Kaleidoscope Alternatives for Windows
Kaleidoscope is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Meld, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Kaleidoscope and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Kaleidoscope are WinMerge (Free, Open Source), Beyond Compare (Paid), Diffinity (Free) and Compare (Free, Open Source).
- 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 launch file comparisons.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Python
- 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 easy to understand and handle.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
- 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 you're not. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records.
- Diffinity is a diff and merging tool with focus on accurate and easy to read source code diffs. It will compare the content of two files and present the differences in an easy to read line by line and char by char basis.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- WinMerge 2011 series is a fork of the original WinMerge application that compiles without ATL/MFC dependencies to enable zero-budget developers to build WinMerge from sources using Visual C++ Express editions.
- WinMerge JP is a fork of original WinMerge that incorporates many own features including 3-way compare, high DPI support and many more.
- 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 text files with native application performance.
- DiffMerge is a graphical file comparison program for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix, published by SourceGear. * Integrates with Windows Explorer; adds a shortcut to the context menu. * Compatible with different character encodings, including Unicode support.
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Discontinued
No releases since October 2013: latest version, 4.2.0, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- ExamDiff Pro is a powerful, intuitive, and easy to use visual side-by-side comparison tool for comparing and merging text and binary files, and directories.