Audience
Developers and any user looking for a free graphical computer application to compare two different text files or directories
About Kompare
Kompare is a free software graphical computer application that helps the user to compare two different text files or two directories. Kompare does not actually compute the differences between the compared files itself, but is merely a graphical front end to the command line interface diff utility. However, the colour coding of changed lines makes them very easy to spot. Comparison of files or directories via a graphical interface. Bezier-based connection widget lets you see both source and destination as they really appear. Graphical viewing of patch files in normal, context, unified and diff formats. Graphical interface to commonly used diff command-line options. Easy navigation of multiple-file diffs with the dockable navigation tree. Ability to view plain-text diff output in the embedded viewer. Interactive application of differences. Provides full network transparency.
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Free Version:
Free Version available.
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KDE
Founded: 1996
Germany
userbase.kde.org/Kompare
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