UltraCompare Professional is a powerful compare/merge program loaded with features to track differences between files, directories, Word docs, zip archives; with support for both text/binary compare of two or three files at a time, merge differences, editing, and more. Plus, UltraCompare is fully integrated with UltraEdit or UEStudio.

The UltraCompare Professional is a powerful compare/merge application loaded with features to enable users to track differences between files, directories, and .zip archives.

Designed to work seamlessly together with UEStudio or UltraEdit, UltraCompare Professional provides the perfect dovetail of editing, programming, comparison, merging, and synchronization tasks.

Use as a standalone application or as part of an integrated editing solution with UltraEdit/UEStudio.

UltraCompare Lite is a free version of UltraCompare Professional with limited functionality. The chart below outlines the differences between the two applications. UltraCompare Professional requires a separate license and registration while UltraCompare Lite comes free with UltraEdit/UEStudio out of the box.

Features

• Powerful three way text file compare
• Windows explorer shell integration (right click menu in Windows Explorer) (not yet available for 64-bit systems)
• Ability to edit text lines and merge within UltraCompare
  • Changes can either be saved or merged to other file
  • Changed lines are highlighted until they are saved
• Download webpage or web file for text compare by typing its URL into the file address bar
• Manually re-sync two lines and begin the compare from those chosen lines
• Copy/paste multiple selected contiguous lines to clipboard
• Copy compare frame to clipboard
• Ability to compare whitespace differences between text files (tabs and spaces)
• Set tab value to a specific number of spaces (like UltraEdit/UEStudio)
• Compare column ranges of data
  • Set column range(s) to be compared
  • Set column range(s) to be ignored
• Ability to compare text snippets, including ability to:
  • Paste text into blank compare frames
  • Clear compare frames (temp files are automatically deleted)
  • Merge and save compare results as a separate file
• Bookmark support
• Ability to delete lines from file
• Line-by-line compare of individual text files
• Status bar shows number of lines/blocks with differences
• Compare difference summary includes:
  • data in source but not in destination file (or vice versa)
  • character differences between files on the same line
  • option to automatically display immediately following compare
• Launch folder compare or text compare from command line
• Ignore options:
  • Ignore case
  • Ignore spaces
  • Ignore blank lines
  • Line terminator differences
  • Lines which begin with: <character or string>
  • Lines which contain: <character or string>
  • Lines which end with: <character or string>
  • A defined number of lines at the beginning of file
  • A defined number of lines at the end of file
• EBCDIC compare supported
• Double-byte compare supported

• Threaded compare engine for quick handling of large directories
• Intuitive tree-style view
  • Includes open/close nodes for subdirectories
  • Double-click a compared file or folder to launch a new compare in a new session
• Compare three folders at at time
• Compare remote (FTP/SFTP) folder to local folder
• Compressed archive compare
  • ZIP file compare
  • ZIP file password support
  • RAR file compare
  • Java JAR file compare
• Side-by-side directory compare presentation
• Windows explorer shell integration (right click menu in Windows Explorer) (not yet available for 64-bit systems)
• Switch comparison method on the fly (basic, full, or smart [includes text compare])
• Split compare screen to preview text in one pane while moving from file to file
• Compare files based on time, date, or size
• Optionally ignore user-specified directories and file types
• Optionally ignore file timestamp differences
• Ability to customize display of file date/time format in folder compare
• Set a NOT operator for filter (ie, NOT *.bak, etc.)
• Provide live update on progress (useful when working with large nested directory trees)
• Favorite files and folders allow quick access to commonly used compare items
• Explore source or destination directory by right clicking in folder compare mode
• Compare individual directories
• Recursive compare of directories (includes subdirectories)
• Difference summary includes:
  • same named files with different sizes
  • same named files with different creation dates/times
  • file type: binary or ascii
  • option to automatically display immediately following directory compare
• Compare two directory structures and see which files have different permissions
• Select files with different names in folder compare mode and compare them
• Right-click on column headings and select fields

• Compare Microsoft Word documents
• Compare RTF Files

• Byte-for-byte binary comparison
• Binary compare from command line
• Option to display decimal offset rather than hexadecimal

• Binary comparison allowing for shifted data
• Command line invocation
• Option to display decimal offset rather than hexadecimal

• Undo merge
• Merge compared lines/blocks between files for two and three way text compare
• Merge compared files between directories for two and three way folder compare
• Selected line merge capability
• Accept all (or merge all) button for text mode, and folder mode
• Word-level (or selection-level) replacement and insertion
• Mark merged lines for review
• Enhanced merging - allows changes to be added to changes in other file
• Merge contents of compared directories
• Automatically move to the first difference when loading
• Automatically move to next difference after merge

• Print compare results in color
• Ability to use UltraCompare in batch files to produce reports, side-by-side difference output
• Print right or left compared file from File menu
• Print compare difference summary showing matching lines or differences only
• Print and save differences in context
• Print and save differences of one file
• Print and save files side by side
• Print and save differences from binary compare
• User configurable report headers/footers

• FTP support
• Open left/right compare file independently
• Drag and drop files to compare frame from Windows explorer
• Close All in the file menu and as a button
• Automatic file change detection

• Integrated IE browser support - display and compare HTML files as they would appear in the browser
• Show file in browser
• Text relational lines mode
• Full width display of active line of each compared file at bottom of application
• Ability to word wrap compare files
• Graphical scrolling display to easily locate changes
• Synchronized horizontal scrolling
• Flip comparison frames to switch source/destination files/directories
• Toolbar customization
• Display line number and column number in the status bar

• Execution control toolbar to start, stop, or refresh a compare
• User profiles for allowing different settings for different compare modes
• Tabbed sessions allow you to run multiple concurrent compares within one instance of the application
• Set UltraCompare to single instance
• Manual check for updates
• Set filter to specify file types to be displayed during folder compare
• Configurable key mapping
• Set font for text file compare panes
• Customize/manage toolbars and menus
• Command line option for quick difference check

• Text compare
  • Support for line-by-line text compare of individual files
  • Status bar shows number of lines/blocks different
  • Compare difference summary includes:
  • data in source but not in destination file or vice versa
  • data difference between text files on the same line
• Fast binary compare
• Invoked from UltraEdit or UEStudio
• HTML help