turkish language, and fixed some compatibility issues with the forthcoming macOS Ventura.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.22 adds Ukrainian language, fixes bugs

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Even though Ukrainian is our native language, so far DaisyDisk hasn’t featured it in its UI. We’re finally closing this glaring gap with the update 4.22. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Besides, we’ve made a few tweaks and fixed bugs.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.21 adds support for Microsoft OneDrive™

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In addition to the already supported Dropbox™ and Google Drive™, the new DaisyDisk 4.21 allows you to connect, scan and manage disk space in your Microsoft OneDrive™ cloud account.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.20 scans cloud storage

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

With the new DaisyDisk 4.20 you can connect and scan your cloud storage accounts, in the same way as your local disks.

Currently supported clouds are:

Dropbox™
Google Drive™

After connecting an account, you can browse the map of your account’s space quota, preview and delete unneeded files in your cloud account.

For more details, check this new user guide.

Availability

DaisyDisk 4.20 is a semi-major update, yet it’s available free of charge to all existing owners of DaisyDisk licenses, versions 2.x — 4.x.

For new users, the new version is available at $9.99

Also available in the Mac App Store.

Minimal required macOS: 10.10 Yosemite or newer.

Supports macOS Big Sur and is ready for macOS Monterey.

Supports Apple M1 chips.

*The cloud scan feature is not available in the free trial mode.

DaisyDisk 4.12 adds support for the new Apple M1 chip

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In DaisyDisk 4.12 we have added support for Apple’s new M1 CPU and fixed some compatibility issues with macOS Big Sur.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.11 adds support for the upcoming macOS Big Sur

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In DaisyDisk 4.11 we have added support for macOS Big Sur and also further improved discovery of the hidden space by including more hidden volumes into the scan report.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

[Important update] DaisyDisk 4.10 adds support for APFS snapshots

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Ever since macOS Catalina was introduced, many Mac users noticed that their disks eventually get full without obvious reason. A quick scan in DaisyDisk typically reveals a big chunk of “hidden space”, which means the system is using more disk space than it’s possible to reveal by scanning, even with elevated permissions (scanning “as Administrator”).

The reason for this problem is that macOS is making temporary backups of the system, so called local snapshots, temporarily locking big amounts of disk space in an area of the disk that is fully opaque to the users. Eventually when the snapshots get transferred to the permanent storage, such as the Time Capsule, or as the snapshots become too old and get replaced by newer ones, macOS releases the disk space. However, the backup process is continuous and therefore there is always a certain amount of disk space that is locked by macOS for the snapshots.

This is how macOS Catalina works and it’s not supposed to even be a problem or require any maintenance from the user. However, in certain cases, you just need to free up the space urgently, and it’s quite confusing that you don’t have control over a big chunk of your disk.

Thankfully, the new version of DaisyDisk (4.10) is making it much easier to reveal the macOS’ hidden space, and for the part that cannot be revealed - understand its internal structure and even provide tools to reclaim it by demand.

In particular, the new DaisyDisk cuts down the amount of hidden space by revealing some obscure system items such as non-linked content of the “firmlinked” Data volume (under /System/Volumes/Data), the virtual memory volume (under /private/var/VM) and some other.

Besides, DaisyDisk now shows a breakdown of the hidden space that includes the following items:

Purgeable space. (You can also see it in Finder and Disk Utility when you inquire info for a disk). This is an amount of disk space, as calculated by macOS itself, which includes the snapshots too. You can forcedly purge this space by deleting it in DaisyDisk.
[NEW] Snapshots. This is a list of the temporary snapshots, with their estimated sizes. You can forcedly delete any or all of them in DaisyDisk, with a simple drag-and-drop, as you’d do with regular files.
Other volumes. This is the remainder of the system volumes that are used internally by macOS.

All in all, the new DaisyDisk is making a huge step to return you understanding and control of your disk on macOS Catalina, and probably provides the most exhaustive and informative view of your disk compared to any other disk utility.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.9 improves discovery of hidden space on macOS Catalina

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In DaisyDisk 4.9 we have improved discovery of the hidden space on macOS Catalina by including the following items into the scan report:

Non-firmlinked items of the Data volume in /System/Volumes/Data,
Virtual Memory volume in /private/var/VM,
Recovery and Preboot volumes (when they are mounted) in /Volumes/Recovery and /Volumes/Preboot.

Among other additions:

Updated the safety rules to allow deletion of some non-critical files in /private folder.
Added support of FUSE-mounted drives.
Minor improvements and bug fixes.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.8 adds support for the upcoming macOS Catalina

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.8 both stand-alone and Mac App Store versions are now live.

What’s new

Support for macOS Catalina.
Apple notarization for additional security.
Bug fixes and tweaks.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.7 removes purgeable space better, adds more support for macOS Mojave

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.7.2 both stand-alone and Mac App Store versions are now live.

What’s new

Significantly improved robustness of reclaiming the “purgeable space”.
Added a preference tab to help users add DaisyDisk to the “full disk access” list in System Preferences, when necessary (macOS Mojave or newer).
Fixed bugs and compliance issues.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

How to free up space on iPhone

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

People often ask us whether there is a DaisyDisk app for iOS.

Unfortunately, the answer is No.

It’s technically impossible to build an app like DaisyDisk for iOS, because all apps on iPhone are sandboxed. This means — they can only scan their own folder, and the rest of the iPhone storage is inaccessible to them.

Nevertheless, there are still some tips & tricks that will help you free up your iPhone’s storage. Read on!

1. Find out what’s eating your iPhone’s memory

It’s hard to keep track of everything that takes up your iPhone’s space. Countless old photos & videos, music you don’t listen to anymore, cache from social networks… what else?

All these files waste your memory storage. When the storage runs low, your iPhone has to work harder than usual. Therefore, the overall performance is slowed down and your battery drains faster. So how can you clear up your storage and, at the same time, help your iPhone’s battery live longer?

The first step — find out what’s eating your iPhone’s space. In your iPhone Settings > General > Storage, you can see how much of your memory is filled by apps, media etc. This will help you decide what files are useless. You can also look up the same info in your iTunes settings.

2. Get rid of the unneeded files

There are surely unnecessary apps, old photos & videos (if they’re already uploaded onto iCloud) or other data on your iPhone. Still have Temple Run, seriously? You haven’t been playing it for ages!

Spend some time to look through all the photos and videos on your iPhone. Undoubtedly, there are some blurry and bad photos, “damn, it’s a video!” records and so on. Why should they waste your iPhone space?

Three months ago you downloaded and watched a 3-hour-long movie? I think, it’s definitely time to remove it!

a small life hack: If you take HDR photos, why save the original ones, which are worse? You can remove this option by unselecting “Keep Normal Photo” in Photos & Camera Settings.

3. Resurrect the Legacy

Many people hold massive music collections on an iPhone. But the truth is — devices like iPods are better equipped for music listening.

Remember how much space can an iPod have? They’re able to keep hundreds of GBs of music. What’s more, some models support even movies and photos.

By the way, to put music on iPod, you can use WALTR, a handy app created by our friends at Softorino. (The company specializes in iOS-to-Mac technologies and own a bunch of cool apps in this area.) All you need to do is to launch WALTR and just drag and drop your music files to your iPod. Ta-dah.

Your little gadget will come back to life and you’ll have a lot of free iPhone memory!

4. Filter messages, notes & cache

You can clear old notes & contacts as they also take your phone memory.

In your Settings, look for Keep Messages option. There, you’ll be able to delete all the messages that include media. You can remove all messages that you’ve received last year or during the previous month. Or forever. 👾

Speaking about messages… don’t forget about your mail! You can, for example, clear Spam folder, unsubscribe from irrelevant websites etc. you can also clear Sent or Inbox messages if you’re sure there’s nothing important.

