SwiftCompare is a visual file and folder comparison software for Windows that will save you time and frustration when you need to merge folders or synchronize files. It can be a real life saver when you have out of sync documents, drives, or computers. Easy enough for business people and home users, and powerful enough for software/web developers to use.

SwiftCompare gives you complete control over the operation, enabling you to do things your way rather than forcing you to adapt to the software. At the same time, SwiftCompare offers simplicity and ease of use to the novice user, providing single-click merge/synchronization for both files and folders.

SwiftCompare can help you if you need to:

• Track changes in your documents or source code: SwiftCompare makes it very easy to track changes/modifications between two versions of text documents/source code files/project folders, helping you in rolling back any erroneous changes. You can customize the comparison rules to ignore unimportant differences (like source code comments (C, C++, HTML, JAVA, PERL etc.), multiple spaces, blank lines) and concentrate on the actual and significant changes.


• Keep your office, home PCs and laptop in sync: Working at different locations used to be a lot of trouble. Not anymore. With SwiftCompare you can keep your work (between office, home or any other place) in perfect synchronization. Just compare the two files, folders, drives, or PCs, and merge the changes from one to another based on the fully customizable synchronization rules. It is also easy to synchronize the two with each other based on "Sync Both Folders" rules.


• Manage your family photos, videos: If you keep all your photos, music files, contacts, emails etc. on your computer but are too busy or lazy to reorganize them in proper directories/drives, just 2 minutes of your time and SwiftCompare can do the painstaking job for you with least efforts.


• Restore backup for corrupted project/important files: If for some reason your project files/important documents gets corrupted, and you think you've lost the recent changes made to the same, think again. SwiftCompare can help you compare the same with the last backup copy, and simply replace the corrupted portions of the file(s) with the one in the backup copy, while keeping all the other changes you have made.


• Verify Data: It's a good business practice to verify important data copied/burned onto media like a floppy/USB drive/CD ROM before carrying it to places like home, a presentation site, or any other location. This is easily done by comparing the data byte-by-byte using the binary compare feature of SwiftCompare, so that you will know if the data differs even by one byte.

SwiftCompare has many features, some of which are as follows:

Folder Diff Viewer

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• Compares and synchronize any two folders, drives (including floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, and network drives), or even PCs.


• Offers a multitude of comparison options based on file sizes, contents, modification time, version etc.


• Shows folder difference at various levels, like which file/folder is same, different, older, or newer.


• Filters to ignore files/folders that need not be included for comparison, like empty files/folders, system, hidden files/folders. Can also specify filter by file extension (e.g. : "*.cpp, *.html").


• Has a built in support for right-click menu for copying, moving, deleting, renaming of files/folders. Also enables synchronizing the date/time of two files.


• Enables single click folder synchronization operation. Also includes options to "Sync Both Folders".


• Compares FAT/NTFS files by handling the time incompatibility between FAT/NTFS file systems due to things like DST(Daylight Savings time) and 2 seconds rounding off of time in FAT.


• Performs backups of folder(s) before performing a folder synchronization operation.


• Allows changing fonts/colours to let you view the differences better.


• Generates a folder difference report (in html format).

File Diff Viewer

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• Provides an in place, fully capable text editor, enabling you to edit the files comfortably and perform the common cut, copy, paste, find, replace, undo, redo operations; and dispense with the need to launch an outside editor. Also provides syntax hoghlighting for programmmers/coders in various languages like C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, Fortran, Basic, Pascal, SQL, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, XML, ASP, Batch.


• Provides advanced comparison options, enabling you to ignore spaces, blank lines, capitalization, source code comments etc. Also compares binary files, byte by byte.


• Shows a visual summary of overall differences in files (in a visual diff viewer).


• Offers to merge the differences selectively (by line, text block, or all).


• Enables easy navigation to next/previous difference.


• Provides support for unicode and MBCS (Multi-Byte Character Set).


• Supports Windows, Mac and Unix file systems.


• Offers to backup original file before merge/synchronization operation.


• Allows changing fonts/colours to let you view the differences better.


• Generates a file difference report (in html format).