henrydennis/petal

A fast, exact disk-space explorer for macOS with a live sunburst chart. Rust + GPUI.

AppsRust#apfs#disk-space#disk-usage#gpui#macos

4.3 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 2, 2026, 19:40 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

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About the project

A fast, exact disk-space explorer for macOS with a live sunburst chart, written in Rust with a GPU-rendered UI. It shows what's taking up space and flags what's safe to delete.

Useful for

Find large folders and files taking up space on a Mac
Check how much deleting selected files will actually free, accounting for APFS clones
Collect unwanted folders in the Collector and move them to Trash in one go

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

49 stars so far today, about 59 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 1 day old and already has 69 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #198.
About 13 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 69
Today: 49 · ≈ 58 by evening
Forks: 5
Issues and pull requests: 10
Watchers: 1
Language: Rust
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.2.0 · October 2, 2026
Created: October 1, 2026
Last push: October 2, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

October 2, 2026Top new repositories this week: #196

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