Compare

Compare

By Amsterdamsoft LLC

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2011-01-21
  • Current Version: 2.12
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 5.47 MB
  • Developer: Amsterdamsoft LLC
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 10.14 or later.

Description

A tool needed by all developers, AmSo Compare lets you perform side-by-side comparison and merge of your directories, files, and their content. It lets you see changes down to the character level and copy changes between two or more different versions of a file as needed. It allows for text wrapping and can ignore file formatting, forgiving differences between line wraps, indentation, line lengths and other programmer coding preferences such as where they put the opening braces after an if statement. It features a powerful inline editor for text and hex files, configurable rules based comparison, and supports N-Way comparisons and automated operations such as code merge, and file sync/update/mirroring. This well designed application features a clean interface with easy to understand controls and icons. Just select or drag-and-drop in two or more items onto it and you're ready to compare and merge. It also remembers all recent items for each side so you can perform repeated comparisons easily. COMPARISONS: • Folder/Text Compare • N-Way Folder/Text Compare • N-Way Folder/Text Merge • N-Way Folder Sync • Hex Compare • Image Compare • Structured (XML, JSON) Compare • Time Machine Compare (non-APFS) FEATURES: • Side by side comparison with overview • N-Way folder comparison feature auto-alignment of files • N-Way text comparison feature N-way operations • Multiple viewers such as Text (source code), Hex, and image comparison • Inline editing or line by line operations within both Text and Hex comparisons • Filtering of lines based on similarity (same, different) or include/exclude based on plain text or RegEx comparison • Inline display of bytes as UTF8, ASCII, Integer and Decimal point data, (little and big endian) • Merge multiple sets of changes in folder structures or text files. • 3-Way folder merge with ancestor in the center and N-Way folder merge with ancestor in the side • Manual copy, and copy to Ancestor/Branches operations • Automatic merge, with merge to Ancestor, branches, or a merge folder/file • Detection and pairing of JSON and XML arrays • Configurable comparison rules. SPECIAL OFFER: For the time being time this major release of AmSo Compare (version 2.0) is available at a significant discount. NOTES: • N-Way operations are generally limited by display area. • Hex comparison is only suitable for binary files that are similar to each other. • AmSo Compare works within the MacOS sandbox giving you full access control. It also minimizes use of third party libraries, significantly reducing chance of exposure to misbehavior by a buggy external libraries.

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Reviews

  • Minimal functionality, deficient in many ways

    2
    By Mac Coder
    Apple’s own free FileMerge or opendiff from Terminal is much more superior in many ways. There’s no ‘next difference’ movement support. There’s no easy way to copy/paste. There’s no setting for file-type specific handling. FileMerge is also dificient in many ways. I was looking for an app that improves on FileMerge but found the even more dificient Compare.
  • Needs updating

    2
    By Dvs dan
    It's an okay diff tool. But it could be a lot better with just some small changes, including bug fixes. Unfortunately updates are not happening. The app has not been updated since Jan 2012.
  • Generic looking but good at what it does

    5
    By Dora-An
    I wanted a compare tool which looked familiar and easy to learn, i mean no crazy colored balloons on each side, and this app fit the bill just fine. It has no menus to open files but to open files with buttons and drag to icon both worked OK and the way it switched between comparing files in directories and comparing lines in files is very handy. I had to compare and update a rather large number of files (more than 100 small text files) and had no problems.
  • Great Tool!

    5
    By Peanut ATC
    I used to have Araxis Merge and this tool does about the same thing for about 1/10th the price! There are a few quirks or things that can be improved, but it gets the job done!
  • Great App - I'll get a lot of use out of this

    5
    By 42CodeMonkey42
    Perfect for diffing directories and the contents of the directiories. The interface was intuitive. I loaded up my directories and instantly saw the differences, I doble-clicked on a file to compare the files individually and hit the arrow key to merge/move files across. Easy to use, very helpful!
  • Do you know how to integrate this with GitBox?

    4
    By Jianwei Sun
    Do you know how to integrate this with GitBox?
  • Very disappointed

    1
    By Twitchin Kitten
    I am disappointed that I wasted $9 on this. For a long time I was looking for a simple compare program for Mac and when this came along I was thrilled. There is no way to set any preferences. Line numbers would be nice. Shows false differences. I don't need to see that a line has different spacing compared to the file next to it. That should be a preference setting. Very disappointing. I'm hoping the upgrades are frequent and free.
  • Not bad, maybe better than FileMerge

    3
    By tjfred35
    This is better than FileMerge because you can move changes on the left to the right and vice versa, but it's lacking inline editing of the files, like Beyond Compare for Windows
  • Not worth 10$

    1
    By ksachdeva
    Unintutive user interface; no tooltips on buttons etc. Wasted 10$ on this useless application.
  • Copy function making application "not responding"

    3
    By JDHdet
    During Copy Function, application appears to stall ("not responding"). Sometimes the copy of files/folders completes, sometimes not where a force quit is needed. This application should have a progress bar instead of spinning busy icon (beach ball) so that end user does not intrepret as a application crash.

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