New OS X Diff / Compare Tool

March 17th, 2008

For those of you who just long for a PC when you need to Diff some files or a directory because you miss Beyond Compare. Maybe this will bring you some comfort It has a lot (if not all) of the same great features in Beyond Compare. Even lets you script it and use it inside other apps.

Give it a try.

Posted by Steven Ross Filed in Mac OS X

7 Responses to “New OS X Diff / Compare Tool”

  1. J.J. Merrick Says:
    March 17th, 2008 at 10:52 AM

    Thanks! I actually was looking at a BC replacement and this one looks pretty good.

  2. Indy Nagpal Says:
    March 17th, 2008 at 03:28 PM

    I’ve had been using Beyond Compare for a bit (in fact, it was Thomas Burleson, who introduced it to me) on my Windows box. But then I switched to a Mac. I installed Windows in VMWare on my Mac just to be able to use Beyond Compare because there was no Mac alternative—well at least nothing that was as good as BC.

    I did some research and found that File Merge, Guiffy and Araxis Merge were the three top file diff tools. Of these Araxis Merge comes the closest to all the functionality that I was used to in BC. And I’ve been using that for a bit now and have been fairly happy.

    (And as a consequence, I don’t have Windows running on my Mac any more ;) )

    Will try out Changes. Thanks.

  3. Alex Says:
    May 20th, 2008 at 02:11 PM

    Unfortunately Changes is missing 90% of the features of Beyond Compare. Including the really core ones of merging changes in the files themselves manually.

  4. Yohans Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 05:25 AM

    DiffMerge looks really cool! I will have to try it soon..

    Must See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools

  5. İstanbul Yurt Says:
    March 1st, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    I need this one thanks it’s cool ;)

  6. Jonathon Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 09:24 PM

    I use DeltaWalker (http://www.deltopia.com) and I’m very happy with it. Last fall when I was shopping for a diff tool I also tried Araxis Merge, DiffMerge and Changes. Araxis Merge was also very good…and very expensive.

  7. Byron Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 09:34 AM

    DiffMerge is good for the price… still uses Finder routines for browsing, so when doing a folder comparison, you cannot “Browse” and select a folder that calls itself a package.

    You can get around this by dragging and dropping and it works just fine, but would be nice for a tool to automatically get around the typical OS X “you’re not qualified to try this so we’ll hide the options from you” routines

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