If you’re an avid user of various messengers like Viber, WhatsApp or Telegram, clear your cached chats and media that are no longer useful. You may not notice this, but it takes substantial part of your iPhone storage.

5. Use iCloud!

You’re always free to move all the stuff you might need to your iCloud storage. You’ve run out of memory even there? Either delete something or simply buy more space.

See?

There’s no difficulty in clearing your iPhone storage! It may be time-consuming, but it’s worth doing once in a blue moon. :)

DaisyDisk 4.6 adds Italian Language, fixes bugs

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 02 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.6 both stand-alone and Mac App Store versions are now live.

Finally, we’ve re-added the Italian language! 🇮🇹

Besides, there’s a bunch of small fixes and tweaks.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.5 officially released

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 01:00:00 +0000

Now it’s official: the long awaited DaisyDisk 4.5 is finally out!

It’s an important update, that took us a long time to research and develop. The main new feature — the extended support of the new Apple File System (APFS) and addressing the top questions about macOS High Sierra and APFS that we have received.

What’s new

Extended support of the new Apple File System (APFS) on macOS High Sierra, in particular:
You can now see the “purgeable space” — the disk space taken by the local snapshots of Time Machine and other caches, which cannot be scanned, but can now be identified inside the “hidden space”.
And you can now reclaim that “purgeable space”.
Added display of the “free space” in the right sidebar list, along with the estimation of available space, that is, “free + purgeable”.
Added display of the space taken by “other volumes” in the same APFS container, inside the “hidden space”.
Lots of bugs fixed.

This is a free update for the existing users of DaisyDisk 4.x.

The updated user guide can be found here.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.5 beta is now public, adds support for APFS and macOS High Sierra

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.5 beta has been released, please download here.

This update adds full support for APFS and macOS High Sierra.

Full change log is here.

Your feedback and bug reports would be appreciated!

Today DaisyDisk turns 8!

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

8 years ago, on March 13, 2009, the very first copy of DaisyDisk v.1 was sold, so today can be called the official birthday of DaisyDisk!

It have been a really stunning 8 years. Four major version releases, three Apple’s “Best of Mac App Store” awards, recognition by industry’s media in over 450 reviews, lots of happy customers.

To celebrate this anniversary, the price suddenly goes down by 50% for 24 hours 😉🎂

DaisyDisk 4.4 fixes display of hidden space, adds Japanese language

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.4 both stand-alone and Mac App Store versions are now live.

A minor yet an important update.

We’ve finally addressed a small but annoying issue that has been plaguing the Mac App Store version of DaisyDisk for quite a while. Unlike its stand-alone counterpart, the App Store’s DaisyDisk lacked the display of hidden disk space, so in some cases our App Store customers were confused by the apparent mismatch between the sum of all scanned folders and the disk’s total used space. With the recent introduction of our free license migration service, we are finally able to display the full disk usage information in both DaisyDisk versions, and give all our users a meaningful path to reveal the hidden space, if they need to.

Also in this update we’ve improved the order, in which the disks and volumes are displayed in the overview of disks. Partitions are now sorted alphabetically by their names, grouped by physical disk were they are located. (Previously, all partitions were sorted by their logical names.) Network shares are grouped by their corresponding remote servers.

And finally, we’ve re-added the Japanese language! 🇯🇵

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.3 adds Spanish and Chinese languages, fixes bugs

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.3 both stand-alone and Mac App Store versions are now live.

In this update we re-added Spanish 🇪🇸 and Chinese 🇨🇳 localizations (both Simplified and Traditional) and fixed a few bugs.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.2 adds Polish language, fixes bugs

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.2 both stand-alone and Mac App Store versions are now live.

In this update we re-added Polish 🇵🇱 localization and fixed a bug that caused timeouts on network disks.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.1.1 adds French and Swedish languages

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.1.1 both stand-alone and Mac App Store versions are now live. Update! :)

In this update we re-added French 🇫🇷 and Swedish 🇸🇪 localizations.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.0.3 fixes the Sparkle vulnerability, adds German and Russian languages

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.0.3 stand-alone version is now live, the Mac App Store version is submitted for review and is coming soon.

Update! :)

This update fixes the recently revealed Sparkle vulnerability, though at the time we were already using HTTPS so DaisyDisk users were not likely affected. Beside the fix, we re-added German 🇩🇪 and Russian 🇷🇺 localizations.

Full change log is here.

Please note that if you are using stand-alone DaisyDisk 4.0.1 on El Capitan, you’ll have to update manually, that is, by downloading and replacing the app. The built-in updater was unfortunately broken in DaisyDisk 4.0.1. It should still work fine though on OS X Yosemite.

Apple’s Best of 2015

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Apple has unveiled its “Best of 2015” collection in the Mac App Store:

“What you see here made the cut—they’re the most visionary, inventive, and irresistible apps and games of the year.”

And guess what, DaisyDisk is one of them, yay! :)

And this is our third time. DaisyDisk 3 was in “Best of 2013” and DaisyDisk 2 was in “Best of 2011”. In fact, all our major updates were named.

Stay tuned.

DaisyDisk 4.0.2 fixes some bugs

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.0.2 is now live, both in the Mac App Store and our website. Update! :)

This update fixes some bugs.

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.0.1 adds support of OS X El Capitan

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4.0.1 adding El Capitan support is now live, both in the Mac App Store and our website. Update! :)

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.0.1b1 — new beta adds support for OS X El Capitan

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4, new beta (4.0.1b1): Download

This update adds support of the forthcoming new OS X El Capitan (10.11).

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4 is now live

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce that the long awaited major update DaisyDisk 4 has been just released and is now available both on our website and in the Mac App Store.

Watch Presentation Video

The update is free for all existing customers of DaisyDisk 2.x — 3.x.

What’s new (compared to version 3.x)

Finally, brand new look-and-feel, matching the new OS style.
Dramatically improved scanning speed — up to 20x times faster! Now scanning takes just a few seconds, not minutes as before. (Depends on your disk and CPU models. The speed gain is most notable on newer SSDs and 4-core CPUs).
Significantly reduced memory consumption.
A few minor features and tweaks.

Note: All localizations except English have been temporarily removed in this version, to speed up our development. We will re-add them in future minor updates.

DaisyDisk 4.0b11 — release candidate #4

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4, release candidate beta #4 (4.0b11): Download

Yes, again :) Surprisingly good job of finding bugs our testers do :)

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.0b10 — release candidate #3

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4, release candidate beta #3 (4.0b10): Download

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.0b9 — release candidate #2

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4, release candidate beta #2 (4.0b9): Download

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.0b8 — release candidate #1

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah-ha! We’ve got a release candidate beta (4.0b8). This is your last chance to report bugs before the release :)

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.0b5 - 4.0b7 beta updates

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Another weekly beta (4.0b7) just released: Download

Full change log is here.

DaisyDisk 4.0b4 beta update, stunning speed boost

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 21 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Finally, a new DaisyDisk 4 beta release! We’ve made some major rewrites under the hood, which dramatically boosted DaisyDisk’s scanning speed. In our benchmarks, scanning an SSD is now up to 15x faster! It means you can scan your Macbook’s disk in only 3-6 seconds — almost in no time. A real no-brainer when your disk gets full.

