The Best Free Beyond Compare AlternativesTop Diff Tools & File Comparison Tools like Beyond Compare
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 P4Merge.
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Beyond Compare alternatives are mainly Diff Tools but may also be File Comparison Tools or Folder Comparison Tools. Other popular filters includes Mac + Open Source and Linux + Open Source and Online + Free + Diff Tool. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Beyond Compare.- Diff Tool
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409 likes46 Meld alternativesMeld 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...
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Meld VS Beyond Compare
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546 likes62 WinMerge alternativesWinMerge 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.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
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WinMerge VS Beyond Compare
Is WinMerge a good alternative to Beyond Compare?Comments about WinMerge as an Alternative to Beyond Compare
doesnt even show text differences
-3It's does most of what BC does.
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- Mac
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KDiff3 VS Beyond Compare
Is KDiff3 a good alternative to Beyond Compare?Comments about KDiff3 as an Alternative to Beyond Compare
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.
3Who pays for software in 2023? Only iLuddites. This type of software is done. New “features” nowadays are merely capitalist job creation schemes. Failing attempts to justify still taking money for an abundant resource.
0its got lovely windows context menu file comparison option. it gets my vote.
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93 likes51 Unison File Synchronizer alternativesUnison is a file-synchronization tool for POSIX-compliant systems (e.g. *BSD and GNU/Linux), macOS and Windows, with the caveat that the platform must be supported by OCaml. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or diffe.
Unison File Synchronizer VS Beyond Compare
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It only compares two disks to each other. You cannnot compare just two files by choosing them by your own.
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26 likes42 P4Merge alternativesP4Merge 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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- Free • Proprietary
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P4Merge VS Beyond Compare
Is P4Merge a good alternative to Beyond Compare?License model
- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
- Notepad++
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DiscontinuedLast commit in 2017.
Compare VS Beyond Compare
Is Compare a good alternative to Beyond Compare?Comments about Compare as an Alternative to Beyond Compare
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.
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4 likes46 SemanticDiff alternativesSemanticDiff 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.
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SemanticDiff VS Beyond Compare
Is SemanticDiff a good alternative to Beyond Compare?Comments about SemanticDiff as an Alternative to Beyond Compare
Sorin SbarneaEven if the semantic part makes it appealing, the lack of directory compare functionality combines with lack of being open-source, makes it a subpar alternative to others.
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23 likes42 Diffinity alternativesDiffinity 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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Diffinity VS Beyond Compare
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11 likes41 Meld for OSX alternativesMeld 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...
Meld for OSX VS Beyond Compare
Is Meld for OSX a good alternative to Beyond Compare?
Comments about Meld as an Alternative to Beyond Compare
Free. but it lacks FTP compare function
Cannot be added to context menu. Sometimes folder comparison doesn't work. Says empty folder.
doesn't compare archive files as folders