Kaleidoscope overview

Kaleidoscope spots differences in text and image files.

Features

General
- Single window workflow: One tab per comparison
- Compare two+ files: Add any number of files per tab
- Always up to date: Auto-refreshes when files change
- File Shelf: Quickly go from file to file
- Path Bar: See where your files are
- Keyboard shortcuts: Every action has a shortcut
Text Scope
- Supports any text file: Plain text, source code, HTML, etc.
- Clear comparisons
- Three layouts: Blocks, Fluid, and Unified
- Compare documents: Imports text from .doc and .rtf files
- Instant search
- Change Stepper: Quickly jump from change to change
- Highlights: Added, deleted and changed text
Image Scope
- All popular image file formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD and more.
- Four connected layouts: Two-Up, One-Up, Split, and Difference
- Comprehensive image support: RGB/CMYK/LAB, alpha, any size.
- Multi-touch support: Smooth scrolling and pinch to zoom
- Customizable environment: Change background color, difference mask and checkerboard settings
- Two difference mask modes: Spot absolute or relative changes
Integration
- Git, Mercurial, SVN, and Bazaar: Integrate with a couple of clicks
- Versions
- TextMate SVN
- Cornerstone
- ksdiff Command-line tool: Integrate with practically anything

What’s new in version 6.1

Enhancements

In addition to the new General Setting to keep the Welcome Window open when opening a document, there's now a temporary power user override: hold down the ⌥ (option) key while opening a document (throgh any means) to invert the behavior specified in Settings. When the Setting is to generally not keep the Welcome Window open, but for one time you want to have it stay when re-opening a recent changeset in a repository, hold down ⌥ while double-clicking the row in the Repository view. You will also find a few new context menu entries explicitly offering that option.
The BBEdit Integration has been updated to also find the Scripts folder in Library/Containers.
Usability Improvements in the Services and Sharing Extension Integration sections.
Smaller improvements and fixes to the new Settings window.

Bugfixes

The Kaleidoscope Prism start setting was not always correctly honored.

Full list of changes available here

View older Kaleidoscope versions

3.4

(27 Reviews of Kaleidoscope)

Comments
User Ratings

Al404

Sep 10 2024

5.1

1.0

Version: 5.1

If you will opt for lifetime + 1 year updates I may consider to buy the new version, otherwise Deltawalker is a great alternative without subscription

zlazkow

Oct 21 2023

4.2.1

0.0

Version: 4.2.1

$20 ok. subscription NO.

spittingkitty

Sep 27 2023

4.1

Version: 4.1

I would not buy an upgrade for this app annually for $96, so why would I use their ridiculous subscription model? $96/year??? Absolutely insane.

Jun 12 2023