Beyond Compare vs. Collaborator

Beyond Compare

Beyond Compare

50 Reviews and Ratings

Collaborator

Collaborator

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Beyond Compare	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Beyond Compare from Scooter Software headquartered in Madison is a utility for comparing different version of documents and seeing the differences. It also allows changes to be merged and synchronized.	N/A
Collaborator	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Collaborator is a code review product from SmartBear. It integrates with GitHub, GitLab and Atlassian’s Bitbucket pull request workflows. Every time a pull request is initiated, a Collaborator code review will be created.	$595 per year per user

Pricing

Beyond Compare

Collaborator

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Team: $595
per year per user
Enterprise: $1070
per year per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Beyond Compare	Collaborator
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Beyond Compare	Collaborator
Considered Both Products	Beyond Compare Bushra Mansoor Senior Software Engineer Chose Beyond Compare Notepad++, Sublime Text and UltraEdit Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beyond Compare I used WinDiff and Compare IT in the past, but Beyond Compare is much more complete. Incentivized Helpful? RF Reggie Freedman President Chose Beyond Compare Windows Explorer - Beyond Compare equals WE and passes it by a thousand times. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beyond Compare I utilize Microsoft Excel to create a custom data comparison tool that can handle date formatting and check derived fields. We also have an in house tool, called GIT, that really mirrors the beyond compare technology- I have personally stuck with Beyond Compare instead of GIT. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beyond Compare Notepad++ is the only other product I have seen that has something similar to what Beyond Compare specializes. While Notepad++ can perform the same type of function, it is not nearly as robust or as easy to navigate as beyond compare. It is well worth the investment for the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beyond Compare We've tried many: Code Compare, Meld, UltraCompare, and WinMerge. None of them have the depth of features and speed to handle the work we throw at Beyond Compare. The multi-tabbed interface allows us to sync multiple servers at the same time. It understands multiple file types, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beyond Compare When Beyond Compare 4 came out, we briefly considered looking at other tools, like Code Compare, but in all reality, we never really considered it a viable option. Beyond Compare offers such a comprehensive solution, especially with its Pro License (and 3-way merging … Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer Chose Beyond Compare I haven't run across a whole lot of products that offer just comparisons, besides the classic diff tool. Beyond Compare serves as a specialized tool that usually is part of other software, such as IDEs. It offers some great features of IDE-embedded diff tools. A small but … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Davies Web Application Developer Chose Beyond Compare It's much easier to use than command-line tools like diff. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beyond Compare Notepad++ is a step up from Microsoft's built-in notepad, but it doesn't even come close to comparing with BeyondCompare (pun intended). Notepad++ is better suited to working with a single text file and inserting line numbers for you. BeyondCompare goes far beyond that to help … Incentivized Helpful? Mathieu Gaouette Consultant BI senior/Administrateur - spécialité SAS Chose Beyond Compare To the best of my knowledge, the only 2 alternatives tested were UltraCompare (UltraEdit) and WinMerge. WinMerge is really appealing as it is open source and free. It does have most of the base functionalities of BeyondCompare. Incentivized Helpful? Cristian Bodnarasec Senior Software Development Manager Chose Beyond Compare We had used many tools before buying Beyond Compare. The reason is that it has proven to be the best tool available for files and folder comparison and merging changes; it is quick and easy to use, supports almost all formats and it had a fast adoption by the software team. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beyond Compare Beyond Compare beats WinMemge and Notepad++ hands down for finding differences. Incentivized Helpful? Hernán Silva Senior Front-end developer Chose Beyond Compare BeyondCompare sits atop its category (file/folder comparison and merge), no doubt. Other tools offer similar feature sets but with steeper learning curves or at premium prices. There are only 2 programs worth mentioning as competitors here: Meld, which is open source and has … Incentivized Helpful? JT Joseph Tozzi Senior Software Engineer Chose Beyond Compare There are a lot of options when it comes to file comparison tools with some being free, however, you will be hard-pressed to find another tool that does as much as BeyondComare does for a nominal cost (~$30-$60). For a thorough comparison see … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Beyond Compare I have used Diff Checker, but BeyondCompare comes as a desktop app and is more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Ralph Vanore Graphics Designer & Web Developer Chose Beyond Compare These are free and opensource applications. They do not have most of the features that BeyondCompare has. Even though they are free to use, the reasonable cost of BeyondCompare makes using it over these competitors a no brainer. Incentivized Helpful?	Collaborator No answer on this topic

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User Ratings
	Beyond Compare	Collaborator
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Beyond Compare	Collaborator
Likelihood to Recommend	Best for programmers, engineers to quickly compare different versions of the code before merging to master. Helpful to work with large variety of file extensions. (i.e. txt, binary, excel etc.) Not really helpful for managers/senior team members who are most likely aiming to have a report or summary of the overall changes. Bushra Mansoor Senior Software Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	It allows for scrolling through both documents at the same line level meaning you are not required to skip between files to look at what is different between the two. A comparison between registry hives can easily pinpoint issues for hundreds and thousands of records. Tabbing can allow for multiple compares to take place at the same time. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	I often need to exclude folders or files from the comparison. Currently, the fastest way is to right-click and then pick "exclude" from the context menu. Having the ability to multi-select folders and then exclude the group would be nice. Sometimes we need to verify MD5 and SHA256 fingerprints, and this would be a nice enhancement within the tool. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Again, given the intuitive nature of this program, there is barely any learning curve needed. It is simple, reliable, accurate, and just one of those tools you always have with you and rarely think about until you don't have it. Then it is a case of OMG what was I thinking? This program is just very easy to use, and that makes it more valuable to me than some of my other software tools that cost significantly more. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	I've only contacted Beyond Compare support for one issue ever, and that was an issue we had because we didn't track our license properly. Their support staff was friendly and helpful, quickly identifying the lost license key and helping us understand what our current license terms. We couldn't be happier with the responsiveness of their support. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	When Beyond Compare 4 came out, we briefly considered looking at other tools, like Code Compare, but in all reality, we never really considered it a viable option. Beyond Compare offers such a comprehensive solution, especially with its Pro License (and 3-way merging functionality.). Our development team is so comfortable with Beyond Compare at this point that it would represent a learning curve to shift off of it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	A positive impact is the very quick result set for files that are configured in the same manner (just select the files and get your results). A positive is this software is not licensed based. A negative is the overhead of editing fields such as dates to be equivalent. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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