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Beyond Compare for Mac

Visually compare and merge files and folders.

$35.00
In English
Version 5.0.5.30614
4.7
Based on 15 user rates

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 5.0.5.30614

Notable Changes
  • Improved Table Compare user interface for column alignment.
  • SFTP profile's "Use aggressive uploads to OpenSSH servers" option is now turned off by default.
  • Windows: Explorer context menu's "Hide 'Select Left' if there is already a saved selection" option now only controls the Windows 11 top-level menu.
  • Updated third party libraries.
  • Various other fixes and improvements.
Cloud Services
  • Fixed authentication errors when uploading/downloading from a OneDrive account.
File Formats
  • Fixed conversion errors when loading files saved with MS Word 2010.
FTP
  • Changed default for SFTP profile's "Use aggressive uploads to OpenSSH servers" option to be disabled by default since it can cause data corruption on some servers.
Installer
  • Upgrading the shell extension no longer triggers the installer to ask for a reboot. Explorer will still use the old version until it's been restarted or logged out, and uninstalling BC then reinstalling still requires a reboot between them.
Misc
  • macOS: Improved overly fast scrolling speed when scrolling using a touchpad or Magic Mouse.
  • macOS: Fixed file sizes displaying separators as ? depending on the regional settings.
  • macOS: File sizes will display separators at native grouping frequency instead of always using 3 digit groupings (e.g., India).
  • Fixed sessions incorrectly prompting to save changes when changing things like display filters that should be saved automatically.
  • Session Settings dialog's Scope edit is now center aligned vertically with the [ Ok ] button.
Table Compare
  • Added alignment mode combobox to Session Settings pages with choices of "Unaligned", "Align by left name", "Align by right name", and "Custom alignment". Replaces existing "Left file is source" and "Detect alignment" checkboxes.
  • Empty cells compared to missing cells is now considered an unimportant difference.
  • Changing alignment mode session setting updates "Left file" and "Right file" columns in grid.
  • Fixed column headers incorrectly sorting with the rest of the data.
  • Fixed footer tab control displaying extra "-" tabs when the session settings have sheet alignment customizations for sheets that don't exist.
  • Fixed comparisons with key columns that don't exist resulting in a random row alignment.
  • Fixed to show footer tab control when first sheets on each side are not aligned and files do not support sheets.
Third Party Libraries
  • Updated 7-zip to 24.09.
  • Updated FastMM to v4.993+.
  • Windows: Updated FlexCel to v7.22.1.
  • Windows: Updated madExcept to v5.1.5.
  • Windows/macOS: Updated pdftotext to v4.05.
  • Updated SMWord to v1.50(b34).
  • macOS: Updated LetsMove to v1.25.
Windows Explorer Context Menu Extension
  • "Hide 'Select Left' if there is already a saved selection" option now only controls the Windows 11 top-level menu, so the "Show More Options" menu can still be used to change it after an incorrect selection.
  • When file system directories are selected, menu items will now appear higher in the Windows 10 and "Show More Options" menus, matching where they appear when files are selected.
  • Fixed support for "Compare Using" submenu translations.
  • Reduced cases where Windows 11 top-level menu will clip menu item captions.
  • Launching a compare will now clear saved paths for both file and folder selections.
Crashes
  • macOS: Fixed startup crash.

Beyond Compare for Mac

$35.00
In English
Version 5.0.5.30614
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4.7

(12 Reviews of Beyond Compare)

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RedGiantStar
RedGiantStar
Mar 3 2018
4.2.4.22795
4.5
Mar 3 2018
4.5
Version: 4.2.4.22795
Beyond Compare is one of the best compare and merge applications for macOS.
Philosopherdog
Philosopherdog
May 11 2017
4.2.1.22354
4.0
May 11 2017
4.0
Version: 4.2.1.22354
That icon is completely unacceptable! Please for the love of God fix it.
joker55
joker55
Jul 29 2016
4.1.4.20978
5.0
Jul 29 2016
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
Nontroppo
Jul 27 2016
4.1.4.20978
0.0
Jul 27 2016
0.0
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.
phillip-4
phillip-4
Apr 29 2015
4.0.7.19761
5.0
Apr 29 2015
5.0
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.
Kfc
Kfc
Oct 6 2024
5.0.2.30045
4.0
Oct 6 2024
4.0
Version: 5.0.2.30045
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Apr 11 2023
4.4.6.27483
5.0
Apr 11 2023
5.0
Version: 4.4.6.27483
Amnesiac7
Amnesiac7
Apr 17 2022
4.4.2
5.0
Apr 17 2022
5.0
Version: 4.4.2
t-19
t-19
Sep 2 2018
4.0
Sep 2 2018
4.0
Version: null
RedGiantStar
RedGiantStar
Mar 3 2018
4.5
Mar 3 2018
4.5
Version: null
Philosopherdog
Philosopherdog
May 11 2017
4.0
May 11 2017
4.0
Version: null
joker55
joker55
Jul 29 2016
5.0
Jul 29 2016
5.0
Version: null
Freenergy
Freenergy
Mar 4 2016
4.5
Mar 4 2016
4.5
Version: null
phillip-4
phillip-4
Apr 29 2015
5.0
Apr 29 2015
5.0
Version: null
mikalelu
mikalelu
Mar 22 2015
4.5
Mar 22 2015
4.5
Version: null
rcrooks1969
rcrooks1969
Jan 5 2015
5.0
Jan 5 2015
5.0
Version: null
AbuServer
AbuServer
Dec 6 2014
5.0
Dec 6 2014
5.0
Version: null
Pmdf
Pmdf
Aug 21 2014
5.0
Aug 21 2014
5.0
Version: null
Mextex
Mextex
Feb 13 2014
5.0
Feb 13 2014
5.0
Version: null
Oliv!er
Oliv!er
Jan 15 2014
5.0
Jan 15 2014
5.0
Version: null