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Beyond Compare Overview

What is Beyond Compare?

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.

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Product Description

Beyond Compare 3 is a tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows or Linux system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them.


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1978
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Aditya J.
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Aditya J.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best Tool to compare the things"
The Best part about Beyond Compare is, we can compare any files even those files are not editable directly like - jar files, certificate files, zip...
Ravi Gurrapu i.
RI
Ravi Gurrapu i.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Comparison Made simple and accurate"
Multi File Support and easy merge options
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"A great application to compare documents/files"
Its integration into Visual Studio, the general easy-to-use interface

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Ankita M.
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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

Versatility in handling various file and folder comparison, user interface is intuitive, real-time comparison, capability to handle all type of data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

It has a learning curve for some of the more advanced functionalities. Additionally, the pricing is too higher as compared to other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

code comparison, finding errors and missing data between 2 files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

prakash s.
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Senior Software Engineer
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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

* Very Efficient for Compare Files and Folders

* Simple to use

* Excellent working in merging files and folders

* supports many formats

* easy to maintain and save sessions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

some format comparsion(Json,YML,etc..) need more features like difference highlights compare with whole document and give format specific syntax so user will be able to find ease Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

File Comparision and Merging. Easily Identify the conflicts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Assistant System Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

It helps compare giant data sets, whether the data has millions of records in 2 excels or vast data sets in files; it gives accurate comparison results.

The difference in records can be viewed easily.

The best feature to expect is to ignore a few differences based on the requirements; by default, this feature is available in beyond compare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Loading history data takes some time.

The performance is lacking if data increases gradually.

It would be helpful if we could get an image comparison since we often get data in images where records will be present on an image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use beyond compare to compare 2 sets of excels.

I also use to compare files txt format in the shared directory.

Most of the time i use filter feature to ignore few differences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SY
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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

It enables us to directly access files from the file manager on our server with the help of FTP. It opens the files or folder side by side and highlights the difference. Here, we can only see the difference with the line number by selecting diffs button. It is very lightweight so doesn't consume a lot of memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

The negative side of Beyond Compare is that it doesn't support all types of files. So, we need to first open our file in the respective code editor and then paste it here, which consumes time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using beyond compare for checking code changes in our files whenever we move to the new testing environment. We are using this to directly take data from our servers without actually downloading them from our servers. This helps us compare folder structure and many types of files. It saves a lot of time with its side-by-side comparison. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

We can compare directories and folders in zip file as well.

It's very easy as it allows us to compare text, folders difrectly by pasting on editor or we can import it from local storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Sometimes the rules to compare the content is messy as it doesn't tell the user what it compares?

There is one comparison

Binary - how it will check or when user can take this rules for comparison. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Comparison between contents in folders or files or texts.

It gives differences and highlights them in red and provide control to paste the content in the file where it is missed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manikandan D.
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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

Beyond Compare is one of the best ever text comparing tool I had ever used. It is really easy to use and can help a developer like me to compare Codes that has been written. I used it to compare large amount of code and SQL queries that has been modified by multiple people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

The least dislike I have on Beyond Compare is it is slightly getting hanged during editing large amount of lines of text. Other than that it is one of the best and popular text comparer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

I had many problems in comparing multiple versions of code for a single file, that has been modified by many resources in the team. So, I started to use Beyond compare to compare the previous versions with latest ones. Then it helped me a lot to find errors and bugs in the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amos V.
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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

It is simple to use and provides a specific but great service. It allows you to compare folders and files of great capacity easily and copy them to another folder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Not a lot, Beyond Compare is specific and provides a great service. I can't think of anything that I dislike about it. It is simply a great product. I did have an issue that it was not getting added to my right-click menu, but I was able to resolve that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

In our company, we have to compare thousands of files in one folder with another to mirror them. Beyond compare allows us to do this easily. Not only that, but it lets you know which ones are newer, what is the difference etc. Saves us a lot of hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

its so flexible that it allows us to re-align while comparing, in most comparison tools it will be fixed differences, but here we are allowed to align the text from both sides so as to manually combine and collate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Sometimes just by pressing the escape from keyboard closes all the current comparison windows, which makes us lose focus temporarily, and its not a major issue as such Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

code merging is way simpler using Beyond compare, because built-in compare tools from git or any other repositories are not that flexible in comparing the differences Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramya J.
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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

The folder comparison functionality is the best what I like. Highlighting the differences between two entire folders is an excellent feature. The highlighting only difference/same code lines are really awesome, and more to it is the easy way to merge these changes. the more ver good functionality is this saves recent comparison history. This will really come in handy when I accidentally close it and re-open it. Another Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

There is nothing that I personally dislike about it. The only thing is that the Folder compare report should have been more presentable with the proper alignment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

I do work in an environment where the version control is very loosely implemented, and most of the time, the code base get overridden with the new releases and we land up loosing the custom code. This tool has helped a lot in comparison and bringing the correct code lines back. It did save a lot of manual effor and with this side-by-side comparison, it made developer life ver easy and,increase productivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lokesh S.
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Member Of Technical Staff 2- R&D
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

Beyond Compare is not only comparing the single file, it also compares the folders. With the help of Beyond Compare, we can sync our project Directory. This tool provides many features like file compare, folder compare, folder sync, folder merge, and text merge. It is so simple and the User interface also straightforward for anyone to use. No need to understand the tool deeply. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

there is no downside of Beyond Compare. What can you expect from Compare tool? It provides all features, that we can compare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an Employee, we have lots of files of configuration and also have Code project files. With the help of Beyond Compare, we easily compare our configuration files with working files. it is really helpful in daily activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.