CompareText vs Text Compare (text-compare.com)
Text Compare at text-compare.com has been a popular free diff tool since 2010. CompareText is also free and works the same way: paste two versions of a text and click a button to see the differences. This page covers where the two differ, so you can decide which one fits what you need. Everything stated about Text Compare comes from its own public pages.
Choose CompareText if you want
Shareable links with an expiry you control, options to ignore whitespace or show every line, a unified view, moved block detection, and a page without advertising.
Choose Text Compare if you want
To email a comparison to someone instead of sending a link.
Feature comparison
| Feature | CompareText | Text Compare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no account | Free, no account |
| How it works | Paste two texts, click Compare Text | Paste two texts, click Compare |
| Sharing a comparison | Share button gives a link with a random code that expires when you choose | Email the comparison to an address |
| Advertising | None | Yes |
| Views | Side by side and unified | Side by side |
| Comparison options | Ignore edge whitespace, subword highlighting, show or collapse unchanged lines | No |
| Moved block detection | Yes, with links between old and new positions | No |
| Text clean-up tools | Sort lines, to lowercase, replace line breaks with spaces, trim whitespace, swap sides | Sort lines, to lowercase, replace line breaks with spaces, remove excess white space, switch texts |
| Dark mode | Yes, follows your system setting, with a switch in the header | Yes |
| Works with JavaScript off | Yes, the comparison is a plain form submission | Not stated |
Sharing a comparison
Text Compare lets you email a comparison to an address and says it does not save or share that address. CompareText instead gives you a link. Click Share above the result and you get a URL with a random 8-character code that anyone can open until it expires. That works better when the person you are sending it to wants to switch views or re-run the comparison with different options, and you do not need anyone's email address.
Advertising
Text Compare's privacy page describes an advertising contract with Ezoic that uses third-party cookies for interest-based ads. CompareText shows no advertising and sets no advertising cookies. Details are on the privacy page.
Options and views
Text Compare offers the same four clean-up tools as CompareText, under slightly different names, and one side-by-side view. CompareText adds options that change how differences are found: ignoring leading and trailing whitespace, highlighting changes inside identifiers, and showing every line instead of collapsing unchanged sections. It also offers a unified view and recognizes blocks of lines that were moved rather than rewritten, with links between their old and new positions.
Switching from Text Compare
There is nothing to migrate. Paste the same two texts into CompareText and click Compare Text. The tool called "Remove excess white space" on Text Compare is "Trim whitespace" here, and "Switch texts" is the arrow button between the two boxes.
Compare two texts nowFrequently asked questions
Is CompareText a free alternative to text-compare.com?
Yes. Both tools are free, need no account, and work the same way: paste two versions of a text and click a button to see the differences. CompareText adds comparison options, a unified view, moved block detection, and shareable links with an expiry, and it currently shows no advertising.