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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​

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 - You will see the difference…

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.

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[lokamoka820]

WinMerge 2.16.44
Oct 27, 2024

General​

• Added Medium size (24px) option to Toolbar icons

Webpage compare​

• BugFix: Differences panel for Webpage mode (winwebdiff#7)

Plugins​

• BugFix: Floating-point precision issue in CompareMSExcelFiles.sct plugin (#2494)

Translations​

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2493)
  • Corsican (PR #2490)

Release v2.16.44 · WinMerge/winmerge

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[lokamoka820]

WinMerge 2.16.46
Jan 27, 2025

General​

• BugFix: ALT-F4 opens Tools menu instead of exit from WinMerge (#2592)
• BugFix: Fixes an issue causing a momentary drawing shift when launching
  WinMerge with Windows animation effects enabled and the window maximized.

Folder compare​

• BugFix: Compare - Text files different and case also different - bug when delete and copy (#2599)
• Add a Prompt to Copy Only Differences in Folder Comparison (PR #2622,#198,#1168,#1350,#1995)

Plugins​

• BugFix: Fixes an issue where the Plugins → Prediffer menu is not displayed
  correctly since version 2.16.43.
• BugFix: Fixed an issue in the CompareMSPowerPointFiles.sct plugin that
  caused error 0x80048010 when comparing PowerPoint files
• Enable per-file plugin application with file number specification (PR #2598)
• Some Plugins window fixes (PR #2621)

Manual​

• BugFix: Typos and minor errors in WinMerge manual (#2597)

Translations​

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2601,#2623)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2603,#2624)
  • French (PR #2595,#2612)
  • Hungarian (PR #2602)
  • Italian (PR #2610,#2627)
  • Japanese
  • Korean (PR #2611,#2630)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2604,#2628)
  • Portuguese (PR #2614)
  • Russian (PR #2593,#2609,#2629)

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v2.16.50.2

File compare​

• BugFix: WinMerge 2.16.50 regression: Crashes when doing "Show only comparison
  results (not file contents)" for large binaries. (#2874)

Folder compare​

• BugFix: After Install of v2.16.50 Folder: Filter is now only being applied to
  1st folder path and not the 2nd and 3th folder paths (#2875)

Filters dialog​

• BugFix: Fixed a crash in the Filters dialog's File Filters tab after installing or creating a new filter.

Translations​

• Translation updates:
  • Brazilian (PR #2883)
  • Chinese Simplified (PR #2865)
  • French (PR #2873)
  • Italian (PR #2869)
  • Korean (PR #2870)
  • Lithuanian (PR #2864)
  • Portuguese (PR #2882)
  • Russian (PR #2867)

Release v2.16.50.2 · WinMerge/winmerge

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WinMerge 2.16.54
Jan 27, 2026

General:

• BugFix: Cyrilic shortcuts do not work for main menukeyboard shortcuts
• BugFix: 2 recent-entries per project (#2990)
• Updated expat to version 2.7.3

Folder compare:

• Add logInfo, logWarn, logError functions to filter expressions (PR #3131)
• Add new filter expression functions
• (if, ifEach, choose, chooseEach, andEach, orEach, notEach) (PR #3132)
• Add BaseName/IsFolder and new string transformation functions to filters
• (PR #3146)
• Add experimental customizable rename/move detection for folder comparison
• (PR #3126)

Options window:

• Adjusted the height of the Options dialog and the position of the Defaults
• button

Shell extension:

• BugFix: Add-AppxPackage fails if path ends with backslash (PR #3145)

Installer:

• Removed build-time tools (lemon.exe, re2c.exe) from the installer package.

Translations:

• New translation: Vietnamese (PR #3142)

Translation updates:

• Brazilian (PR #3150)
• Chinese Simplified (PR #3156)
• French (PR #3137)
• German (PR #3148)
• Hungarian (PR #3149)
• Italian (PR #3147)
• Japanese
• Korean (PR #3125,#3127)
• Lithuanian (PR #3144,#3153)
• Polish (PR #3154,#3155)
• Turkish (PR #3152)
• Ukrainian (PR #3130)

Release v2.16.54 · WinMerge/winmerge

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