Text Comparator Alternatives

Text Comparator is described as 'Portable tool that can be used to compare text from two distinct sources in order to see if they perfectly match or not each other!' and is a Diff Tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Text Comparator for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best Text Comparator alternative is WinMerge, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Text Comparator are Beyond Compare, KDiff3, Diffchecker and Araxis Merge.

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  1. Tkdiff icon
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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.

    55 Tkdiff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • TK
    • Cygwin
     
  2. Riff icon
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    A diff filter highlighting which parts of lines have changed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. DiffNow icon
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    DiffNow lets you compare text files, documents, binary files, and archives up to 1024KB in size. You can either upload the files you wish to compare their content.

    11 DiffNow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. CompareMerge icon
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    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 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    "TableTextCompare" (TTC) is a small utility that provides easy comparison of two-tab-delimited or comma-delimited (csv) files, to determine the difference between the two files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • TableTextCompare is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Text Comparator.

    • TableTextCompare is Free and ProprietaryText Comparator is also Free and Proprietary
  8. DiffFork icon
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    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Diff Doc icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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
     
  12. DiffVue icon
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    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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