# Code Compare Reviews **Vendor:** Devart **Category:** [Version Control Clients](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-clients) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 56 ## About Code Compare Devart Code Compare is a smart and flexible tool that provides you with the easiest possible way of comparing and merging source code, files, and folders. Now you can install and integrate it with Visual Studio 2022 and experience all of its capabilities right there! Key features of Code Compare 1. File comparison. First and foremost, you can use Code Compare to find differences between any blocks of text. The comparison window is divided into two panes—source and target—and the differences are shown with convenient highlighting. 2. Source code comparison. As for your source code, it can be compared just as effectively. In this respect, Code Compare supports lexical comparison of code in major programming languages, including C#, C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Java, and XML. You get syntax highlighting, matching of similar lines, and code outlining for collapsing and expanding regions of code. 3. Folder comparison. Besides blocks of text/code and files, Code Compare allows comparing and merging entire folders. Here, you get color coding for added, deleted, and modified files, filtering options for excluding or including certain file types, quick opening of individual files, and batch copying of files to another pane or to a selected folder. 4. Version control integration We’ve saved the best for last. Code Compare helps you merge files and resolve conflicts in a variety of version control systems that support external comparison tools, including Git, Mercurial, Perforce, TFS, and a few others. It has also never been easier to quickly resolve conflicts using tools like Sourcetree. ## Code Compare Reviews ### 1. Fast Side-by-Side Comparisons That Make Code Reviews Easier **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2026 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** During code reviews and when resolving merge conflicts, Code Compare starts comparing files or folders right away. The side-by-side view with highlighted differences makes it easy to catch even small changes without wasting time **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** it slows down system performance when working with bigger files or multiple tabs, which can be a little frustrating during tight deadlines **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves code reviews and merge, conflicting while working on code updates. ### 2. Good to use, feature rich code comparison tools **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanchit S. | Unity Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It has almost all the features that are needed in a code compare software like IDE integration with Visual Studio, and semantic comparison line by line and even version control integration with Git, Sourcetree,etc **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** It's own GUI looks a bit old and can be a lot better otherwise everything is good. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop games in Unity and actively use Code Compare with Sourcetree and its Visual Studio Community integration to compare codes in different scenarios. ### 3. ''extremely truthful code compare review" **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Narendra D. | React JS Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** The most helpful aspect of Code Compare is the capacity to compare and combine different pieces of code. We are able to complete our responsibilities more quickly and effectively since we work for an IT company. It allows us to appropriately combine two independent programs by comparing them line by line. The combination of GIT and Visual Studio improves the product.Also this platform is easy to use and easy to implement in our daily code writing habits. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** The user experience must be improved, therefore history must be maintained current. Improvement required in UI is also advised. Additionally, I constantly require instructions on how to utilize this program because it has so many features. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Utilize this tool on a daily basis to compare most current commits to most recent commits, merge code with the target branch, and more. I can quickly and simply review the code with this tool, however Code Compare is not cost-free. Please fix this since my computer's lag is to blame. ### 4. Merging Made Simple with Code Compare **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhijith M. | Solutions Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It Works as a standalone file executable and as a VS Code Extention. Which is a lifesaver. Good Syntax highlighter & CMD Interface. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Oracle 11 Express Edition- Compatabiity isnt great with newer Version. Occasional Errors found **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Code merges are really important in a CI Process, whatever can be done to increase its efficiency will increase the efficiency of the whole process, which is where Codecompare gives Valueable insight to compare different Code blocks and to Perform Quick merges with ease. ### 5. Code Compare -Awesome tool to compare code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** The best thing is that it compares the code commit by commit and lets me know the code addition , code removal during code review. Its graphic user interface is interactive and also easy to use. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** There are no dislikes with this software, but one thing I would like to suggest is that it should provide more features as compared to other software. It is also costly and causes lag to my computer. Few of its features do not work as expected. **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** I would recommend it to others as it is the best software to perform code review. It has the best graphical user interface . **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am doing a code review with this tool. It tells me about the code that is added and the code that is removed. The benefit is that it helps me with the changes according to the commits performed. It also helps me to solve the merge conflicts effortlessly. Its graphical user interface is also very interactive. ### 6. Comparing and merging different files and folder effortlessly! