Beyond Compare for Mac
Visually compare and merge files and folders.
$35.00
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Beyond Compare overview
Beyond Compare allows you to quickly and easily compare your files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you're interested in and ignore the rest. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records. You can compare entire drives and folders at high speed, checking just sizes and modified times, or thoroughly verify every file with byte-by-byte comparisons. Once you've found specific files you're interested in, Beyond Compare can intelligently pick the best way to compare and display them. Text files can be viewed and edited with syntax highlighting and comparison rules tweaked specifically for documents, source code, and HTML. The text contents of Microsoft Word .doc and Adobe .pdf files can also be compared but not edited. Data files, executables, binary data, and images all have dedicated viewers as well, so you always have a clear view of the changes.
The Pro version of Beyond Compare adds the following features: 3-way text merge, 3-way folder merge, built-in SFTP support, text replacement, Folder-Compare alignment overrides, and support for WebDAV, Dropbox, and subversion. Pricing information can be found here.
What's new in version 5.2.3 .32296
Notable Changes
- Updated 7-zip to 26.01. Fixes CVE-2026-48095.
- Fixed support for SFTP server-side CRC32 calculations using the check-file extension.
- Other minor fixes.
FTP
- Fixed support for SFTP server-side CRC32 calculations using the check-file extension.
Misc
- Fixed registering using license keys that have had letters combined into ligatures.
- macOS/Linux: Fixed the "Enter Key..." dialog not auto-detecting license keys on the clipboard.
- Fixed "Check for Updates" reporting of operating system version and CPU type.
Options
- Unchecking the Options > Tweaks > Check for Updates > Check every checkbox will hide the "New version available" notification.
Text Views
- Text grammar regular expressions no longer unintentionally support 2 iterators in a row, e.g. "+*".
Third Party Libraries
- Updated 7-zip to 26.01. Fixes CVE-2026-48095.
Crashes
- Windows: Fixed crash when launching a comparison from the command line with extremely long paths while BC is already running.
- Fixed Text Compare crash with specific grammar regular expression.
- Fixed Table Compare crash when editing a cell.
- Fixed Table Compare Report crash when opening from Folder Compare.
Beyond Compare for Mac
$35.00
In English
Version 5.2.3 .32296
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Mar 3, 2018
Version: 4.2.4.22795
Beyond Compare is one of the best compare and merge applications for macOS.
May 11, 2017
Version: 4.2.1.22354
That icon is completely unacceptable! Please for the love of God fix it.
Jul 29, 2016
Version: 4.1.4.20978
Great app and probably the best at what it does on the Mac at the moment. A little pricey but worth it.
Jul 27, 2016
Version: 4.1.4.20978
Just to say, BC cannot text-wrap so if you need to diff long lines this makes it very annoying to use. Otherwise this is an excellent tool.
Apr 29, 2015
Version: 4.0.7.19761
I also have been a BeyondCompare user on Windows for many years and was so excited to see that they made a Mac version.
It is clearly the best diff tool for Mac. Scooter did a wonderful job porting the tool over to Mac OSX. Congratulations and THANK YOU!
MacUpdate seems to be a bit slow on the updates so I'd just head over to scootersoftware.com and get it directly from them.
