Kaleidoscope 3.7 macOS

Kaleidoscope is the most powerful file comparison app. Spot the differences in text and image files, or even folders full of files. Review changes in seconds, with the world’s most advanced and beautiful file comparison app.

Kaleidoscope 3 features the first major redesign in over eight years, with support for Apple Silicon-based Macs, a redesigned interface that looks great in the latest versions of macOS, and new dark mode support, Kaleidoscope 3 marks the comeback of a longtime developer favorite for spotting changes in text, images, and folders. There is a new Reader view, and changesets have received major improvements.

WHAT’S NEW IN KALEIDOSCOPE 3?

• Redesigned interface, including new dark mode and new app icon; Kaleidoscope’s design now fits macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey
• Runs natively on all Macs, including those based on Apple silicon (Apple M1 chip).
• Reader view makes it easier to focus on the content
• Greater control over how text layout, with better font options and display choices
• Ability to ignore particular folders and files during folder compare, using powerful patterns.
• Persistent top toolbar with convenient Add and Paste buttons
• Redesigned Unified text comparison and File Shelf views to make it easier to review differences and keep track of files being compared
• Powerful filters for comparing items in changeset windows

KALEIDOSCOPE FEATURES:

• Two-Way Text Comparison & Merging
• Supports any text file, Word documents, PDF, RTF
• Super-fast diffing of lines and character-level changes
• Directly paste from clipboard
• Three powerful display modes: Blocks, Fluid and Unified
• Color coding to spot added, deleted, and changed text
• Powerful text layout customization
• Reader view that helps focus on content
• Built-in search

Three-Way Merge

• Review code changes and resolve conflicts
• Edit text inline
• Intelligently auto-merge the right content

Powerful Image Comparison

• Supports any file that can be imported as bitmap
• Directly paste from clipboard
• Compare images in four different modes: Two-Up, One-Up, Split and Difference
• Spot subtle pixel differences with a high contrast “difference mask”
• Navigate large images using pan & zoom tools

Folder Comparison

• Ultra-fast algorithm for finding differences in large folders
• Sort and filter down to what is most important
• Powerful ignore patterns to exclude extraneous files and folders
• Drill deeper into folders for more detailed comparisons
• Copy your preferred files across sources

Code Review

• Well-designed overview of all files changed in a changeset
• Find a file by filtering by name or by kind of change
• Inspect changes in text and image files using all of Kaleidoscope’s compare tools

Easy Workflow Integration

• Git, Mercurial, Subversion, Bazaar, and Perforce support
• Works as a fully functional diff or merge tool
• ksdiff tool unleashes the power of the unix command-line
• Supported by a growing list of GUI source control management apps
• Integrate with the Xcode debugger (lldb) for text and graphics
• Integrates with tools like Alfred for even faster workflows

What’s New:

Version 3.7.0

New

• Sharing You can now share any text diff using the familiar and convenient Share button in the window toolbar. Choose from functionality provided by macOS to directly share via AirDrop, Mail, Messages, or open a comparison in Notes. You can also choose to share via Share Menu extensions provided by the other apps you use. Kaleidoscope converts your diff into a HTML document in those cases.
• Save a Patch File. Kaleidoscope now has the ability to write a text diff to a standard patch file, which is also accessible via the Share button.
• There’s now a preference setting to disable JSON normalization by default, if the functionality doesn’t suit your workflow. When disabled, you can still enable it when needed from the bottom toolbar.
• Kaleidoscope now enables you to modify a comparison that contains normalized JSON, after confirming this is what you want. It also offers to switch to the non-normalized variant.
• The File Shelf offers an option to save temporary content (such as imported from the Clipboard, ksdiff, Services or Shortcuts) to a file.

Improvements

• The Find functionality is now also available for single documents (such as added or removed files in a changeset).
• The processing icon in the bottom toolbar (JSON normalization) is more prominent when turned on.
• The backspace character is now also being treated as invisible character, and shown accordingly.
• The JSON normalization will no longer quote slash (/) characters. We were surprised ourselves that it is defined with a quoted slash in the JSON standard.

Fixes

• Various fixes to the Find functionality
• When installing a license via double-clicking a license file, a potential Trial Expired dialog will now correctly disappear.
• Moving a window between screens no longer results in occasional unintended size changes.
• Several fixes to the Open Recent menu. You may need to get rid of corrupted old entries by cleaning it once after installation.

Languages: English
Compatibility: macOS 11.1 or later
Homepage https://geo.itunes.apple.com/app/id587512244

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