Beyond Compare Pro

Pro Edition features are marked

• General Features
  • Responsive, multi-threaded interface
  • Multiple windows with tabs for each comparison
  • Integrated into Explorer (Windows), Finder (OS X), and various Linux shells
  • Save comparisons as sessions to easily load them later
  • Automatically save sessions when closing them
  • Save workspaces containing all open windows and sessions
  • Home view with easy access to viewers and saved sessions
  • View Unix patch files as a side-by-side comparison
  • Text editor
  • Script processor for automating tasks
  • Command line interface
  • Supports high DPI (retina) displays
  • Automatic check for updates
  • Drag & drop to start comparisons
  • Customizable fonts, colors, and keyboard shortcuts
  • Extensive context-sensitive help
  • Dedicated support staff available via email, phone, and forums.
• Compare files
  • Side-by-side display
  • Color highlighting of differences within lines
  • Display filters to show only differences
  • Jump to next/previous difference within file or folder
  • Printed and HTML comparison reports
  • Unicode and MBCS support
  • Thumbnail overview of comparison
  • Can convert files before comparing them
  • Compare files or clipboard contents
  • Automatic backups when saving
• Text Compare
  • Inline editing with dynamic recomparison
  • Syntax highlighting
    • C, C++, C#, Objective-C
    • Java
    • SQL
    • Delphi, Pascal
    • Python
    • Visual Basic
    • XML
    • Many more built in and available online
  • Ignore unimportant differences
    • Comments
    • Whitespace
    • Delimited strings
    • Regular expressions
    • Character case
    • Page headers
    • Columns
    • Line terminator style
    • Manually ignore selection
  • Ignore replaced text and renamed identifiers 
  • Flexible alignment
    • Aligns similar lines
    • Multiple alignment styles
    • Optionally suppress alignment of differences
    • Manually align changes or break alignments
  • 3-way merge with output panel 
    • Merges changes automatically
    • Marks conflicting sections
    • Take whole difference sections or selections
  • Find & replace
  • Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, and Rich Text converted to text automatically
  • Adaptive gutter buttons for copying sections
  • Formatted HTML view
  • View Delphi binary form files as text
  • Line details as text, hex, or with character alignment
  • Compare files with different formats
  • Bookmarks
• Table Compare
  • Grid view
  • Inline editing with dynamic recomparison
  • Compare CSV, tab delimited, HTML tables, and Excel worksheets
  • Ignore differences within numeric or date tolerances
  • Ignore or hide unimportant columns
  • Align based on key columns or all columns
  • Rearrange columns to compare files in different orders
  • Sort data before comparing
• Binary Compare
  • Display binary files as hex
  • Inline editing with dynamic recomparison
  • Fast byte-by-byte alignment
  • Limit display to differences
  • Wrap lines to display
  • Find & Replace
• Registry Compare 
  • Local and remote registry hives
  • Registry exports (.reg)
  • Inline editing
  • Recursively expand keys in-place
• Picture Compare
  • Many picture formats
  • Flip, rotate, and scale images
  • Multiple comparison types
  • Thumbnail of pixels around the mouse cursor
  • Ignore differences within an RGB tolerance
  • Ignore replaced colors
  • Zoom to show entire image automatically
• Other Comparisons
  • Compare .exe version information 
  • Compare MP3 tags
  • Can use third-party comparison utilities for unsupported files
• Compare Folders
  • Compare folders side-by-side
  • Color highlighting of differences
  • Automatically compare subfolders and expand them in place
  • Display filters to show added, modified, or matching files and folders
  • Flexible comparison criteria
    • Last modified time
    • Size
    • Filename case
    • DOS attributes
    • File content (CRC32, byte-byte-byte, file format specific, or exe/dll versions)
    • Ignore selection
  • Exclusion filters
    • File and folder names
    • Sizes
    • Last modified times
    • File content
    • DOS and Unix attributes
  • Dedicated synchronization commands
  • Powerful file operations
    • Copy, Move, Delete, Rename, Change Attributes, Set Last Modified Time
    • Multiple operations can run in the background
    • Pause running operations
  • 3-way folder merge 
    • Merge to a separate output location or overwrite one of the inputs
    • Automatically merge text files
  • Ignore folder structure
  • Printed and HTML comparison reports
    • Link an HTML folder comparison report to individual file comparison reports
  • Optionally follow symbolic links and NTFS junction points
  • Align filenames with different extensions
  • Align filenames using wildcard masks (e.g., “Apples*” => “Bananas*”) 
  • Align filenames with different Unicode normalization forms (OS X vs Windows)
  • Copy NTFS ACLs and DOS short (8.3) filename aliases 
• Virtual File System
  • Local and network drives
  • Remote SMB servers (\\server)
  • FTP servers
    • Named profiles
    • Multiple simultaneous connections
    • Resume interrupted transfers
  • Secure FTP servers (FTP over SSL and SSH SFTP) 
    • Password, private key, keyboard interactive, or SSH agent authentication
  • Cloud storage 
    • WebDAV
    • Amazon S3
    • Dropbox
    • OneDrive
  • Remote Subversion repositories 
  • Portable media devices (Android phones, MP3 players, cameras) 
• Archive Files
  • Compare and modify without extracting to a temporary location
  • Compare as a file or expand as a folder
  • Create, read, and modify
    • 7-zip 
    • Zip
    • Zipx, with read-only support for Bzip2, PPMd, LZMA, WavPack, and JPEG compression 
    • Tar
    • Gzip
    • Bzip2
  • Read only
    • Deb 
    • Rpm 
    • Rar 
    • Disk images (.img, .iso) 
    • Microsoft Cab 
    • Compiled Help (.chm) 
    • Total Commander packer plugins 
    • Many more
  • Save filesystem snapshots without content
• Version Control
  • Launch comparisons from all major version control systems
  • Checkin/checkout files via MSSCCI provider 
  • Compares Subversion repositories