Alternatives to GNU Diff Utilities for all platforms with any license

Meld

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically). You can compare two or three folders and...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Python
Folder Comparison Real Time Comparison Compare Source Code Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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WinMerge

WinMerge is an open source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Portable Directory sync Folder Comparison Add a feature

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- Discontinued Works smoothly on Windows 8.1, but the last version, 2.14.0, was released on February 3rd, 2013. https://alternativeto.net/software/winmerge-2011/ is an updated fork of the project.
Beyond Compare

Beyond Compare allows you to compare files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you're interested in and ignore those...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
Folder Comparison Windows Explorer integration File-sync Support for FTP ... Support for SFTP Version and Source control Add a feature

258 Like
kdiff3

KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool which compares and merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Folder Comparison Side-by-Side comparison Version and Source control Add a feature

92 Like
SyncToy

SyncToy is a free PowerToy designed by Microsoft, that provides an easy to use graphical user interface that can automatically synchronize local or network files and...

Free Windows
Comparing folders File-sync Add a feature

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- Discontinued Latest version 2.1 published on 11/24/2009
WinMerge 2011

WinMerge 2011 series is a fork of the original WinMerge application that compiles without ATL/MFC dependencies.

Free Open Source Windows Linux PortableApps.com Wine
Portable Folder Comparison Support for FTP Add a feature

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Compare

Comparison plugin for Notepad++ editor. Features Side-by-side visual differencing Comparison against SVN...

Free Open Source Windows Notepad++
Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

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Diffinity

A diff and merging tool with focus on accurate and easy to read source code diffs.

Free Windows
Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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Diffuse

Diffuse is a small and simple text merge tool written in Python. With Diffuse, you can easily merge, edit, and review changes to your code. Diffuse is able to compare...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

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P4Merge

P4Merge uses color coding to allow users to visualize the differences between file or images. It allows three-way merging among files, and shows side-by-side file/image...

Free Mac Windows Linux
Merge Files Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

21 Like
WinMerge JP

WinMerge JP is a fork of original WinMerge that incorporates many own features including 3-way compare, high DPI support and many more.

Free Open Source Windows
Portable Compare Source Code Add a feature

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SmartSynchronize

SmartSynchronize is a multi-platform file and directory compare tool. It allows you to compare files or perform 3-way-merges, both with the ability to edit the file...

Free Personal Mac Windows Linux
Merge Files Add a feature

14 Like
Araxis Merge

Merge is the visual file comparison (diff), merging and folder synchronization application from Araxis. Use it to compare and merge source code, web pages, XML and other...

Commercial Mac Windows
Folder Comparison Add a feature

34 Like
FileMerge

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

Free Mac Xcode
Compare texts analysis Merge Files Add a feature

9 Like
Kaleidoscope

Use Kaleidoscope to spot the differences in text and image files. Review changes in seconds with the worlds most advanced file comparison application.

Commercial Mac
No features added Add a feature

18 Like