Beyond Compare 4.4.1.26165 macOS

Beyond Compare allows you to quickly and easily compare your files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you're interested in and ignore those you're not. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records.

Compare Files, Folders
You can compare entire drives and folders at high speed, checking just sizes and modified times. Or, thoroughly verify every file with byte-by-byte comparisons. FTP sites, cloud storage, and zip files are integrated seamlessly, and powerful filters allow you to limit what you see to only what you're interested in.
Once you've found specific files you're interested in, Beyond Compare can intelligently pick the best way to compare and display them. Text files can be viewed and edited with syntax highlighting and comparison rules tweaked specifically for documents, source code, and HTML. The text contents of Microsoft Word .doc and Adobe .pdf files can also be compared but not edited. Data files, executables, binary data, and images all have dedicated viewers as well, so you always have a clear view of the changes
• General Features
o Responsive, multi-threaded interface
o Multiple windows with tabs for each comparison
o Integrated into Explorer (Windows), Finder (macOS), and various Linux shells
o Save comparisons as sessions to easily load them later
o Automatically save sessions when closing them
o Save workspaces containing all open windows and sessions
o Home view with easy access to viewers and saved sessions
o View Unix patch files as a side-by-side comparison
o Text editor
o Script processor for automating tasks
o Command line interface
o Supports high DPI (retina) displays
o Automatic check for updates
o Drag & drop to start comparisons
o Customizable fonts, colors, and keyboard shortcuts
o Extensive context-sensitive help
o Dedicated support staff available via email, phone, and forums.
• Compare files
o Side-by-side display
o Color highlighting of differences within lines
o Display filters to show only differences
o Jump to next/previous difference within file or folder
o Printed and HTML comparison reports
o Unicode and MBCS support
o Thumbnail overview of comparison
o Can convert files before comparing them
o Compare files or clipboard contents
o Automatic backups when saving
• Text Compare
o Inline editing with dynamic recomparison
o Syntax highlighting
 C, C++, C#, Objective-C
 Java
 SQL
 Delphi, Pascal
 Python
 Visual Basic
 XML
 Many more built in and available online
o Ignore unimportant differences
 Comments
 Whitespace
 Delimited strings
 Regular expressions
 Character case
 Page headers
 Columns
 Line terminator style
 Manually ignore selection
o Ignore replaced text and renamed identifiers
o Flexible alignment
 Aligns similar lines
 Multiple alignment styles
 Optionally suppress alignment of differences
 Manually align changes or break alignments
o 3-way merge with output panel
 Merges changes automatically
 Marks conflicting sections
 Take whole difference sections or selections
o Find & replace
o Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, and Rich Text converted to text automatically
o Adaptive gutter buttons for copying sections
o Formatted HTML view
o View Delphi binary form files as text
o Line details as text, hex, or with character alignment
o Compare files with different formats
o Bookmarks
• Table Compare
o Grid view
o Inline editing with dynamic recomparison
o Compare CSV, tab delimited, HTML tables, and Excel worksheets
o Ignore differences within numeric or date tolerances
o Ignore or hide unimportant columns
o Align based on key columns or all columns
o Rearrange columns to compare files in different orders
o Sort data before comparing
• Binary Compare
o Display binary files as hex
o Inline editing with dynamic recomparison
o Fast byte-by-byte alignment
o Limit display to differences
o Wrap lines to display
o Find & Replace
• Picture Compare
o Many picture formats
o Flip, rotate, and scale images
o Multiple comparison types
o Thumbnail of pixels around the mouse cursor
o Ignore differences within an RGB tolerance
o Ignore replaced colors
o Zoom to show entire image automatically
• Other Comparisons
o Compare .exe version information
o Compare MP3 tags
o Can use third-party comparison utilities for unsupported files
• Compare Folders
o Compare folders side-by-side
o Color highlighting of differences
o Automatically compare subfolders and expand them in place
o Display filters to show added, modified, or matching files and folders
o Flexible comparison criteria
 Last modified time
 Size
 Filename case
 DOS attributes
 File content (CRC32, byte-byte-byte, file format specific, or exe/dll versions)
 Ignore selection
o Exclusion filters
 File and folder names
 Sizes
 Last modified times
 File content
 DOS and Unix attributes
o Dedicated synchronization commands
o Powerful file operations
 Copy, Move, Delete, Rename, Change Attributes, Set Last Modified Time
 Multiple operations can run in the background
 Pause running operations
o 3-way folder merge
 Merge to a separate output location or overwrite one of the inputs
 Automatically merge text files
o Ignore folder structure
o Printed and HTML comparison reports
 Link an HTML folder comparison report to individual file comparison reports
o Optionally follow symbolic links and NTFS junction points
o Align filenames with different extensions
o Align filenames using wildcard masks (e.g., "Apples*" => "Bananas*")
o Align filenames with different Unicode normalization forms (macOS vs Windows)
o Copy NTFS ACLs and DOS short (8.3) filename aliases
• Virtual File System
o Local and network drives
o Remote SMB servers (\\server)
o FTP servers
 Named profiles
 Multiple simultaneous connections
 Resume interrupted transfers
o Secure FTP servers (FTP over SSL and SSH SFTP)
 Password, private key, keyboard interactive, or SSH agent authentication
o Cloud storage
 WebDAV
 Amazon S3
 Dropbox
 OneDrive
o Remote Subversion repositories
o Portable media devices (Android phones, MP3 players, cameras)
• Archive Files
o Compare and modify without extracting to a temporary location
o Compare as a file or expand as a folder
o Create, read, and modify
 7-zip
 Zip
 Zipx, with read-only support for Bzip2, PPMd, LZMA, WavPack, and JPEG compression
 Tar
 Gzip
 Bzip2
• Version Control
o Launch comparisons from all major version control systems
o Checkin/checkout files via MSSCCI provider
o Compares Subversion repositories

Supports macOS 10.11+
Version 4.2.10, supports macOS 10.6-10.14