DaisyDisk 4.34.2 admin for macOS

Version 4.34.2, out July 10, 2026, tightens up space math. It now counts APFS clones only once, so the numbers you see match what actually eats your drive.

Finding what fills your disk

DaisyDisk scans mounted disks and draws every folder as a colored segment. Big files jump out immediately. You can scan several disks in parallel and watch the picture build in real time.

Cleaning without guesswork

When you spot a folder full of old downloads or renders, drag it straight to the Trash from the map. The app works on macOS 10.13 or later, including Apple Silicon, and speaks eleven languages from Russian to Japanese.

Keeping an eye on storage

It suits people who want answers without reading folder trees. Designers, video editors, and anyone with a nearly full SSD will know within minutes what to delete.

When a photographer runs out of room

Imagine a wedding photographer mid-September. The SSD blinks red. Lightroom won't import a card, and the client is on her way to pick selects. You know there are old catalog backups somewhere, but Finder's "Get Info" on a dozen folders takes half the afternoon. Open DaisyDisk, pick the working drive, and in thirty seconds you're staring at a huge orange segment labeled Backups. Inside it, three Lightroom catalogs from 2023 sit untouched. You drag them to the Trash from the map, hear the disk breathe, and keep the appointment. No terminal commands, no guessing.

See your disk through an all-in-one cleaner vs. a focused map

There are other ways to hunt down large files on a Mac. Here's how DaisyDisk reads compared to a few of them.

• CleanMyMac X. A multipurpose cleaner with a space lens module. It does more—malware scans, optimization scripts, app uninstalling—but its disk map is a sidebar feature, not the main event. DaisyDisk does one thing and builds the whole interface around it, so scanning feels calmer and the visual map is larger and faster to read.
• GrandPerspective. A free, open-source disk mapper that also uses treemaps. Its visuals are less polished and it lacks drag-to-delete, Quick Look integration, and parallel scanning. If you're comfortable with a slightly academic interface and don't mind the extra clicks to act on what you find, it works. DaisyDisk trades the price tag for fewer steps between seeing a file and removing it.
• OmniDiskSweeper. A straightforward list that sizes folders largest-first. No map, no color, no previews. It's quick to understand but slow to explore because you're tapping through a text tree. DaisyDisk suits people who want a single-screen answer, especially on Retina displays where those colored arcs pop immediately.

APFS clones no longer inflate your scan totals

Version 4.34 brought APFS clone awareness. If you're on a modern Mac, the file system quietly duplicates data behind the scenes—two copies of a Logic Pro sample library might share the same blocks. Before 4.34, DaisyDisk counted every clone as separate space, so the map could show more bytes than the disk actually held. Now it counts only the first occurrence, which means the numbers line up with what Finder's "About This Mac" reports. Less head-scratching when the math doesn't match.

The 4.33.x cycle smoothed rough edges on two fronts. Hidden space estimation got more accurate—less of that mysterious "Other" staying hidden—and FAT32 and exFAT drives finally report sizes without the old rounding errors. If you shuttle flash drives between a camera, a Windows machine, and your Mac, the map won't lie about what's on them. Version 4.34.1 fixed a scanning hiccup for people still holding onto macOS versions before Sonoma, so older hardware doesn't get left behind.

Version 4.34 fixes a bug and gets smarter about APFS clones. When the same file appears in more than one place, only the first copy counts toward used space.

• Fixes a bug
• Adds support for APFS clones
• Counts only the first occurrence of each APFS clone in used space calculations

• macOS 10.13 or later
• Works on Intel and Apple Silicon