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Compare two texts or files and see every difference highlighted instantly
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Explore the full platformUsed across dev and legal workflows for verifying changes. Local-only processing repeatedly appears as the trust factor; word-level highlighting is the most-praised feature.
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4.6
84 gem ratings
Comparing environment configs across deployments caught a drift bug that had been haunting us for a sprint.
I verify counterparty edits against our last version. Local-only processing is why legal signed off on using it.
Large files work; extremely large ones are limited by browser memory since everything runs locally.
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