The Best Open Source Beyond Compare AlternativesTop Diff Tools & File Comparison Tools like Beyond Compare
The best open source alternative to Beyond Compare is Meld. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Beyond Compare and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Beyond Compare are WinMerge, KDiff3, Unison File Synchronizer and Meld for OSX.
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412 likes46 Meld alternativesMeld is an open-source, Python-based visual diff and merge tool that allows you to compare and edit files, supports syntax highlighting, and integrates with version control systems like CVS, Subversion, and Mercurial for dynamic diff updates. It works offline, is lightweight, portable, and ad-free.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
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- Python
- GTK
Meld VS Beyond Compare
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547 likes63 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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95 likes52 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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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
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12 likes57 Kompare alternativesKompare is a graphical diff and merge tool targeting developers. It allows users to compare two different text files or two directories. It is part of KDE Applications (and formerly part of KDE Software Compilation) and therefore primarily used on Linux and other Unix-like...
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- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
- KDE
- Flathub
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30 likes52 WinMerge 2011 alternativesWinMerge 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.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
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WinMerge 2011 VS Beyond Compare
Is WinMerge 2011 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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14 likes52 WinMerge JP alternativesWinMerge JP is a fork of the original WinMerge, but after 2018 the two are nearly identical. WinMerge JP's features including 3-way compare has been merged into the original.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
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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.
I work on Linux Mint and Meld work fine for me