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Comparing code and merging different codes is the most useful feature of Code Compare. Being in an IT company, it helps us to get our work done faster and more efficiently. It helps us identify the differences in two different codes line by line and merge our code accordingly. Integration with GIT and visual studio makes the product even better. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** The user interface should be improved as it looks a little basic. Comparing code with the past changes by checking the local history should be added. Other than that a great product and highly recommended. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being in a computer software company, I use it for comparing my code and merging changes. We can include and exclude lines according to our preferences as it provides us with a line-by-line comparison. Integrating it with GIT and the visual studio makes coding much faster and easy. We can also compare different folders effortlessly. ### 7. Code compare review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Swapnil k. | Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Code compare is free and advance file and folder comparison tool. It can be integrated with different version control systems and it becomes easy to track changes. It can also be used to merge two files or folders while comparing them. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** There is nothing as such which is to be disliked in the product. It's light weight and works properly. Sometimes it will take time to load while comparing files in multiple tabs. They can include one feature, such as notifying when we're comparing the same file or folder, by mistake. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** While development I've used code compare many times, it's useful to me as it helps me in comparing the code changes with the previous code or when I'm merging the code. It enhances my performance. Being myself a developer, it saves lot of time for me and simplifies my task. ### 8. Amazing product to compare code on the Go! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prabhjot S. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Compare code line by line, symbol by symbol and word by word. Folder comparison Multiple tabs , sessions could be opened Code merging is very simple Colour coding for diff, same,modified files Copy difference to either side. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Some changes on Ui will suffice. I like this tool as it makes my code conflicts easy to filter and correct History must be maintained for a better user experience **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** Code compare is a robust tool for all the developers out there.It simplifies code,file,folder merging .I would recommend to use it. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Coding comparing and merging before committing on the branch. Compare between different version , repos of code ### 9. Great Tool for Code Compare **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tushar T. | Sr. Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** The best thing which I like in code compare is that user can easily compare their code & merge accurate code according to their requirements. The GUI of Code Compare is very good & easy by which user can use it easily **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** I am happy with Code Compare product because it overcomes my code conflicts issue quickly & in day-to-day coding, it is beneficial for developers to resolve their problem quickly. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** When multiple developers work on the same project, developers often get some conflicts in their code due to working on the same file. So for resolving disputes, Code Compare is a beneficial product by which developers can resolve their disputes quickly. ### 10. Good Code Compare Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** AKASH C. | Senior Software Engineer, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Best way to compare project files at the folder level. This application makes your code comparing tasks much more simplified. We can integrate it with the Visual Studio development platform. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Sometimes it will take some time to load while comparing files in multiple tabs. One thing I observe is If we are comparing identical files, then it is not giving any notification. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best comparing tool, when we are moving our code to the production codebase, it will easy to compare code and easily integrated with visual studio. It saves a lot of developer time. ### 11. Code comparison made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roshan R. | Mobile Application Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Code Compare's main purpose is to reduce the effort of a reviewer or a developer. It is a great help in identifying with the code or any script which matches the previous versions and identifies changes at the specified lines. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Merging can be an issue if the developer or reviewer accepts recommendations from the code compared as it may affect further development. Every suggestion should grow as per the standards of delivery. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main business problems that are solved using code compare is fewer time efforts and guaranteed results of delivery. This increases the overall growth and productivity of the individual as well as the business. ### 12. Best tool for Comparing Code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It's facility to compare and merge files and folders is one of the best thing and along with the integration of git and other tools **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** As far there is nothing which I have hated **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to identify the changes being made to files and directory structure ### 13. One among the best for integration tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Basudev K. | Associate Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Best thing is it's easy to use and easily integrated with your repository like git, and shows the difference of your code while merging. It's is added advantage of IDE like visual studio and it's separately downloaded so it doesn't make your IDE heavy. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** It's just a added advantage of an IDE nothing much to complain about, though I would like a black theme like visual studio and little added advantage of debugging on it. