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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 – simple GNOME text comparison app

March 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Text Compare is a simple GNOME app for comparing old and new text, selecting the comparison token, and using light, dark or system themes.

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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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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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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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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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ydiff – coloured incremental side-by-side diff viewer

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ydiff is a coloured incremental diff viewer with side-by-side display, automatic paging, custom themes and Git, Mercurial and Jujutsu.

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Diff Tools

diffr – word-by-word diff highlighting utility

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffr refines unified diff output with word-level highlighting, configurable colours, line numbers and Git integration in the terminal.

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colordiff – colourise diff output

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordiff is a configurable wrapper for diff that adds ANSI colour highlighting to unified, context, side-by-side and other diff formats.

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Diff Tools

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

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffoscope recursively compares files, archives and directories, transforming many binary formats into human-readable text or HTML reports.

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Diff Tools

icdiff – side-by-side coloured diff

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

icdiff is a side-by-side terminal diff tool with coloured word-level changes, recursive directory comparison, line numbers and Git support.

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Diff Tools

delta – syntax-highlighting pager for Git and diff output

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

delta is a syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep and blame output with side-by-side views, navigation, hyperlinks and themes.

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Diff Tools

diff-so-fancy – human-readable diff output

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diff-so-fancy makes Git and unified diff output easier to read with refined highlighting, cleaner headers, rulers, and patch mode.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Meld – visual diff and merge tool

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool for comparing files, folders and version-controlled projects with two- and three-way workflows.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Kompare – graphical difference viewer

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Kompare is a KDE graphical diff viewer for comparing files and folders, creating patches, and applying differences in a visual interface.

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