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Disk Inventory X vs aText

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When comparing Disk Inventory X vs aText, the Slant community recommends aText for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for macOS?” aText is ranked 49th while Disk Inventory X is ranked 52nd.

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What are the best power user tools for macOS?

Pros

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Free & Open Source

It is absolutely free and released under the GPL.

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Works in High Sierra and above

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Allows ordering disk by size

This way you can find what is taking most of the space.

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Offers choice between analyzing whole disk or just a specific folder

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Absolutely matching with Windirstat

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No Update

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A snippet can be expanded to plain or styled text and include pictures

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Has built-in snippets for common typos

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Cheaper than competition

$4.99, cheaper than textExpander ($35)

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Compatible with TextExpander snippets

TextExpander snippets can be imported into aText

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Works with VMs

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Imports from most alternative text expansion apps

aText can import data from TextExpander, TypeIt4Me, SpellCatcherX, Automaton and CSV file.

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Has common HTML & JS snippets built-in

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Snippets can include editable fields

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Data can be synced through cloud storage services

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Snippets can include a wide variety of variables

Possible variables include date, time, other snippets, clipboard content, etc.

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Cons

Con
Crashes on Ventura, when closing the app

But you do not need it so often, so it is ok.

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Crashes on Sierra

Crashes on Sierra when resizing windows.

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Frequent crashes in MacOS Sierra

aText crashes frequently, and the developer is unresponsive. Not clear if app is supported or under current development: last update was in 11/15; last post to aText Facebook page 10/15.

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Doesn't work in Mojave

The current version, with no issues. In fact, I've never had any issue with it with Mojave, so I assume when Mojave was released, aText was already up to date for it.