Working with multiple files and folders on different drives and memory sticks can be confusing especially if you don’t remember where you saved your latest changes. Thanks to Beyond Compare you no longer have to guess which is the right folder or file.

Beyond Compare is a handy and well-designed application specially designed to help you compare, merge or synchronize your folders and files.

Beyond Compare enables you to quickly and effortlessly focus on the differences you are interested in and ignore the files that are already updated. Thus, you can merge you changes or synchronize files and generate useful reports for your records.

From Beyond Compare’s main window you can easily compare entire drives or folders and check the size and modification dates. You can also perform thorough verifications and comparisons with FTP sites, network drives and other storage devices.

Beyond Compare is also capable to display and edit your text files using syntax highlighting and comparison rules specially made for HTML, source code and text files. You can also compare DOC and PDF files, data files, executables, images and binary data.

Beyond Compare's built-in specialized viewers can help you visualize and compare CSV data, HTML tables, and even image files.

What is more, you can take advantage of the 3-way merge system that allows you to combine various changes from two different versions of a file into a single output document. The color coding system helps you view, accept, reject or merge changes.

Moreover, with the help of Beyond Compare's context menu, you can easily synchronize the selected file or folder to the left or right and compare it to the desired file.

You can copy or move to the left or right and delete or rename the file. On top of that, you can generate a file compare report, refresh selection and exclude or ignore the file.

Beyond Compare is a powerful and practical compare, merge and synchronization macOS utility designed from the get go to enable you to keep all the files on your Mac and on remote storage devices updated and in sync.

What's New:

Version 5.0:

Significant New Features

• Word wrap in Text Compare and Text Merge.
• Dark mode.
• Table Compare can compare multiple Excel sheets and has other enhancements.
• Text Merge manual alignment supports multi-line selections.
• Windows: Per-monitor DPI scaling.
• Windows: Explorer context menu integration enhanced and supports Windows 11.
• macOS: Native Apple M series support and additional performance improvements.
• Linux: Upgraded to QT 5.

Additional Enhancements

• Version Compare supports more header fields, and has better MUI and error handling.
• Media Compare (formerly MP3 compare) has been enhanced and supports additional file types (FLAC, MP3, MP4/AAC).
• Media Compare, Picture Compare, and Version Compare now launch Hex or Picture Compare when double clicking on tags.
• "Open Clipboard" command added to Registry Compare, Media Compare, Version Compare, and Text Edit.
• Added file viewer keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + / ⌘+ and Ctrl - / ⌘- for "Display Font Increase/Decrease" and Picture Compare "Zoom In/Out".
• Command line now supports using /fv="Hex Compare" for archive files.
• File viewer encoding auto-detection now matches against the entire file instead of just the first 64KB.
• Fixed reading BC scripts saved as UTF-8 without a byte order mark.
• Mouse wheel scrolls the control under the mouse cursor rather than the one that has focus.
• Windows: "Register for All Users" option will now store the key in C:\ProgramData (%AllUsersProfile%) instead of Program Files so it doesn't need to show a UAC prompt.
• Windows/Linux: Titlebars now show "Administrator:" or "(Root Session)" when run elevated.
• Windows: Loading a base folder that contains a Windows shortcut file named "target.lnk" will no longer automatically redirect to the target of that shortcut.
• Windows: Fixed various issues with control and menu appearance on Windows 11.
• macOS: Copies within a single file system now make linked copy-on-write clones, so the file data isn't duplicated until one of them changes.
• Linux: Added KDE6 file manager integration. Thank you to Benjamin Robin.

Default Settings Changed

• Windows: File views now assume UTF-8 instead of ANSI encoding for files unless it detects extended characters.
• FTP/FTPS/SFTP use binary transfers for all files instead of doing ASCII ones for some file types. The previous "Auto" behavior still exists as an option.
• FTP/FTPS/SFTP now uses UTF-8 for command/filename encoding by default. Previous "Detect" behavior can be changed in the profile's "Server > Encoding" tab.
• Deleting in folder compare/sync will now use the recycle bin by default.
• Windows: "Tools > Source Control" dialog (MSSCCI integration) is now hidden by default since most version control systems no longer support it. It can be manually re-enabled in "Options > Toolbars, etc".
• Increased "Binary size for binary compare" from 65KB to 4MB.
• "Limit next difference files to current folder" is now off by default.
• Added "Ignore Same", "Favor Left", and "Favor Right" buttons to Text Merge toolbar.
• Removed Text Compare "Full Edit" toggle. Full editing support is always enabled.

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