Araxis Merge: File Comparison & Synchronization

Key Features

• Merge is the visual file comparison (diff), merging and Folder Synchronization application from Araxis.
• Use it to Compare and Merge source code, web pages, XML and other text files with native application performance.
• Directly open and compare the text from Microsoft Office (Word and Excel), OpenDocument, PDF and RTF files.
• Work with folder hierarchies containing thousands of files.
• Merge integrates with many SCM (version control) systems and other applications.
• For legal and publishing professionals: instantly identify every change Between different contract or manuscript drafts.
• Directly open and compare the text from Microsoft Office (Word and Excel), OpenDocument, PDF and RTF files.
• Copy text from other applications (such as Microsoft Word) and paste it directly into a text comparison window.
• For software engineers and web developers: compare, understand and combine different source file versions.
• Work quickly and accurately, whether you are comparing individual files or reconciling entire branches of source code.
• Use three-way comparison to integrate changes made by you, and those made by a colleague, with a common ancestor version.
• Synchronize a website with its staging area via ftp using the supplied ftp plugin.
• For release and quality control managers: compare different source code branches to give total confidence that you know and understand every change made to every file for a specific release.
• Compare product releases to be certain that only the expected files have been modified.
• Create an html or xml report of changes for audit purposes.
• For code reviewers and auditors: identify in context every change made between two or three source code hierarchies.
• Create a standalone html or xml report of your findings.
• Add bookmarks and comments to a file or Folder Comparison, then save it as a single-file archive for emailing to other team members for review.

Technical Specifications

• **Publisher:** Araxis.com
• **License:** Demo
• **Operating System:** Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
• **Last Updated:** October 15, 2025
• **Category:** Utilities / Synchronization