Meld Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Meld for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Beyond Compare. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try KDiff3 or P4Merge. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Meld and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Meld are SemanticDiff, Diffuse Merge Tool, Difftastic and DiffMerge.

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Meld alternatives are mainly Diff Tools, but if you're looking for File Comparison Tools or Folder Comparison Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac + Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Meld.
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Open-source tool for dynamic file and folder comparisions, syntax highlighting, offline functionality, and version control integration.

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Meld alternatives page was last updated May 6, 2025
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  1. ECMerge icon
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    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.

    48 ECMerge alternatives

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    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    ECMerge Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Support for SFTP
    4.  Synchronization
    5.  Folders

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    diffoscope 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.

    17 diffoscope alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker

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    • diffoscope is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Meld.

    • diffoscope is Free and Open SourceMeld is also Free and Open Source
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    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 contents. SmartSynchronize is specialized in comparing directory structures (for example, of software projects)...

    44 SmartSynchronize alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    SmartSynchronize Features

    1.  3 way merge

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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.

    20 Ediff alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

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  5. 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.

    52 DiffPlug alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    DiffPlug Features

    1. Git icon  Git Support
    2.  Compare Source Code
    3.  Compare Text

    DiffPlug VS Meld

     
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    Guiffy is a diff merge tool and folder compare application and API. SureMerge is the most trustworthy source code 3-way merge tool available. Advanced features include tuneable inline diff highlighting, syntax highlighting and a blend of 3 diff algorithms.

    48 Guiffy SureMerge alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Eclipse
    • NetBeans

    Guiffy SureMerge Features

    1.  Compare Text

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  7. vimdiff icon
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    CLI Visual Merge/Diff tool.

    3 vimdiff alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

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    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.

    52 Tkdiff alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • TK
    • Cygwin

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    SemanticMerge - The diff and merge tool that understands C#, Vb.net, Java and now C

    49 SemanticMerge alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    SemanticMerge Features

    1.  Compare Text

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    GumTree is a complete framework to deal with source code as trees and computing differences between them.

    12 GumTreeDiff alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java

    GumTreeDiff Features

    1.  Compare Source Code

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