Zpace

A CLI tool to discover what's hogging your disk space!

The tool shows the largest files in each category of files (videos, pictures, documents etc.) as well as the largest special directories as apps in MacOS, Python virtual environments, node_modules etc.

It's built to identify the biggest chunks of data that could potentially free up the space for something else.

Features

📊 Smart Categorization - Groups files by type (Documents, Videos, Code, Pictures, etc.)
📦 Special Directory Detection - Identifies space-hungry directories like MacOS apps, node_modules, Python virtual environments, and build artifacts
🎯 Actionable Insights - Shows deletable units to help you quickly free up space
⚡ Fast Scanning - Efficient traversal with real-time progress tracking
🔍 Sparse File Handling - Correctly reports actual disk usage for Docker images and other sparse files
🎨 Clean Output - Organized and clear display with helpful statistics

Installation

macOS / Linux (Homebrew)

brew tap AzisK/zpace
brew install zpace

Windows (Scoop)

scoop bucket add zpace https://github.com/AzisK/scoop-zpace
scoop install zpace

Using uv

uv tool install zpace

Using pipx

pipx install zpace

Using pip

pip install zpace

Usage

Basic Commands

# Scan your home directory (default)
zpace

# Scan a specific directory
zpace /path/to/directory

# Scan current directory
zpace .

Options

# Show top 20 items per category (default: 10)
zpace -n 20

# Set minimum file size to 1MB (default: 100KB, value is in KB)
zpace -m 1024

# Combine options
zpace ~/Documents -n 15 -m 500

# Save results to a text file
zpace -o results.txt

# Output in JSON format
zpace --json

# Save JSON results to a file
zpace --json -o results.json

Example Output

Open example output

zpace

DISK USAGE
======================================================================================================================
  Free:  533.01 GB / 926.35 GB
  Used:  393.34 GB (42.5%)
  Trash: 310.41 MB
======================================================================================================================

SCANNING: /Users/azis
   Min size: 100 KB

Scanning:  53%|████████████████████████████████████                                | 224G/422G [00:55<00:49, 4.05GB/s]

SCAN COMPLETE!
   Found 593,044 files
   Found 420 special directories
   Total size: 208.58 GB

======================================================================================================================
SPECIAL DIRECTORIES
======================================================================================================================

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Build Artifacts (10 directories)
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       4.50 GB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/ladybird/Build
      30.63 MB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/trino/plugin/trino-tpch/target
      22.89 MB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/trino/core/trino-web-ui/target
      12.11 MB  /Users/azis/.antigravity/extensions/ms-python.python-2025.16.0-universal/out
       8.52 MB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/trino/core/trino-spi/target
       7.65 MB  /Users/azis/Library/Caches/com.apple.python/Users/azis/Documents/Github/ladybird/Build
       6.94 MB  /Users/azis/Downloads/FromLegacyLaptop/Books/PythonApp/build
       6.29 MB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/trino/core/trino-grammar/target
       5.46 MB  /Users/azis/.antigravity/extensions/ms-python.debugpy-2025.14.1-darwin-arm64/dist
       5.15 MB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/trino/core/trino-parser/target

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Bun Modules (1 directories)
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       1.14 GB  /Users/azis/.bun

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Git Repos (10 directories)
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     312.73 MB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/ladybird/.git
     308.82 MB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/trino/.git
     184.30 MB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/lightdash/.git
      28.68 MB  /Users/azis/Documents/Github/myblog/.git
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IDE Config (2 directories)
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     714.48 MB  /Users/azis/.vscode
     792.00 KB  /Users/azis/Library/Caches/com.apple.python/Users/azis/.vscode

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Node Modules (10 directories)
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Package Caches (10 directories)
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     237.80 MB  /Users/azis/.npm
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Virtual Environments (10 directories)
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     580.26 MB  /Users/azis/Downloads/FromLegacyLaptop/testing-python-data-science-code-2477020/.venv
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      22.79 MB  /Users/azis/Downloads/FromLegacyLaptop/Books/squalo_old/.venv
      20.97 MB  /Users/azis/Downloads/FromLegacyLaptop/Photos/Flask/.venv

