--- title: Compare It! by Grig Software Reviews meta_title: 'Compare It! by Grig Software Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 17 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Compare It! by Grig Software works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 17 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # Compare It! by Grig Software Reviews **Vendor:** Grig Software **Category:** [CMS Tools ](https://www.g2.com/categories/cms-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About Compare It! by Grig Software Easily compare and merge text files; compare doc, xls and pdf files; prepare comparison reports and printouts. ## Compare It! by Grig Software Reviews ### 1. Review for compareit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohan D. | Senior Sas programmer l, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** It allows to compare programs or 2 notepad, word files from same or different locations and can highlight the changes where change happens. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** As of now nothing as such to dislike in this product. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** When there is audit trail foe any program and if we want to find some change in old and new versions thre compare it help us like angel. ### 2. A Very convenient tool for quick comparison **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen S. | Sr PeopleSoft Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Really cool tool for a quick comparison. The compare report is the one which is one of the best features. This report can be printed to a PDf to share as well. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** The UI Part shouldhave been still better. It wont store the session of the recent compares done. also if the files to be compared are on a shared drive/one drive then most of the times I had issues getting CompareIt to read from the one drive. Not sure if this is issue with CompareIt or with security **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** na **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot of SQLs based comparison which are similar but slightly different than one another. It will be hard if we can't compare them side-by-side. With the side by side compariso this helps for a quicker compare and fix the issues. Increased my productivity with this ### 3. Amazing magical tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramya J. | Health Advisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Allows file , folder comparison. also helps in merging files.copy pasting the file content is easy across versions. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** File open wizard could be more easier.the ace of opening files could have been better **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** Na **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everyday I work in a environment where version control is not available.the code base will keep on overridden by others team members.viewing the repository makes easier ### 4. compare data is so useful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deeksha S. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Some time in a development we have a data in file and again run the code and gain the data in files but may be there is some thing edition or less data it is now very easy to find that data with compare now. also we have compare data word by word no of matches and unmatched counts on both files. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** i am nothing to dislike on it. its doing our jobs to compare two files is so easy. **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** yes i had recommended it to my collogues. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** it's solved my problem compare string text words etc. ### 5. Simple, yet useful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rosa S. | Sales And Marketing Specialist, Food & Beverages, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** CompareIt is a tool I use rarely, but when I need it it always helps. We mostly use Google Docs for writing collaboration so finding the changes isn't complicated there. But when we receive texts from freelancers that have come through several iterations and versions, CompareIt helps with seeing all of the changes applied. It's essential for us to check if all of the corrections and additions were made, so running the two versions side-by-side is a very fast and effective way. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** With how simple and straightforward CompareIt is there's little to dislike. Of course it's not 100% correct all the times, but in a different manner. Sometimes CompareIt detects more differences than there actually is, but that's the additional point t check that's brought to our attention. So it's better to find more than miss something. **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** CompareIt is a very simple tool that helps with saving a ton of time comparing multiple versions of the same file (in case you don't have a dedicated version control). It's free and definitely worth using. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comparing multiple iterations of text received from external writers to make sure that all of the necessary corrections were made. This approach saves a ton of time when checking the texts for differences. ### 6. Irreplaceable app **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramona H. | Markting Manager, Insurance, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Compare It! is an app with a very simple premise - it compares two texts and highlights the differences.In the modern age of version control in Google Docs or Zoho Writer, you'd think that you don't need an app like that. Yes, for the comparison of the internal docs it makes no sense. But when a client sends you the 6th version of the newly updated contract without marking the corrections, this is where Compare It!comes into play. You simply paste two texts side by side and Compare It!shows you what has changed between them. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Compare It! is a free and rather simple app, so don't expect much. It might not show you all the differences at once and the parts of text might not be fully marked, but its more than enough to know where you should start looking for the miss-matches between the two documents. **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** A very useful app to keep around. It's free so it makes sense to run it when receiving a new iteration of a client or customer. