WinMerge – Free Open Source Utility to Help you Making Order on your Computer

WinMerge is an Open Source computer optimization utility, design for efficient differencing and merging files for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

You got multiple versions of what you hope are the same file through the years?

You want to check a downloaded data for errors?

You want to merge changes from one version of a document to another?

Or do you want to check two entire folders to make sure their contents are exactly the same?

WinMerge does it all. It’s incredibly useful for bit-level change detection, or for fast and quality validation that local and remote folders (and their contents) are synced correctly.

Main Features

General

* Supports Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/2012

* Handles Windows, Unix and Mac text file formats

* Unicode support

* Tabbed interface

File Compare

* Visual differencing and merging of text files

* Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap

* Highlights differences inside lines

* Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes

* Location pane shows map of files compared

* Moved lines detection

Folder Compare

* Regular Expression based file filters allow excluding and including items

* Fast compare using file sizes and dates

* Compares one folder or includes all subfolders

* Can show folder compare results in a tree-style view

Version Control

* Creates patch files (Normal-, Context- and Unified formats)

* Resolve conflict files

* Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration

Other

* Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions)

* Archive file support using 7-Zip

* Plug-in support

* Localizable interface

* Online manual and installed HTML Help manual

Developers’ website: http://winmerge.org/

Direct Download (installer): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/winmerge/WinMerge-2.14.0-Setup.exe

Direct Download (portable version): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/winmerge/WinMerge-2.14.0-exe.zip