When comparing NameChanger vs Disk Inventory X, the Slant community recommends Disk Inventory X for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for macOS?” Disk Inventory X is ranked 52nd while NameChanger is ranked 76th. The most important reason people chose Disk Inventory X is:
It is absolutely free and released under the GPL.
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Pros
Pro Free
Available free of charge.
Pro Allows easily batch renaming files
For anyone who's ever needed to re-sequence or rename a list of items in a folder, it can take a long time to hit "Enter", type your new file name, "Enter","Arrow Down", "Enter", Type, "Enter", "Arrow Down", "Enter", Type, smash you head against the keyboard.
Name changer allows you to batch rename those files in one step. Options include replacing the first, last or every occurrence of user defined text, removing text, append or prepend text, searching with wildcards, sequencing and even has support for inserting dates. It shows you a preview of the new file names before committing any changes.
Pro Free & Open Source
It is absolutely free and released under the GPL.
Pro Works in High Sierra and above
Pro Allows ordering disk by size
This way you can find what is taking most of the space.
Pro Offers choice between analyzing whole disk or just a specific folder
Pro Absolutely matching with Windirstat
Cons
Con Crashes on Ventura, when closing the app
But you do not need it so often, so it is ok.
Con Crashes on Sierra
Crashes on Sierra when resizing windows.