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Comments about KDiff3 as an Alternative to Meld
Almost everyone thinks KDiff3 is a great Meld alternative.
- KDiff3 is Free and Open Source
Free Meld Alternatives for Mac
Meld is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best free Mac alternative is KDiff3, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Meld and 16 are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to Meld are P4Merge, Meld for OSX, SemanticDiff and ForskScope.
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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 comparison.
46 Meld for OSX alternativesMeld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many...
SemanticDiff is a programming language aware diff for Visual Studio Code and GitHub. It helps software developers understand code changes faster by hiding irrelevant changes, detecting moved code, and highlighting refactorings.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Online
SemanticDiff is the most popular Web-based alternative to Meld.
- SemanticDiff is Free and Proprietary
GUI tool with cross-platform support named after "forske forskjell" (research difference) 🤍
56 DiffMerge alternativesDiffMerge is a graphical file comparison program for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix, published by SourceGear.
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- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
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Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Difftastic is a diff tool that compares files based on their syntax. It supports over 20 programming languages and when it works, it's fantastic.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
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- Linux
- BSD
18 diffoscope alternativesdiffoscope 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.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Docker
diffoscope is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Meld.
- diffoscope is Free and Open Source
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.
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- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
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- BSD
- TK
- Cygwin
53 FileMerge alternativesFileMerge lets you compare one file to another or one directory to another and merge the files or directories together.
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Comments about FileMerge as an Alternative to Meld
Doesn't handle multiple files, UI is terrible and unintuitive.
- FileMerge is Free and Proprietary
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