WinPure alternative that does not need a Windows desktop
WinPure Clean and Match is Windows desktop software for cleaning and matching data, licensed per seat. If your team is on Windows and one person owns the cleaning job, that fits. If people work on different machines, or the job moves between them, a desktop licence gets in the way.
The short answer
Pick desktop software when one person on one Windows machine owns the work. Pick a browser tool when the file has to move between people and operating systems.
Datauntangler compared with WinPure
Every row is a public, category level fact you can check on WinPure's own site. What this table deliberately leaves out is set out further down the page.
| Windows desktop matching software | Datauntangler | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows | Any, it runs in the browser |
| Install | Desktop install, often with admin rights | None |
| Licence shape | Per seat | Per plan, with seats included |
| Fuzzy matching | Yes | Yes |
| Reviewable change list | In the application | In the browser, exportable as CSV |
| Handing work to a colleague | They need the software too | Send the cleaned file and the change log |
Per seat licensing and occasional users
Most people who need to clean a file need it a few times a year. A per seat desktop licence prices that person out, so the work funnels back to whoever has the licence, and that person becomes the queue.
Plans with seats included let the people who own the data do the cleaning themselves, which is usually where the judgment about what counts as a duplicate actually lives.
The audit trail travels
Desktop tools keep their history inside the application on one machine. Exporting the change log as its own CSV means the evidence goes wherever the file goes, including into a ticket or an email to the person who asked why the number moved. The matching underneath is fuzzy matching scored into clusters by entity resolution, and the browser data cleaning tool needs no licence to try.
The whole tool, on this page, on a messy file
Nothing to install and no account. Load a sample or drop your own CSV and read the diff.
1. Load a file
Your file is read on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, so nothing can leak.
Or start from a messy sample
Status
Loading the sample file.
File: CRM contact export
Rows
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Columns
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Changes
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Duplicate rows
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Date formats
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Blank emails
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Load a file to see the diff
Drop a CSV or pick one of the messy samples. Every proposed change appears here as a line you approve or reject.
2. Review every change
Nothing approved yet.
Nothing is applied to your file until you approve it, and your original file is never modified.
Proposed changes
Original Proposed
Showing the first 400 changes. 0 more are in the audit log download.
Duplicate clusters
Merge or keep both
Want this on bigger files, on a schedule, with your team?
Saved recipes, scheduled cleans and shared seats are part of the paid plans. Start with your email and we will send you a code.
3. Take the result
The downloads work without an email. The cleaned CSV contains only the changes you approved.
The limits of this comparison, stated on the page
A comparison page written by one of the two products is worth exactly as much as what it admits.
No prices for WinPure
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No scores and no stars
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Category facts only
Every row of the table is something published on their own site: what it runs on, how it is licensed, how you drive it.
Check it yourself instead
The demo above runs the real engine on your own file, which settles the comparison faster than either of our marketing pages will.
Questions about switching from WinPure
Is the matching as good as dedicated desktop software?
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Clean the file, and keep the record of what changed
Try the demo on your own CSV first. It runs in your browser, it costs nothing, and no card is required.
No card required. Your file never leaves your computer.