Which fits your needs?
DeepClean: Mac users who want explained cleanup categories and developer-cache coverage.
Disk Graph: People who want saved storage history or a companion on iPhone/iPad.
Features, pricing, and workflow
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| Feature | DeepClean | Disk Graph |
|---|---|---|
| Best fit | Mac users who want explained cleanup categories and developer-cache coverage. | People who want saved storage history or a companion on iPhone/iPad. |
| Visualization | Category and large-file lists with safety ratings | Radial pie chart, treemap, and snapshot sequences |
| Platforms and requirements | macOS 13+ | macOS, iOS, iPadOS |
| Pricing and editions | Free scan and first gigabyte of cleanup; unlimited cleanup listed at $39 once per Mac. | Commercial app; check current developer and App Store purchase options. |
| Open source | No | No |
| Native macOS UI | Yes | Yes |
| Cleanup workflow | Select items for Trash; caution items require deliberate selection and acknowledgement. | Preview, reveal, or move selected items to the bin. |
| Reports and portability | Retain deletion history and important decisions separately. The product overview does not document importing its records into another analyzer. | Export a snapshot and keep it: the developer documents JSON/TSV records that can be viewed in a text editor. NullDisk does not import these snapshots. |
DeepClean: what stands out
A good fit for Mac users who want explained cleanup categories and developer-cache coverage.
DeepClean: strengths
- Safe/Review/Caution categories and item explanations
- Developer toolchain cleanup and content-matched duplicates
- Trash-first cleanup with deletion history
Considerations
- Unlimited cleanup requires a paid per-Mac license
- Category judgments still depend on your workflow
- Primarily category-based cleanup rather than a disk map
Disk Graph: what stands out
A good fit for people who want saved storage history or a companion on iPhone/iPad.
Disk Graph: strengths
- Switch between radial charts and treemaps
- Logical size, allocated size, or file-count modes
- Export snapshots and animate changes across a sequence
Considerations
- Mobile scans cover locations accessible through Files
- Snapshots record inventory, not backed-up file contents
- Historical snapshots need a fresh scan before cleanup
For a useful comparison on your own drive, match the scan root, access permissions, and size mode. Chart style changes how you explore the results; it does not by itself establish measurement accuracy.
Common questions
When should I choose DeepClean?
A good fit for Mac users who want explained cleanup categories and developer-cache coverage. Free scan and first gigabyte of cleanup; unlimited cleanup listed at $39 once per Mac.
When should I choose Disk Graph?
A good fit for people who want saved storage history or a companion on iPhone/iPad. Commercial app; check current developer and App Store purchase options.
Will both apps show the same size?
Not necessarily. Match the scan root, permissions, exclusions, and logical/allocated-size mode. Hard links, APFS clones, snapshots, sparse files, and cloud placeholders can change totals. A reported size is not a guaranteed amount recovered after deletion.