Riff Alternatives

Riff is described as 'A diff filter highlighting which parts of lines have changed' and is a Diff Tool in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Riff for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Riff alternative is Meld, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Riff are Beyond Compare, KDiff3, P4Merge and Diffchecker.

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    Ediff is a comprehensive visual interface to Unix diff and patch utilities.

    Ediff provides a convenient way for simultaneous browsing through the differences between a pair (or a triple) of files or buffers (which are called ‘variants’ for our purposes). The files being compare.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    WinDiff is a graphical file-comparison program published by Microsoft (from 1992[1]), and is distributed with certain versions of Microsoft Visual Studio as well as in source-code form with the Platform SDK code samples.

    26 WinDiff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Patchword icon
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    Compare text files or entire directory hierarchies, export and apply patches, and perform non-destructive find and replace operations on text files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. "TableTextCompare" (TTC) is a small utility that provides easy comparison of two-tab-delimited or comma-delimited (csv) files, to determine the difference between the two files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. DiffFork icon
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    DiffFork is a diff tool for Mac OS X. DiffFork can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual format.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    xxdiff is a QT based graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool. It provides comparing two files, three files.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. A file and folder comparison tool, targeted at developers, with powerful merging capabilities. Easily integrate with git or other version control system and diff and merge files with the 3-ways merge and powerful alignment...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. The Text Compare tool is a valuable online resource designed to assist writers, editors, and anyone working with textual content. This tool proves indispensable when you need to compare two pieces of text, whether for differences, similarities, or both.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Pretty Diff is a language aware code comparison tool, beautifier, minifier, and parser for a variety of web oriented languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Typescript
    • npm
    • JavaScript
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. XML Compare is an online tool for comparing XML files. Easy to use, it displays differences between two XML files side by side clearly. It also allows exclusive visualization of divergences, simplifying change identification.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Diff Text icon
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    Instantly find the differences between two blocks of text. Works with plain text, code, json, yaml, html, css, markdown, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    dwdiff is a diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level. It is different from wdiff in that it allows the user to specify what should be considered whitespace, and in that it takes an optional list of characters that should be considered delimiters.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Fedora
    • NetBSD
    • Slackware
     
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