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's really a pretty decent tool I used it mostly during the version control integration,when code is being merged to git ,so comparing it during the process makes the code more efficient and see the changes implemented. ### 14. Great for software developers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nisarg S. | Cloud Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** We use git-based SCM and Code Compare works really well with it. We use it heavily to diff different versions of code during issues or when we are reviewing pull requests before merging them to master. We directly integrate it with Visual Studio which makes it best and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** I don't think there is anything in particular that I don't like about Code Compare. It would have been awesome if it was cross-platform compatible. There are some UI improvements that can really make this a great product. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for reviewing code and making sure we are not pushing buggy code. It's helpful when and if you wanna diff folders and figure out missing files. This has really improved our code quality. ### 15. The best Platform to Compare our code **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshay M. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** The best part with code compare is, it helps me to compare my long and file data files. Which helps me to tracking my activities and also help me to keep my records of code sync with other code modules. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** It's a tool wich comes with lots of features and I always require a guide to use this platform. But it's very simple to use but if we can provide a user guide then it would be great. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** The comparison on code and fiels is a very big help this Platform was providing me.. In a project of handling large files of code I was trying to use this tool and it helps me alot to track my code records ### 16. Code Compare Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zeel P. | SAP ABAP Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It provides different color blocks while comparing code, making it easy to compare files and folders. Easily Sync local files with the production system. Code Compare is working fine as a standalone file diff tool and an extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** I don't found anything that I don't like about Code Compare, But they can improve UI. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the help of this software, I can compare different versions of my code seamlessly and effortlessly. Code Compare has always helped me solve merge conflicts and verify the changes against the last commits and has therefore ensured a high level of code quality, faster development. ### 17. This tool is a Boone to developers. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srijib M. | Information Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** We work in a large team, and documenting every change in the code is not always possible. "Code compare" is of great help. We are comparing the prior version of the code with the current version so quickly. It makes it very easy for us to observe the changes to the code with color highlighting quickly. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** I can't think of any cons at the moment. The software has pretty much all it needs. However, it would be good if there was a way to auto-intend YAML files. Not sure if plugins are already available. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding any change in the code file from the old code file was always a challenge when your files are huge and contain thousands of lines. I work with sql files to track changes and do my job easily. ### 18. Very useful tool specially for code to compare **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhinav B. | Associate Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** User just need to add the codes in which he/she wants to compare among each other, It will itself give the line to line comparison for the same. Very easy to use and it gives efficient results. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** There isn't specifically anything that I didn't like about this tool. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** If I making some changes in code and need to check what was the existing, then I have to just paste the older version of code, it will automatically give me the linewise results. It saves a lot of time and manuall hardwork. ### 19. Code Compare is a great option **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Code compare is really helpful when you are using github or a git-based code repository. I really particularly enjoy that it is so clear about what has changed in the code when doing merges. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** There's nothing that I can think of that I particularly dislike about Code Compare. It really does work well for me, so I couldn't say that there's anything I dislike at this time. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly the problems that we're solving with Code Compare is doing git checkins, branches, as well as general code repository management. We've realized for those who are not comfortable performing these actions in the command line that Code Compare really works well to assist them in doing their jobs. ### 20. Best experience that can only be enjoy instead of expressing in words **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aakash P. | Senior Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Frankly saying, I like everything. From the way it compares the code commit by commit till the smooth and silky way in which it fetches the code from the repository **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** In my opinion, I can say that, everything is good except the user accessibility. If proper design elements can be use, then it can impact in a very beautiful manner. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using code compare to match the changes or to verify the changes against the last commits. And if anything goes wrong in commits, then we can fix it at the same time. ### 21. Easiest tool to compare two different files in different folders to find out the differences. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anshika A. