Beyond Compare for Mac
Visually compare and merge files and folders.
$35.00
In English
Version 5.0.6.30713When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
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 5.0.6.30713
Notable Changes
- Improved ability to modify comparison settings in Table Compare's main view.
- General improvements and stability fixes.
FTP
- Fixed midnight timestamps on SFTP servers not adjusting based on the time zone.
- Updated Indy library to v10.6.3.0.
Misc
- Windows: Fixed Explorer context menu extension's too large icons on Windows 11 "Show More Options" menu when the primary monitor has a lower scaling factor than a secondary one.
- macOS: Improved hardware and OS information included in crash reports.
- macOS: Fixed dark mode context menus showing selected items in radio groups with a black dot. (e.g., display filters type in toolbar context menu)
- macOS: Fixed Windows menu showing minimized windows with a solid diamond instead of the hollow one used by recent macOS releases.
Table Compare
- When key columns are defined, BC4's sorted alignment will be used instead of a configurable one.
- Extra columns are no longer treated as missing.
- Renamed "Alignment" session settings page to "Rows".
- Updated "Columns" session settings page context menu: (A) Added "Edit...", "Move Up", and "Move Down”; (B) Removed "Key", "Standard", "Unimportant", "General", and "Text".
- Improved "Edit > Delete Column", and "Edit > Insert Column Before/After" commands.
- "Edit > Align With..." command is only shown if no keys are defined.
- Updated column header context menu: (A) Added "Column Handling…”; (B) Added "Align Left/Right Column With”; (C) Added "Align Columns by Number/Left Name/Right Name”; (D) Removed "General/Text Column".
- Added context menu to sheet tabs at bottom of view: (A) Added "Align Left/Right Sheet With”; (B) Added "Align Sheets by Number/Left Name/Right Name”; (C) Added "Row Alignment...", and "Sort Rows Before Alignment" which are only shown if no keys are defined.
- Fixed various issues with Edit > Sort... dialog.
- Fixed line details not scrolling to show active cell when moving in main editor.
- Fixed HTML tables getting truncated.
- Fixed crash or incorrect comparison results, broken in 5.0.5.
- Fixed changing comparison settings for non-existent columns to take effect immediately.
Crashes
- macOS: Fixed crash when using arrow keys to navigate MRU lists in path edits.
Beyond Compare for Mac
$35.00
In English
Version 5.0.6.30713
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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.
