Free Beyond Compare Alternatives
The best free alternative to Beyond Compare is Meld, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Beyond Compare and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Beyond Compare are WinMerge, KDiff3, Unison File Synchronizer and Diffinity.
Beyond Compare alternatives are mainly Diff Tools but may also be Merge File Tools or File Sync Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Beyond Compare.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Python
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.
Meld vs Beyond Compare opinions
Free. but it lacks FTP compare function
Cannot be added to context menu. Sometimes folder comparison doesn't work. Says empty folder.
Free, but doesn't do picture and hexadecimal.
doesn't compare archive files as folders
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
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.
WinMerge vs Beyond Compare opinions
doesnt even show text differences
It's does most of what BC does.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool.
KDiff3 vs Beyond Compare opinions
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.
its got lovely windows context menu file comparison option. it gets my vote.
I would like to suggest kdiff3 as the best alternative selection for Beyond compare, esp. folder compare and sync!
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows.
Unison File Synchronizer vs Beyond Compare opinions
It only compares two disks to each other. You cannnot compare just two files by choosing them by your own.
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.
Comparison plugin for Notepad++ editor.
Compare vs Beyond Compare opinions
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.
DiffMerge is a graphical file comparison program for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix, published by SourceGear.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.0, released in October 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
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.
FileMerge lets you compare one file to another or one directory to another and merge the files or directories together.
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.
