--- title: FindDiskKiller: See which apps are hammering your Mac's disk description: FindDiskKiller is a free, open-source native macOS app that monitors disk activity per process, showing which apps and AI coding agents are driving disk reads... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/finddiskkiller-see-which-apps-are-hammering-your-mac-s-disk-lzs8khod6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: FindDiskKiller: See which apps are hammering your Mac's disk | daily.dev og:description: FindDiskKiller is a free, open-source native macOS app that monitors disk activity per process, showing which apps and AI coding agents are driving disk reads... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/finddiskkiller-see-which-apps-are-hammering-your-mac-s-disk-lzs8khod6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lzs8kHOD6.png og:image:alt: FindDiskKiller: See which apps are hammering your Mac's disk og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FindDiskKiller: See which apps are hammering your Mac's disk **[Product Hunt](https://daily.dev/sources/ph)** · 1 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary FindDiskKiller is a free, open-source native macOS app that monitors disk activity per process, showing which apps and AI coding agents are driving disk reads and writes. It also tracks CPU and network activity, inspects live file access, traces folders, and displays SMART/NVMe drive health data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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