Name: Beyond Compare
Price: 35.00 $
Rating: 4.75 (12 reviews)

Beyond Compare overview

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 the rest. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records. 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. 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.

The Pro version of Beyond Compare adds the following features: 3-way text merge, 3-way folder merge, built-in SFTP support, text replacement, Folder-Compare alignment overrides, and support for WebDAV, Dropbox, and subversion. Pricing information can be found here.

What’s new in version 5.0.1.29877

Notable Changes

General Table Compare improvements.
Fixed crash/failure when copying NTFS permissions.
macOS/Linux: Fixed crash when importing v4 settings.

File Formats

Fixed crash when comparing Rich Text Format (.rtf) files.

File Views

macOS/Linux: Added support for \n, \r, and \t escape sequences in regular expression replacement strings.
Fixed "File is being used by another process" error when trying to save a file that originally included only a UTF-8 byte order mark.

Folder Compare

Windows: Fixed crash/failure when copying NTFS permissions.
macOS/Linux: Fixed Session Settings > Other Filters > Larger Than/Smaller Than filters ignoring the KB/MB/GB combobox.

Misc

Fixed support for importing v5 State settings (e.g., MRU lists, form positions).
macOS/Linux: Fixed crash when trying to import v4 settings.
macOS: Fixed translated versions showing checkboxes with the original English text.

Table Compare

Added "Just current sheet" report option.
Added report headers indicating the sheet names.
Fixed "Hide Same Columns" hiding everything when loading a single-sided comparison.
Fixed crash when generating a report using "Just selection" on sheets past the first.
Fixed sheet tab captions not updating when swapping sides.
Fixed sheet tabs not recalculating their width when the caption or difference spot changes.
Fixed file info bar displaying incorrect or truncated strings.
Fixed issues with Info and Report generation for multiple sheets.

Text Views

Fixed crash when using Find > Select All twice when the found text exists on the last line of the file.

4.8

(12 Reviews of Beyond Compare)

Comments
User Ratings

RedGiantStar

Mar 3 2018

4.2.4.22795

4.5

Version: 4.2.4.22795

Beyond Compare is one of the best compare and merge applications for macOS.

Philosopherdog

May 11 2017

4.2.1.22354

4.0

Version: 4.2.1.22354

That icon is completely unacceptable! Please for the love of God fix it.

joker55

Jul 29 2016

4.1.4.20978

5.0

Version: 4.1.4.20978

Great app and probably the best at what it does on the Mac at the moment. A little pricey but worth it.

Nontroppo

Jul 27 2016

0.0

Just to say, BC cannot text-wrap so if you need to diff long lines this makes it very annoying to use. Otherwise this is an excellent tool.

phillip-4

Apr 29 2015

4.0.7.19761

Version: 4.0.7.19761

I also have been a BeyondCompare user on Windows for many years and was so excited to see that they made a Mac version. It is clearly the best diff tool for Mac. Scooter did a wonderful job porting the tool over to Mac OSX. Congratulations and THANK YOU! MacUpdate seems to be a bit slow on the updates so I'd just head over to scootersoftware.com and get it directly from them.