This is the fastest and most efficient DaisyDisk you have ever used. Your beta-testing and feedbacks are welcome: Download DaisyDisk 4 Beta (OS X Yosemite required)

Our benchmarks:

Macbook Pro 250GB SSD: ~6-7 sec (previously 120 sec)
iMac 5K 1TB Fusion: ~5-18 sec (previously 70 sec)
2011 iMac 1TB HDD: ~40 sec (previously 79 sec)

In the following few weeks we’ll be tweaking the beta and submitting the official release to the Mac App Store. A brand new website is also in the pipeline.

DaisyDisk 4 progress

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 4 has been in public beta testing for a while already. In the meantime we decided to make this major update even more valuable by adding another important new feature. Of course, this should take us back to development for another few weeks, but we’re sure it’s totally worth it.

Stay tuned!

LilyView update 1.1 for Yosemite is now live

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

As promised earlier, the long-awaited update of LilyView 1.1 is now finally live in the Mac App Store.

The update features full OS X Yosemite support as well as the following:

New design with even less chrome, matching the new OS style.
Display of image metadata, such as image size and type.
Quick zoom to 1:1 mode (press Opt key and move mouse to pan).
Support for Philips HUE for ambient lighting depending on the viewed image.
Support for Leap Motion sensor for swiping, scrolling, rotating and zooming images by moving hands in the air.
Support for Lightpack for ambient lighting depending on the viewed image
Lots of bug fixes and improvements.

Unclutter team news

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

We’re glad to announce that starting from today our Unclutter team separates from Software Ambience and becomes a brand new company, entirely devoted to the Unclutter app, while we stay better focused on our main DaisyDisk and LilyView projects. This is a move that we’ve been planning from the very beginning of Unclutter, which we see as a great idea, but still a side product for us.

We’ve been sharing our vision and expertise with the Unclutter team under the wing of Software Amibence and today we are happy to see that the app has grown strong enough to fly on its own.

From the very beginning, Eugene was and remains committed to developing Unclutter. The website and all contacts for Unclutter stay the same. We remain friends and wish the Unclutter team the best of luck!

Unclutter has become a great tool already and we’re looking forward to the upcoming next major update which will make it even greater. We use this indispensable tool ourselves every day, and recommend it to all Mac users.

OS X 10.10 Yosemite

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings, dear users.

Good news: DaisyDisk 3 is fully compatible with OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Better news: the upcoming DaisyDisk 4 will be a Yosemite exclusive with an updated look and feel plus some really handy extra features.

Great news: DaisyDisk 4 is free for all users of DaisyDisk 2 and 3.

Availability: December 2014.

Unfortunately, LilyView hasn’t been updated in time. It’s only partially compatible with OS X 10.10 Yosemite and these issues really influence the experience of using the app.

We apologize for the inconvenience and let you know that the update is in the works. Meanwhile we decided to temporarily pull LilyView from the Mac App Store. It will be back after the update is released.

DaisyDisk 3.0.2 is out

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Good news, friends. DaisyDisk 3.0.2 is out.

It adds a workaround for yet-another-Mavericks-bug (sorry for inconvenience) and speaks German 🇩🇪, French 🇫🇷, Italian 🇮🇹, Russian 🇷🇺 and Swedish 🇸🇪.

Download, enjoy and let us know what you think.

DaisyDisk 3 and app sandboxing

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Since its very introduction in OS X, app sandboxing has been a pain in the butt for both developers and users. Developers have spent wonderful weeks or even months adopting their software to the new requirements, and users have surely loved the new for-the-sake-of-your-own-security dialogs.

While no doubt being a good idea in theory, Apple’s sandbox implementation leaves much do be desired, not to mention it’s ridden with bugs, which really hurt end users’ experience.

For example, sandboxed applications cannot unmount USB drives even after receiving full access. The bug has been reported to Apple months ago, but it’s still there in Mavericks. A new issue introduced in Mavericks is app’s inability to operate correctly if the sandbox access is granted by drag and drop. The open dialog works, but drag and drop, Mac’s natural way of interacting with things, doesn’t work correctly in Mavericks.

We, as developers, cannot fix sandbox bugs, but we can do one thing: offer all our customers a sandbox-free version of DaisyDisk, which solves all these problems once and for all. Just download DaisyDisk app directly from our site and it will pick up your Mac App Store registration data. In addition to being sandbox-free, the stand-alone version provides some extra features you may find useful.

DaisyDisk 3, Mac App Store upgrades and related issues

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Since the release of DaisyDisk 3 many Mac App Store users complained about “lost” functionality and inability to scan the disks as they’re used to be. Here’s a short explanation about what’s going on and what we’re doing about this.

As you may already know, some time ago Apple introduced app sandboxing as an extra security measure. In theory, isolating applications prevents hackers from getting your private data or ruining your system, but in practice it has certain drawbacks for both users and developers. The main problem is that from now on all Mac App Store apps are isolated and can’t access most locations on your Mac without clearly receiving your permission. This permission can be provided through the familiar Open panel or by dragging and dropping a file, folder or disk to the app’s main window.

So, what could we do?

Leave Mac App Store without updates. In this case App Store users would get a two year old version, which never gets updated. Some developers have already done this.
Remove DaisyDisk from the Mac App Store entirely and only sell it from our site. Technically it’s the easiest solution, which could have saved us months of work.
Adopt sandboxing for Mac App Store version and omit one for standalone version. This means having to do a lot of extra work just to release a free update to the existing app.

The easiest way to apply sandboxing could have been turning the app into a manually populated drop area where in order to view the disk’s capacity or even name one would have to add it first. For many it’s a solution, not for us.

Our problem is that we haven’t spent enough time on current implementation (it’s been finished in a rush) and haven’t tested it too good on real-world cases, so the result is quite confusing. The release version of DaisyDisk 3 is the 4th major iteration of the design, 3 previous ones have been rejected during review process and in fact we’ve spent much more time on app sandbox than we’d liked (we tried at least ten different versions of the UI):

Some of the early sandbox UI prototypes:

We’ve just submitted DaisyDisk 3.0.1 with the following sandbox UI (actual screenshot):

Future updates will likely see even better design. What’s important is a fact that we cannot magically make all your disks just scan as before: DaisyDisk simply doesn’t have permission to access your disks. That’s the face we have to deal with, but we’ll do our best to make the upgrade experience as smooth as possible.

What can you do right now? Drag and drop Macintosh HD to the DaisyDisk’s window to let the app scan all your disks and, if you ask it to, delete files. This is a one time action. Alternatively download and run DaisyDisk version from our site. It can work alongside with the one from Mac App Store, it’s not sandboxed and has more features which cannot be included into the Mac App Store version. If you installed DaisyDisk 3 from the Mac App Store, standalone version will pick up registration information automatically, so you’ll always have all the features without paying extra, no matter where you purchased the application.

Thanks for your patience.

Taras @Software Ambience

Getting ready for Mavericks

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 02:00:00 +0000

Winter is coming… which means a new version of OS X is nearing its release date.

Here are a few tips on helping you get ready for the upcoming OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

Mavericks doesn’t contain any radical changes in API, so most of your apps will likely work as before. Nevertheless we recommend checking if all of your applications are up to date. This is especially important for ones you purchased outside of the Mac App Store as some apps use undocumented APIs that could break after you upgrade your OS X. Good news: once you install Mavericks, it will keep your Mac App Store apps up to date automatically.

Run Disk Utility and ensure all your disks are in good health (Verify Disk command) and permissions are fixed. Damaged file system may cause enough trouble even if you’re using Time Machine backups (and you do, right? ;)). If necessary, use free Onyx app for basic maintenance, but stay away from any sorts of “fine-tuners”, “tweakers” and other “MessUpMyMac” tools unless you’re looking for troubles.

