dwdiff Alternatives

dwdiff is described as 'Diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level. It is different from wdiff in that it allows the user to specify what should be considered whitespace, and in that it takes an optional list of characters that should be considered delimiters' and is a Diff Tool in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to dwdiff for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best dwdiff alternative is WinMerge, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dwdiff are Meld, Beyond Compare, KDiff3 and P4Merge.

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    Ediff is a comprehensive visual interface to Unix diff and patch utilities.

    Ediff provides a convenient way for simultaneous browsing through the differences between a pair (or a triple) of files or buffers (which are called ‘variants’ for our purposes). The files being compare.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. DiffPlug icon
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    DiffPlug is a free text editor/differ and image viewer/differ. Purchasing a license allows you to diff other kinds of files such as Simulink.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. WinDiff icon
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    WinDiff is a graphical file-comparison program published by Microsoft (from 1992[1]), and is distributed with certain versions of Microsoft Visual Studio as well as in source-code form with the Platform SDK code samples.

    26 WinDiff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. DiffFork icon
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    DiffFork is a diff tool for Mac OS X. DiffFork can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual format.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. ECMerge icon
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    ECMerge is a comparison and synchronization tool with two and three-way merge for text and folders and difference on binary, text, images and folders, locally, via FTP/S, SFTP or in version controls. For Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. DiffVue icon
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    DiffVue is a diff tool, also known as a diff utility for Windows XP and Windows 7, and it lets users compare folders and files as well as ftp site's files against the local files by displaying differences visually.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. xxdiff icon
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    xxdiff is a QT based graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool. It provides comparing two files, three files.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Diff Text icon
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    Instantly find the differences between two blocks of text. Works with plain text, code, json, yaml, html, css, markdown, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Pretty Diff is a language aware code comparison tool, beautifier, minifier, and parser for a variety of web oriented languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Typescript
    • npm
    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
     
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