Diskaroo vs Duplicate Cleaner Pro — honest comparison

Looking for a Duplicate Cleaner Pro alternative? Here's an honest Diskaroo vs Duplicate Cleaner Pro comparison. Diskaroo runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, finds exact duplicate files inside a map of your whole disk, and it's free with a Bravely Account. Duplicate Cleaner Pro is a Windows app at $54.95 per user. If you need to match similar photos, music or video on a Windows PC, Duplicate Cleaner Pro is built for that job.

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Diskaroo vs Duplicate Cleaner Pro at a glance

At a glance	Diskaroo	Duplicate Cleaner Pro
Entry price	Free (Diskaroo Pro, with a free Bravely Account)	US$54.95 per user, once (Windows only)
Next plan up	Free: no card, no subscription	$329 site license: any number of installs at one location
Lifetime license	Free for life (Mac + Windows + Linux)	Perpetual for version 5, after 7 days to try it
Platforms	Mac, Windows, Linux	Windows

Where Diskaroo and Duplicate Cleaner Pro each win

Pick Diskaroo if

Runs on Mac and Linux as well as Windows, and one free Bravely Account covers all three. Duplicate Cleaner Pro runs only on Windows.
It's free: sign in with a free Bravely Account, map your first folder, then claim Diskaroo Pro in the app, free, for life. Duplicate Cleaner Pro 5 is $54.95 per user.
Duplicates inside a map of your whole disk: a treemap or a sunburst you click to go inside and a list of the largest items, so you clear big files as well as copies. Duplicate Cleaner Pro has no disk-usage map.
A Collector for everything else you want gone: add files as you browse, review the batch, then move it to the Trash (the Recycle Bin on Windows), with a running total of the space you've won back.

Pick Duplicate Cleaner Pro if

Four scan modes: Regular, Image, Audio and Video. It matches photos that were edited, rotated, flipped or resized, and music by how it sounds.
Video matching by similar frames, thumbnails, soundtrack or duration.
A Selection Assistant that picks which copies to remove by rule, plus duplicate-folder search and searching inside zip files.
It can move duplicates to another folder instead of deleting them, and match files by MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, xxHash, Blake2b or byte-to-byte.
Five major versions, and still updated: version 5.28 shipped in September 2026.

Diskaroo vs Duplicate Cleaner Pro, feature by feature

Verified 2026-09-27. Source linked at the bottom.

Feature	Diskaroo	Duplicate Cleaner Pro
Price	Free (with a Bravely Account)	$54.95 per user, once (version 5); $329 site license
Runs on macOS	Yes: macOS 14 or later (Apple silicon or Intel)	No
Runs on Windows	Yes: Windows 10 or 11 (x64)	Yes: Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11 (its download page; the store page says 10 or 11)
Runs on Linux	Yes: 64-bit (x64) Linux with GTK 4	No
Account needed	Yes (a free Bravely Account)	No (a license key)
Disk-usage map	Yes: treemap, sunburst and a largest-items list	No (duplicates only)
Exact duplicates by content	Yes (SHA-256, in what you scanned)	Yes (hashes or byte-to-byte)
Similar images	No	Yes (edited, rotated, flipped or resized)
Audio and video matching	No	Yes
Duplicate folders / inside zip files	No	Yes
Choosing which copies go	One copy of each is kept; the extras go in one batch	Selection Assistant rules
What happens to the extras	Trash or Recycle Bin	Recycle Bin, or moved to another folder
Clear big files too (Collector)	Yes	No (duplicates only)
Free option	Diskaroo itself is free	Duplicate Cleaner Free 4 (older, limited)
Signed installers	Mac: Developer ID, notarized; Windows: a signed installer; Linux: GPG	Code-signed (Windows)

Diskaroo on Windows and Linux: what we ran, and when

Screenshots and measurements from our own machines, 2026-09-27. A generated test folder: 100,000 files in 3,698 folders, 17.45 GB, with 250 planted sets of duplicate files. It holds no one's real files, and the same seed builds the same folder on Windows and Linux.

Windows · measured 2026-09-27

250 of 250

Planted duplicate sets Diskaroo found in the test folder on Windows.

All 250 sets and all 334 extra copies, 514.5 MB recoverable (539,494,530 bytes; Windows counts in binary units). The list was ready about 2 s after opening Duplicates, in each of 3 runs with the files cached.

Build: Diskaroo 2.7.5
System: Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (build 26200)
Machine: a desktop PC with an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and 32 GB of RAM
Disk: XPG GAMMIX S60 2 TB NVMe SSD (NTFS)

How to repeat it

Scan the test folder.
Open Duplicates.
Compare the group count, the number of copies to move and the recoverable total with the folder's manifest: 250 sets, 334 extra copies, 539,494,530 bytes.

Diskaroo's duplicate finder on Windows 11 listing groups of three identical photos, 250 groups with 514.5 MB recoverable, each group with its own Trash button — Duplicates on Windows: 250 groups and 514.5 MB recoverable, exactly what was planted.Diskaroo 2.7.5 on Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (build 26200), 2026-09-27

Diskaroo's duplicate finder on Linux listing sets of three identical photos with their full paths, 250 duplicate sets and 539.49 MB reclaimable — Duplicates on Linux: 250 sets and 539.49 MB reclaimable, every planted set.Diskaroo 0.8.3 on Linux with the Cinnamon desktop (kernel 6.14), 2026-09-27

Diskaroo vs Duplicate Cleaner Pro FAQs

How much does Duplicate Cleaner Pro cost?

US$54.95 per user, before sales tax, is the price of a perpetual version 5 license; a site license is $329. Diskaroo is free: sign in with a free Bravely Account, map your first folder, then claim Diskaroo Pro in the app, free, for life.

Is Duplicate Cleaner Pro free?

No. Duplicate Cleaner Pro's download, including its Microsoft Store listing marked Free, is a trial of every feature for 7 days; after that it needs a paid license key. DigitalVolcano's free edition is Duplicate Cleaner Free 4, an older, limited version on its Other Downloads page. Diskaroo is free on Mac, Windows and Linux.

Is Duplicate Cleaner Pro available on Mac or Linux?

No. DigitalVolcano's Duplicate Cleaner Pro runs only on Windows, and a Mac App Store app with the same name is from a different developer. Diskaroo runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, and one free Bravely Account covers all three.

What kind of duplicates does Diskaroo find?

Exact ones, compared by content: same size, then the first 64 KB, then the whole file, matched by SHA-256. It skips files under 1 KB, keeps one copy of each, and sends the extras to the Trash or Recycle Bin.

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