Source Code
WinMerge is Open Source software under the GNU General Public License.
This means everybody can download the source code and improve and modify it. The only thing we ask is that people submit their improvements and modifications back to us so that all WinMerge users may benefit.
GNU General Public License
WinMerge is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
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Clone or download
The source code is hosted on GitHub in a Git repository:
https://github.com/winmerge/winmerge.git
You can also download the current branches as ZIP file:
| Download | Branch |
|---|---|
| master.zip | Master |
| stable-gh.zip | Stable |
Recent Commits 
- Fix issue #3210: white flash after opening WinMerge with Dark Mode 2026-02-17 07:34
- Add e:/e!: filter prefixes for files and directories (#3205) 2026-02-16 08:46
- Update Turkish.po (#3204) 2026-02-16 06:00
- Add RelPath filter field for relative file paths 2026-02-15 06:17
- Refactor compare engines to write results into DIFFITEM and add FullQ… 2026-02-14 22:39
- Refactor compare engines to use DiffContext (#3197) 2026-02-12 07:05
- Italian language update (#3199) 2026-02-12 05:22
- Update German.po (#3196) 2026-02-11 16:41
- Fix Replace plugin handling of empty replacement arguments (2) 2026-02-11 06:05
- Update Brazilian.po (#3194) 2026-02-11 05:20
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