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Simple to use and most beneficial for software developers or anybody who wants to compare the two textual files. It can also find the difference between two folders containing two text files. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** No Cons as it is simple and easy there is no complexity in using this tool. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** While merging two similar codes if there is any difference in the two codes so that can be identified before the merging process which is a great advantage for us. ### 22. Awesome tool for Software developer to compare code. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinay k. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Code compare is really helped me to identify what is changed, what code added and removed while reviewing the changes. I really love the way how it compares commit by commit. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Nothing more to dislike, but they need to provide some more features like other existing tools. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily uses this tool while comparing latest commit changes with last commit changes and also while merging, compare code with target branch. With this tool, I can quickly and effectively review the code. ### 23. Code Compare Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Folder comparison feature that can compare the whole folder and its files **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Slow when integrated in visual studio, when compared to own built-in tool **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily programming ### 24. A Very Powerful Tool Indeed. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** The most appealing feature of Code Compare for me is the Graphic user Interface also known as GUI as it is a very interactive user experience which helps in simple use of the tools present **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Nothing to dislike at the moment it is so easy to use that anyone can toggle around it and find it features useful and can implement on their own without any external guide **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly using it to compare and merge different codes at the moment which helps in greatly amplifying the efficiency and the usability of the code present with us at the moment ### 25. Unique and very useful for developers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** THe best part about Code Compare is its unique and still very easy to use UI and BE. The way it compares your codes is just too good. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Nothing as such to dislike about. Indeed a must have application for all developers out there. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Code Compare, I generally compare my prior and re-written codes to review the changes and modify wherever needed. It not only compares your code but also has very good extensions to support you in your day-to-day coding journey. ### 26. Easiest way to compare your codes. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dulanjali S. | Associate Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Ease of use. Speed. Secure. Suite for Beginner to Expert. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Code Compare is not free. It is caused by lagging on my computer. **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** Code Compare is the best application. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** I usually write codes for projects. According to software development best practices, we need to control our software application version by version. In that case, we need to compare codes between two code snippets. Here, "Code Compare" helps to fulfill my requirement. ### 27. Best in the market **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Puneet Kumar R. | Senior Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It has amazing features to document and present your code in a modern way also, it is effortless to use. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Few features do not work as required and user interface can be a bit better. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has amazing fwatures to solve merge conflicts and compare your code after any changes. It has such nice features and it gets the job done effortlessly. ### 28. Best Tool for code compare **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sagar W. | Autosar Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Very user friendly GUI, which helps to easily compare and merge the code **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Detailed user guide will be required to understand and optimally use the feature **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** Easy way to review your code and changes **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a developer, there are many changes, it helps to compare and merge. Also it is very helpful to review the changed code ### 29. Best file and folder comparison tool integrated to version control **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It integrates well with many popular SVN tools like SVN, Git, Mercurial. Also integrated with Visual studio so comparing and merging becomes easy. Detailed highlights of the changes. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** There is missing feature for comparing PHP langauge structural codes. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** The code compare helps identify the mistakes or the differences between two codes. It also highlights the changes which were made in the two versions of the code so helps compare and maintain version control in codes. ### 30. Code Compare Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Helps in file comparison across multiple platform pipeline, you can sync easily in the production system too, allows easy comparasion of files, have tried other tools but prefer the GUI for this one **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Time consuming when you look at alternate platforms, multi tabs comparison is slow, visual studio intergration and version control integration can be improved .. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly I use it for folder comparison and visual studio integration , also for text comparison and merging. Useful for semantic source code comparison too, and as a visual studio extension ### 31. A great code comparison tool for Git source files **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Seamless integration with git source (which is what I use it for). Excellent visual representation making it easy to find the difference between two git source files. It is easy to use, visually appealing and does the trick. Code compare is a great software that makes life a ton easier for anyone writing a code, particularly git users. It also has multi-monitor support which makes life infinitely easier. The software also supports 4K displays. