The Best 21 Directory Compare Alternatives

  • rsync icon

    rsync

    rsync is a software application for Unix which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD Haiku Cygwin

  • SyncToy icon

    SyncToy

    SyncToy is a free PowerToy designed by Microsoft, that provides an easy to use graphical user interface that can automatically synchronize local or network files and folders, but not WebDAV-, "Windows Mobile" files or folders and...

    Free Windows

  • DirSync Pro icon

    DirSync Pro

    DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small utility for file and folder synchronization without bidirectional file-deletion. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

    File sync Incremental backup
  • Qtd Sync icon

    Qtd Sync

    A graphical interface for the Rsync engine that will synchronise files between two computers either locally or over the internet.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Bacula icon

    Bacula

    Bacula is a set of Open Source, enterprise ready, computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • PureSync icon

    PureSync

    PureSync is a professional file backup and synchronization software, that can automatically keep a backup of your important files, import files from your digital camera and synchronize the contents of multiple folders, but not from...

    Free Personal Windows

  • JFileSync icon

    JFileSync

    JFileSync is a Java application used to synchronize directories of two different file systems. For instance, you want to synchronize a set of directories on your laptop with a set of corresponding directories on your workstation.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Yintersync icon

    Yintersync

    Yintersync.NET is a client-server backup tool providing bandwidth and cost economic delta backups of multiple computers over SSL with open file support and reporting. .

    Free Windows

  • cwrsync icon

    cwrsync

    cwRsync is a yet another packaging of rsync and Cygwin for Windows. You can use cwRsync for fast remote file backup and synchronization. Rsync uses the rsync algorithm which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync.

    Commercial Windows

  • WinDataReflector icon

    WinDataReflector

    WinDataReflector is a lightweight file synchronization and backup tool that wraps up fast file comparison and transfer algorithms into a simple and clear interface that offers you visual comparison of files and folders before synchronizing...

    Free Windows

  • Backer icon

    Backer

    Leanware Backer is software for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 for... - Backup - Synchronization - Archiving - Transfer ... of your directories and files via...

    Commercial Windows

  • lsyncd icon

    lsyncd

    Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Rsync Client icon

    Rsync Client

    An SSH browser with an rsync transfer engine. It lets you point-and-click to rsync.

    Free Mac OS X

  • Organyze SYNC icon

    Organyze SYNC

    Organyze SYNC, a Windows application for desktops and laptops, takes care of the headache of keeping files updated in all locations in today’s fast moving world, where...

    Free Windows

  • Alternate File Move icon

    Alternate File Move

    File Move is a simple program for syncing the contents of two folders. PROCESSING OPTIONS - File comparison by size - File comparison by date (different, older...

    Free Windows