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We primarily use Compare It! to compare documents that arrive vie email from customers, those are mainly the iterations of various contract. It helps save time on manually comparing two docs for corrections and differences when a client fails to do so beforehand. ### 7. Useful for file comparison on Windows **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave H. | IT Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Compare it is a great file comparison tool for windows, being GUI based it's about as easy as it gets! You simply select the two files you wish to compare and it returns a split-screen, with one file on the left and the other on the right. The differences between the files are clearly shown by way of highlighting, it also leaves a space where the difference is on the other file, so the rest of the code matches up and again it's easier to see where the change is. There''s lots of other useful little features, like the ability to send the difference to the other file or vice versa, by way of a single click. The files are clearly titled at the top, this helps greatly with confusion. When starring into the abyss of a lcd until dawn you can easily forget which files current....well I can anyway, a quick glance up and you know your on track. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Having to remember to ctrl+tab to insert a tab for me is a minor niggle. The standard functionality is that the tab key changes you over the the other file, I use the tab key frequently when indenting code. If your like me, fear not, they have included a way to change the keymapping which is the perfect solution albeit a bit clunky. Found in the options, I removed the keymapping for the switching pane, which was set to the tab key. After this the tab key just did nothing, I had to go back and find the keymapping for inserting a tab and then remove the ctrl + tab and just add a tab on its on. Most keymapping I've used work on the logic that if a key isn't assigned, the default for the key is used. If you don't map a space bar to something,...it should produce a space. **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** Very useful file comparison tool for Windows that is extremely easy to use. It's available free as shareware, so you have nothing to lose. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compare It for me is a time saving tool, it's quicker and easier to get a quick visual of differences when coding. It's also helped with troubleshooting, upgrading and various other in-house tasks where we have needed to check files against their originals to catalog any modifications. ### 8. Compare It makes light work of what can be very difficult **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff K. | Senior IT Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** I like that the software is considerably easier to use than most other products claiming to do the same thing. When comparing many documents in a row, it is nice that the software remembers the last folders from both the source and destination files so you don't have to keep browsing back to where you want to be. The product is very user friendly and doesn't take a huge learning curve to figure out what you are doing. Each feature has been very easy to use as well as very easy to find. Some products like to add more features into their software which in turn either makes it look bad or they weren't able to follow through on any one feature. That is not compare it. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** I haven't found anything that I dislike just yet. It just seems to work which is all that you can ask for in such a basic product. **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** Don't overthink something like this product. It's simply there to point out the differences and allow you to merge them if wanted. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm able to make updates to existing documents with new versions and easily combine the files to what it needs to be. I've used other products and they seem clunky when it should be something very basic. I wasn't asking for a lot in the product other than to simply point out the differences between files and that is exactly what it does. ### 9. Easy to Use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tammy R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Not being a developer I like this because it makes it very easy to see the differences in working code and non working code. I know just enough about coding that it will allows me to easily see the pain points I am having. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** I have not run into anything I dislike yet. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I compare code from objects in databases that currently work to objects that are not currently working correctly or have errors. I am not a developer but this helps me to determine where I need to start troubleshooting. ### 10. Useful tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcos L. | Systems engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** A simple functionality that takes helps developers a lot. The way that shows you the differences is really comprehensive. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** The need to download a program. Think in a webapp **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** Build a web-based version **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing different versions of a program/scripts that some programers modified ### 11. Compare it tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Compare it is a powerful file compare and merge tool. provides built in editor with ability to highlight syntax , changes with lines or fast by difference merging. best of the features is that it supports multiple platforms like windows , dos , Unix etc **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** no tool is perfect. code compares content inside files but need way to find a fine by name. also does not support block copy functionality. Also tool is not actively upgraded with new functionality **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** using he tool for application development by developers ### 12. Beginner Compare It user. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katie L. | Senior Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Differences-based editing and the fact that documents can be merged. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Unless I am doing something incorrectly, when I compare two Adobe pdfs, the results are defined; however, the results are printed in a font / language that I cannot read. I very well may be doing something wrong and have to look at the Help File. The changes are still defined, so I can still look at the paragraphs on the files individually and determine where the changes are. I just can't read them off of the Compare It tool. **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** The installation process is very simple and speedy. Additionally, the types of files that can be compared are varied and support everything I have needed so far from Excel spreadsheets to Adobe pdfs. A Help file is included as part of the tool and has been a useful resource within the tool. