# Text Compare Online: Compare Two Texts for Differences > Text compare online: paste two texts and see the differences highlighted, added in green and removed in red, line by line or word by word. A free diff checker. URL: https://clipten.com/tools/text-compare Updated: 2026-10-01 About ClipTen: https://clipten.com/llms.txt ClipTen (https://clipten.com/) Free tools (https://clipten.com/tools) Text compare ## Text compare Paste two versions of a text and compare them for differences: what was added shows in green, what was removed in red, line by line or word by word. Made by ClipTen ### Stop going back to copy it again. Comparing versions means copying back and forth. ClipTen keeps ten copies on your number keys, so both versions stay one shortcut away. Download forMac (https://clipten.com/mac#install) Get it fromMicrosoft Slots 1 to 5 free, no daily limit. All 10 for $15, once. See how it works (https://clipten.com/how-it-works) ### How to use it - Paste the original on the left and the new version on the right. - Pick Line by line for lists and code, Word by word for prose. - Read the differences: green was added, red was removed. ### Line by line or word by word Line by line shows which whole lines were added or removed, and works best for lists, code, configuration files and data. Word by word marks the exact words that changed inside a sentence, which suits contracts, essays and edited copy. The comparison finds the longest stretch of text the two versions share and marks everything else, the same method version-control tools like Git use. That is why people call it a diff checker: it checks the diff, the difference, between two texts. ### Uses - Checking what a colleague changed in a contract or a policy before you sign it. - Comparing two exports or lists to find the rows that differ. - Seeing what an editor or an AI rewrite changed in your text. - Spotting the one line that differs between two config files. ### Comparing in Word Word can compare two saved documents with Review › Compare. Google Docs keeps version history under File › Version history. For text in emails, web pages or chats, pasting both here is quicker. Nothing is uploaded, so it is safe for private documents. Last checked October 2026. ### Questions How do I compare two texts for differences? Paste the original on the left and the changed version on the right. Additions show in green and removals in red. Can I compare two lists? Yes. Use Line by line and paste one list on each side. Lines only in the first list show as removed; lines only in the second show as added. Is it safe for confidential documents? Yes. The comparison runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. How do I compare two documents in Word? Open Word and choose Review, Compare, Compare Documents, then pick the original and the revised file. ### More free tools All free tools → (https://clipten.com/tools) - Find and replace Replace words in any text, regex too (https://clipten.com/tools/find-and-replace-text) - Remove duplicate lines Keep each line once, in order (https://clipten.com/tools/remove-duplicate-lines) - Word counter Words, characters and reading time (https://clipten.com/tools/word-counter) - Sort lines A to Z, Z to A, by length or shuffled (https://clipten.com/tools/sort-lines-alphabetically) - Paste to Markdown Google Docs and web text to Markdown (https://clipten.com/tools/paste-to-markdown) - Remove formatting Paste anything, get plain text back (https://clipten.com/tools/remove-formatting-from-text) Download forMac (https://clipten.com/mac#install) Get it fromMicrosoft - Slots 1 to 5 free, no daily limit - No card, no subscription - All 10 slots for $15, once On a Mac, it installs in about a minute with one line in Terminal (https://clipten.com/mac#install).