Alternatives to xxdiff for all platforms with any license

Meld

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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Python
Folder Comparison Real Time Comparison Compare Source Code Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

297 Like
WinMerge

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...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Portable Directory sync Folder Comparison Add a feature

424 Like
- Discontinued Works smoothly on Windows 8.1, but the last version, 2.14.0, was released on February 3rd, 2013. https://alternativeto.net/software/winmerge-2011/ is an updated fork of the project.
Beyond Compare

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...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux
Folder Comparison Windows Explorer integration File-sync Support for FTP ... Support for SFTP Version and Source control Add a feature

255 Like
TextWrangler

TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing...

Free Mac OS X
Search and replace Support for Unicode Add a feature

145 Like
- Discontinued The developers announced that development of TextWrangler has stopped, in favor of concentrating their efforts on the development of BBEdit. Quoted from the TextWrangler webpage, "We are sunsetting TextWrangler, and we encourage anyone interested in TextWrangler to download and use BBEdit instead."
kdiff3

KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool which compares and merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Folder Comparison Version and Source control Add a feature

91 Like
- Discontinued Latest release 0.9.98 in 2014-07-08
WinMerge 2011

WinMerge 2011 series is a fork of the original WinMerge application that compiles without ATL/MFC dependencies.

Free Open Source Windows Linux PortableApps.com Wine
Portable Folder Comparison Support for FTP Add a feature

31 Like
Compare

Comparison plugin for Notepad++ editor. Features Side-by-side visual differencing Comparison against SVN...

Free Open Source Windows Notepad++
Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

30 Like
Diffinity

A diff and merging tool with focus on accurate and easy to read source code diffs.

Free Windows
Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

11 Like
WinMerge JP

WinMerge JP is a fork of original WinMerge that incorporates many own features including 3-way compare, high DPI support and many more.

Free Open Source Windows
Portable Compare Source Code Add a feature

10 Like
Araxis Merge

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...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows
Folder Comparison Add a feature

34 Like
P4Merge

The Perforce Merge Tool, P4Merge, provides graphical three-way merging and side-by-side file comparisons. P4Merge allows users to visualize the differences between...

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux
Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

20 Like
Diffuse

Diffuse is a small and simple text merge tool written in Python. With Diffuse, you can easily merge, edit, and review changes to your code. Diffuse is able to compare...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

19 Like
FileMerge

FileMerge lets you compare one file to another or one directory to another and merge the files or directories together.

Free Mac OS X Xcode
Compare texts analysis Merge files Add a feature

9 Like
DiffMerge

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...

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux
Configurable Windows Explorer integration Merge files Folder Comparison ... Side-by-Side comparison Support for Unicode Add a feature

36 Like
- Discontinued No releases since October 2013: latest version, 4.2.0, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Kaleidoscope

Use Kaleidoscope to spot the differences in text and image files. Review changes in seconds with the worlds most advanced file comparison application.

Commercial Mac OS X
No features added Add a feature

18 Like