# Leaves: text-based treemap for visualizing disk usage

A developer released Leaves, an interactive terminal-based treemap visualizer for analyzing disk usage. It displays a hierarchical, space-efficient chart of file sizes using text characters. This tool offers a lightweight alternative for users who need to quickly identify large files from the command line.

**Importance:** 2/5

## Sources

### Technology
- [Hacker News](https://github.com/patonw/leaves) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:03:43 +0000