Clean up a bit. While you don’t need hundreds of gigabytes for updating to OS X 10.9 having some extra disk space never hurts and DaisyDisk is your best friend here. So why not use the chance and get rid of the junk on your disks?

DaisyDisk is ready for Mavericks, are you?

DaisyDisk 3 is released

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Greetings!

We’re glad to inform you that DaisyDisk 3 has finally been released.

Both Mac App Store and standalone version users, check for updates and get a newer, better and Retina friendly version of the app. It is a free update for all DaisyDisk 2 users, so there’re no reasons to skip it.

Oh, yes, the release notes:

New design and application icon.
Full support of Retina displays.
New 64-bit only engine (requires OS X 10.7+).
Folder rescanning without having to rescan the whole disk.
Contents of file bundles can now be inspected.
Updated list of system files that should not be deleted.
Thunderbolt disks are now correctly recognized.
Uses Notification Center on OS X 10.8+, Growl 2 on OS X 10.7.
Added menu command to launch Disk Utility, might be helpful for disk troubleshooting.
Slightly tweaked keyboard shortcuts/trackpad gestures.
Lots of smaller tweaks, fine-tunes and fixes.

Download, enjoy and let us know what you think.

Taras @Software Ambience.

DaisyDisk 3 beta, LilyView

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a long time. How have you been?

Greetings, DaisyDisk users.

It’s been a quiet summer, but we still have some news to share.

First of all, DaisyDisk 3 is slowly but surely approaching the release date.

The good news is that you can try the beta today and see what we’ve been working on during the past months. The beta will be updated until the final version is available. Better news: DaisyDisk 3 will be free for all DaisyDisk 2 users. It will be available in both Mac App Store and standalone edition and as usual we’ll offer free migration to standalone.

The list of changes includes a brand new design, full retina display support, a new engine and a huge amount of smaller, but useful features, updates and tweaks.

Once again, if you’re running OS X 10.7 or newer, there’re no reasons for not trying the beta of DaisyDisk 3, so get it right now.

Our new app, lightweight image viewer LilyView is out of beta and is available to every Mac user running OS X 10.7+. Try the demo or head straight to the Mac App Store.

That’s all for today.

Taras Brizitsky, Software Ambience

The year of 2012

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

My sincere apologies for being silent during the last months. There’s been quite a lot of work inside the company, but only a minor part of it is visible.

DaisyDisk Team is gone. Long live Software Ambience! It’s a company responsible for DaisyDisk and all our upcoming products. The staff has expanded, so we’ll be able to work on multiple products simultaneously.

Welcome Unclutter, a tiny utility that combines file storage, instant notepad and clipboard preview. Immediately accessible with a simple gesture or keystroke. Available right now on the Mac App Store near you.

DaisyDisk is alive and kicking. It got a brand new design with full retina display support, an improved future-proof engine and other interesting features you’ll soon be able to test yourself. This update will be freely available to all existing users of DaisyDisk in Q1 2013. Be patient, it’s worth the wait.

That’s not all. Our third app, @LilyViewapp is nearing open beta.

Sounds interesting? Stay tuned and follow us on Twitter. The year of 2013 is going to be really great for us all.

Taras Brizitsky, Software Ambience.

2011, retrospective

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

2011 has been a great year for the team and the product. We’ve released DaisyDisk 2.0, a rewritten and redesigned version of the app, featuring tons of improvements and some unique features. We’ve rolled out 4 updates that made the app look even better, work faster and speak with our customers in their native language.

No wonder DaisyDisk 2 is featured in the Best of Mac App Store 2011 category of the Mac App Store and is a runner up in TUAW Best of 2011, the best Mac utility app vote. Not to mention lots of positive reviews and, most importantly, our users’ satisfaction.

Right now DaisyDisk sells with 50% discount and the good news is that we’re leaving it that way. That’s right: a fantastic, state of the art tool for less than $10. That includes free customer support and nonrestrictive licensing policy.

What’s next? We have a long, long list of possible improvements, features and just crazy ideas, so the development is not going to stall. We’re not fans of abandonware :) At the same time, we’ll try to move on with one on our next projects that have been frozen throughout the year.

Have great holidays, see you in 2012. Stay tuned.

Yours truly, DaisyDisk Team.

DaisyDisk 2.1 is out

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Standalone version is available for immediate download and the app store one has just been submitted to Apple for approval.

DaisyDisk 2.1 features two localizations (folks from Germany and Russia, rejoice) and greatly improved support for OS X Lion. Sooth to say even previous versions of DaisyDisk have been “Lion ready”, but even minor glitches are annoying, so we’re getting rid of them. As well as trying to take advantage of new technologies :)

Starting from version 2.1 DaisyDisk is no longer Leopard compatible, you’ll need to use version 2.0.7.1 (available on our support page) if you still rely on PPC/Leopard.

What’s new in 2.1

OS X Lion:

Fullscreen mode
Window state resume
Volumes encrypted with FileVault 2 are clearly marked as such, support parallel scan

Other changes and improvements:

Disk usage gauge and sidebar scale up according to the window’s size
Removed main window’s bottom bar: less vertical screen space, looks better on Lion
New navigation for returning to the list of disks and folders
Updated all buttons and controls with more polished graphics
Fixed some minor graphic glitches on OS X Lion
Updated third-party frameworks to the most recent versions
Help file updated to reflect most recent changes
Localization program is back: DaisyDisk now speaks Russian and German, more languages to come soon
Tons of smaller fixes and tweaks

Other updates will follow during next months.

Stay tuned.

Yours truly, DaisyDisk Team.

DaisyDisk 2.0.7 is out

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Hooray. We’ve just released DaisyDisk 2.0.7.

The list of changes is quite promising:

Starred (favorite) folders
Hidden disk space detector (stand-alone version only), a nice complement to “scan as administrator”
Brand new logic for scanning multiple volumes simultaneously (reduces hardware load, increases scan speed)
Volumes of the same disk are now visually grouped together
Improved disk/volume descriptions
Eject volumes, not disks
Fixed UI lag on directories with tens of thousand files
3-finger swipe up/down gesture for switching between disks/map
For terabyte disks, free and used space is displayed in GB
Updated list of locations that cannot be deleted
Updated help file
Lots of smaller tweaks and fixes

Not bad for a minor release :)

The App Store version has been submitted to Apple for approval and should be available… well, when Apple decides to approve it :)

For those curious: yes, DaisyDisk 2.0.7 works on Lion, but once 10.7 goes final, we’ll make an update to ensure full compatibility.

What’s next?

First of all, we’re re-opening the localization program, so if you want to see DaisyDisk on your own language and wish to contribute — drop us a line.

The next minor release would be dedicated to Lion compatibility. We’re also thinking about dropping support for PPC/10.5 in favor of providing better experience for Lion (and Snow Leopard) users.

Stay tuned.

Yours truly, DaisyDisk Team.

10 basic principles behind DaisyDisk

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Experience over features

Features don’t matter, experience does. Who cares if the app promises to do everything but doesn’t do a single thing right?

Being the best is not enough

It’s not enough to make the best app of its kind, one must try to build a perfect app (even though it’s impossible).

Design first

Make great design, then implement it in code, not the opposite. While thinking in code it’s easy to lose the scope and roll down to inferior solutions.

Don’t do anything you can’t do right

Ok, you have a great feature scheduled, but the final implementation is less than great. Postponing or even discarding the thing is likely the best idea.

Follow patterns, don’t imitate

Learn from others, try to understand why they’re doing things that way and only then lend the best patterns and integrate them into your app. Take a look at Zune or today’s iPad “competitors”, they’re pitiful, don’t repeat their creators’ mistakes.

