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Pro Edition |
| General Features |
| Responsive, multithreaded interface |
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| Tabbed interface |
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| Integrated shell extension |
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| Save comparisons as sessions to easily load them later |
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| Automatically save sessions when closing them |
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| Save workspaces containing all open windows and sessions |
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| Home view with easy access to viewers and saved sessions |
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| View Unix patch files as a side-by-side comparison |
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| Standalone text editor |
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| Script processor for automating tasks |
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| Command line interface |
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| Supports high DPI (retina) displays |
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| Automatic check for updates |
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| Drag & drop to start comparisons |
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| Customizable fonts, colors, and keyboard shortcuts |
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| Extensive context-sensitive help |
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| Dedicated support staff available via email, phone, and forums |
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| Dark Mode |
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| Apple CPU (M1/M2) Native |
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| Windows 11 Context Menu |
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| Compare Files |
| Side-by-side display |
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| Color highlighting of differences within lines |
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| Display filters to show only differences |
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| Jump to next/previous difference within file or folder |
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| Printed and HTML comparison reports |
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| Unicode and MBCS support |
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| Thumbnail overview of comparison |
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| Can convert files before comparing them |
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| Compare files or clipboard contents |
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| Automatic backups when saving |
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| Text Compare |
| Inline editing with dynamic recomparison |
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| Syntax highlighting |
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| Ignore unimportant differences: |
| Comments |
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| Whitespace |
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| Delimited strings |
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| Regular expressions |
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| Character case |
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| Page headers |
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| Columns |
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| Line terminator style |
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| Manually Ignore selection |
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| Ignore replaced text and renamed identifiers |
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| Flexible alignment: |
| Aligns similar lines |
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| Multiple alignment styles |
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| Optionally suppress alignment of differences |
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| Manually align changes or break alignments |
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| Two- and three-way merge with output panel: |
| Merges changes automatically |
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| Marks conflicting sections |
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| Take whole difference sections or selections |
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| Find & replace |
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| Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, and Rich Text converted to text automatically |
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| Adaptive gutter buttons for copying sections |
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| Formatted HTML view |
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| View Delphi binary form files as text |
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| Line details as text, hex, or with character alignment |
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| Compare files with different formats |
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| Bookmarks |
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| Word Wrap |
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| Table Compare |
| Grid view |
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| Compare CSV, tab delimited, HTML tables, and Excel worksheets |
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| Ignore differences within numeric or date tolerances |
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| Ignore or hide unimportant columns |
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| Align based on key columns or all columns |
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| Rearrange columns to compare files in different orders |
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| Sort data before comparing |
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| Compare multiple Excel sheets and multiple HTML tables |
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| Binary Compare |
| Display binary files as hex |
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| Inline editing with dynamic recomparison |
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| Fast byte-by-byte alignment |
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| Limit display to differences |
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| Wrap lines to display |
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| Find & Replace |
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| Registry Compare |
| Local and remote registry hives |
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| Registry exports (.reg) |
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| Inline editing |
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| Recursively expand keys in-place |
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| Picture Compare |
| Many picture formats |
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| Flip, rotate, and scale images |
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| Multiple comparison types |
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| Thumbnail of pixels around the mouse cursor |
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| Ignore differences within an RGB tolerance |
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| Ignore replaced colors |
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| Zoom to show entire image automatically |
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| Other Comparisons |
| Compare .exe version information |
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| Compare MP3 tags |
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| Compare FLAC, MP4, ACC and OGG tags |
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| Can use third-party comparison utilities for unsupported files |
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| Compare Folders |
| Compare folders side-by-side |
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| Color highlighting of differences |
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| Automatically compare subfolders and expand them in place |
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| Display filters to show added, modified, or matching files and folders |
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| Flexible comparison criteria: |
| Last modified time |
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| Size |
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| Filename case |
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| DOS attributes |
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| File content (CRC32, byte-byte-byte, file format specific, or exe/dll versions) |
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| Ignore selection |
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| Exclusion filters: |
| File and folder names |
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| Sizes |
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| Last modified times |
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| File content |
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| DOS and Unix attributes |
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| Dedicated synchronization commands |
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| Powerful file operations: |
| Copy, Move, Delete, Rename, Change Attributes, Set Last Modified Time |
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| Multiple operations can run in the background |
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| Pause running operations |
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| Two- and three-way folder merge: |
| Merge to a separate output location or overwrite one of the inputs |
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| Automatically merge text files |
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| Ignore folder structure |
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| Printed and HTML comparison reports: |
| Link an HTML folder comparison report to individual file comparison reports |
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| Optionally follow symbolic links and NTFS junction points |
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| Align filenames with different extensions |
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| Align filenames using wildcard masks (e.g., "Apples*" => "Bananas*") |
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| Align filenames with different Unicode normalization forms (OS X vs Windows) |
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| Copy NTFS ACLs and DOS short (8.3) filename aliases |
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| Virtual File System |
| Local and network drives |
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| Remote SMB servers (\\server) |
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| FTP servers: |
| Named profiles |
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| Multiple simultaneous connections |
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| Resume interrupted transfers |
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| Secure FTP servers (FTP over SSL and SSH SFTP): |
| Password, private key, keyboard interactive, or SSH agent authentication |
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| Cloud storage: |
| WebDAV |
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| Amazon S3 |
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| Dropbox |
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| OneDrive |
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| Remote Subversion repositories |
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| Portable media devices (Android phones, MP3 players, cameras) |
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| Archive Files |
| Compare and modify without extracting to a temporary location |
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| Compare as a file or expand as a folder |
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| Save filesystem snapshots without content |
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| Version Control |
| Launch comparisons from all major version control systems |
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| Checkin/checkout files via MSSCCI provider |
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| Compares Subversion repositories |
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