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This would only be true if it didn't take your time before asking you to pay to not waste the time that it took.
It says it’s a paid app right on the linked page.
It's quite the dark-pattern to allow you to download it and scan for free, without any clear indication that it's a paid product, and then ambush you with a purchase dangling the space savings in front of your face.
This uses reflinks, right? I've been experimenting with using reflinks under Linux to speed up layer extraction for Docker, it's great.
It uses APFS clones
i asked claude to make this and in 15min had a working replica CLI
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While the idea of data-deduplication does apply everywhere, this specifically depends on the APFS CoW data feature, so it's not applicable outside of macOS (or APFS Volumes)
The same concepts exist in ZFS, BtrFS and, IIRC, XFS.
Key Features Free to Scan, Unlock to Deduplicate
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It uses APFS clones
Struggling to find the effective difference between the two, other than it being Apple specific. Either way, neat - I can hopefully use this to provide faster layer unpacks on MacOS as well.
It's amazing that this is a product. In an earlier job we used to ask how to do this (discovery phase of deduplication) in the first interview screening. Once you have that list, it's straightforward to make a few syscalls that make it happen.
What are they gonna think of next, productizing something as trivial as FTP?
I’m surprised they’re not charging on a $/GB saved model.
It's quite the dark-pattern to allow you to download it and scan for free, without any clear indication that it's a paid product, and then ambush you with a purchase dangling the space savings in front of your face.