Diffchecker Alternatives

Apps similar to Diffchecker include WinMerge, which is free and open source. Other options are Meld, Beyond Compare, KDiff3 and ForskScope. There's no shortage of Diff Tools like Diffchecker, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. WinDiff icon
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    WinDiff is a graphical file-comparison program published by Microsoft (from 1992[1]), and is distributed with certain versions of Microsoft Visual Studio as well as in source-code form with the Platform SDK code samples.

    27 WinDiff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. 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
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Utilities for web, compare text online with Syntax highlight and support for languages like Java, Javascript, Typescript, C#, HTML and CSS

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. CompareMerge icon
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    CompareMerge is a Mac OSX's software tool for file comparison and merging text-like files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. "TableTextCompare" (TTC) is a small utility that provides easy comparison of two-tab-delimited or comma-delimited (csv) files, to determine the difference between the two files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. DiffFork icon
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    DiffFork is a diff tool for Mac OS X. DiffFork can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual format.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. vimdiff icon
     1 like

    CLI Visual Merge/Diff tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. Patchword icon
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    Compare text files or entire directory hierarchies, export and apply patches, and perform non-destructive find and replace operations on text files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Diff Doc icon
     4 likes

    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, htm

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. ECMerge icon
     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. 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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