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macOS Apps (10 directories)
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     918.15 MB  /Users/azis/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/EdgeUpdater/apps/msedge-stable/142.0.3595.53/Microsoft Edge.app
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======================================================================================================================
LARGEST FILES BY CATEGORY
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Archives (10 files)
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Code (10 files)
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Disk Images (10 files)
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Documents (10 files)
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JSON/YAML (10 files)
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Music (10 files)
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Pictures (10 files)
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Videos (10 files)
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Open JSON example output

{
  "version": "1.0",
  "scan_path": "/Users/azis",
  "timestamp": "2026-01-28T14:30:00Z",
  "disk_usage": {
    "total_bytes": 926350000000,
    "used_bytes": 393340000000,
    "free_bytes": 533010000000,
    "used_percent": 42.5,
    "trash_bytes": 310410000
  },
  "scan_summary": {
    "total_files": 593044,
    "special_directories": 420,
    "total_size_bytes": 208580000000
  },
  "special_directories": {
    "Node Modules": [
      {"path": "/path/to/node_modules", "size_bytes": 1120000000}
    ],
    "Virtual Environments": [...]
  },
  "files_by_category": {
    "Videos": [
      {"path": "/path/to/video.mov", "size_bytes": 986900000}
    ],
    "Archives": [...]
  }
}

Configuration

Zpace can be customized via ~/.zpace.toml. See .zpace.toml.sample for a template:

cp .zpace.toml.sample ~/.zpace.toml

File Categories

Customize how files are grouped by extension:

# Add a Fonts category (not included by default)
[categories.Fonts]
extensions = [".ttf", ".otf", ".woff", ".woff2", ".eot"]

# Add extensions to existing categories
[categories.Code]
add = [".sql", ".graphql"]

# Remove extensions from categories
[categories.Documents]
remove = [".md"]

# Create custom categories
[categories."Design Files"]
extensions = [".sketch", ".fig", ".xd", ".psd", ".ai"]

Directory Categories

Customize which directory names are treated as special directories:

# Add custom virtual environment names
[directories."Virtual Environments"]
add = ["myenv", ".myenv"]

# Add more build artifact directories
[directories."Build Artifacts"]
add = ["_build", ".output"]

# Remove directories from a category
[directories."Package Caches"]
remove = ["vendor", ".cache"]

# Create a custom directory category
[directories."Data Folders"]
dirs = ["datasets", "raw_data", "processed"]

Tips

# Find all node_modules directories
zpace ~ -n 50 | grep "node_modules"

# Check what's in a specific directory
zpace ~/.cache

# Find largest files system-wide (requires sudo)
sudo zpace / -n 20

macOS Permissions

If you see "Access Denied" for the Trash bin or other directories, you need to grant Full Disk Access to your terminal application (e.g., Terminal, iTerm2, VS Code).

Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Full Disk Access.
Click the + button and add your terminal application.
Restart your terminal.

Development

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/azisk/zpace.git
cd zpace

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run locally
uv run zpace

Code Quality

The project uses Ruff for linting, formatting, and import sorting:

# Format code
uv run ruff format

# Lint code
uv run ruff check

# Fix auto-fixable issues
uv run ruff check --fix

# Run all pre-commit checks manually
uv run pre-commit run --all-files

Testing

# Run all tests
uv run pytest -v

# Run unit tests only
uv run pytest test_unit.py -v

# Run integration tests only
uv run pytest test_integration.py -v

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Docs

License

Apache 2.0 License - see LICENSE for details.

Support

🐛 Report a bug
💡 Request a feature
⭐ Star the repo if you find it useful!

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Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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.agent/rules		.agent/rules
.github		.github
apps		apps
zpace		zpace
.gitignore		.gitignore
.pre-commit-config.yaml		.pre-commit-config.yaml
.python-version		.python-version
.zpace.toml.sample		.zpace.toml.sample
AGENTS.md		AGENTS.md
ARCHITECTURE.md		ARCHITECTURE.md
CHANGELOG.md		CHANGELOG.md
LICENSE.txt		LICENSE.txt
README.md		README.md
main.py		main.py
pyproject.toml		pyproject.toml
test_integration.py		test_integration.py
test_unit.py		test_unit.py
uv.lock		uv.lock

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