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Awesome tools that show differences between files and folders.
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# Awesome Diff Tools [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re)



A collaborative list of great tools that show differences between files and folders. Feel free to contribute to this list.



## Contents



- [Source Code](#source-code)

  - [Standard Tools](#standard-tools)

  - [Semantic Diffs](#semantic-diffs)

  - [Diff Enhancers](#diff-enhancers)

- [Other Text Formats](#other-text-formats)

- [Databases](#databases)

- [PDF](#pdf)

- [Binary Data](#binary-data)

- [Folder Comparison](#folder-comparison)



## Source Code



### Standard Tools



The most commonly used tools to display changes between two versions of a source code.



- [GNU Diffutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/) - Popular set of tools to compute unified diffs between files, supports two-way and three-way diffs.

- [git (diff)](https://git-scm.com/) - Popular version control system, can compute unified diffs between commits, workings trees, branches, etc.



### Semantic Diffs



Programming language aware diffs that provide additional features like hiding syntax-only changes.



- [diffsitter](https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter) - Terminal utility to generate unified diffs, hides style changes, but doesn't detect moved code.

- [difftastic](https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic) - Terminal utility to generate side-by-side diffs, hides style changes and supports many languages, but doesn't detect moved code.

- [gumtree](https://github.com/GumTreeDiff/gumtree) - Web/GUI/Text frontend to generate side-by-side diffs, hides style changes and detects moved code.

- [SemanticDiff](https://semanticdiff.com) - VS Code extension/GitHub App to generate side-by-side diffs, hides style changes, detects moved code blocks and simple refactorings.

- [zograscope](https://github.com/xaizek/zograscope) - Terminal utility to generate side-by-side diffs, hides style changes, mostly focused on C/C++.



### Diff Enhancers



Wrappers that enhance the output of an existing diff tool.



- [delta](https://github.com/dandavison/delta) - Pager for (git) diff, adds syntax highlighting, inline and side-by-side view, support for git blame and merge conflicts.

- [diff-so-fancy](https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy) - Pager for (git) diff, changes colors and highlights inline changes, various options to customize output format.

- [diffr](https://github.com/mookid/diffr) - Pager for git diff, changes colors and highlights inline changes.

- [dunk](https://github.com/darrenburns/dunk) - Postprocesses the output of git diff to generate side-by-side diffs, supports syntax highlighting and highlights inline changes.

- [git-split-diffs](https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs) - Pager for (git) diff, displays changes like GitHub split diffs (side-by-side diffs) with syntax highlighting.

- [icdiff](https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff) - Standalone application for side-by-side diffs with syntax highlighting.

- [riff](https://github.com/walles/riff) - Wrapper around (`git`) `diff` highlighting which parts of lines that changed.

- [ydiff](https://github.com/ymattw/ydiff) - Pager for git diff, supports unified and side-by-side view, highlights inline changes.



## Other Text Formats



Diff utilities for non-code based text formats.



- [daff](https://github.com/paulfitz/daff) - Library for comparing tables format such as csv files.

- [dyff](https://github.com/homeport/dyff) - Pager for git diff (or standalone) for YAML/JSON, enhances display of changes and their location.

- [Graphtage](https://github.com/trailofbits/graphtage) - Semantic diff for JSON, JSON5, XML, HTML, YAML, CSV.

- [jd](https://github.com/josephburnett/jd) - Creates diffs for JSON/YAML files, also supports patching.

- [JSON Diff](https://www.jsondiff.com/) - Online tool to compute a semantic diff for JSON files.

- [nbdime](https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - Diffing and merging of Jupyter Notebooks.

- [OpenAPI-diff](https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-diff) - Utility for comparing two OpenAPI specifications.

- [prettier-diff](https://github.com/josephfrazier/prettier-diff) - Wrapper around git diff for JavaScript/JSON, preprocesses the data with a prettifier.

- [xcdiff](https://github.com/bloomberg/xcdiff) - Terminal utility to find differences between two .xcodeproj project files.



## Databases



Diff utilities to compare the schema or content of databases.



- [Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool](https://github.com/fordfrog/apgdiff) - Compares the schema of PostgreSQL dumps.

- [migra](https://github.com/djrobstep/migra) - Compares the schema of PostgreSQL databases and generates migrations.



## PDF



Diff utilities to compare the content of PDF files.



- [diff-pdf](https://vslavik.github.io/diff-pdf/) - Generates a PDF file with visually highlighted differences based on the input PDFs.

- [DiffPDF](https://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html) - Interactive GUI for comparing two PDF files.



## Binary Data



Diff utilities to compare binary data.



- [diffuse](https://github.com/JakeWharton/diffuse) - Compares the content of APKs, AABs, AARs, and JARs.

- [multidiff](https://github.com/juhakivekas/multidiff) - Utility to diff multiple binary objects or streams of data.

- [VBinDiff](https://www.cjmweb.net/vbindiff/) - Side by side comparison of binary data in hex and ascii format.



## Folder Comparison



Diff utilities that can compare the content of whole directories.



- [WinMerge](https://winmerge.org) - Supports code (with syntax highlighting), text, image and CSV files.

- [Meld](https://meldmerge.org/) - Supports text based files, also integrates with version control systems.



## Contributing



Contributing is greatly welcomed! Please read the [Contribution Guidelines](Contributing.md) before taking any action.