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Highest Rated

Excellent tool. Runs in place from download. I was ready to scream when I tried to compare my web site with the GIT repository of the site. Then I saw the pre-defined filter "Exclude Source Control". That did it. Clean compare on 4000 files in 66 folders. Two config file settings had changed over the years and it was easy to select them, edit the masters, and get them checked back in. Beautiful user interface. Thanks guys.

Lowest Rated

This programis miserably counterintuitive. And on top of that, it will not function as described in the Help File. It will only allow me to browse to a folder if and only if the folder resides in another folder, and NO OTHER FILES are in there with it. If there are any files along with the folder I am trying to select, it just opens that folder and tries to force me to select a sub-file instead. I could not get it to show that there were 2 completely different files in the two folders I was comparing. It showed nothing at all, when I knew for sure one folder had a file the other folder lacked. It did not matter how I adjusted all the settings to show the differences, etc. This program is worthless to me, so I will have to find something else.

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naasking Posted 2018-12-10

Comparing two folders from the explorer context menu doesn't seem to work, but it works great otherwise.
houdelou Posted 2018-10-26

Always use this tool to compare. Has every feature I need. Thanks

1 user found this review helpful.
gerryhaag Posted 2018-10-22

Use WinMerge everyday for about four years to keep projects not under SVN control synchronized old school mode: Flash drive between two computers not network connected. The tool shows it age, but the job it does is impressive. I try to keep the projects to less than 5,000 files, just to keep the compare time down. At that point an SVN project is suggested.

2 users found this review helpful.
vertigo316 Posted 2018-10-11

When it works, it's great, though it could use some additional features to help with comparisons. Unfortunately, it doesn't work at all with files > ~100MB, and it now just wasted a bunch of time due to presenting a completely useless "Encountered an improper argument" error that just keeps popping up ad infinitum with no way to recover after spending a significant amount of time comparing a couple files. Bottom line is it could be great, but it's far too unstable.
damjar Posted 2018-09-06

I'm using it for many years. I have never found anything better then this.

2 users found this review helpful.
mranka Posted 2018-08-11

One of the easiest to use, navigate and neat to handle comparison of folders and files. Very fluid in use, quite intuitive.

2 users found this review helpful.
fideando12 Posted 2018-06-20

Oh WinMerge! A bit of nostalgia. I was heavily using it on one of my previous work. Very useful tool that saved a lot of my time and nerves.
slowfatrunner Posted 2018-04-11

Longtime WinMerge user. Just grabbed the 2.15 Alpha and it looks great.

2 users found this review helpful.
sergiomarina Posted 2018-03-25

excellent utility! Make easy a very complicate job. All in all WinMerge dramatically improves day to day PC administration.

1 user found this review helpful.
jmjconseil Posted 2018-02-10

Grrrrreat! That's just what I've been looking for for years!
imandesign Posted 2018-01-10

Very nice program! It's helpful. zarinmall.com/mag
factoryx Posted 2017-12-15

A very helpfull app for comparing my sourcecodes.
lcsaj Edited 2018-05-10

Very good program ! I would say, it could be better to add a feature of comparing files in two directories, without taking into account the hierarchy of sub-directories.
denormalizer Posted 2017-06-23

Best FREE diff/merge program on any platform.

1 user found this review helpful.
ashraf_sabry_m Posted 2017-02-28

Excellent and easy to use utility
jklute Posted 2017-01-26

Extremely useful tool, when you need something like this. I'd hate to see development falter due to lack of interest. I use this tool often, and keep coming back to it, as the only way to deal with thousands of files to compare/merge.

1 user found this review helpful.
subramanyamk Posted 2016-11-11

Winmerge Tool is very excellent and power full tool
jon_harris7 Posted 2016-08-29

This works great and is a nice alternative to the diff utilities included with various Source Control packages.
gaetane Posted 2015-08-12

So much awesomeness right here. Saved me from a huge headache. Thanks!
humansystems Posted 2015-08-04

Works very well to compare complete directories as I needed in Windows 7 - no adware/candy detected at all in this download - thanks!!!
engrjohn4 Posted 2015-06-28

Great comparison tool.
kakhak Posted 2015-06-05

Great app. It's a thing in the free software market.
neobondhu2 Posted 2015-04-13

A good file comparator...I wish I'd known this product long time ago, which would have saved me a lot to time.. anyways, thanks, thanks, a lot of thanks
cultpenguin Posted 2015-02-25

Very helpful. Really saved my day comparing 100s of Gb of images (one local folder and one Google Drove folder) to find images that somehow seems to be corrupted by Google Drive.
webmaster33 Posted 2015-01-20

Waiting for improvements and more updates!

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