SmartSynchronize

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Compare multiple files to determine whether or not they are identical, edit their content and synchronize directories, with this intuitive tool

SmartSynchronize is an approachable and intuitive software utility that enables you to compare multiple files and folders to find out whether they have identical content or not. It's capable of merging files (up to three) and lets you edit file contents seamlessly.

Simple installer and UI

The setup procedure takes little time to finish and doesn't need special attention. At startup, you are greeted by a dialog that asks you to define the operation type between comparing files or directories, as well as to indicate the left and right items. Alternatively, you can perform a three-way merge by specifying the left, right and base/merge file.

Easily spot differences between files and folders

When it comes to comparing files or folders, SmartSynchronize highlights identical sections in green and different ones in red, thus enabling you to easily spot the differences.
In addition, you can make a text selection and insert it into the left or right panel, save the project to file and resume it later or export it to HTML format, resort to a search function to locate text, ignore whitespace and case change for line comparison, enable synchronized text scrolling, jump to a custom line, as well as enter fullscreen mode.

Configure program settings

As far as app customization is concerned, you can adjust the tab size, hide line numbers and whitespace, customize accelerators, quickly compare files by size and time only, indicate filters with files and directories to exclude, select the preferred encoding mode, modify the default date and time format, personalize the font and colors, apply a proxy configuration for connecting to the Internet, and so on.

Evaluation and conclusion

The software tool performed file comparison jobs rapidly in our tests while remaining light on system resources. It had a good response time and didn't hang, crash or show error dialogs.
All in all, SmartSynchronize sports a wide array of advanced features and configuration properties for comparing files and folders, as well as for merging content.