Beyond Compare Reviews & Product Details

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 those you're not. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records.

Seller

Scooter Software

Discussions

Beyond Compare Community

Languages Supported

German, English, French, Japanese

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Chris Kennedy

Pricing

Pricing provided by Beyond Compare.

Basic

$12.00

per_feature With One-Time Purchase

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User Insights

Average based on 152 real user reviews.

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

Typical contract price

$0k - $0k

With One-Time Purchase

Beyond Compare Reviews FAQs

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is Beyond Compare, and what problem is it built to solve?

Beyond Compare is a file and directory comparison tool that highlights differences in content and helps users synchronize files, manage them, and merge changes. It works with different types of data, including text, images, data files, and directory structures across operating systems.

What languages does Beyond Compare support?

Beyond Compare supports 4 languages: English, French, German, and Japanese.

What company sizes and industries is Beyond Compare the best fit for?

Beyond Compare’s strongest reviewer-reported fit is with enterprise organizations, especially in technology-focused industries. Mid-market and small-business users are also represented.

What customer support options does Beyond Compare provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Support includes self-service resources, email/help desk, and phone support. When users do need help, the experience is described as positive, though some find they rarely need to contact support.

What tools and platforms does Beyond Compare integrate with, and how do these integrations help users get more value from the product?

Beyond Compare is used alongside source-control tools and development environments, making it easier to inspect changes and resolve merges within existing workflows.

Source control: Git, SVN, TFS, Perforce, and SourceGear Vault
Development environments: Visual Studio

These connections let users bring comparison and merging into code review, branch work, and other development tasks.

What features or capabilities could make Beyond Compare even more useful?

The most useful improvements would make complex comparisons easier to interpret and reduce friction in everyday workflows.

Improve alignment and matching for files with substantial, reordered, or irregularly formatted changes.
Modernize navigation and make common settings easier to find, including clearer defaults for frequently used comparison modes.
Expand file-format support and improve comparisons for formats such as spreadsheets and database files.

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Verified User in Food & Beverages

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/30/2019

"Happy user with beyond compare since last 6 years"

5/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

When it comes to manual merge of text files, Beyond compare is best tool I ever liked. This tools really helps to see differences with colors and I can easily push code from one file to other. other best thing is it compares folders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Really i don't have any dislike about beyond compare. once I face out of memory issue while opening big text files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Renjith M.

IT Analyst

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/2/2019

"The best compare tool for every difficulties"

4/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

The UI which makes a first time user feel comfortable to use. Easy to compare, merge and produce the result effectively. This can compare a lot varieties of files including excels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

The alignment sometimes not appearing correctly especially when comparing a large text files. This might cause the job fall behind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mainly using for comparing working request with non-working request (SOAP) to detect what went wrong in that particular request. BeyondCompare instantly highlights the difference in request and when I make necessary changes related to that, the non-working request would become working. This saves a lot more time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/24/2019

"Helpful to compare 2 similar files of .c and .pdf"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

Comparing 2 different files without this tool is really difficult but this tool finds the small to small difference which is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Some images in the pdf files cannot be compared and if the sequence of writing in some files is slightly changed, it becomes a bit difficult to find out the difference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Beyond Compare:

If you want to compare 2 different .pdf or word format files or .c or .cop files, it's really very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

Comparing the corrected source file to our files saves a lot of time in knowing the exact differences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/29/2019

"File and text comparison is very easy"

4/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

Text comparison in a file is very easy with beyond compare. Not only we can compare we can copy the required changes from one file to other. Very easy to use interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Sometimes space makes lot of differences in comparison. Text comparison is very good in a file but folder comparison is not that good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Beyond Compare:

After making changes to a file if we want to compare it with the backup file this is very nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Beyond Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?

After making changes to existing file and comparing it with the backup file is very easy with beyond compare software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raj S.

System Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/15/2019

"Beyond Compare"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

Different options to compare documents, folders, files etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Sometimes I face issues in synchronization while setting up documents to compare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/12/2019

"Time saver"

5/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

Quick way to compare both documents. Save time and eliminate human error while trying to catch or identify any mismatches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Sometimes you need to input specific rules so that the compare works better and only show true mismatch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 9/28/2019

"Good tool to compare files"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

The tool can compare two files, images, CSV, excels, SQL scripts, XML etc. The differences between two files is highlighted clearly, it is especially useful when doing a code compare Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

It can be difficult for a first time user, but once learnt it is easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arun Sai Kumar R.

Systems Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/14/2019

"Review"

4/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

The best part I like in this is, we can compare any large files and exchanges our changes with an instance. The way it highlights the changes that made in any file makes us to identify easily instead of searching for whole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

I did not ran into any disliking factor in it. But I need to mention that UI is not promising, it looks as older one. It would be better if they come up with new UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sivadurga b.

Associate Project Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/30/2019

"Really Beyond Compare"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

Really it is beyond compare, we can able to compare by line to line. This can be done through online, but we need to upload our data in browser. Which is not at all recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

If one block mismatches in both sides mean it will not highlight only the block, it will effect down part also. Other all good, but some license issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/18/2019

"The best comparer I've seen"

5/5

What do you like best about Beyond Compare?

Easy to compare 2 different texts, folders with files, other data, even hex, picture, registry, versions... And merge text. It shows clearly the similitudes and differences between the 2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Beyond Compare?

Nothing, it's absolutely great and quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.