Paste text above and hit Compare (or just type — it updates live).
See exactly what changed between two drafts: paste both versions below and every edited word is highlighted inside its sentence. The sample is a short policy paragraph before and after review.
When someone sends back an edited draft — a contract, a policy, an essay, a press release — the honest answer to "what did you change?" is usually a shrug. Paste the two versions above and you get the real answer: unchanged text stays quiet, and every edited sentence shows the old wording struck out in red next to the new wording in green, down to the individual words. In the sample, three numbers and two conditions changed — easy to miss on a read-through, impossible to miss here.
Select all (Ctrl/Cmd+A), copy, and paste each version into a pane. Word's own compare feature is fine if both people have Word and the file was edited with tracked changes on; this works when all you have is two blobs of text from anywhere. One caveat: opening a .docx file directly won't work — it's a zip archive, not plain text — so paste instead. If pasted text drags in curly quotes or invisible characters that make identical paragraphs look different, run both sides through TextWash first, or tick Ignore whitespace.
Contracts and unpublished drafts shouldn't be uploaded to a random comparison site. Here they aren't: the page is static and the comparison runs entirely in your browser — nothing you paste leaves your machine. That's not a policy promise you have to trust; with the page loaded, the diff works offline.
Side-by-side view puts old and new in two columns — best for review. Unified view interleaves them like an edit log — best on narrow screens. Collapse unchanged folds identical paragraphs so a 20-page document with three edits reads in seconds.