Affordable premium

Merely working tools for just 39.95 are so Windows… Try to make premium quality software affordable.

Take advantages of your size

When you’re small, don’t pretend being big. Be fast, be flexible.

Iterate

You’ve made a great thing! You haven’t. Just throw it away and start it anew. Think. Add, remove, change, polish, repeat the process many times. Now compare your result with the original which doesn’t look any good at all…

Be honest

You’ve messed up something? How unexpected… Now go and tell this. Your customers may forgive you, but don’t expect them to forget.

Beautiful and useful

Don’t make anything unless it’s beautiful or useful. Try to stick with solutions that are elegant and needful.

Upcoming changes

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings, guys.

Here’s a portion of fresh news.

First of all, we’re pleased to announce the upcoming update to DaisyDisk, version 2.0.7.

The first feature you’ll likely notice is favorite folders. Mark a folder as favorite and it will remain pinned to your list of sources forever. Not a big deal for occasional scans, but a real time saver for control freaks.

Scanning multiple volumes is now faster than ever thanks to the recent engine changes: DaisyDisk successively scans multiple volumes of the same hard drive, so the hardware load gets reduced and scan speed increases. This thing works automatically, you don’t even need to be aware of it.

The third interesting feature is related to the stand-alone version of DaisyDisk. Now, after the scan is complete, the application tells you if there’re significant amounts of disk space hidden in restricted folders i.e. taken by files and folders you are not normally allowed to access.

And finally, we’ve made a few tweaks and optimizations to DaisyDisk’s engine, so it handles folders with huge (no, huge) numbers of files without any hickups.

We hope to roll out this version in a week or two once we finish polishing all the stuff.

What’s next? There’re a few interesting things we have in a pipeline: I don’t want to reveal all the details right now, but we’ll keep you informed :)

One more thing. Starting from today we’ll try a more aggressive and flexible price model, so you should be able to get a premium quality product with a significant discount. We’re also considering separating Mac App Store and stand-alone versions of DaisyDisk by making certain (advanced) features only available in a stand-alone edition.

Stay tuned.

Sharing code

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

We love open source. DaisyDisk uses some popular open components that saved us hours of work. So, in order to give back something useful to the Mac dev community we’re making the code of our feedback component freely available.

We’re introducing DFeedback!

A small FAQ:

What license does it use?

We have chosen MIT License. It’s simple, it’s fair and it’s free of all the GPL’s bullshit.

Why not just use JRFeedbackProvider?

We used JRFeedbackProvider in the very first versions of DaisyDisk, but later replaced it with a custom component. While both look similar on screenshots, DFeedback has the following advantages:

polished look and feel
visual feedback for missing e-mail address when “reply to” is checked
optional system info (collected in the background, can be previewed by users)

Are there any downsides?

We haven’t build DFeedback as an all-purpose ultra-flexible component. It’s designed with DaisyDisk in mind, but you’re free to modify it to fit your special needs.

Where can I grab the code?

Follow this link to get full source code on GitHub: https://github.com/AJet/DFeedback

Love DFeedback and use it in your own projects? Feel free to send us a link/screenshot.

Sharing knowledge: win one of 12 great books

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Hi.

There’re some great news we’d liked to share.

~~We are giving away 3 promo codes to DaisyDisk.~~ Nah… Boring…

~~We are giving away 5 $10 iTunes cards~~… so you can download some annoying tunes…

Seen this stuff a million times, no cool. Let’s try something different.

This week we are celebrating the successful start of DaisyDisk 2 by giving away 12 ~~great~~ great books. Most of these have already become live classics and well worth reading by just any person interested in design, data visualization and building software. Almost $500 for us — priceless knowledge for you.

Let’s see what’s in:

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, Visual Explanations by Edward Tufte. The best design books ever. Period.
Now You See It by Stephen Few and “The Wall Street Journal” Guide to Information Graphics by Dona Wong. While not as mind-blowing as Tufte’s books these are worth reading for any person interested in information visualization.
About Face 3 and Designing for the Digital Age by Alan Cooper and Kim Goodwin — essential reading for every interaction designer or software developer.
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge, one the most inspiring books we’ve ever read. Great stories behind cult products like Mac, computer mouse or PalmPilot.
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Norman. The name is quite self-explanatory. What we can add is that it seriously affects the way you’ll start looking at things after reading it.
Rework and Getting Real by 37signals, an icy shower for startupers and beginning software developers. Two of the few books about business that won’t make you asleep.
Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps. An essential book for iOS developers.

Not bad, huh?

Any of these books can be yours, no matter if you are in New York, Munich or Moscow. Refer to this article on MacStories for details.

Why are we doing this? We’re surely promoting our software, DaisyDisk, but that’s not all.

We believe we can make the world a better place by sharing books we’ve learned a lot from. So, if you happen to win one, improve your design skills and contribute back by creating a great website or application, that would be the best investment for us. Spending the same resources on buying ADs is merely useful for anyone ;)

Yours truly, DaisyDisk Team.

DaisyDisk 2, the final

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we’re out of beta, we’re releasing on time…
…almost.

(XXI century, author unknown)

We’ve done it. After being in development for more than a year, DaisyDisk 2 is finally released and is available for everyone.

Version 2 is a major improvement over DaisyDisk 1 which many of you know and love: all main parts of the application have been re-written, refactored and improved:

In-app file deletion (yes, finally…)
Brand new look, the UI is rewritten on Core Animation
Ability to scan multiple disks simultaneously
Scan results are remembered while the application is running, can be “forgotten” to free memory
More informative disk descriptions, icon overlay for read-only volumes and folders
Redesigned Disk usage gauge
New scan progress indicator for the Dock icon
Scanned folders are added to the list of sources
New logic for scanning as Administrator (was Super-User): now you can only scan local volumes and folders
FileVault support
Support for multi-touch gestures (refer to the user guide for the complete list)
New error handling logic (yep, built-in dialogs suck)
New registration system (DaisyDisk 1.x keys will not unlock 2.x)
Redesigned About, Feedback, Crash Reporter windows
Twitter integration (quite useless, but fun :)
Major under the hood changes and tons of tweaks you’ll unlikely ever need to know about :)
Localization is temporarily dropped (we’re not accepting localizations for some time, sorry…)

Not bad, huh…

DaisyDisk 2 is available in two versions: stand-alone (classic shareware) and Mac App Store. You can read more about them in this document.

Our upgrade policy remains unchanged: free upgrade if you purchased a license before October, 15 2009 or after September 1, 2010. $9.95 otherwise.

Ok, but how do you know if your license can be upgrade freely or not? The easiest way to do so is ask DaisyDisk itself. Just download and run the application and it will guide you through the rest of the process.

Now a small FAQ:

DaisyDisk 1.5.3 is the final version of DaisyDisk 1.x; we still provide support for it, but don’t expect future updates.
DaisyDisk 2.x will continue to evolve, we plan some very promising improvements. And no, it won’t make coffee.
We do not offer refunds or redeem codes for users willing to migrate to the Mac App Store for free.
In the future “stand-alone” versions of DaisyDisk may have extra features, not available in the App Store as Apple’s review policy prevents us from adding certain functionality.
The final release of DaisyDisk 2 “stand-alone” is not unlocked with DaisyDisk 1.x keys, they must be upgraded online. Contact support if you have any upgrade-related issues.

So, what’s next? First of all, we’d liked to take a small break and finish some stuff.

We’ll also start working on a side project (no details right now, sorry…) along with preparing DaisyDisk 2 updates. There’re lots of things we have to do, especially with an emergence of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion which plans to be a very interesting OS.

Stay tuned.

