Text Compare

Finding exactly what changed between two versions of a text is notoriously hard: by the second or third paragraph, your eyes start skipping the identical parts and missing the real edits. The Text Compare tool solves this with a precise, word-by-word diff. Paste the original into Text A and the revised version into Text B, and the tool computes a color-coded inline comparison where removed words appear struck through in red and added words stand out in green, with unchanged text left neutral. It is not a line-by-line diff but a true word-level diff, so a single swapped adjective inside a sentence is caught immediately, and newline changes are preserved as visible breaks. Two toggles refine the comparison — Ignore case and Ignore whitespace — and a stat row reports words in each text plus common, added, and removed token counts. When both sides match, a green banner confirms the texts are identical, noting any case or whitespace allowances. Editors, developers reviewing copy changes, and legal teams tracking contract revisions all get certainty instead of squinting.

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   Paste the original version into Text A and the revised version into Text B.

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   Review the Word-level diff: green highlights are added words, red struck-through words were removed, and common words stay neutral.

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   Toggle Ignore case or Ignore whitespace to filter out those difference types.

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   Check the stat row — Words in A, Words in B, Common, Added, Removed — for a numeric summary.

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   Click Clear to reset both panes; a green banner confirms when the texts are identical.

• Reviewing edited article drafts against the original version.
• Verifying contract or policy revisions word by word.
• Checking code review copy changes between commits.
• Confirming API documentation updates match the release notes.
• Spotting accidental edits in pasted translations.
• Validating that a CMS import preserved copy exactly.

• Compare clean copies: normalize encodings first so the diff is not polluted by invisible character changes.
• Leave Ignore case off for code and identifiers where casing is meaningful.
• Use Ignore whitespace when reviewing copy that passed through different editors or line wrapping.
• Read the diff in both directions — green words in B are additions, red words in A are deletions.
• Tighten the comparison to short sections when a large document produces a noisy diff.

• Turn on Ignore whitespace when comparing copy that passed through different editors or line-wrapping.
• Keep Ignore case off for code comparisons — a casing change often signals a real rename.
• The diff is word-level, so paste whole paragraphs instead of single lines to catch mid-sentence edits.
• Check the Common stat first: a high common count means only small targeted edits, a low one means a rewrite.