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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

10 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Linux Diff Tools

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

We look at GUI tools that let you see the difference between two files or two versions of the same file.

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Diff Tools

17 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Diff Tools

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

File comparison compares the contents of computer files, finding their common contents and their differences. The result is known as a diff.

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Diff Tools

objdiff – local diffing tool for decompilation project

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

objdiff is a local diffing tool for decompilation projects. There is also a GUI available.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

jdDiff is a graphical cross platform diff viewer

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

jdDiff shows the difference between two files or two directories.

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mamediff manages unstaged and staged Git diffs

March 22, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

mamediff is a TUI editor for managing unstaged and staged Git diffs. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Text Compare – compare old and new text

March 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Text Compare is a simple text comparison app.

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Diff Tools

sesdiff – generates a shortest edit script

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms Software

sesdiff is a shortest edit script diff that’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Diff Tools

csvdiff – fast diff tool for comparing CSV files

December 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csvdiff is a fast diff tool for comparing CSV files. It finds out the additions and modifications.

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csv-diff – diffing CSV and JSON files

December 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csv-diff is a tool for viewing the difference between two CSV, TSV, or JSON files.

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dirdiff – compute the differences between two directories

December 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirdiff efficiently computes the differences between two directories. It’s written in Rust.

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diff2html-cli – generate HTML diffs

December 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diff2html generates pretty HTML diffs from unified and git diff output in your terminal.

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Diff Tools

dyff – diff tool for YAML files

December 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI

dyff is a diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.

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dwdiff – diff program that operates at the word level

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dwdiff is a diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level.

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Diff Tools

Wdiff – wordwise implementation of diff

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Software

wdiff is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace.

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Diff Tools

ydiff – colored incremental side-by-side diff viewer

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ydiff is a view colored, incremental diff in a workspace or from stdin, with side by side and auto pager support.

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Diff Tools

diffr – word-by-word diff highlighting utility

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffr processes diffs and outputs them (in the console) with additional diff information on top of the unified diff format.

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Diff Tools

colordiff – wrapper for diff with pretty syntax highlighting

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordiff is a wrapper for diff and produces the same output as diff but with coloured syntax highlighting at the command line.

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Diff Tools

diffoscope – in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffoscope is a utility that offers in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories.

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Diff Tools

icdiff – improved colored diff

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

icdiff can show you the differences between similar files without getting in the way.

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Diff Tools

delta – viewer for git and diff output

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Delta is a viewer for git and diff output. The program allows you to make extensive changes to the layout and styling of diffs.

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