Yours truly, DaisyDisk Team.

DaisyDisk 2.0.5 beta

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A new, better beta of DaisyDisk 2 is available for testing. Download and enjoy while we’re working on the final release.

What’s new

Expiration date shifted to March 1.
Added Help (yep, finally…)
Navigation history is no longer reset after using in-app deletion.
Blu-ray discs should now be detected correctly.
Fixed bug with showing keyboard focus on some Macs.
Fixed bug with missing visual feedback for drag and drop on some machines.
Lots of tweaks and fixes.

The Mac App Store version of DaisyDisk 2.05 has been submitted to Apple for approval.

DaisyDisk 2 debuts in the Mac App Store

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk 2 debuts in Mac App Store and is available for purchase right now (direct link).

Now a small FAQ:

When the “stand-alone” version of DaisyDisk 2 becomes available?

We hope to finish everything in a few weeks. There’s still some work to be done.

I own a license for DaisyDisk 1, but it is not shown in the Mac App Store, why?

The Mac App Store has its own mechanism of registration and updates for apps, so it does not recognize the previously bought DaisyDisk licenses. The only way to make DaisyDisk managed by the App Store is to buy it again via the App Store.

Note: DaisyDisk may appear “Installed” in the Mac App Store, but the app will still not be managed by the App Store (updates, sharing the license across your Macs) unless the app was bought via the Mac App Store.

I own a license for DaisyDisk 1, how can I get the discounted upgrade?

The discounted upgrade will be available only as a stand-alone app and not as a Mac App Store app. You’ll be able to upgrade to DaisyDisk 2 once it’s available on our site. The upgrade policy remains the same: $9,95 unless your license key was issued before October 15, 2009 or after September 1, 2010. Otherwise free of charge.

Can I upgrade from a license for DaisyDisk 1 to version 2 for the Mac App Store?

The only way to do it is to buy the app via the Mac App Store at the full price. You cannot get a discounted upgrade from your DaisyDisk 1 to Mac App Store version 2, it’s technically impossible.

What’s the difference between the MAS and “stand-alone” versions?

The App Store version does not support scanning as administrator: the feature was removed to comply with Apple’s app submission policy. The MAS version does not support OS X 10.5 (no luck for PPC users) and update/registration mechanisms are changed to ones provided by Apple. Future versions may differ even more, a lot depends on Apple.

If I buy the App Store version of DaisyDisk right now, will I be able to exchange it for the “stand-alone” version later?

Very likely. We can probably just create a new stand-alone license for you. Note that the reverse exchange is not technically possible.

DaisyDisk state of the union

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

First of all, we’d like to thank all those people who supported us throughout the year. Users, bloggers, testers, contributors… You really helped us make a better product.

This year we’ve got a significant increase of our user base. It’s been interesting to learn that DaisyDisk is popular among photographers, designers, system administrators and Apple staff. Some people are even using it for taming multi-terabate data storages.

At the beginning of the year we released DaisyDisk 1.5, a significant update with lots of changes. Many of these improvements have been inherited from the early version of DaisyDisk 2 engine we’ve been working on then. DaisyDisk 1.5.3 is fast and rock solid. It’s also the last release of DaisyDisk 1.x: we need to move on and concentrate our efforts on DaisyDisk 2.

DaisyDisk 2 has been in development for a year and is now available for public beta testing. The “beta” is a release quality product which mostly lacks registration and some stuff tied to upgrade/purchase infrastructure. Once this work is finished, DaisyDisk 2 will be available for download to all users.

The Mac App Store version of DaisyDisk 2 has recently been submitted to Apple for review and if everything goes as expected, it should be available in early 2011.

With the success DaisyDisk has, there’s no wonder it’s been actively ripped off (these folks even copy portions of our site :)): The first DaisyDisk’s “version” is designed for Windows and emerged this summer. The second knock-off, by a Belarusian plagiarist, has just entered beta. Bear in mind we’re not affiliated with any of these “products” and not responsible for their inferior “quality” (i.e. the lack of it).

So, what’s next? In the beginning of 2011 we are to release DaisyDisk 2.0 and start working on updates which you’ll really love. Our basic principle “quality over quantity and user experience over features” has not changed, but rest assured we have some great ideas.

We also plan to expand our product line. Our next application will work on iOS devices (spoiler: this won’t be DaisyDisk for iPhone/iPad/iwhateverelse…) and it is a… well… we’ll let you known details when the time is right :)

Thanks for your patience and have good holidays!

Stay tuned.

Yours truly DaisyDisk Team members.

Do great artists steal?

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Picasso’s quote is often misunderstood :)

DaisyDisk 1.5 vs a rip-off

DaisyDisk 1.5 and 2.0 beta vs a rip-off

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DaisyDisk 2 goes beta

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a long time… How have you been?

Today we’re ready to introduce you to our newest creation — DaisyDisk 2 Beta

What has changed since DaisyDisk 1.5.3? Almost everything!

In fact, we’ve build most parts of DaisyDisk 2 from scratch.

Well, really, take a look at this short whatsnew:

In-app file deletion
Brand new UI, created from scratch on Core Animation
Ability to scan several disks/folders at a time
Scan results are remembered while the application is running, can be “forgotten” to free memory
More informative disk descriptions
Redesigned disk usage gauge
Scanned folders are added to the list of sources
New logic for scanning as Administrator (was Super-User)
New About window informs you about recovered space totals, allows you to tweet your results
Updated Feedback window
Redesigned Crash Reporter (we hope you’ll never see it)
New error handling logic (yep, built-in dialogs suck)
Major under the hood changes and tons of tweaks you’ll unlikely ever need to know about

What’s known to be missing/broken:

We haven’t switched to a new registration system, but DaisyDisk 2 beta accepts DaisyDisk 1.x license keys
Localization is dropped (we’re not accepting localizations for some time, sorry…)
Help file is missing (we haven’t finished working on it yet)
A few more things…

The beta expires on December 31, 2010.

If you buy now, DaisyDisk 2.0 will be a free upgrade for you (you’ll need to get a new key online once the final version is released).

Upgrade policy for existing users remains unchanged: $9,95 unless your license key has been issued before October 15, 2009 or after September 1, 2010. Otherwise free.

Enjoy…

Wasted gigabytes

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

No matter how large is your hard disk, sooner or later you’ll run out of space. Gigabytes of movies, music, ever-growing picture archives and other “needful things” easily get out of control, especially if you use your Mac for editing movies, making music or simply download lots of data from ~~torrents~~ the web.

Let’s see what you can do about this…

Huge apps and fat binaries

Look at the /Applications folder and you’ll see that many Mac apps are sized 100-500 MB. And these are just daily use apps like iTunes (150 MB) or iPhoto (330 MB). Loving Steam games? Then add about 9 GB for Team Fortress 2, 8 GB for Left4Dead and 2 GB for Killing Floor or Portal and so on and so forth.

There is a way to nearly half the space occupied by the apps (not games, unfortunately :D). As you may know Apple has switched from PowerPC processors to Intel a few years ago, but there’re still lots of old Macs with PowerPC processors. In order to support both architectures many developers distribute their applications as universal binaries, also known as “fat binaries”. These applications contain two versions of the same app and you’ll likely never ever need one of them.

In addition to that, most Mac applications are localized, so a single application can be used by, say, both English and German users. That also has a cost of extra space being taken by data you don’t really need.

Why not just remove redundant localizations or support for processors you don’t even have? That shouldn’t be too hard, right?