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quite often I am comparing Microsoft Excel documents manually, and when this step is typically only a step in the task at hand. When comparing the files manually takes so much of my time, the overall project takes longer since I am held up while comparing a number of documents. Using a tool to automate this process is invaluable to my overall project timeline. Using Compare It has helped me so far by reducing the time spent comparing documents from anywhere around a 6 hour effort to only taking minutes for the compare process, and then an hour or two to analyze results. Aside from reduction of time, another business benefit is that users can output the compare results and Save i This way I can run the compare(s) and analyze later. ### 13. Firm believer and user **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Very easy to understand. Works great with Microsoft Office as well **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** No new add ons in awhile but I love it other then that. There isn't much to complain about **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** We havent ran into any problems yet but what we love is You don't have to play around with the programs ### 14. I use this software on a weekly basis to compare different versions of files. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ghislain P. | Analyst / Programmer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** The best thing about this software is it's integration into Windows file explorer. You just have to right-click on the first file, select the option "Compare file #1" then right-click on the second file and select "Compare file #2" and the program loads with the comparison of the two files. Fast and easy. The interface is easy to understand. You can easily spot the changes and the blocks that have been moved. Lastly the level of options you have are great. You can "tweak" the comparison settings to your liking. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** The thing I don't like is the lack of a nice folder comparison. This is something I need from time to time and I have to rely on another program for this purpose. Also, even if the quality of the software is good, there doesn't seem to have any new development on it. That is a shame. The basis is good and there could be so much more functionality added to it. **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** For simple and fast file comparison, this is the tool you need! For folder comparison, unfortunately, you'll need something else. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a programmer, so this helps me to find out if there are differences between files in my development environment and the production environment. The fact that I can launch the comparison in just a few clicks is a big plus in my book. No fussing around the list of programs to find it. ### 15. Excellent tool for tracking changes and merging files **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giridhur S. | Senior Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2016 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** The interface is clean and clear, one can easily use this tool to check how codes have been changed by team members thanks to syntax highlighting. This software supports all document formats, including MS Word, Markdown, HTML., and is extremely useful for me in checking our project documentation, and periodic reports. I recently discovered that it could make comparison of any file format easier, including images, and spreadsheets, though I am not a heavy user of both usecases. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** It's not as advanced as the linux counterparts. In my primary use case, ie writing and reviewing code, many text editors have the functionality as an add in, and hence, I am not motivated to open another program to do the same. It still seems like a decade old software in a new shell. More features like github integration, code folding could be added. **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** You should definitely give this a try, especially if you want to review changes between large volumes of code, for production purposes in Windows. **What problems is Compare It! by Grig Software solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am building a robust software platform to diagnose conditions of the retina. In windows environment, which is my go-to OS for day to day activities, Compare it, is very helpful in checking minute differences between two images and spreadsheets as well. ### 16. Compare It! is a HUGE time-saver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles H. | Vice President, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2012 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** I use Compare It! mostly for text comparison and analyzing different versions of code. The line by line highlighting makes it very easy to quickly identify blocks of code that have changed and untangle messes. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** The workflow defaults to opening files for comparison instead of copying and pasting text. Otherwise it's great! **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** I haven't found anything else out there like Compare It! for text and file comparison. ### 17. Excellent for MS Office Documents, And Cheap! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael F. | Senior Technical Account Manager, Team Lead, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2012 **What do you like best about Compare It! by Grig Software?** I have yet to find a product that does as good a job with MS Office files as this. **What do you dislike about Compare It! by Grig Software?** Lack of customizable actions. **Recommendations to others considering Compare It! by Grig Software:** For the price, you cannot beat it. ## Compare It! by Grig Software Discussions - [What is Compare It! used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-compare-it-used-for) - [View Compare It! by Grig Software pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/compare-it-by-grig-software/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-20+13%3A58%3A41+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=74fbb280-13ae-4b53-90bb-301e303a6e65&secure%5Btoken%5D=7e5e91a44474a44371a598ac74c493fa07fdc4a54adcb5ab901a48c0d49b6d22&format=llm_user) ## Compare It! by Grig Software Features **Editing** - Photo Editing - Video Editing **Other Content Features ** - SEO Optimization - Collaboration - Content Proofing - Interactive Content - Content Scheduling - Import Content ## Top Compare It! by Grig Software Alternatives - [RELAYTO AI](https://www.g2.com/products/relayto-ai/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (454 reviews) - [WeTransfer](https://www.g2.com/products/wetransfer/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (509 reviews) - [FlippingBook](https://www.g2.com/products/flippingbook/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (292 reviews)