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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 launch file comparisons. You can browse and view a working copy from popular version control systems such such as CVS, Subversion, Bazaar-ng and Mercurial. Written with Python and GTK. Requirements: Python 2.6 GTK+/pygtk 2.14 GLib/pygobject 2.16 GtkSourceView/pygtksourceview 2.

• Cannot be added to context menu. Sometimes folder comparison doesn't work. Says empty folder. Guest • Apr 2018 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Free. but it lacks FTP compare function Guest • Dec 2016 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• doesn't compare archive files as folders Guest • Jan 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Free, but doesn't do picture and hexadecimal. Guest • Jan 2016 • 2 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Python

FreeFileSync

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed. FreeFileSync is Open Source software, available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

• FreeFileSync is used to sync files between computers, beyond compare is used to help users identify changes between file versions, Guest • Jun 2018 • 4 agrees and 2 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 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Free File sync compares files, but really only to do a sync operation. Guest • Mar 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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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 easy to understand and handle. 32 languages. With the xdocdiff-Plugin you even can compare Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and some more files. Features Visual differencing and merging of text files. Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap.

• It's does most of what BC does. Guest • Nov 2015 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

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 character by character, provides an automatic merge-facility, has an editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts, provides networktransparency via KIO, has options to highlight or hide changes in white-space or comments, supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other file encodings, prints differences, supports version control keyword and...

• 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 1 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

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

WinMerge 2011

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. WinMerge 2011 includes approximately the features from WinMerge mainstream trunk.

Free Open Source Windows Linux PortableApps.com Wine

Unison

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.), distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Diffinity

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.

Free Windows

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 text files with native application performance. Directly open and compare the text from Microsoft Office (Word and Excel), OpenDocument, PDF and RTF files. Compare images and binary files. Synchronize folders. Perform code reviews and audits. Work with folder hierarchies containing thousands of files.

Commercial Mac Windows

DiffMerge

DiffMerge is a graphical file comparison program for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix, published by SourceGear. * Integrates with Windows Explorer; adds a shortcut to the context menu. * Compatible with different character encodings, including Unicode support. * Performs a side-by-side comparison of two folders. * Supports comparison of three files.

• Discontinued No releases since October 2013: latest version, 4.2.0, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Mac Windows Linux

Compare

Comparison plugin for Notepad++ editor. Features Side-by-side visual differencing Comparison against SVN database Highlight differences inside lines Navigation bar shows a map of compared files Moved line detection Easy navigation between differences Customizable results presentation

• 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 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Windows Notepad++

WinMerge JP

WinMerge JP is a fork of original WinMerge that incorporates many own features including 3-way compare, high DPI support and many more. Differences from original WinMerge - Support for 3-way merge - Image compare/merge - Improved in-line diff algorithm - Displays only the differences when selecting diff context menu - Includes improved plugins - Includes frhed and 7-zip plugin - Support for jump list since Windows 7 - Improved drag&drop support

Free Open Source Windows

P4Merge

The Perforce Merge Tool, P4Merge, provides graphical three-way merging and side-by-side file comparisons. P4Merge allows users to visualize the differences between file versions. P4Merge uses color coding to simplify the process of resolving conflicts that result from parallel or concurrent development.

Free Mac Windows Linux

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 an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the ability to manually adjust line-matching and directly edit files. Diffuse can also retrieve revisions of files from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories for comparison and merging.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

SmartSynchronize

SmartSynchronize is a multi-platform file and directory compare tool. It allows you to compare files or perform 3-way-merges, both with the ability to edit the file contents. SmartSynchronize is specialized in comparing directory structures (for example, of software projects), and can keep them synchronized.

Free Personal Mac Windows Linux

mergely

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

Free Open Source Web

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

FileMerge

FileMerge is part of Xcode . FileMerge lets you compare one file to another or one directory to another. For a more accurate comparison, you can compare two files or directories to a common ancestor. After comparing, you can merge the files or directories together.

Free Mac Xcode

Meld - Mac Port

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 popular version control systems. On OS X, Meld is not yet officially supported. The best option are these pre-built binaries. You can also get Meld from MacPorts, Fink or Brew; none of these methods are supported.

Free Open Source Mac

WinDiff

WinDiff is a graphical file-comparison program published by Microsoft (from 1992[1]), and is distributed with certain versions of Microsoft Visual Studio as well as in source-code form with the Platform SDK code samples.

Free Windows

Compare It!

Easily compare and merge text files; compare doc, xls and pdf files; prepare comparison reports and printouts.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated, but last version, 4.2, released in November 2010, can be still bought from the official website and it's reportedly still working.

Commercial Windows

DeltaWalker

Intuitive, multi-platform application for two and three-way visual file and folder comparison. Use DeltaWalker to compare (diff) and merge files and to compare and synchronize folders.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

Diff Checker

Diff Checker is a free online diff tool that quickly and easily gives you the text differences between two files.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Web

Tkdiff

tkdiff is a graphical diff viewer based on the Tk framework. It is capable of inter-operating with source-control systems like CVS and Subversion to show differences between a local copy and a repository version. It provides a side-by-side view of the differences between two files, along with several innovative features such as diff bookmarks and a graphical map of differences for quick navigation.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Cygwin

UltraCompare

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 between compared files. Got folders? UltraCompare also supports Folder compare - including local/network directory compare, zip file compare , and FTP Compare.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

ExamDiff Pro

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.

Commercial Windows