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Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

30 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 7 stories, 23 comments · first 2021-03-13 · latest 2026-07-26

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  1. …also does phashes of images/videos to find potential duplicate media files is czkawka [0]. [0]: https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by psYchotic · 2026-07-26 · in DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector
  2. …should soon be released. https://librepcb.org/blog/2025-09-12_preview_of_next_gen_ui/ - krokiet: https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka/blob/master/krokiet/README...
    comment by ogoffart · 2026-01-17 · in High-Level Is the Goal
  3. Have you tried https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka ?
    comment by 0xdeafbeef · 2025-03-29 · in Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account
  4. There's a cross-platform open-source version of this program: https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by sir_eliah · 2025-02-25 · in Hyperspace
  5. …" spear " hence the pointy thing in its logo - if I recall correctly one of devs is Polish. [1] - https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka [2] - https://github.com/qarmin/szyszka [3] - https://github.com/kopia/kopia That's all what I can…
    comment by pndy · 2025-02-17 · in Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
  6. Same. One of my favorite duplicate file/similar image finders is https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka But I will never ever remember how to spell the name. It’s like the perfect combination of letters that are just alien to me. I usually find…
    comment by Modified3019 · 2024-09-18 · in Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough
  7. …identify common blocks of memory. `rsync` uses that technique to minimize bytes to be transferred. https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka is a GUI app and CLI tool to find identical files in general and similar images in particular. The task is…
    comment by DemocracyFTW2 · 2024-08-29 · in Ask HN: How do you deduplicate fuzzy files?
  8. You might be interested in this app: https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by mchan · 2024-08-09 · in Duperemove – Tools for deduping file systems
  9. Do you use czkawka? https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka I don't think it uses the MFT, but it's the fastest and most flexible open source dup finder as of last year or so
    comment by barfbagginus · 2024-05-24 · in WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
  10. https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by stop50 · 2024-02-10 · in Ask HN: How do you name software?
  11. I've used Czkawka ( https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka ) because it does Lanczos-based image duplicate detection, which makes it more practical for me.
    comment by thrillgore · 2023-11-05 · in Fdupes: Identify or delete duplicate files
  12. …over to czkawka, which has a better interface for comparing files, and seems to be a bit faster: https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka Unfortunately, neither of these are integrated into Photoprism, so you still have to do some file management…
    comment by jyrkesh · 2023-07-11 · in PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
  13. I used successfully https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka to remove duplicate and also https://www.scootersoftware.com/ to merge pictures folders
    comment by poulpy123 · 2023-07-11 · in PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
  14. https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by sea-gold · 2023-06-13 · in Johnny Decimal
  15. …this one. It gives you the option of replacing the duplicates with either hard or symbolic links. https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by lizknope · 2023-04-22 · in Should you remove duplicate files?
  16. I think this one[0] can do most of that. [0] https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by Diris · 2023-01-18 · in Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?
  17. …[qarmin/czkawka: Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.]( https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka ) and it's alternatives mentioned in the readme?
    comment by 97-109-107 · 2022-11-06 · in Ask HN: Best tool for de-duplication of local files?
  18. Czkawka worked pretty well for me. https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by Liru · 2022-09-02 · in Ask HN: Identify duplicate files in my data hoard?
  19. I use Czkawka recently for dupes (it has GUI and well-maintained): https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by reflexing · 2022-01-19 · in Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
  20. I haven't used it extensively, but this is free and you can pick from a number of hash functions - https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by radicality · 2021-10-30 · in Meow Hash (2018)
  21. …to do a similar tast using file hashes but can also search through to match Pictures and the like. https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by mimentum · 2021-08-31 · in Go Find Duplicates: A fast and simple tool to find duplicate files
  22. …higher than fslint, memory use is 20%-75%. <;)> Satisfied customer, would buy it again. </;)> [0] https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
    comment by scns · 2021-08-30 · in Go Find Duplicates: A fast and simple tool to find duplicate files
  23. https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka Means hiccup
    comment by scns · 2021-06-11 · in Kopia – Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup