Foldly
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Foldly is a text comparison and document review app for macOS and iPadOS.
Product overview
Foldly is a native text comparison app for Mac and iPad
Foldly is a native Mac and iPad app for comparing plain text and extracted PDF or DOCX text in synchronized side-by-side columns.
What Foldly does
Foldly gives you an editable original column and side-by-side comparison columns so you can review wording changes without switching between files, tabs, or document previews.
- Compare plain text directly.
- Extract text from PDF and DOCX files for text-level comparison.
- Review line-level and inline wording differences in synchronized columns.
Who Foldly is for
Foldly is for people who need to decide what changed between text versions and what should make it into the final draft.
- Writers and editors comparing revisions.
- Content teams reviewing copy and final-send documents.
- Prompt engineers and AI-assisted writers comparing generated output.
When to use Foldly
Use Foldly when the important question is whether words, phrases, lines, or sections changed between versions.
- A draft was rewritten and you need to preserve meaning.
- A PDF or DOCX export should match an approved source.
- Several prompt outputs or rewrite options need a side-by-side review.
When not to use Foldly
Foldly is not a visual proofing tool, an OCR engine, a Git client, or a cloud collaboration suite. It is intentionally focused on text-level comparison.
FAQ
Does Foldly compare document layout?
No. Foldly compares text content. PDF and DOCX files are compared after text extraction, not as visual page layouts.