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Free First public release date Year of latest stable version Windows Macintosh Linux Other platforms Max supported file size Beyond Compare: Scooter Software [1] No; Proprietary: No 1996 2025-01-15 (v5.0.5) Yes Yes Yes > 2GB (64 bits) Compare++: Coode Software [2] No; Proprietary No 2010 2016-7-17 (3.0.1.0b) Yes [3] No No diff, diff3: AT&T
ExamDiff Pro is a commercial software utility for visual file and directory comparison, for Microsoft Windows. ExamDiff Pro has a double-pane view that allows side-by-side comparisons, with color-coded line numbers indicating whether each line is added, deleted, or changed. ExamDiff Pro can compare text and binary files, and directories.
WinMerge is a free software tool for data comparison and merging of text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions.
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool, targeted at developers. It allows users to compare two or three files or directories visually, color-coding the different lines. Meld can be used for comparing files, directories, and version controlled repositories.
To compare binary files, a tool may use byte-level comparison. Comparing text files or computer programs , many tools use a side-by-side visual comparison. [ 5 ] This gives the user the chance to choose which changes to keep or reject before merging the files into a new version. [ 6 ]
Beyond Compare is a cross-platform proprietary data comparison utility. The program is able to compare files and multiple types of directories , as well as archives . [ 2 ] Beyond Compare can be configured as a difftool and mergetool of version control systems , such as git .
WinDiff is a graphical file comparison program published by Microsoft, distributed with Microsoft Windows Support Tools, [1] [2] certain versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, and as source-code with the Platform SDK code samples.
In computing, fc (File Compare) is a command-line program in DOS, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems, that compares multiple files and outputs the differences between them. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is similar to the Unix commands comm , cmp and diff .