Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Every time I've brought up WinDirStat, many people in the comments have insisted that WizTree is superior. I don't like blind allegiance to any particular tool, so I installed it, compared it against WinDirStat 2, and recorded the results. WizTree's claims of being 43x faster than WinDirStat MAY have applied to version 1.x, but WinDirStat 2 is actually 36% faster than WizTree. Even worse, WizTree's interface is pretty awful. Other anti-WizTree points include not being open source and requiring the purchase of a commercial license for non-personal use, while WinDirStat is open source with a GPL license and costs nothing at all.
WinDirStat: windirstat.net
Every time I've brought up WinDirStat, many people in the comments have insisted that WizTree is superior. I don't like blind allegiance to any particular tool, so I installed it, compared it against WinDirStat 2, and recorded the results. WizTree's claims of being 43x faster than WinDirStat MAY have applied to version 1.x, but WinDirStat 2 is actually 36% faster than WizTree. Even worse, WizTree's interface is pretty awful. Other anti-WizTree points include not being open source and requiring the purchase of a commercial license for non-personal use, while WinDirStat is open source with a GPL license and costs nothing at all.
WinDirStat: windirstat.net
