CompareMerge App Reviews

Love the app. The only thing with this app is sometimes it displays two files being different when they are the same. Also PLEASE keep history after closing app.

Awesome - does what it says almost instantly. Very happy with this app!

Hoping this app continues to be developed, but as it stands, its not much use to me. Missing features: - the ability to change the start/end point of a difference (ie. the app thinks I want to add in a difference on line 3 - but I actually want to append it after line 5…). - the ability to select one (or more) particular line(s) within a difference block and copy JUST THAT one line (or just the block I selected) - not the entire block the app has highlighted. If the app gets updated, I will gladly update my review.

90% of the files it shows as different are not at all different. looking for something comparable to the simple, and FREE, winmerge for Mac. This tool is *not* it...

If you have lots of files like 1 or 2 TB, you have to wait, so be patient. I looked through all the other utilities and this one had the best reviews. It turned out to be a good choice and did not freeze up on me. I like the way it references the right or left side of the windows so you can eaisly tell which folder has folders have identical or left right only. It is worth the $4.99.

This is a polished app. But its only 90% there as far as Im concerned. Having only line changes highlighted is fine just for quick compares between two files. Without character (or even word level) highlighting of differences, Im still pouring through hundreds of characters of code to find what the differences are. Also the ability to paste code directly into the app to compare would be awesome as well. In short….the improvements Id love to see: 1) Character or word level highlighting differences 2) The ability to paste code into the two text areas to compare. Always having to save my code snippets just to compare them is frustrating. WindDiff for PC does both of these things (and it is free). Of course, I dont have a PC, so this was the best one I could find. Take it across the finish line developers! Ive seen both of these items asked for in other reviews as well, your users want it!

This app works great. I would love to see a visual indicator for the characters that are different between the files, not just a highlight of the lines in yellow. Otherwise this works perfect for me! ****Update May 20, 2013***** Latest update says it now shows the exact text difference but I cant find this anywhere. Due to the lack of this feature working, I knocked my rating down to 3 stars. This app is great for lightweight comparisons but it really needs text difference highlights - it is a real pain to read lines of code trying to find the one value or maybe just character that has changed. If this is added to the app (and works) then this app would be very useful.

I needed a file compare utility and this works great for me. Great price too. Thanks Developers!

I loved WinMerge on windows and wanted something that worked as well on the Mac. If you like WinMerge you will like CompareMerge. Great software. Thank you.

I bought this software to compare text files for changes. An obvious functional requirement. Thus far, CompareMerge has proved useless for my needs with long strings of text highlighted instead of specific, smaller, differences. Usually, I am unable to find the actual difference. There seems to be no difference when changing options for highlighting. Save your money and look elsewhere.

The tool did not finish comparing 2 1.2 MB text files in 5 minutes (while reading data from SSD on 2013 MacBook Pro). Otherwise it works OK on smaller files.

Simple text file comparison locks up the app until it consumes all your computers memory to where you have to shut it down. After several attempts I had no choice but to kiss my $4.99 goodbye and just delete the app!!!

4 weeks ago or so this app was working perfectly. Now when I compare files that are over 1MB the app does not respond, so I have to do a Force Quit. It appartently still compares files that are under 1MB. Please fix soon!!!

I’ve got too many places to put files. Too many computers. This app allows me to connect to my other macs and compare files and folders on different computers. Very useful.

Working on a large XCode project that all of a sudden did not work. Had to have been something significant that changed but did not know exactly what. Had been using WinDiff for years on Windows platform so needed an equivalent tool for Mac. Purchased CompareMerge and compared original code directory to working version and looking thru changed files I found one line that had accidently been deleted. Copied from original file to working file within compare merge then recompiled in Xcode. Worked perfect. This was a HUGE timesaver. Very well designed too.

Over the last couple of weeks I have used this app extensively. I am developing a fairly complitcated Excel VBA program. Using this app I am able to compare different versions of the bas modules. Several updates I made in my code did not work so I had to backtrack. I found differences betwen new and old versions that I never would have found by eye. The code is very easy to use and very intuitive with its color scheme.

This app certainly scratches an itch I’ve had on Mac OSX. I prefer Meld on Linux to this app but that is mostly because of the integration in to file managers like Nautilus and Nemo. If this app had a Finder Service that allowed you to select two files in finder and right click to select Compare Files, that would make it a five star app.

I use this app all of the time. It saves so many possible bugs by allowing me to make quick comparisions between projects and builds. I would *love* the additional option for comparisons to ignore “whitespace” (as those differences don’t really matter in code) and it would make comparing these types of files quicker. Overall, I am very pleased with this purchase!

I was specifically searching for something that would allow me to compare more Numbers documents, and unfortunately this app does not seem to work with Numbers.

It’s good, and certainly helps identify changes. Would be great if the Left and Right buttons would “remember” their last individual locations.