Beyond Compare Diff

Compare the last two entries of your clipboard in Beyond Compare.

Supports both text and file clipboard entries — if you copied two files (e.g. in Finder), they are compared directly. Otherwise the clipboard text is written to temp files and compared.

Prerequisites

Beyond Compare must be installed on your Mac with the bcomp command line tool available.

Install via Homebrew (recommended)

brew install --cask beyond-compare

This installs Beyond Compare and symlinks bcomp to /usr/local/bin/bcomp automatically.

Install manually

1. Download Beyond Compare from scootersoftware.com/download
2. Drag Beyond Compare.app to /Applications
3. Install the command line tool: open Beyond Compare, go to Beyond Compare menu > Install Command Line Tools

Verify installation

bcomp --help

If this prints usage info, you're ready to go.

Usage

1. Copy two pieces of text (or two files) to your clipboard
2. Open Raycast and run Compare Clipboard in Beyond Compare
3. Beyond Compare opens with the diff