WinMerge Alternatives

WinMerge is described as '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' and is a leading Diff Tool in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WinMerge for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best WinMerge alternative is Meld, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinMerge are Beyond Compare, KDiff3, P4Merge and Araxis Merge.

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WinMerge alternatives are mainly Diff Tools, but if you're looking for File Comparison Tools or Merge File Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac, Linux, Mac + Free and Mac + Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to WinMerge.
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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)...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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.

    43 Ediff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Visualize folders side-by-side and find immediately which files are different, colors help to understand the diff type. Colors identify older, modified and newer files.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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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.

    56 Workshare Compare alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  8. FileMerge icon
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    FileMerge lets you compare one file to another or one directory to another and merge the files or directories together.

    53 FileMerge alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Xcode
     
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    • FileMerge is Free and ProprietaryWinMerge is Free and Open Source
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    Perform detailed folder and file comparisons on Mac with side-by-side expandable trees, colour and icon indicators, content-based matching, manual synchronisation, filename templates, quick reload, tabbed interface, drag-and-drop, and intuitive visual controls.

    53 DirEqual alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Text Comparator, is a 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!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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