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** I haven't found anything in particular that I disliked about this software. It is straightforward to use and is very fast. The only thing I don't like is that it only runs on Windows computers. However, the software itself is fantastic. **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** Code Compare is a must-have tool for anyone that has a windows OS computer. In my opinion, this software works best with multiple monitors. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comparing different versions of my code in a seamless and straightforward way. Because of this software, I was able to make my code run efficiently and quickly. This tool is a must-have for any coder. ### 32. Code compare - Effective tool for folder and file comparison **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Code compare can be easily integrated with Visual studio tools which helps developers to compare the files and folders with other versions and do the merging in flawless manner. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** As of now, there are no downsides and dislikes for this product **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multiple branches of code can be easily compared with this tool. At a time, user can do three way comparison, tool will highlight merging conflicts which is useful for developers to do merging. ### 33. Merging has never been so easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Often it happened that at the moment of merging two files inside by projects i was going completely mad , the way Code compare helps you in this task is wonderful. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** There are still some little bugs and they should improve the support to be able to have those fixed in a timely manner, but as the newer versions are available i still less bugs that before **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to merge files without running in common issues in a mono repo project, also really useful when i have to replace common string patterns in few different files at once ### 34. Finally, I've found my one and only code comparison tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Markus H. | Senior Software Developer and Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** I've spent the last weeks to search and evaluate at least ten code comparison tools. This wasn't easy because I have a lot of requirements what I'm expecting from such a tool. I've used the same diff tool for the last 10 years now and it wasn't bad. But it's deprecated and will not be developed further, so I started searching for something better which is more future-proof. My main requirements are: - Code-centric file comparisons mainly for C# - not only the characters or words, but by analyzing the syntax and semantics of the programming language - Crystal clear visualization of changes without the need to think about it, especially when a block of code was moved and partly changed as well - Ability to customize keyboard shortcuts for moving changes from one side to another, navigating from change to change, reloading of the current files and for closing the program - Ability to customize colors, fonts and font sizes - Easy Git integration - Windows Explorer integration (compare an arbitrary file or folder with another one somewhere else) - Good performance - Folder comparison - Show differences in encodings and line endings - Show a quick message box if two files are equal (This definitely wasn't the case in every tool I've tried.) - Nice to have: Dark mode - Moderate price - No need for other types of comparisons like images or parts of the registry After I've seen quite a lot of code comparison tools, I can honestly say that Code Compare is definitely the right tool for me. I absolutely love that Code Compare gives me nearly full control over the comparison process. It's the only tool that lets me choose the comparison quality and has other fine granular options for comparing. Other than Code Compare, most other tools didn't correctly detect or visualize if some code was moved and changed at the same time. This is really essential for me before committing some code. Code Compare fully satisfies my requirements above. No other product on the market has accomplished this in such an extent. There are other good diff tools out there but they are mostly not code-centric. Code Compare focuses primarily on code and therefore manages to get far ahead of the other diff tools regarding this topic. I'm really glad that my long search is finally over. One item that could be improved a bit more is the support for dark mode. At the moment you can inverse the colors of the text editor but even with the dark skin there are still parts of the UI which are not dark, like the line number column. Another minor detail would be support for the newest C# features like local functions when analyzing the code semantics. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** I've tried a 3-way merge a few times and it didn't fit my needs. In addition, there's apparently no way to set the default view for merging. (In my case it would be the 3-Pane Mixed View and not the 3-Pane Side by Side View.) **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** If you want an actively developed code comparison tool, which also understands the syntax and semantics of the programming language, then Code Compare is your tool of choice. Comparison of folders works very well too. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a professional software developer since 20 years and have worked in at least 15 projects for business and enterprise customers. Code Compare is now my daily companion. I use it many times each day to check my changes before committing them to Git. Code Compare has always given me a perfect view of my changes and has therefore ensured a high level of code quality, faster development time and a feeling of good confidence about my work. ### 35. Good tool for comparing your java code **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** We can compare our code based on our needs like ignore case and ignore whitespaces. We can also compare 2 folders in a tree structure. