DirEqual Alternatives

DirEqual is described as 'Side-by-side comparison of Mac folders with expandable trees, colour-coded differences, actionable icons, content-based matching, manual sync and tabbed view' and is a Diff Tool in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to DirEqual for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best DirEqual alternative is WinMerge, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DirEqual are Meld, Beyond Compare, KDiff3 and ForskScope.

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  1. compareDocs icon

    compareDocs

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    compareDocs is the leading document comparison tool. It compares documents with incredible accuracy, reliability and speed across all document types - including Word, PDF, PowerPoint and Excel.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
    • Microsoft Office Powerpoint
    • Microsoft Office Word
    • Citrix XenCenter
    • Microsoft Office 365
    • Microsoft Office Excel
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  2. CompareMerge icon

    CompareMerge

     3 likes

    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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    Ediff

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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 types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    DiffPlug

     2 likes

    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 types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. WinDiff icon

    WinDiff

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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.

    26 WinDiff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. DiffFork icon

    DiffFork

     2 likes

    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 types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Diff Doc icon

    Diff Doc

     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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. ECMerge icon

    ECMerge

     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 types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    3-way text and folder merge in ECMerge
     
  12. Workshare Compare icon

    Workshare Compare

     2 likes

    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
     
  13. DiffVue icon

    DiffVue

     2 likes

    DiffVue is a diff tool, also known as a diff utility for Windows XP and Windows 7, and it lets users compare folders and files as well as ftp site's files against the local files by displaying differences visually.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  15. Pretty Diff icon

    Pretty Diff

     Like

    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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