Beyond Compare

Beyond Compare

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Beyond Compare	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	Beyond Compare from Scooter Software headquartered in Madison is a utility for comparing different version of documents and seeing the differences. It also allows changes to be merged and synchronized.	N/A

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	Beyond Compare
Considered Both Products	Scooter Software Verified User Chose Beyond Compare I used WinDiff and Compare IT in the past, but Beyond Compare is much more complete. Incentivized Helpful? Reggie Freedman President in Corporate at CPI of South Florida (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 1-10 employees) Chose Beyond Compare Windows Explorer - Beyond Compare equals WE and passes it by a thousand times. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Beyond Compare I utilize Microsoft Excel to create a custom data comparison tool that can handle date formatting and check derived fields. We also have an in house tool, called GIT, that really mirrors the beyond compare technology- I have personally stuck with Beyond Compare instead of GIT. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Beyond Compare Notepad++ is the only other product I have seen that has something similar to what Beyond Compare specializes. While Notepad++ can perform the same type of function, it is not nearly as robust or as easy to navigate as beyond compare. It is well worth the investment for the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Beyond Compare We've tried many: Code Compare, Meld, UltraCompare, and WinMerge. None of them have the depth of features and speed to handle the work we throw at Beyond Compare. The multi-tabbed interface allows us to sync multiple servers at the same time. It understands multiple file types, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Beyond Compare When Beyond Compare 4 came out, we briefly considered looking at other tools, like Code Compare, but in all reality, we never really considered it a viable option. Beyond Compare offers such a comprehensive solution, especially with its Pro License (and 3-way merging … Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Full Circle TMS (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Beyond Compare I haven't run across a whole lot of products that offer just comparisons, besides the classic diff tool. Beyond Compare serves as a specialized tool that usually is part of other software, such as IDEs. It offers some great features of IDE-embedded diff tools. A small but … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Davies Web Application Developer in Information Technology at City of Portland (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Beyond Compare It's much easier to use than command-line tools like diff. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Beyond Compare Notepad++ is a step up from Microsoft's built-in notepad, but it doesn't even come close to comparing with BeyondCompare (pun intended). Notepad++ is better suited to working with a single text file and inserting line numbers for you. BeyondCompare goes far beyond that to help … Incentivized Helpful? Mathieu Gaouette Consultant BI senior/Administrateur - spécialité SAS in Information Technology at Prospective MG inc. (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Beyond Compare To the best of my knowledge, the only 2 alternatives tested were UltraCompare (UltraEdit) and WinMerge. WinMerge is really appealing as it is open source and free. It does have most of the base functionalities of BeyondCompare. Incentivized Helpful? Cristian Bodnarasec Senior Software Development Manager in Information Technology at eSilicon (Semiconductors, 501-1000 employees) Chose Beyond Compare We had used many tools before buying Beyond Compare. The reason is that it has proven to be the best tool available for files and folder comparison and merging changes; it is quick and easy to use, supports almost all formats and it had a fast adoption by the software team. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Beyond Compare Beyond Compare beats WinMemge and Notepad++ hands down for finding differences. Incentivized Helpful? Hernán Silva Senior Front-end developer in Engineering at Velocity Partners (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Beyond Compare BeyondCompare sits atop its category (file/folder comparison and merge), no doubt. Other tools offer similar feature sets but with steeper learning curves or at premium prices. There are only 2 programs worth mentioning as competitors here: Meld, which is open source and has … Incentivized Helpful? Joseph Tozzi Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at MovieTickets.com (Entertainment, 51-200 employees) Chose Beyond Compare There are a lot of options when it comes to file comparison tools with some being free, however, you will be hard-pressed to find another tool that does as much as BeyondComare does for a nominal cost (~$30-$60). For a thorough comparison see … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Beyond Compare I have used Diff Checker, but BeyondCompare comes as a desktop app and is more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Ralph Vanore Graphics Designer & Web Developer in Information Technology at HYTORC Division UNEX Corporation (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 201-500 employees) Chose Beyond Compare These are free and opensource applications. They do not have most of the features that BeyondCompare has. Even though they are free to use, the reasonable cost of BeyondCompare makes using it over these competitors a no brainer. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 5 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Beyond Compare
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (19 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (7 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Beyond Compare
Likelihood to Recommend	Scooter Software Beyond Compare is extremely good at the task of comparisons, whether that is text file comparisons or folder comparisons. It does a great job of easily highlighting the differences for users, and giving them the option of merging (in the case of text files) or synchronizing (in the case of folders.) In either case, no one on my team has ever had any reason to reach for another different tool. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Scooter Software Folder diffing. It allows you to see differences in deeply nested folder structures. File diffing. It allows you to see differences in files no matter their complexity. Diffing rules. It allows you to set rules to include/exclude files, folders and lines from your comparison. Incentivized Hernán Silva Senior Front-end developer Read full review
Cons	Scooter Software For date formatting discrepancies the software does not automatically mark the dates as equivalent; for instance ‘2019/10/15’ vs. ‘15-OCT-2019’. This would be considered a difference. The columns/report must be ordered similarly. If extra data is available in one file, it should be removed or extra rows will be marked as differences. For spreadsheet comparison, the user must save the file on the proper tab and then “recompare” within the tool. There is no way to switch between sheets in the software. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Usability	Scooter Software Again, given the intuitive nature of this program, there is barely any learning curve needed. It is simple, reliable, accurate, and just one of those tools you always have with you and rarely think about until you don't have it. Then it is a case of OMG what was I thinking? This program is just very easy to use, and that makes it more valuable to me than some of my other software tools that cost significantly more. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Support Rating	Scooter Software I have never needed support for this product other than learning how to use a new feature I was not familiar with. User forums and user groups that have used this product for their own purposes have always sufficed for anything that I needed help using with the product. Some of the features could be a little better outlined, but overall very easy to use. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Scooter Software We've tried many: Code Compare, Meld, UltraCompare, and WinMerge. None of them have the depth of features and speed to handle the work we throw at Beyond Compare. The multi-tabbed interface allows us to sync multiple servers at the same time. It understands multiple file types, metadata, and encodings. It's the best tool for the job. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Scooter Software It's made it quick and easy to compare and synchronize directories when restoring a backup or copying code from one environment to another one. There are times when it would be a painstaking task to manually compare or sync two different directories, but BeyondCompare made it a trivial task. Incentivized Richard Davies Web Application Developer Read full review
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