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Sometimes the difference between the code is not shown exactly, it marks entire line as difference instead of changes which is very annoying. **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** We can go for it blindly, it is very much productive than win merge **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can integrate this with Tortoise git so that we can compare accurately before commiting ### 36. Best tool for compare and merge **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohan J. | Senior Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** I like how it is very user friendly and even beginners can use it very quickly. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** So far no negative points for it, works totally for all needs **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation and testing of environment setup ### 37. This helps alot in compairing code from two diff version or environment. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Radheyshyam Y. | Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Easy to compare. Accommodate changes from one version to another. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** nothing. easy to compare and use. easy to handle this. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** production movement files to be compared with existing uat files and vice versa. ### 38. One of the best Apps to review your code changes **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hrudvi Ranganath B. | S, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It's version control is one of the best, gives us an option to switch between versions easily. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Can be a bit complex for beginners to use **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was part of agile team, so code compare gave me a chance to compare the code versions ### 39. Very Useful to find out changes in multiple files **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishesh K. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It helps me to update the latest code changes from the production kit easily into the local testing environment. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** It just needs to improve in the performance while comparing the heavy files. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to compare multiple files and save the changes abruptly. It has different colors set for varied code, which helps quickly identify the type of change. ### 40. Code Compare **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lokesh M. | Sr. Solution Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Ease of use of the tool & text format of code will compare **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** jumbled code with differences in different line nos of two separate files is hard to compare **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** code compare is an excellent tool to compare the code of production & development for transferring the mods to the production **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Merging developed code to the production ### 41. How friendly user it is. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Ease of use and we can easily understand how to use it for everyone. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Some times it is not comparing properly and lagging a lot which makes people feel discomfort. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** When ever I write a code and will check as per requirement code using this code compare and that will help me make ease of my job ### 42. Code compare review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** Code compare is a good tool for compare code. When you have many differences between 2 files, you can use code compare to see the difference. It is lovely becasuse You save a lot of time with this tool. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Code compare must improve the interface and enhance the integration with other IDEs. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Code compare saves a lot of time because it helps you in your daily development compare code between 2 files and another file of the repositories. ### 43. Good code compare tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** If you are a software/web developer and every working on code, then you must use the code compare. We can compare the changes between two files simply using the code compare. It provides feature like to remove the while spaces changes which makes the changes clear. If we made changes in a code file or any other text files then we can see the changes between old version and new version of the file. It is a good toll for comparing and it is a light weight in terms of size to install in computer. It also provide feature to compare different language files like HTML, javascript, SQL, PHP etc. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** It is sometimes taking more time to open and sometimes it stucks while opening. Need some optimisation while opening the code compare tool. If you open it, it always opening in a new windows instead of the same window. **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** If you area a software developer then it will very good toll to use for code comparison with any type of languages like HTML,css, SQL, php etc. It will be very helpful to see the smallest changes in you code even if there is single space changes. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it on daily basis to compare the code changes, SQL query changes, stored procedures and function changes. It provides a good feature to compare multiple files also in same window. ### 44. Code Compare **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** The UI. Easy integration. Code alignment. It is free **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Best comparison tool for me. Havent realised any dislikes so far. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comparing code base/folders before deployment. merging codes ### 45. Useful and helpful tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isaac C. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** All the options are useful for integrating code from different entities. What I like about this product is that it allows me to easily compare the codes and easily identify the code that needs to be changed. What I like about this product is that it allows me to easily compare the codes and easily identify the code that needs to be changed. Toolbar options to provide code source from different locations. