Czkawka vs Easy Duplicate Finder

Czkawka is a free, open-source, cross-platform tool that finds duplicate files using content hashing rather than filenames or sizes alone, and goes further by detecting visually similar images, similar audio, broken or corrupted files, empty folders, and unusually large files. Built in Rust, it uses CPU-efficient multithreading to scan large drives quickly. It offers both a GUI, via the newer Krokiet frontend, and a command-line interface for automation, runs entirely offline with no telemetry, and supports batch actions to move, delete, or symlink duplicates once reviewed.

Easy Duplicate Finder is desktop software for Windows and Mac that locates and removes duplicate files across a computer and connected cloud storage. It uses more than 10 scan modes covering documents, photos, music, videos, and emails, going beyond simple filename matching to detect similar and exact duplicate images.

• Completely free, open source, and works offline with no telemetry
• Very fast thanks to Rust and multithreaded scanning
• Goes beyond exact duplicates to catch similar images, audio, and broken files
• Cross-platform on Windows, macOS, and Linux

• One-time purchase, no subscription required
• Detects similar (not just identical) duplicate images
• Covers both local disk and connected cloud storage
• Free trial available before buying

• GUI is less polished than some commercial cleaners
• Similar-image and similar-audio matching can occasionally produce false positives needing manual review
• No cloud storage scanning, local and mounted drives only

• Windows and Mac only, no Linux support
• One-time price still notable at $39.95-$59.95
• Older-style desktop UI compared to modern cloud-native tools