Alternatives to Beyond Compare for all platforms with any license

  • Meld

    Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically). You can compare two or three folders and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Python

    Folder Comparison Real Time Comparison Compare Source Code Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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    • Cannot be added to context menu. Sometimes folder comparison doesn't work. Says empty folder. Guest • Apr 2018 Disagree   Agree
    • Free, but doesn't do picture and hexadecimal. Guest • Jan 2016 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

  • FreeFileSync

    FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.

    Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux openSUSE CentOS ... Ubuntu Debian

    Cloud sync Directory sync File-sync Support for FTP ... Multiple languages Support for SFTP Add a feature

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    • Free File sync compares files, but really only to do a sync operation. Guest • Mar 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • FreeFileSync is used to sync files between computers, beyond compare is used to help users identify changes between file versions, Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • FreeFileSync is used to sync files between computers, beyond compare is used to help users identify changes between file versions, Guest • Jun 2018 Disagree   Agree

  • WinMerge

    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...

    Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

    Portable Directory sync Folder Comparison Add a feature

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    • Discontinued Works smoothly on Windows 8.1, but the last version, 2.14.0, was released on February 3rd, 2013. https://alternativeto.net/software/winmerge-2011/ is an updated fork of the project.

  • kdiff3

    KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool which compares and merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

    Folder Comparison Version and Source control Add a feature

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    • As BC and unlike Meld, it align changes by adding lines, which is a key feature to visually compare code. Meld explicitly states it does not do that. kdiff3 also supports multiple platforms (as stated). Unfortunately, it does not support on-click line/block merging (merge from side to side visually) like Meld or BC. Guest • Jan 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • I would like to suggest kdiff3 as the best alternative selection for Beyond compare, esp. folder compare and sync! Guest • Feb 2016 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

  • Compare

    Comparison plugin for Notepad++ editor. Features Side-by-side visual differencing Comparison against SVN...

    Free Open Source Windows Notepad++

    Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

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    • No option to align text lines, copy lines to and from each text being compared...just a host of things BeyondCompare does on a text compare level. Guest • Aug 2015 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

  • Araxis Merge

    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...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

    Folder Comparison Add a feature

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  • Diffuse

    Diffuse is a small and simple text merge tool written in Python. With Diffuse, you can easily merge, edit, and review changes to your code. Diffuse is able to compare...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

    Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

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  • mergely

    Merge is an online merge and diff tool that allows you to share and save your documents.

    Free Open Source Web

    No features added Add a feature

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  • Kaleidoscope

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

    Commercial Mac OS X

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Beyond Compare Comments

Comment by coth
about Beyond Compare · Jan 2018 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

As a note - there is a free version called Beyond Compare Lite. Don't know limitations though, but there is a sure no 3-way merge. And probably no directory comparison. It comes with some IDE. Particularly with free RAD Studio Starter Edition.

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Comment by Guest
about Beyond Compare · Jun 2017 · Report as spam

Extremely good.
It supports Japanese, French and German as well as English. And a lot of platform (I'm happy to use it on Windows XP).
User Interface is sophisticated and easy to use.
Comparison results are easily comprehend.
I change to this from WinMerge which I have used for a long time,

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Great tool but don't expect frequent updates

Comment by CopyTrans
about Beyond Compare · Nov 2012 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

very few updates and with just bug fixes - don't expect new things...

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Comment by net_np
about Beyond Compare · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

It is one of the best file and folder comparison tool. Excellent feature, user friendly, advance feature that allow to control white-space, line-ending, time stamp, file size comparison, file pattern include/exclude, binary comparison, rule based comparison. it can ignore changes in code comments for source code files. provides 3-way comparison is awesome. It can compare images and provide visually diff. Session and workspace feature is excellent.

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LT · Mar 2018

reply to edrandall.

i think the user ignored the timestamp difference...


Comment by edrandall
about Beyond Compare · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful -3 Helpful Report as spam

Unfortunately this one failed the "60 seconds to make yourself useful and not annoy me" test.
Doing a large directory tree comparison - it said many of the files were different, but when I individually clicked on a few and selected "Quick Compare" it then conceded that they are in fact the same. I don't have time to go through and do that for each file/directory individually, that's why I need a good tool.
Furthermore, I couldn't find any of the options to select "ignore whitespace differences" or "ignore line ending differences" that I need, further componding the number of phantom differences trhat I encountered.

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JimMcKeeth · Sep 2012

You can tell it to automatically compare all the files to verify they are different or the same. The options to ignore whitespace differences and line endings are there. It is based on the different file types - you set rules for how different files are compared. For example in Python files the whitespace is significant, and Pascal files don't care about case, but C family libraries do. It has most of those common rules already in there though.