Hard Disk User Reviews

Name: Hard Disk - Monitor Disk Usage
Rating: 4.30769 (26 reviews)

Hard Disk - Monitor Disk Usage

Stefan Van Damme

🔧 Utilities

📊 Productivity

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Will crash your Mac.

Opens all your applications at once and acts generally like malware. Can’t be closed because it apparently operates in the background, not like a normal app. that you open and quit. I would be very wary of this app. Very sus, as far as these types of “helper” apps. go.

CaptainReedo

2 months ago

User

Nice

#1 AS

3 months ago

Harddish 4tbto

je ne sais pas

Francky v

a year ago

Love this HardDrive !

Just have to love all the different things that can be done with this HardDrive !

Bertro57

a year ago

Doesn’t work

App didn't work like they said it would, wasted my money

Cactus2024#

2 years ago

The bigger the harder the better

Best storage ever

Bit-o-lodeon Ai

2 years ago

Tons of variations of the same limited customization.

The app lacks options to specify which disks to include or exclude. Internal and external disks are treated as a non-customizable group which is problematic as external Thunderbolt NVMe drives are incorrectly counted as internal. When a disk has several APFS volumes the widgets just show total APFS container disk usage. So all APFS volumes on a disk show equal usage

I have 1 TB of true internal space, but 6 TB of external NVMe is counted as internal. I specifically got this app so I could see how full my 1TB internal is, and know I need to offload stuff. It’s a balancing act because I want my most critical files to stay internal if possible so I’m not dependent on TBT disks when I’m mobile.

The large "list of internal disks" does let me see the TBT4 and internal disks separately, but it doesn’t discriminate for volumes using the same APFS backing store, so if I added just one more APFS volume then this lone useful widget now isn’t gonna cut it.

Suggested improvements:

- Allow ignoring specific disks or filesystems.
- Only show usage of a APFS volume itself, it useless to see the container disk usage on a granular volume view
- Option to display only device capacity, ignoring individual volumes.
- Correctly categorize Thunderbolt disks as external, or allow manual specification
- Increase customization options for widgets, let me specify on a per-widget-basis which disk to monitor

dootfiles

2 years ago

Simple Elegant App that works perfectly.

Purchased after recommendation on Reddit. Perfect customisable app. I tried Usage Pro but I don’t want to build a widget and fuss about with trying to get things straight. This does exactly what I want.

DomCoolNZ

2 years ago

I set its refresh time to 6000 seconds it crashes

I set its refresh time to 6000 seconds it crashes 0.0

Kaiyt Kaiyt1111

2 years ago

Nice to have the ability to see space left

The Macbook Pro does not inherently have a widget which shows how much space is left on your system(s)
This app has really saved me alot of trouble and lets me know when I should be moving files off of my Laptop.
Thank you for all you hard work.

Tony Stark Chicago

2 years ago

Great Support

Made many tries to fix available space problem...did not give up and got it working.

A very usefull app

Great Job Stefan,

Thanks

AstroCraig

2 years ago

useless

shows My HD withing 5 MB of being full yet system settings/storage shows only 153 gb used with 1.84 GB available

AstroCraig

2 years ago

You have one job. One.

The app has literally one thing it needs to do well: display storage info as a widget. After trying with the app author back and forth and a few months past I’m still staring at a white blank widget on my Home Screen.

ben2684@617847748

3 years ago

Response from developer

Hi ben2684@617847748, You rated it 1 star and mentioned that the app does not work. Have you experienced the same issue with the new Hard Disk iOS app version 1.1.5? This version should have resolved the problem. If you need any help, please do not hesitate to contact me at https://www.stefanvd.net/support Thanks,

widget problem

I got this for the widget showing free disk space, but the value doesn’t seem to update. It’s different from the free space shown in the app.

GiantGuppy

4 years ago

Home page widget has disappeared… (updated)

The widget (the purpose of the app) disappeared with the last update. Tried sending a support message but the webpage kept throwing up an error. Going to assume the developers focus was on the new Lock Screen widgets.

Update: widgets back for iOS 15 users a few days later. Revised from 1 to 3 stars. Would be four but the recent inconvenience remains a cautionary tale.

tayup

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi tayup, Thank you for your updated review. Sorry you have had this bad experience. I take all feedback very seriously to improve this app and widget. Can you describe a bit more on how to get this to 5 stars? Also, I see you use Hard Disk 1.1.2. The latest is v1.1.3 and that fix another important issue with the settings. Feedback and suggestions is always welcome at https://www.stefanvd.net/support Thanks,

Basic

A simple to use and easy to keep track of storage.

Thealfa203

4 years ago

Has potential but doesn’t refresh the bar or percent

Needs to update the bar and percents more often, I just deleted a lot but widget still is the same and the app shows less % but the bar even in the app is the same. It at least needs a refresh button

jaxtan99

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi jaxtan99, Sorry you have had this bad experience. And rated 2 stars and that the information is not shown correctly. I always support my users. And I am here to help my users. The widget automatically updates after hour the data. (or longer depending the usage of the widget and the battery life of the current device. When the iPhone is low battery, it will not frequently update all the widgets according to Apple iOS design) Please if you need any further help, please do not hesitate to contact me on this support page: https://www.stefanvd.net/support I am happy to help you. Thanks,

I like it

Thank you for your last update. To improve more your app can you add compatibility with shortcuts thank you

Lolo@Lolo

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi there, Thank you for using the Hard Disk app! What information would you get for the shortcuts app? Can you please explain a use case at https://www.stefanvd.net/support I am happy to improve this experience. Thanks,

Exactly what I was looking for

Great app & widget, works fine on iOS 15. There are a number of widgets available that offer varying degrees of detail, but I’m just using the most basic one for a quick overview.
For that it would be nice if the colour of the graph was adjustable.

MyceaKasos