DeltaWalker Standard

I run a political public relations firm, so I am practiced at spotting spontaneous, unscripted, unpaid, ordinary guy/gal-on-the-street interviews that are neither spontaneous and unscripted nor unpaid and ordinary. One would be a fool to believe all the overly effusive comments about DeltaWalker posted in this thread. Think about it. Have you ever seen a single application with more than TWENTY gushing and highly articulate testimonials in a row, each of which hits every important marketing point with extraordinary specificity, NONE of which ever mentions any major or even minor aspect of the application that needs improvement or modification NOR requests the addition of any feature? If you have, then ask yourself one more question: Is folder comparison and syncing such a difficult undertaking or deeply moving personal experience that a program which does it well should be so universally adored and revered, as this one is? In the biz, we have a name for such a "softball" interview or unsolicited commentary that asks no difficult questions or elicits no negative comparisons, and instead serves only to extol the subject's virtues. They usually turn out to be covertly sponsored by the subject or developer himself or his corporation. We call it a "BJ," and it looks very much like the reviews and comments in this thread. You know it's a BJ when repeated, supposedly unsolicited comments about the person or product say some or all of the following: #1 - It is the best in its class; so good, in fact, that the entire industry considers it the standard to beat (but, of course, they never could); #2 - It not only works well, it's a thing of beauty to watch and use; #3 - If you buy this product, YOU will be a thing of beauty and an inspiration to your peers; #4 - You can believe me because I'm a highly experienced professional who has tried them all [which, I suppose, pertains to my comments as well], and this one is head and shoulders above the rest; #5 - Not only is the product great, but so is the company that makes it; #6 - Product support is the best in the business; #7 - Tech support is full of awesome personnel who are a) always there for you; b) completely committed to solving your problems; c) highly skilled; d) aware that your time is money, so they'll have you up and running again ASAP; and are e) personable and fun to work with. #8 - The commenter is not associated in any way with the company that makes this product. Of course, I could be wrong.

Dropped to text files onto application and program crashed. Tossed in the trash.

Does upgrading from 1.9.9.6 to 2.0.1 cost money?

I've been using this software since october of last year and before I thought I needed software like this. Now it has become indispensable and with version 2.0 even faster and more powerful then the previous version before. Had an issue that I emailed customer support about and they got back to me within a matter of minutes with a solution. Great software. Great support. I recommend it!

The only Mac 3-way diff tool I know of. Unfortunately an Eclipse-based Java app. That means an application size which is 220MB and a memory consumption which can easily go over 500MB of RAM with spikes to 1.2GB. And that's just for a comparison of a single small file while keeping the app open for some hours.

Great positive reviews, but very little info how this app will improve my developer/author life over open source tools like Mercurial combined with DiffMerge and similar. What do a purchaser actually get for the $464 asked? When do you need DeltaWalker rather than other available tools?

I wish this was updated more often, at least to make it retina display friendly.

Just marked my fourth year as a dedicated user of DeltaWalker, and it just keeps getting better. The developers are top-notch and quick to respond on the off chance you have a problem or suggestion. I definitely consider this a "must have" in my development toolbox now.