FreeSpace 4+
Luma Fung
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- £2.99
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Description
**** MacWorld Favorite Mac Gems 2012
"FreeSpace’s systemwide menu shows all mounted volumes along with the available free space on each; if you want to monitor a particular volume, you can choose to have that volume’s free space displayed right in the menu bar."
***** Softpedia
"FreeSpace is one of the best free space monitors available out there. It's fast, reliable, low on resource consumption (during the testing process it constantly occupied 10 MB of RAM) and stable (it never crashed)."
- Lifehacker.com
"FreeSpace is a tiny menubar utility that can show you how much space is available on all local, connected, and network drives with a single click."
**** MacObserver.com
"I do recommend it. This is a cool little app that is very useful, easy to use"
**** HotMacApps.com
"A very useful and simple application that once you start to use, you can never do without."
> FreeSpace is the most full-featured free space monitor! It leads over the other similar mac app!
- Categorised menu showing free spaces of all local, external, network drives, Superdrive, and disk images
- Eject all by 1-click. Eject single partition by option-click.
- Fully-customized number format on the menubar
- Low free space highlight and notification
- Mount and Eject notification on the menubar or through the Notification Center.
> Works best with Time Machine backup!
- Pin the Time Machine drive on the menu bar
- After the backup is finished, FreeSpace will notify you when the drive is ejected
- FreeSpace will remember the Time Machine drive and will show the drive in the menubar again in the next backup.
> Auto-launch every time when computer starts up
- After downloading FreeSpace from the AppStore, go to the Application folder
- Double-click FreeSpace to launch the first time
- Select "Launch at Login" from the Preference menu. FreeSpace will auto-launch itself every time when the computer starts up
> Rich features leading over the other similar mac app!
- Eject all connected drives and disk images by 1-click or Cmd-E
- Eject the whole drive by clicking the eject button
- Eject single partition by option-clicking the the eject button
- Eject all drives in the same category by 1-click
- Open the drive in Finder by clicking the name
- Drives are grouped and displayed in logical categories
- Highlight and notify you when drive is low in space when under certain percentage
- Any drive can be pinned on the menu bar. If the drive is disconnected, FreeSpace remembers it and will re-pin it once it becomes online again
- Custom number format on the menu bar
- Show read-only drive in gray color (OSX 10.7 and onward)
- Sort volumes by ascending or descending order by name or free space
- Retina display support
- Ultra-low CPU and memory consumption
- Ultra-fast auto-launch at computer startup
> Language Support
- English, Français, Deutsch, 日本語, 正體中文, 廣東話, 簡體中文
> Mac Requirement
- OSX 10.13 or above
What’s New
Version 1.4.3
- Solved an issue the internal drive bar does not showing up
Ratings and Reviews
Don't upgrade to version 1.4.1 !!!
FreeSpace 1.4.1 has introduced a bug in the menubar display. It reserves 500% too much space, eading to a huge blank gap to the right of the icon, which isn't even all used when Display Free Space is selected.
I messaged the dev but havn'e heard back. Use Time Machine to downgrade to FreeSpace 1.4.0 (or make a copy before installing 1.4.1) to overwrite this upgrade. This will return you to a working version and stop the upgrade notifications.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your report. Version 1.4.2 has just fixed this problem.
updated (from 'just wish it still worked' 2017)
...it looks like the developer is back on it, and making FreeSpace as 5 star as it was in the first place. It's indispensable if you work with large files, and invaluable even if you don't. Four years ago (see below), it looked like it had been abandoned. But what was then is not now. For as long as Luma Fung stays on the the ball, and makes Freespace as useful as it is now, it's a must-have.
I’ve been using this for over 4 years now, and it’s been invaluable, virtually indispensable every day - until recently. Now it no longer appears to work reliably at all. Sometimes connected external drives simply disappear from the list of external storage, making it all too easy to unplug a connected drive and get the ‘drive not ejected properly’ warning. Quitting and relaunching the app brings all the drives back onto the list. But I can’t rely on any of them staying there. I’d love to see this app working perfectly again - it’s very well designed, and was originally really useful - but despite 3 emails, there has been no response whatsoever from the developer.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the long support and concern. The latest FreeSpace supports Mojave and Dark Mode.
Simple and effective
and would get 5 stars if it didn't always take 4.5% of CPU time, which is surely excessive for what it is doing.
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Information
- Provider
- Lumus Work
- Size
- 12.7 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Lumuswork
- Price
- £2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.