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What actually changed

Paste two versions and every difference is marked where it sits — word by word, not line by line. Everything that survived is left plain, which is usually the part you were checking.

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Paste both versions. Everything that changed is marked in place — removed text struck through, new text underlined — and everything that survived is left plain.

Word by word, not line by line

Most comparison tools work a line at a time. Change one word in a paragraph and the whole paragraph turns red, then green — technically correct, and useless, because you still have to read both versions to find the word.

This compares lines first to work out which ones survived, then compares the words inside the ones that were rewritten. So a clause where thirty (30) days became forty-five (45) days shows you those two changes and leaves the other forty words alone.

Payment is due within thirty forty-five (30) (45) days.

What people check with it

A contract that came back

They said they made two small changes. This tells you whether that is true, and where.

Your own draft, before and after

Paste what you wrote and what a tool gave back. Every change is visible, including the ones you would not have noticed.

Two exports that should match

Two lists that ought to be identical and are not. List mode gives you the three answers: only in A, only in B, in both.

A policy or terms update

Published documents change quietly. Keep the old one and you can always see exactly what moved.

Comparing lists? Tidy them first

Two lists rarely differ only in their contents. One has trailing spaces, one has blank lines, one is sorted and the other is not — and the comparison reports differences that are not really differences.

Run both through the list cleaner first — trim, deduplicate, sort — then paste them here. The two tools are built to be used one after the other.

What it does not do

It compares text, not files. A Word document pasted in loses its formatting, so bold, headings and tracked changes are not compared — only the words. For a Word file against a Word file, Word's own Compare Documents is the right tool.

It also has a ceiling: three thousand lines a side. Past that, the comparison needs more memory than a phone has, and the tool says so rather than freezing. List mode has no limit.

If what you want is not the difference between two versions but a better version of one, the cliché finder marks what is worth cutting, and the readability checker scores how hard it is to read.

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