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24 alternatives to DIFF.IO

A simple API to quantify and visualize differences

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. DIFF.IO launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1DI
   Diff.io▲194

   2015 · diff.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Zillabyte▲87

   An API for analyzing the world's information

   2014 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Datamatic▲156

   Editable data visualizations for the web

   2017 · datamatic.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Distill▲200

   An interactive, visual journal for Machine Learning research

   2017 · distill.pub · its alternatives →

5. 5RL
   Readability-like API Using Machine Learning▲151

   Documentation for Diffbot — transform the raw web into structured knowledge.

   2011 · diffbot.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Diffchecker▲147

   Compare text differences between two text files

   2015 · diffchecker.com · its alternatives →

7. 7AN
   A new way to diff websites▲46

   2015 · diffd.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Diffbot▲272

   Extract content from articles, products, videos and more

   2015 · diffbot.com · its alternatives →

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   Type Sample▲105

   A tool for identifying and sampling webfonts

   2014 · typewolf.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Gleam.io▲85

    A metrics focused competition tool to drive user engagement

    2014 · gleam.io · its alternatives →

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    TwentyTwenty▲93

    JQuery visual diff tool

    2015 · zurb.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Variance▲91

    Build powerful data visualizations for the web.

    2014 · variancecharts.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    What The Diff▲188

    Your AI-powered code review assistant

    2022 · whatthediff.ai · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Addr▲98

    A collective and annotation-focus ePub reader

    2014 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    API Diff▲161

    Diff two API versions in seconds and see what has changed

    2022 · api-diff.io · its alternatives →

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    Visual Diffs▲95

    Track UX changes with visual diffs on every deploy.

    2015 · speedcurve.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Frankly▲101

    A dashboard of issues and PRs across GitHub repositories.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tiny Stats▲160

    Analytics, sans dashboard.

    2017 · academicconsultant.co · its alternatives →

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    Standard Analytics▲97

    Structured API for Science

    2014 · standardanalytics.io · its alternatives →

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    Innoz▲88

    Connecting the unconnected

    2014 · offlineinternet.org · its alternatives →

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    Yhat▲82

    AWS for data science

    2015 · yhathq.com · its alternatives →

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    Datapad▲83

    Beautiful visual analytics

    2014 · datapad.io · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Glimpse▲70

    The Diagnostics platform of the web

    2015 · xcor.com · its alternatives →

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    ScienceBox ▲88

    Simple data science collaboration & productivity on the web

    2015 · yhathq.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →