Page Inspect

WinMerge - You will see the difference…

# WinMerge

You will see the difference…

Download Now!

- **Home**
- Documentation
- Downloads
- Screenshots
- Source Code
- Support
- Translations

## What is 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.

### Screenshot

See the screenshots page for more screenshots.

### Features

WinMerge is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge can be used as an external differencing/merging tool or as a standalone application.

In addition, WinMerge has many helpful supporting features that make comparing, synchronising, and merging as easy and useful as possible:

#### General

- Supports Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or newer
- Handles Windows, Unix and Mac text file formats
- Unicode support
- Tabbed interface

#### File Compare

- 3-way File Comparison New!
- Visual differencing and merging of text files
- Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap
- Highlights differences inside lines
- Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
- Location pane shows map of files compared
- Moved lines detection

#### Folder Compare

- Regular Expression based file filters allow excluding and including items
- Fast compare using file sizes and dates
- Compares one folder or includes all subfolders
- Can show folder compare results in a tree-style view
- 3-way Folder Comparison

#### Image Compare New!

- Support many types of images
- Can highlight the differences with blocks
- Overlaying of the pictures is possible

#### Table Compare New!

- Shows CSV/TSV file contents in table format
- Text can be wrapped for each column

#### Version Control

- Creates patch files (Normal-, Context- and Unified formats)
- Resolve conflict files

#### Other

- Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions)
- Archive file support using 7-Zip
- Plugin support
- Localizable interface
- Online manual and installed HTML Help manual

### WinMerge 2.16.52 - latest stable version

WinMerge 2.16.52 is the latest stable version, and is recommended for most users.

### Support

If you need support, look at our support page for more information how you can get it.

### Developers

WinMerge is an open source project, which means that the program is maintained and developed by volunteers.

In addition, WinMerge is translated into a number of different languages. See our information on translating WinMerge into your own language.

## Change Language

- **EN**
- EU
- CA
- CO
- NL
- EL
- DE
- FR
- JA
- KO
- PL
- PT‑BR
- PT‑PT
- RU
- ES
- ES‑VE
- SL
- SV
- TA
- TR
- ZH‑CN
- ZH‑TW

## Project Pages

- GitHub
- SourceForge *Archive*

## Donate