Open Source Diffchecker Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Diffchecker is WinMerge. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Diffchecker and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Diffchecker are Meld, KDiff3, ForskScope and Compare.

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  1. 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.

    57 WinMerge JP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Diff Match Patch is a high-performance library in multiple languages that manipulates plain text.

    6 Diff Match Patch alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. diffoscope icon
     1 like

    diffoscope tries to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human-readable form to compare them.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  4. Tkdiff icon
     6 likes

    tkdiff is a graphical diff viewer based on the Tk framework. It is capable of inter-operating with source-control systems like CVS and Subversion to show differences between a local copy and a repository version.

    56 Tkdiff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • TK
    • Cygwin
     
  5. Riff icon
     3 likes

    A diff filter highlighting which parts of lines have changed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6.  3 likes

    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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. vimdiff icon
     1 like

    CLI Visual Merge/Diff tool.

    4 vimdiff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. xxdiff icon
     1 like

    xxdiff is a QT based graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool. It provides comparing two files, three files.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  10. Just fun with XAML ;).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Pretty Diff is a language aware code comparison tool, beautifier, minifier, and parser for a variety of web oriented languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Typescript
    • npm
    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
     
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