What is WinMerge?
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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 easy to understand and handle.
- Desktop Folders Disappeared; BS Folder Compare is a free folder compare software for Windows. It is used to examine the identicality and differences between the two folders. Through its simple interface, you can easily add folders on Folder 1 and Folder 2 section. After that, you need to click on Process Button to start comparison.
- There are third-party GUI tools as well, but there’s actually a free folder comparison tool built into every Mac—it just requires a quick trip to Terminal to put it to use.
Screenshot
See the screenshots page for more screenshots.
Features
WinMerge is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge can be used as an external differencing/merging tool or as a standalone application.
In addition, WinMerge has many helpful supporting features that make comparing, synchronising, and merging as easy and useful as possible:
General
- Supports Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or newer
- Handles Windows, Unix and Mac text file formats
- Unicode support
- Tabbed interface
File Compare
- 3-way File Comparison New!
- Visual differencing and merging of text files
- Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap
- Highlights differences inside lines
- Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
- Location pane shows map of files compared
- Moved lines detection
Folder Compare
- Regular Expression based file filters allow excluding and including items
- Fast compare using file sizes and dates
- Compares one folder or includes all subfolders
- Can show folder compare results in a tree-style view
- 3-way Folder Comparison
Image Compare New!
- Support many types of images
- Can highlight the differences with blocks
- Overlaying of the pictures is possible
Table Compare New!
- Shows CSV/TSV file contents in table format
- Text can be wrapped for each column
Version Control
- Creates patch files (Normal-, Context- and Unified formats)
- Resolve conflict files
Other
- Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions)
- Archive file support using 7-Zip
- Plugin support
- Localizable interface
- Online manual and installed HTML Help manual
WinMerge 2.16.14 - latest stable version
WinMerge 2.16.14 is the latest stable version, and is recommended for most users.
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Project News
- WinMerge 2.16.4 (stable) released2019-08-02
- WinMerge 2.16.2 (stable) released2019-04-04
- WinMerge 2.16.0 (stable) released2018-11-27
- A sign of life from WinMerge2018-01-29
- WinMerge 2.14.0 (stable) released2013-02-03
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Support
Mac Compare Two Folders
If you need support, look at our support page for more information how you can get it.
Developers
Macos File Compare Tool
WinMerge is an open source project, which means that the program is maintained and developed by volunteers.
In addition, WinMerge is translated into a number of different languages. See our information on translating WinMerge into your own language.