# henrydennis/petal

> 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.

- Magnitude: 4.3 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 70 total · +50 stars today, ≈ 59 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-01 · Last push: 2026-10-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/henrydennis/petal · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/henrydennis/petal

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 50 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 70 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #196.
- About 13 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5
- Issues and pull requests: 12
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 40 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 3
- Latest release: v0.2.0 (2026-10-02)

## Stars per day, last 6 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-27 … 2026-10-02: 0, 0, 0, 0, 21, 50

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #196

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-02 20:07 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.