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  1. WinMerge icon
     556 likes

    WinMerge is an open source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

    • Diff Tool
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    File Comparison
    69 alternatives
    4.8
    Excellent12 reviews
  2. Meld icon
     422 likes

    Open-source tool for dynamic file and folder comparisions, syntax highlighting, offline functionality, and version control integration.

    • Diff Tool
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
    • GTK
    File comparison
    52 alternatives
    3.7
    Good23 reviews
  3. Beyond Compare icon
     327 likes

    Compares files with source control integration, supports FTP and cloud storage, offers 3-way merge, and uses commands to manage syncs and differences.

    Folder compare
    70 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good16 reviews
  4. P4Merge icon
     27 likes

    P4Merge uses color coding to allow users to visualize the differences between file or images. It allows three-way merging among files, and shows side-by-side file/image comparison.

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    47 alternatives
  5. SemanticDiff icon
     6 likes

    SemanticDiff is a programming language aware diff for Visual Studio Code and GitHub. It helps software developers understand code changes faster by hiding irrelevant changes, detecting moved code, and highlighting refactorings.

    • Diff Tool
    • FreeProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    Moved code blocks are highlighted.
    53 alternatives
  6. Araxis Merge icon
     43 likes

    Merge is the visual file comparison (diff), merging and folder synchronization application from Araxis. Use it to compare and merge source code, web pages, XML and other text files with native application performance.

    Overview
    62 alternatives
  7. Meld for OSX icon
     11 likes

    Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many...

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    46 alternatives
  8. Diffinity icon
     23 likes

    Diffinity is a diff and merging tool with focus on accurate and easy to read source code diffs. It will compare the content of two files and present the differences in an easy to read line by line and char by char basis.

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    47 alternatives
  9. Kompare icon
     12 likes

    Kompare is a graphical diff and merge tool targeting developers. It allows users to compare two different text files or two directories. It is part of KDE Applications (and formerly part of KDE Software Compilation) and therefore primarily used on Linux and other Unix-like...

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    62 alternatives
  10. DirEqual icon
     5 likes

    Side-by-side comparison of Mac folders with expandable trees, colour-coded differences, actionable icons, content-based matching, manual sync and tabbed view.

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    53 alternatives
  11. Kaleidoscope icon
     21 likes

    Use Kaleidoscope to spot the differences in text and image files. Review changes in seconds with the worlds most advanced file comparison application.

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    45 alternatives
  12. UltraCompare icon
     6 likes

    UltraCompare Professional is folder/file compare utility loaded with features to enable you to compare text files and folders, word documents, and even zip files and jar archives. UltraCompare includes text compare, binary file compare with the capability to merge differences...

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    17 alternatives
  13. DiffMerge icon
     39 likes

    DiffMerge is a graphical file comparison program for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix, published by SourceGear.

    • Discontinued
    • Diff Tool
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    DiffMerge screenshot 1
    56 alternatives
  14. Difftastic icon
     3 likes

    Difftastic is a diff tool that compares files based on their syntax. It supports over 20 programming languages and when it works, it's fantastic.

    • Diff Tool
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    58 alternatives
  15. WinMerge 2011 icon
     30 likes

    WinMerge 2011 series is a fork of the original WinMerge application that compiles without ATL/MFC dependencies to enable zero-budget developers to build WinMerge from sources using Visual C++ Express editions.

    • Diff Tool
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    WinMerge 2011 screenshot 1
    57 alternatives
  16. WinMerge JP icon
     15 likes

    WinMerge JP is a fork of the original WinMerge, but after 2018 the two are nearly identical. WinMerge JP's features including 3-way compare has been merged into the original.

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    57 alternatives
  17. FileMerge icon
     14 likes

    FileMerge lets you compare one file to another or one directory to another and merge the files or directories together.

    FileMerge screenshot 1
    53 alternatives