# winmerge Reviews **Vendor:** It's open source... **Category:** [Other Content Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-content) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 8 ## About winmerge WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle. ## winmerge Reviews ### 1. WinMerge is the default diff and merge tool on Windows as it is well featured and free to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2022 **What do you like best about winmerge?** What I like best about WinMerge is that it provides the perfect set of features for my use case. I very often use the tool to view diffs between files of structured data such as XML or JSON, and it's moved block detection, highlighting of changes, and being able to ignore whitespace differences lets me visualize the important differences between two files. I like that it lets me do diffs on files, but also do diffs on any text I paste into the tool on the fly. But best of all is the price, as it is an open-source free-to-use diff and merge tool for Windows. **What do you dislike about winmerge?** One minor gripe I have with WinMerge is that its user interface could be prettier and a bit more modern, as it looks like a Windows XP era application and the toolbar icons are a bit dated. I also dislike the default font Courier, and always change it to Consolas just after installing. **Recommendations to others considering winmerge:** WinMerge is free and open-source, so there is no reason not to try it first before buying another tool if you need a file diff / merge tool for Windows. **What problems is winmerge solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use WinMerge to view differences between application configuration files in different software lifecycle environments in JSON or XML format, and move or merge those differences with the easy to use interface to copy differences from one file to another. ### 2. Winmerge - versatile tool to merge all the codewins **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sreekanth P. | Maestro , Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2024 **What do you like best about winmerge?** I use winmerge a lot for reviewing the code changes in the large files. Winmerge has a support for upto 3 concurrent window viewing at the same time. We can also use different format of input files to view, modify the code. It is really useful for those who primarily works on the large text files to track the changes. **What do you dislike about winmerge?** Nothing as such, ui improvement can make it a more powerful tool in the current market. **What problems is winmerge solving and how is that benefiting you?** WinMerge is a tool used primarily for file and directory comparison, allowing users to see differences between files or directories and merge changes. ### 3. WinMerge Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2024 **What do you like best about winmerge?** WinMerge is Open Source, works for both files and flders and allows even comparing three files/folders. **What do you dislike about winmerge?** Alignment of some files is not ensured if there are whitespaces in one of the files. **What problems is winmerge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comparing intra and inter system configurations quickly ### 4. Very powerful and simple to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisandro F. | Data Engineer Sr Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about winmerge?** Being able to compare folders and files, quickly identify differences in a very simple to understand visual interface, and then merge the required changes into a final version. **What do you dislike about winmerge?** I really do not see any negative aspect, it works perfectly and has plenty of features. **What problems is winmerge solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me identifying changes made to multiple files of complex project, being able to see differences between current version and the desired baseline both at file and file contents level. Once the changes are identifyed you can update the baseline or restore it value either for all of them or one by one. ### 5. It was great experience with winmerge, we can resolve the code branches very easily and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Riyaz A. | Software Developer(C&C++), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about winmerge?** Resolving conflicts between the branches and to checkout the branches and hands on experience. **What do you dislike about winmerge?** I don't like some time win merge execution is slow as expected fast. **What problems is winmerge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Conflicts in code branches and easy to understand changes in different files. ### 6. Not as polished as other paid products, but for free it works great **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about winmerge?** I liked the fact that it was free, as I had recently switched roles and was unable to use my comparison software I was used to. This product filled the need I had (to compare large files) perfectly fine. Although it was not as polished as other tools, it got the job done and displayed the results in an easy to read fashion. There was also a whole host of plugins that I did not utilize but seemed very useful. **What do you dislike about winmerge?** The compare results are not nearly as polished as the other (paid ) products that I was used to. The interface seems a bit more dated than other products, and it was a bit difficult to navigate to some features. **What problems is winmerge solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for tesitng coding changes, both the actual code differences and also the data differences coming out as a result of the coding changes. I also use comparison software to help debug and find differences in output flows to see what might have changed ### 7. winmerge review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaime M. | Senior backend software, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2021 **What do you like best about winmerge?** I like it because I can easily compare two files and find some errors **What do you dislike about winmerge?** There are some processes in which it is difficult to compare a bit, for example line breaks or some space **What problems is winmerge solving and how is that benefiting you?** File comparison before uploading to production ### 8. Having more than 4 years of experience using winmerge for comparsion **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Farhan A. | Lead Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2021 **What do you like best about winmerge?** We are using winmerge for code comparison to ensure it contains only the required code for particular change requests and Jira stories. It supports folder comparison, a very time-saving feature provided by winmerge; it will simultaneously compare all changed files. Best thing is it is open source. We can traverse through all tab for folder and file comparsion. We allows to compare binary file as well. **What do you dislike about winmerge?** Compare to Beyondcompare its interface is not attractive. **Recommendations to others considering winmerge:** Best open source software for code comparison and save your development and maintain your quality and review effiecient. **What problems is winmerge solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are comparing the code while developing to get rid of unwanted debug messages and to maintain code quality. ## winmerge Discussions - [What does Winmerge do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-winmerge-do) - [What is WinMerge EXE?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-winmerge-exe) - [How does WinMerge compare three files?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-winmerge-compare-three-files) - [What is WinMerge used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-winmerge-used-for) - [View winmerge pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/winmerge/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+09%3A44%3A52+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=44bd130d-b276-4190-b36c-0b2797dac044&secure%5Btoken%5D=f8b121592243d2359e5e9ab9a621760ed0cb7222af2c88162e1c2376db15728f&format=llm_user) ## Top winmerge Alternatives - [UltraCompare](https://www.g2.com/products/ultracompare/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (13 reviews) - [Wipster](https://www.g2.com/products/wipster/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (49 reviews) - [Google Cloud OpenCue](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-opencue/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (25 reviews)