Use Beyond Compare on your Mac from ChatGPT or Claude

• MacPartly

  Through the app's window, with macOS accessibility: BCD reads what Beyond Compare shows and presses buttons, types and picks menus. How far it goes depends on the app. macOS asks once to allow it.

• WindowsNo

  BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.

• LinuxNo

  BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.

Version

4.4.7.28397

Installs (last 365 days)

294 · #1,543 among Homebrew apps

Updates

Updates itself

Homepage

www.scootersoftware.com

Install

brew install --cask beyond-compare@4

“Open Beyond Compare and tell me what is on its screen”
“Install Beyond Compare with Homebrew”
“Quit Beyond Compare and update it to the latest version”

Can ChatGPT control Beyond Compare?
On a Mac with BCD, yes, through the app's window: ChatGPT can open Beyond Compare, read the buttons and text it shows, press buttons, type and pick menu items. How far that goes depends on how much of its window Beyond Compare exposes to macOS accessibility.

Does this work on Windows?
No. BCD controls app windows only on a Mac. On Windows and Linux it works with files and commands.

Is it safe?
A new computer starts read-only. Controlling the screen and apps is turned on per computer, and macOS asks once before BCD may control apps.

Try it on your computer

BCD connects ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps to your own Mac, Windows or Linux computer. One computer is free, with 20,000 tool calls a month and no card.