Not really. In the real world we happen to live in a typical picture looks like this: you run a “binary stripper”, it reports saving you lots of disk space, but in a day or two you find out that some of the apps simply no longer work! That sucks. No, that REALLY SUCKS. It happens because some developers (Adobe, for instance) add integrity checks into their apps as an anti-piracy measure. If such an app finds itself modified, it thinks it has been cracked and quits immediately. To work around this, advanced “binary strippers” maintain a regularly updated “don’t-touch-me” list of apps, but it’s still a Russian roulette — odds are that some apps may stop working after such an “optimization”. Also note that if you update an app, it becomes “unoptimized” again, and you have to repeat the procedure over again.

As by the Murphy’s law, the apps that cannot be stripped are often the biggest space wasters (take a look at Adobe CS). At the bottom line, stripping binaries does not turn out to be a really big space saver, the typically reported figure being somewhere around a few GBs. It may still be worth the trouble for MacBook Air owners, where disk space constraints are especially tight.

Good riddance of unneeded apps

It’s so great that on Mac most applications can be installed with a simple drag-and-drop. However, there is a serious drawback of this approach when it comes to uninstalling the no longer needed apps. If you just drag-and-drop an app to the Trash, it will not remove any related data, such as configuration files and databases. While in most cases it’s not a big deal (maybe a few megabytes or less), some applications, like web browsers, may “forget” a gigabyte or two. You can see it yourself, just open the ~/Library/Application Support folder.

For example, on my Mac I have 1Password and Google Chrome that store over 1 gigabyte of their data, and Fontcase and LittleSnapper databases are also close to 1 GB. If I decide to trash these apps, all their data files will still remain on my disk, unless I remove them manually. Alternatively, I can use a special “uninstaller” app, like AppZapper, to have the cleanup job done for me.

The uninstallers also have their downsides. They may skip certain unneeded files or delete something useful. The good thing is that in most cases you can preview the files they are about to remove, and thus feel a bit more confident. At least, they don’t automagically damage random applications :)

Compress and archive

In Mac OS X 10.6 Apple has finally introduced the on-the-fly compression into the file system. Of course, in no way it’s a magic bullet for saving disk space, but it works pretty well on large portions of read-only data. It makes no sense to compress movies or music, but it can save you some space on applications or text documents. To enable the compression, you can exercise with the command line or just use an app like Clusters.

Mess my Mac

There is an undying myth, particularly widespread among people who recently switched to Mac from Windows, that their Mac needs regular “cleaning” in order to keep it “healthy”, that is to run smoothly and fast. The truth is that unlike early versions of Windows, Mac OS X doesn’t really need much maintenance, and if you don’t do it, in most cases you will not notice any difference. Besides, Mac OS X does some regular self-maintenance automatically, at times when you are away.

While automatic maintenance and “cleanup” applications may be helpful, be cautious when using them, and backup your system (Time Machine is your best friend). Always double-check the cleanup options, because it’s better to leave an extra megabyte or two than to find out that a chat history is missing or the “cleaner” wiped out something needful just because “it can”.

If you really (really?) think you need a maintenance tool for your Mac, use the tried and true and free Onyx application, and be careful with newborn “optimizers” from unknown developers.

Computers cannot outsmart humans

There is also a totally different approach to recovering your disk space, implemented in some other apps.

Instead of being “too smart”, they display a visual map of how your drive is used. Such a representation allows you to spot large folders and files in a blink of an eye.

Unlike the “slimmer” apps, the visualizing apps don’t rigidly delete some pre-defined set of files, no matter how large or negligibly small those files may be, but help the human make the decision and delete the biggest space wasters in the first turn.

I personally like this approach best (hell, otherwise we wouldn’t create DaisyDisk!), because it’s the most efficient one. Indeed, in many cases a lot of disk space is wasted by a small number of large files like archives, movies or cached data that somehow gets out of control. Automatic “trimmers” would not find those space hogs and could not understand they were lumber, while disk visualization tools give you a valuable insight about what’s really filling up your disks.

There’s no magic bullet

Once you’re really low on disk space, I’d recommend to scan your drive with a visualization tool like DaisyDisk. This will reveal the real space wasters, but it has its limitations. In order to get a few more gigabytes, consider removing a few apps or slimming them down with, say, Xslimmer or archiving your Applications or Documents folder with Clusters (it sometimes even makes sense to compress some rarely used documents to ZIP/7ZIP formats). Whatever you choose to do, do not forget to make regular backups — your data is way more important than disk space.

One daisy, two daisies…

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

As some of you already know, we’re working at full speed on the second generation of DaisyDisk, codenamed DaisyDisk 2.

A year ago it looked quite simple: we tack on in-app file deletion, make a few extra tweaks and roll out an update in a few months… But during these “few months” it has become clear that what we were doing was not a “yet another update”, it was really different in both look and feel, not to mention the huge (no, HUGE) code changes that followed and took us another “few months”.

When we released DaisyDisk last year, many people called it “cool” and “sexy”, and it was named one of the best-looking Mac apps. Now let me assure you, as the designer of DaisyDisk from its very birth, that the second version of the application is not simply cool, it’s absolutely fantastic.

Don’t believe me? Just take a look:

The new UI has been rebuilt from scratch in Core Animation. This not only allowed us to make it more appealing and smooth, but also add some features hardly possible before, and I am really glad that we managed to do this without sacrificing the ease of use.

So, what should you expect?

First of all, we’ve added the in-app file deletion that so many of you asked for (were even a little faster with it than Apple with their Copy & Paste support on iOS). You will now be able to drag petals out of the sunburst map and drop them onto a special zone, from where you will be able to delete a bunch of files and folders with a single click. Sounds easy, but this drag-and-drop interaction has taken us a lot of work.

Another thing many of you wanted is the ability to view the previously scanned disks without having to rescan them. No problems. In DaisyDisk 2, you can switch back and forth between disks and the scan results will remain in memory until you close the application. Furthermore, now you can scan multiple disks or folders at the same time in background, without having to wait extra time. This will of course require more memory, but with most modern Macs having 2 to 4 GB of RAM it’s not a big deal. Besides, you can tell the application to “forget” the scan results of any disk and thereby free the memory.

There are also lots of less notable improvements which affect DaisyDisk 2 look and feel. Just be patient and wait a bit…

If things go well DaisyDisk 2 will be available this fall. You won’t miss the release date: even if you’re not subscribed to our Twitter, your DaisyDisk 1.x will notify you about the upgrade.

DaisyDisk 2 is a paid upgrade for the majority of existing users. The price tag of the upgrade from 1.x to 2. will be $9.95.

As a sign of special gratitude to our early buyers, everyone who got their keys before October 15, 2009 will get DaisyDisk 2 license free of charge.

Everyone who buys a DaisyDisk license starting from today, September 1, 2010 will be able to upgrade to DaisyDisk 2 for free.

Stay tuned!

DaisyDisk 1.5.3 released

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

What’s new

Bug fixed: wrong file sizes sometimes displayed in the super-user mode.
Minor fixes and tweaks.

DaisyDisk 1.5.2 released

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

What’s new

Added 64-bit support on Snow Leopard
Optimized memory usage (in particular for 64-bits)
Selection in the right sidebar made brighter
Fixed the bug of blank Registration and About windows on some PPC Macs
Fixed some minor graphic glitches in transitions
Renewed Thai localization

The birth of DaisyDisk

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

DaisyDisk was started in late December 2008 as a result of half hour discussion between me (Taras) and Oleg, our coder. I proposed that it might make sense for us to create a relatively basic project in order to raise some money for something more serious.

The idea was simple: we create a disk visualization tool that can help one find out where the hell all the disk space has gone. By that time the only available applications of that kind for Mac users were GrandPerspective, Disk Inventory X and the like. All of those have mediocre interfaces and are built around the so called treemaps — the visualizations originally made for depicting disk usage.

