Meld Alternatives

Meld is described as 'Open-source tool for dynamic file and folder comparisions, syntax highlighting, offline functionality, and version control integration' and is a very popular Diff Tool in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Meld for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Meld alternative is WinMerge, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Meld are Beyond Compare, KDiff3, P4Merge and Araxis Merge.

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Meld alternatives are mainly Diff Tools, but if you're looking for File Comparison Tools or Merge File Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac, Linux and Windows. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Meld.
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  1. WinMerge 2011 icon
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    WinMerge 2011 series is a fork of the original WinMerge application that compiles without ATL/MFC dependencies to enable zero-budget developers to build WinMerge from sources using Visual C++ Express editions.

    63 WinMerge 2011 alternatives

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
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  2. GNU Diffutils is a package of several programs related to finding differences between files.

    69 GNU Diff Utilities alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  3. VisualDiffer icon
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    Visualize folders side-by-side and find immediately which files are different, colors help to understand the diff type. Colors identify older, modified and newer files.

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    • Mac
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  4. Compare up to N folders side-by-side with intelligent minority-difference highlighting — the only N-way directory comparison tool for Windows & Linux.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5.  3 likes

    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.

    44 Ediff alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Workshare Compare is the leading document comparison software that lets you perform file comparison of two documents against multiple modified versions.

    59 Workshare Compare alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. 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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Guiffy is a diff merge tool and folder compare application and API. SureMerge is the most trustworthy source code 3-way merge tool available. Advanced features include tuneable inline diff highlighting, syntax highlighting and a blend of 3 diff algorithms.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Eclipse
    • NetBeans
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    VbaDiff is a tool for developers who use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). It reads Microsoft Office documents and compares the VBA code they contain, displaying the differences in a clear manner to the developer.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. vimdiff icon
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    CLI Visual Merge/Diff tool.

    4 vimdiff alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  11. Tkdiff icon
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    tkdiff is a graphical diff viewer based on the Tk framework. It is capable of inter-operating with source-control systems like CVS and Subversion to show differences between a local copy and a repository version.

    59 Tkdiff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • TK
    • Cygwin
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  12. SemanticMerge icon
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    SemanticMerge - The diff and merge tool that understands C#, Vb.net, Java and now C

    57 SemanticMerge alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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