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Filelight

Filelight is a disk management program, available on Windows and Linux: statistics and charts.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Filelight is a disk management program, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its Winget manifest: statistics and charts.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Graphical disk usage analyzer software for KDE.” — Wikidata, 10 November 2026
  • “Disk Usage Statistics” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Filelight is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Filelight is an application to visualize the disk usage on your computer by showing folders using an easy-to-understand view of concentric rings. Filelight makes it simple to free up space! Features: Scan local, remote, or removable disks View detailed information about files and folders Delete files or folders that are taking up too much space Integration into the Dolphin, Konqueror, and Krusader file managers Configurable color schemes

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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