Folder Comparison Tools

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.

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

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

KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool.

Diffchecker Pro enables you to compare various types of content, on your desktop or directly in the browser.

Linux, Windows, and Apple Mac GUI that enables rapid selection & hashing of files (individually or recursively), text and physical disks.

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.

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...

GUI tool with cross-platform support named after "forske forskjell" (research difference) 🤍

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.

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

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

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...

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

Compare Advance makes comparing any two folders an easy job. The stylish interface highlights what's different between the two folders and a powerful synchronization dialog makes reconciling those differences easy too.

Compare PDFs intelligently with i-net PDFC. It detects content differences—not just text or images—and displays them beautifully, like holding two pages to the light.

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.

Create Synchronicity is a nice, lightweight backup program with a very user-friendly - yet powerful - interface, that synchronizes files and folders extremely quickly (it can even recognize paths such as "MyUSB"\MyFolder, and locate the USB drive called...

ExamDiff Pro is a powerful, intuitive, and easy to use visual side-by-side comparison tool for comparing and merging text and binary files, and directories.

checksum is an easy-to-use, no-nonsense BLAKE2, SHA1 & MD5 hashing program for Windows, capable of creating & verifying hashes of files and folders, even whole drives, with just one or two clicks. It is robust, lightning fast, intuitive, and completely customizable.

Visualize folders side-by-side and find immediately which files are different, colors help to understand the diff type. Colors identify older, modified and newer files.

Intuitive, multi-platform application for two and three-way visual file and folder comparison.

FolderMatch is a program that compares directories and files, showing the differences clearly.

Altova DiffDog is a powerful, easy-to-use diff merge tool that lets you quickly compare, merge, and sync text or source code files, folders containing any file type, or entire directories. Special XML-aware functionality identifies XML equivalence that ordinary text comparisons...

TreeComp is an interactive utility to keep 2 directory trees and the files within the directories in sync. The combined tree is displayed using a treeview control with icons indicating the status per directory. Programs to view the differences (i.e.