Disk Savvy

Over time, various files and folders will inevitably pile up in your storage, and it's a given that many of us have had to deal, at least once, with needing to delete some elements to make way for others. Sometimes it's a bit difficult to do so, and that is because you don't always know the exact space a certain file takes up on your drive.

Charting your files and seeing their exact storage allocations sounds like a good idea for an app. It's certainly a better method than having to sort through all of them yourself. That is why Disk Savvy exists — to help you better perceive the space used by your stored contents, in more ways than one.

Disk Savvy is, more than anything, a disk visualizer of sorts. It's a helper that aids you in elucidating your storage apportionment. The contents of the "Charts" menu are copious, and understandably so.

The charts made by this app will show you all kinds of information, each more specific than the next. While some pies concentrate on your disk space usage based on category, directory, extension — to name a few — there are some temporal ones, too. For example, the app can chart your storage use based on creation, modification, and last access times.

Aside from the user interface showing you the files in a folder or drive, along with a percentage of the space they use, you can also categorize the elements for more specificity. Upon getting to the desired folder, you have the option of sorting by extension, file size, creation time, and others. This happens in a panel below the main one, and separate usage metrics will be displayed based on the chosen sorting parameters.

The "Top Files" section is also noteworthy — it produces a list comprising the things you've used the most, giving you the ability to sort documents, images, music and video files, and more, by their size.

In conclusion, Disk Savvy is a helpful program. Though their importance may be understated, the charts and lists produced by this app can help you a lot. Visualizing the files that are most demanding in their storage requirements is, after all, what this app specializes in — and can do well.