Araxis Merge Pro 2026.1

Araxis Merge is a visual comparison and merging app that works with files, folders and even text pasted from other applications. It helps you spot and understand differences between versions and combine them into a single final result. It's used by software developers, code reviewers and release managers, as well as legal and publishing professionals comparing contract or manuscript drafts.

Features

• Two-way visual comparison and merging — colour-coded side-by-side view with in-line change highlights, point-and-click merging and an editor with unlimited undo
• Three-way comparison and automatic merging — reconcile your changes and a colleague's against a common ancestor (Professional Edition)
• Folder comparison and synchronization — compare and merge entire directory trees, with optional byte-by-byte verification
• Office document text comparison — extract and compare text from Microsoft Office, OpenDocument, PDF and RTF files
• Image and binary comparison — see which pixels changed or find byte-level differences in data files
• Archive comparison — compare .zip, .tar and other archives as if they were folders
• Flexible ignore rules — skip whitespace, line endings and lines matching regular expressions, such as timestamps
• Reports and review archives — create HTML or XML reports and share comparisons with bookmarks and comments as a single file
• Time Machine integration — compare current files with their older versions
• FTP plugin — synchronize a website with its staging area