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Compare is described as 'Comparison plugin for Notepad++ editor' and is a Diff Tool in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Compare for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Compare alternative is Meld, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Compare are WinMerge, Beyond Compare, KDiff3 and P4Merge.

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  1. mergely icon
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    Merge is an online merge and diff tool that allows you to share and save your documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Difftastic icon
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    Difftastic is a diff tool that compares files based on their syntax. It supports over 20 programming languages and when it works, it's fantastic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Workshare Compare is the leading document comparison software that lets you perform file comparison of two documents against multiple modified versions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    WellCompareDir is a tool to compare and select images with the same name from two folders, and copy to a third folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. ViceVersa icon
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    ViceVersa does File Synchronization, File Replication, File Backup and File Comparison. It can automatically verify data using a CRC32 checksum.

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. DiffPlug icon
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    DiffPlug is a free text editor/differ and image viewer/differ. Purchasing a license allows you to diff other kinds of files such as Simulink.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. VisualDiffer icon
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    Visualize 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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. WinMerge JP icon
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    WinMerge 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Diff Text icon
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    Instantly find the differences between two blocks of text. Works with plain text, code, json, yaml, html, css, markdown, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Diff Doc icon
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    Compare Files Using ' Diff Doc' a visual file compare and folder compare utility that creates a detailed file diff. File comparison can optionally be done with the command line. Compare Word and Compare XLS files in addition to PDF, txt, rtf...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. FileMerge icon
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    FileMerge lets you compare one file to another or one directory to another and merge the files or directories together.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Xcode
     
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    Ediff is a comprehensive visual interface to Unix diff and patch utilities.

    Ediff provides a convenient way for simultaneous browsing through the differences between a pair (or a triple) of files or buffers (which are called ‘variants’ for our purposes). The files being compare.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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