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SpaceMonger VS Conky

Compare SpaceMonger VS Conky and see what are their differences

SpaceMonger logo SpaceMonger

SpaceMonger helps you understand what's occupying your hard drive and more effectively clean it up without worrying about losing anything important in the process.

Conky logo Conky

Latest commit 262a292 on Dec 7, 2017 brndnmtthws Add missing build dep. Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.
  • SpaceMonger Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-01
  • Conky Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-21

SpaceMonger videos

Overview of SpaceMonger V3

More videos:

  • Tutorial - How to Free Hard Drive Space with SpaceMonger 852x480.wmv
  • Review - SpaceMonger

Conky videos

Conky System Info for Ham Radio Digital Operators

More videos:

  • Review - LEGO Conky Robot MOC Review from Pee-Wee's Playhouse #ToyReplay
  • Review - Making Linux Look Good - Conky First-Time Setup - Live Stream

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SpaceMonger and Conky)
Disk Analyzer
100 100%
0% 0
Monitoring Tools
0 0%
100% 100
Hard Disk Usage
100 100%
0% 0
Command Line Tools
0 0%
100% 100

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Conky seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 42 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

SpaceMonger mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of SpaceMonger yet. Tracking of SpaceMonger recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Conky mentions (42)

  • An app to count down till certain day
    Maybe put something like echo $(($(date -d 24-Dec +%j) - $(date +%j))) days into your bashrc. Conky should be able to display it nicely on the desktop. Source: 10 months ago
  • Do you plan on adding widgets to your desktop in Sonoma?
    What I could go for is something like Conky (https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky). Source: 11 months ago
  • Give Wayland a shot, don't base your opinion off of 2013 articles!
    Funny meme btw. Personally, I use xorg with 3 displays. Fortunately, the resolution is same on all screens (full HD). I use Komorebi for live wallpapers and conky for sidebar. It works flawlessly. Source: 12 months ago
  • Issue in hyprland
    If you are using Wayland, then you may want to do some searches related to "wayland conky transparency" and see what results. Also, if you are using wayland, you will want to be sure you are using the latest possible version of conky, as close to 1.18.x or 1.19.2 as possible, as wayland support is a relatively new addition to conky. If you are on the latest or a late version and are also using the wayland video... Source: 12 months ago
  • I need a small tool to monitor the CPU temperature and Fans RPM in Fedora 38
    Conky is the best.... you can set whatever info you like and display the info in many style..... Source: 12 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing SpaceMonger and Conky, you can also consider the following products

WinDirStat - WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool, inspired by KDirStat.

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SpaceSniffer - SpaceSniffer is a freeWare (donations are welcome) and portable tool application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks.

Rainmeter - Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.

TreeSize - TreeSize tells you where precious disk space has gone to.

Bginfo - This fully-configurable program automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system.