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The best alternative to Beyond Compare is KDiff3, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Beyond Compare and 13 are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Beyond Compare are Kaleidoscope, Kompare, WinMerge 2011 and SemanticDiff.
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47 Kaleidoscope alternativesUse Kaleidoscope to spot the differences in text and image files. Review changes in seconds with the worlds most advanced file comparison application.
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65 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...
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.
SemanticDiff 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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- Proprietary
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50 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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57 Code Compare alternativesFree file and folder merge tool providing two-way comparison, Visual Studio and Atmel Studio integration, enhanced folder sync, syntax highlighting, batch operations, Intellisense, navigation by change type, command line support, and detailed control over merges.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Windows
- Notepad++
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ECMerge is a comparison and synchronization tool with two and three-way merge for text and folders and difference on binary, text, images and folders, locally, via FTP/S, SFTP or in version controls. For Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux.
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58 VisualDiffer alternativesVisualize folders side-by-side and find immediately which files are different, colors help to understand the diff type. Colors identify older, modified and newer files.
LopeEdit is a powerful programmers editor and a replacement of Windows Notepad. It has tabs to select between open files, supports syntax highlighting of multiple programing languages (C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, XML, HTML, ASP, JSP, SQL, Cobol, C#, CSS...
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Bundleware
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- Windows
Compare text files or entire directory hierarchies, export and apply patches, and perform non-destructive find and replace operations on text files.
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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.