Beyond Compare for Mac
Visually compare and merge files and folders.
$35.00
In English
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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 5.0.3.30258
Notable Changes
- Windows: Significantly improved Explorer context menu extension, including re-adding main menu/submenu configuration where possible, support for processes running as Administrator, and limited ARM64 support.
- Linux: Fixed text editor width calculations for monospace fonts.
- Other minor fixes and enhancements.
Appearance
- Windows: Fixed checkbox lists' dotted level lines showing as black-on-black in dark mode.
Folder Compare
- macOS: Fixed status bar showing free disk space as 0 bytes on Intel CPUs.
- Fixed path edit incorrectly showing both the error message and path smushed together after a load error.
Installer
- Windows: Fixed hang when trying to install the Windows 11 Explorer context menu if calling PowerShell generates unexpected output.
- Windows: Install/uninstall log now includes details of the shell extension install.
- Windows: Removed "Delete all Beyond Compare 5 settings" checkbox in the uninstaller's confirmation dialog when doing an "All Users" uninstall.
- Windows: Fixed uninstaller not closing BCClipboard automatically.
- Windows: Made shell extension upgrade process for non-admin installs more robust.
- Windows: Updated Inno Setup to 6.3.3.
Misc
- Linux: Fixed "File Formats" dialog not remembering the checkbox state for enabled file formats.
Table Compare
- Fixed auto-sized widths for ignored unimportant columns.
- Fixed copy to clipboard handling of cells containing line endings or a delimiter.
Text Views
- Linux: Fixed width calculations for monospace fonts.
Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension
- Re-added ability to configure menu items to appear directly on the top level menu or in a "Beyond Compare" submenu when shown on the Windows 10, in Windows 11's "Show More Options" menu, and in third-party applications.
- Fixed extension not appearing in "Run As Administrator" processes on Windows 11 (e.g., Total Commander).
- Fixed extension not showing in Windows 11 for ARM64 "Show More Options" menu. Supporting the top-level menu is still a goal, but we're waiting on Delphi's ARM64 compiler.
- Fixed installing shell extension on Windows 11 21H1 and 21H2. Upgrades from 5.0.2 or earlier will need to turn on the extension in the Options dialog or manually uninstall/reinstall to enable it.
- Fixed "Compare to ..." caption incorrectly showing the entire path for files/folders on portable media devices (MTP).
- Fixed comparing files on portable devices (MTP) when Explorer's "Show > File name extensions" option is turned off.
- Fixed menu items not appearing in Libraries virtual folders in cases where BC4 did.
- Fixed menu items incorrectly appearing on unsupported virtual folders (e.g., "Libraries") and then trying to open BC with an invalid path.
- Fixed duplicate menu items when showing context menu for network servers/shares in Explorer's navigation treeview.
- Fixed using "Select Left" on a drive root showing the second menu as 'Compare to ""'.
- Fixed using "Select Left" on a file and then selecting a drive root that contains a matching filename showing the second menu as 'Compare to \file.ext' instead of 'Compare to C:\file.ext'.
- Fixed ability for a non-admin user to toggle off and on the Win11 context menu after installing for all users.
- Fixed icons appearing with a solid black background when running in an ARM64 process or when selecting files on portable media devices.
- Recreated Select Left/Center arrow icons to be more in line with the v4 appearance.
Beyond Compare for Mac
$35.00
In English
Version 5.0.3.30258
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Mar 3 2018
Version: 4.2.4.22795
Beyond Compare is one of the best compare and merge applications for macOS.
May 11 2017
Version: 4.2.1.22354
That icon is completely unacceptable! Please for the love of God fix it.
Jul 29 2016
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.
Jul 27 2016
Version: 4.1.4.20978
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.
Apr 29 2015
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.