DaisyDisk, original mockup

Treemaps suck. They’re hard to read, they tend to shuffle all data on smallest changes, they’re messy and hard to navigate. Yes, one can handle these issues to some extent and certain modern implementations/researches can make them good enough, but still not good enough for us.

Another approach can be seen in applications that use the “sunburst”, basically a multilevel pie chart, slightly tuned for displaying folders tree. My favorite is Scanner while Linux users may recall Filelight — another similar implementation. Unfortunately for us all, the Mac version of Filelight has never been usable for any real-life tasks, remaining a mere shadow of its Linux ancestor…

It may sound naive now, but all we originally wanted was to create a Mac version of Scanner, just slightly more polished and usable. Display a list of sources, scan progress animation, resulting map. Profit!

Animations, second mockup

If only…

The very first problems arose when we tried to build the sunburst map in progress of scanning, from the data we get on the fly. While it looked sane on paper, experiments proved us wrong. Very wrong. Despite all tricks, all we got was just a convulsing set of rings that hardly represented the picture we wanted. Fail.

We gave up the idea of re-using the sunburst as a scan progress indicator and concentrated on more important things. Soon enough we found that the original sunburst and many existing implementations suffer from some serious problems. The map looked “hairy” due to numerous tiny segments, large files outside the fifth ring were often invisible, segment coloring changed on each move, and overall navigation was quite a mess.

Working prototype

We’ve build several prototypes which helped us solve those problems and test our implementation on real-world data. For example, tiny segments have been consolidated into groups. This makes more sense than just hiding them, as in real life there are lots of examples of large groups of small files: folders with images, music or other files. In such groups, each standalone file is relatively small, but the total size of the group can be hundreds of megabytes. We also decided to display extra rings which help reveal space hogs hidden deep in the disk folder hierarchy. These extra rings are thinner, but provide useful information without the need for extra navigation. Navigation is another thing we can be proud of. The very first idea was to retain segment color during navigation. In other words, if ~/Documents is green, then ~/Documents/MyWorkStuff should also be colored in shades of green. I have no idea why this has not been done years before…

The “blossom” animation was also a part of our plan on improving navigation. Earlier versions of DaisyDisk used different transitions, but with the same purpose: improve the navigation experience by smoothing map changes. Not even mentioning the “wow” effect it creates :)

DaisyDisk has been gradually enhanced, tuned and tweaked throughout the year, but this is a different story :)

Hello world!

support@daisydiskapp.com (DaisyDisk Team) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

~~Hello, world!~~

Greetings to all visitors of our new web site.

This is the third version of daisydiskapp.com since the launch of DaisyDisk and sooth to say we hope it’s also the last one :) We definitely plan to tweak/improve it in order to provide even better experience.

And yes, we know that it does not display correctly in Internet Explorer or other stone age browsers, but have no plans to support these.

Creating this site took way longer than we expected. In fact, we planned to launch the site in August ’09, then in September, October and so on. After a few delays we have just started it from the scratch and now you can see what we’ve got so far :)

Here are just three versions of suggested designs (with much more gathering dust in archives), so you can get the idea how the site might have looked like if we launched it earlier.

As you see, now we also have a blog. Leaving it void is a bad idea, just as using it for a sole purpose of announcing new versions, so we decided to make a few articles on DaisyDisk design process and keeping your Mac clean with DaisyDisk.

Stay tuned!

DaisyDisk Blog

Update: DaisyDisk 4.33 adds dark and liquid glass icons, improves support of macOS Tahoe

Bug in macOS 26 Tahoe makes DaisyDisk “forget” granted sandbox access (App Store version only)

DaisyDisk 4.32 adds compatibility with macOS 26 Tahoe

DaisyDisk 4.31 adds support for APFS dataless files, fixes bugs

DaisyDisk regains “Verified” status for Google Drive

DaisyDisk 4.30 redesigns icon

DaisyDisk 4.26.1 offers a workaround for slow scanning on macOS Sonoma

DaisyDisk 4.26 improves compatibility with macOS Sonoma

DaisyDisk 4.25 improves hidden space discovery, adds keyboard navigation & more

Meet DaisyDisk’s New Website

DaisyDisk 4.24 improves compatibility with macOS Ventura

DaisyDisk 4.23 adds support for Box™ cloud storage, adds Turkish language

DaisyDisk 4.22 adds Ukrainian language, fixes bugs

DaisyDisk 4.21 adds support for Microsoft OneDrive™

DaisyDisk 4.20 scans cloud storage

Availability

DaisyDisk 4.12 adds support for the new Apple M1 chip

DaisyDisk 4.11 adds support for the upcoming macOS Big Sur

[Important update] DaisyDisk 4.10 adds support for APFS snapshots

DaisyDisk 4.9 improves discovery of hidden space on macOS Catalina

DaisyDisk 4.8 adds support for the upcoming macOS Catalina

What’s new

DaisyDisk 4.7 removes purgeable space better, adds more support for macOS Mojave

What’s new

How to free up space on iPhone

1. Find out what’s eating your iPhone’s memory

2. Get rid of the unneeded files

3. Resurrect the Legacy

4. Filter messages, notes & cache

5. Use iCloud!

See?

DaisyDisk 4.6 adds Italian Language, fixes bugs

Top 5 questions about APFS and macOS High Sierra asked by Mac users

Question #1: Mysteriously disappearing disk space

Question #2: Deleting files doesn’t produce free space, or at least not immediately

Question #3: System taking too much space on macOS High Sierra

Question #4: How can I remove local snapshots of Time Machine? And where they are located?

Question #5: Why Apple had to make things so complicated?

How DaisyDisk helps solve these problems

DaisyDisk 4.5 officially released

Now it’s official: the long awaited DaisyDisk 4.5 is finally out!

What’s new

DaisyDisk 4.5 beta is now public, adds support for APFS and macOS High Sierra

Today DaisyDisk turns 8!

DaisyDisk 4.4 fixes display of hidden space, adds Japanese language

DaisyDisk 4.3 adds Spanish and Chinese languages, fixes bugs

DaisyDisk 4.2 adds Polish language, fixes bugs

DaisyDisk 4.1.1 adds French and Swedish languages

DaisyDisk 4.0.3 fixes the Sparkle vulnerability, adds German and Russian languages

Apple’s Best of 2015

DaisyDisk 4.0.2 fixes some bugs

DaisyDisk 4.0.1 adds support of OS X El Capitan

DaisyDisk 4.0.1b1 — new beta adds support for OS X El Capitan

DaisyDisk 4 is now live

What’s new (compared to version 3.x)

DaisyDisk 4.0b11 — release candidate #4

DaisyDisk 4.0b10 — release candidate #3

DaisyDisk 4.0b9 — release candidate #2

DaisyDisk 4.0b8 — release candidate #1

DaisyDisk 4.0b5 - 4.0b7 beta updates

DaisyDisk 4.0b4 beta update, stunning speed boost

DaisyDisk 4 progress

LilyView update 1.1 for Yosemite is now live

Unclutter team news

OS X 10.10 Yosemite

DaisyDisk 3.0.2 is out

DaisyDisk 3 and app sandboxing

DaisyDisk 3, Mac App Store upgrades and related issues

Getting ready for Mavericks

DaisyDisk 3 is released

DaisyDisk 3 beta, LilyView

The year of 2012

2011, retrospective

DaisyDisk 2.1 is out

What’s new in 2.1

DaisyDisk 2.0.7 is out

The list of changes is quite promising:

What’s next?

10 basic principles behind DaisyDisk