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DuoBolt for Mac

Find duplicate files byte-for-byte and similar photos with on-device AI.

$34.99
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DuoBolt overview

DuoBolt is a high-performance desktop application for reclaiming disk space, with two engines. The first identifies duplicate files byte-for-byte, using a multi-threaded BLAKE3 engine that processes folders, codebases, design archives, external drives and NAS volumes with uniform accuracy at any scale. The second finds similar photos — bursts, edits, re-saves, screenshots of the same thing — and groups and ranks them using AI that runs entirely on the machine.

The workflow is intentionally simple and review-first:
  • Select the locations to scan.
  • Review results in a two-column layout, filtered by name, type, extension, tag or size.
  • Act safely — Trash, Delete, Archive or Copy, all recorded and restorable.

AI Curation ranks a group of near-identical shots and explains each pick: eyes open, smiling, face sharpness, framing. It reads RAW files directly from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji and more. Nothing is uploaded, no account is required, and no network connection is used for analysis.

DuoBolt includes an Operations History with session tracking, allowing users to review past cleanup operations, restore files when needed, and clean up fully recovered sessions. On macOS it detects APFS clones, so the space it reports is the space the disk actually frees.

All duplicate detection is performed using byte-for-byte comparison, without relying on filenames, metadata, or heuristics. Results are deterministic, verifiable, and suitable for professional environments where correctness, traceability, and reversibility are essential.

Every download starts with a 7-day Pro trial. After it ends the application keeps working: scans and results stay complete and unlimited, and a single operation is capped at 25 files. A one-time license removes the cap — Standard for duplicates, Pro for similar photos and AI Curation. There is no subscription.

What's new in version 2.2.8

The duplicates scan runs about twice as fast, and a group no longer counts the same file twice because it has more than one name.

Improvements
  • The duplicates scan is roughly 2× faster. A source tree of 1.7 million files went from 56.7 seconds to 26.5 at the app's default minimum file size. The benchmarks were re-run on this release across three kinds of storage.
  • A group shows what the list leaves out: "2 copies · 1.2 GiB each · 2.4 GiB total · 2 more names".
  • When a figure is smaller than the one your file manager shows, the results header says why: "22.9 GiB reclaimable · 6.2 GiB shared by clones, 50,173 linked names". Both follow whatever filter is active, and neither appears when it is zero.
Fixes
  • A hard link is counted once. A group used to list every name of the same file as a separate copy, which inflated both the count and the space you would get back.
  • The copy a scan keeps no longer changes between runs of the same scan.
  • Collapse symlinks now decides symlinked paths and nothing else. Hard links are folded either way.
Note

The first scan after updating recomputes its cache, because the prehash window changed. It is a one-time cost; scans after that use the cache as usual.

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DuoBolt for Mac

$34.99
In English
Version 2.2.8
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