News and releases

September 2026: WCopyfind 6.0.2

WCopyfind has a new icon: two pages with the same highlighted phrase, linked, to go with WRepeatfind's. Nothing else has changed. WCopyfind 6.0.2

September 2026: WCopyfind 6.0.1 and WRepeatfind 1.0.1

Both programs are now licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and have About boxes with links to their new homes on WFindApps.org. WRepeatfind 1.0.1 also reads older Word .doc files more accurately. WCopyfind 6.0.1 · WRepeatfind 1.0.1

September 2026: WCopyfind 6.0

A major update: a redesigned window in three clear steps, results that appear as they're found with a Stop button, sortable results, remembered document lists, and dropped folders. The reports were rebuilt: a sortable, searchable list of matching pairs, and a side-by-side page for each pair with the shared passages highlighted in both documents. Many bugs were fixed, including one that made the very first comparison on a new computer fail. Full list of changes

September 2026: WRepeatfind 1.0 is born

WRepeatfind uses WCopyfind's engine to look inside a single document, or a book made of chapters, for the phrases it repeats. It's meant for writers and editors who want to catch accidental repetition before they publish. Meet WRepeatfind

February 2026: WCopyfind 5.0

The first update in a decade brought WCopyfind up to date with current Windows tools, fixed fifteen bugs, and improved the reading of Word .doc files. It was the first version published on GitHub.

April 2016: WCopyfind 4.1.5

A bug-fix release. Comparison counters became 64-bit, so they could count billions of comparisons, and a problem reading hundreds of .docx files was fixed.

2011–2014: WCopyfind 3 and 4, and Copyfind

• 2011: WCopyfind 3.0, 3.0.1, and 3.0.2 (June–August), then 4.1.0 (October)
• March 2012: WCopyfind 4.1.1, the first release with a 64-bit edition
• June 2014: WCopyfind 4.1.2, 4.1.3, and 4.1.4, and the first release of Copyfind, a command-line version that reads a script, for very large or automated jobs

2001: The beginning

Lou Bloomfield wrote the first version to check the term papers in his introductory physics course at the University of Virginia. Read the story.