A local-only desktop app that finds duplicate files, similar photos, empty folders, and your biggest space-eaters. Everything you remove goes into a quarantine you can restore from — clean up without fear.
sift.exe — no installer, no Python. Close the window to exit.
First launch may show a Windows SmartScreen warning — click More info → Run anyway.
Byte-identical files found by SHA-256, with a three-tier filter that's fast even on TB-scale folders.
Spot burst shots, resized copies, and slight crops via perceptual hashing. Pick the keepers, the rest are gone.
Recursively-empty directory trees, with optional handling of junk metadata like Thumbs.db.
Top-N files and folders by recursive size. Answers "where did all my space go?" at a glance.
Nothing is unlinked until you opt in. Restorable with one click via the manifest file.
Web UI served from 127.0.0.1; no network calls, no telemetry, no uploads. Your files never leave your machine.
File size and hash are re-checked at execute time. If a file changed since the scan, it's skipped — never silently overwritten or removed.
Mark folders that should never be deleted from, even when their contents match a duplicate group.