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** There are no major points to dislike about Code Compare, and sometimes the results are not appropriate, and sometimes the GUI gets stuck. I didn't find any dislike, but they should provide a few more features as well, like GitHub. **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** I would recommend it to anyone who has a job on a different version of a file system or a bunch of developers working on the same code at the same time. I would recommend it to anyone who has a job on a different version of a file system or a bunch of developers working on the same code at the same time. If you need software to identify the exact changes, go ahead. I would recommend it to anyone who has a job on a different version of a file system or a bunch of developers working on the same code at the same time. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** When uploading my code to git, I usually compare if I want to revert to the previous version if my current version has issues and use the comparison code. In my current organization, I used it to compare large SQL runmes, files, and all SQL jobs to keep track of changes after updating the system and easily fix any issues by comparing the latest code with the old one. This product helps keep our team efficient and our code comparison sessions quick and easy. Ability to obtain code differences. ### 46. One of the Nice tool from Devart to compare the different version of code or file. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul Kumar S. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It has got customized comparison feature like ignore the white spaces or ignore the character case as well as window of the file can be layout in different form like three pane view two pane view etc. They provide the comparison tool for free as well as paid and they also give the trial version. One can see the changes easily and merge them as per their need. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Not to dislike but they are not innovative and do not bring the update fast. similar functionality like the rest of code comparison tool **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** i would recommend it to anyone who has work in the different version of a file system or lot of developer working on the same code at the same time. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** comparing the code with latest version as well as workplace version is very useful and It also comes handy while syncing the changes and merging them ### 47. Best application to identify changes and for file comparison **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankush s. | Quality Analyst, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** It provide us a good interface to compare files and folders to identify the latest changes by ignore the white space and easily to merge latest changes code with old one after comparison. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** While we tried to compare large size files, it's not respond and took long time to open files. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my current organisation I have used it to compare large SQL runmes, files and all sql jobs to keep record the changes after upgrade the system and easily fix any issue by compare code of latest with old one.. ### 48. This tool helps me easily review and refractor code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** What I like about this product is that it can let me easily compare codes and easily spot the code that needs change. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** Some UI changes should be added to have a better view of the UI, especially when viewing in 4k monitors. **Recommendations to others considering Code Compare:** UI enhancement **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** In debugging codes that need asap, and viewing history don't much help, I pull up code compare to easily spot the difference and will assist me what codes caused a bug. ### 49. what a great application for code comparison. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LOKESH S. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** i like that when you forget your changes in code, this tool helps to find your changes by comparing with initial code before the change. It easy to use. **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** not found any dislike but they should provide some more features also like git hub. **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to find out changes in application/code by comparison and helps alot to resolve issues if occurred due to our code. ### 50. It's very helpful in comparing stuff **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachana K. | Software Developer 2, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Code Compare?** it can be integrated into a range of version control systems and, thus, enhance change tracking and synchronization are easier **What do you dislike about Code Compare?** sometimes the results are n't appropriate and sometimes the GUI gets stuck **What problems is Code Compare solving and how is that benefiting you?** when uploading my code into git i usually compare if i want to go to previous version if my current version has problems and use code compare ## Code Compare Discussions - [How do I compare codes online?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-compare-codes-online) - [Is Code Compare free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-code-compare-free) - [How do you compare codes?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-compare-codes) - [What is the best comparison software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-comparison-software) - [View Code Compare pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/code-compare/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-22+18%3A57%3A41+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=532a6bd5-a17a-44fe-a219-9b325f87b726&secure%5Btoken%5D=d777c4172dae66c2bfac930789028e4b4e532925bdd215dcfe9265d122472de0&format=llm_user) ## Top Code Compare Alternatives - [SourceTree](https://www.g2.com/products/sourcetree/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (372 reviews) - [GitKraken Desktop](https://www.g2.com/products/axosoft-gitkraken-desktop/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (196 reviews) - [Git Tower](https://www.g2.com/products/git-tower/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (186 reviews)