Beyond Compare

I seriously have no idea how I could possibly work without this tool. Never would have thought the need to compare files and directories would come up so often. I use it for things unrelated to programming several times every week (plus many times every day for programming work).

I am so happy to have purchased this (version 3) after using the trial quite a while ago. It is fantastic, for comparing so many different things. I use it for backing up, finding duplicates, keeping files that are the latest and dumping the older, seeing the various changes you have made in a document, slight changes of images using tolerance... the list goes on. I honestly am surprised at how many functions this helps my workflow while on the computer - I needed it for doing basic comparisons early on, but have found so many ways to use it in my workflow. It truly is "Beyond Compare" ;)

I am looking forward to trying the new 3-way-compare in version 4, and I will likely be upgrading to 4. Plus Scooter Software has excellent support. Highly recommended!

• Very good with Folder comparing/sychronize.

• There is no RTL support for text compare

Best for 5 years, most complete software to compare

This is a great application. In my 40 year career as a software engineer this was the best money spent for any application. I was able to use this application to save a small company from losing a multi-million dollar contract. The company had their contractors quit and leave them with very old commented code and new source with all comments stripped out. With Beyond Compare, I was able to compare the old and new source easily recover the valid comments. Because it was easy to see source code added since the older revisions, I was also able to add back the contractually required comments for the new code.