Need to compare some files? Check out Mac tool Kaleidoscope. Not only does it enable you to spot the difference between text files, it can also work with images. It’s super easy to use, slickly designed and feels incredibly fast.
Kaleidoscope is actually two tools, the first of which is the Image Scope, which enables you to compare image files. You can work with the One-up view (with animated switching between the image files, which makes it easy to spot changes), the Two-up view (with the two images side-by-side), the Difference view (a modified one-up view, which highlights the differences between the two images), or the Split view (which overlays the images on top of each other — how much of each image is visible by moving the nodes of the splitter control).
Comparing text files (HTML, CSS, code, etc.) is done using the Text Scope, which can show you which parts have been added (highlighted in green), deleted (highlighted in red) or changed (highlighted in purple) between two versions of a document. Like the Image Scope, it’s very fast. It has three different views: Blocks (a side-by-side view), Fluid (a side-by-side view that shows how text has moved within a file) and Unified (a single view showing the changes between the files). Kaleidoscope is tab-based, and you can compare more than two files per tab.
Kaleidoscope supports many file formats, and can also integrate with a number of common tools, such as Git, Mercurial, SVN and Bazaar.
A Kaleidoscope license costs €29.00 ($35); a 30-day free trial is available.
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