Diff Text Alternatives

Sites and apps similar to Diff Text include WinMerge, which is free and open source. Other options are Beyond Compare, KDiff3, Diffchecker and Compare. There's no shortage of Diff Tools like Diff Text, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac and self-hosting.

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    A diff filter highlighting which parts of lines have changed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. WinDiff icon
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    WinDiff is a graphical file-comparison program published by Microsoft (from 1992[1]), and is distributed with certain versions of Microsoft Visual Studio as well as in source-code form with the Platform SDK code samples.

    27 WinDiff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Ediff is a comprehensive visual interface to Unix diff and patch utilities.

    Ediff provides a convenient way for simultaneous browsing through the differences between a pair (or a triple) of files or buffers (which are called ‘variants’ for our purposes). The files being compare.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. DiffPlug icon
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    DiffPlug is a free text editor/differ and image viewer/differ. Purchasing a license allows you to diff other kinds of files such as Simulink.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Utilities for web, compare text online with Syntax highlight and support for languages like Java, Javascript, Typescript, C#, HTML and CSS

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    CompareMerge is a Mac OSX's software tool for file comparison and merging text-like files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. "TableTextCompare" (TTC) is a small utility that provides easy comparison of two-tab-delimited or comma-delimited (csv) files, to determine the difference between the two files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Diff Checker compares two snippets of text, source code, JSON or full files and highlights every change side-by-side. Everything runs locally inside the browser extension—no data ever leaves the user’s machine—so it suits security-sensitive workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
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    dwdiff is a diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level. It is different from wdiff in that it allows the user to specify what should be considered whitespace, and in that it takes an optional list of characters that should be considered delimiters.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Fedora
    • NetBSD
    • Slackware
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  10. Pretty Diff is a language aware code comparison tool, beautifier, minifier, and parser for a variety of web oriented languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Typescript
    • npm
    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. The Text Compare tool is a valuable online resource designed to assist writers, editors, and anyone working with textual content. This tool proves indispensable when you need to compare two pieces of text, whether for differences, similarities, or both.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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