Document comparison should make your life easier. That’s what Draftable Legal does. It uses our state-of-the-art proprietary comparison algorithm developed by the team behind the world's most successful general comparison tool to help you catch every little change. It simply works.

Fair pricing

It’s incredibly frustrating to find a great document comparison solution only to discover the price is unreasonable. That doesn’t happen with Draftable Legal. You can expect transparent and reasonable pricing for the quality of the service you get.

Customer support

We have a global customer support team of technical and product experts. Draftable Legal is the result of conversations, surveys, and feedback from our clients. We will always listen to you.

Product features.

We release new features monthly/quarterly based on feedback from our customers.

Comparison output

· Word with tracked changes

· PDF redline

· PDF with changed pages only

· PowerPoint with tracked changes

· Excel via Spreadsheet Compare

· Side-by-side

Integrations

· Microsoft Office, including Word & Outlook

· iManage Cloud / On-Premises

· NetDocuments

· SharePoint

· Worldox

· Epona 365

Document file types

· Word

· PDF

· PowerPoint

· Excel

· Text files and free text

· Scanned PDF documents (built-in OCR)

Deployment

· Enterprise deployment options: Executable, per-user & machine-wide MSI installers

· Deployment for individual systems or Citrix & Remote Desktop Services with InTune support

· Group Policy configurations

Why law firms love Draftable Legal.

Partners, C-Suite & IT Directors

Draftable is a trusted vendor with 10+ years in document comparison technology.
Fair and transparent pricing to suit your budget.

Easy deployment with no disruption to operations.

Lawyers & Legal Teams

High-quality software that’s fast, accurate and reliable.
Intuitive design makes it easy to start using the software immediately.
Integration with your workflow and DMS saves you time on comparisons.

IT & Legal Tech Teams

Reliable enterprise-grade software with responsive feature development.
Simple installations and deployment to get your team up and running quickly.

Dedicated customer support with experts in your time zone.

For disclosure purposes, please note that our assessment of features available in other document comparison solutions is based purely on our market research and is provided for reference only. We recommend that customers conduct their own analysis for their purchasing decisions.

Frequently asked questions.

What makes Draftable Legal different from other comparison tools?

Draftable Legal was developed and continues to evolve in consultation with legal professionals, to meet their specific needs for document comparison. As a result, we’ve built a superior solution that legal professionals love using. Here’s why:

It’s accurate – Draftable Legal more accurately detects changes, including moved text and changes at a character level.
It’s fast - Our software quickly produces comparisons, especially for longer, complex documents.
It’s reliable – You can rely on Draftable Legal to work when you need it.
It’s easy to use – With an intuitive design, you can start using Draftable Legal right away with no formal training.
It integrates with legal workflows – Draftable Legal makes your job easy by seamlessly integrating with DMS and key software. It requires minimal clicks to load files and run comparisons and can produce multiple outputs without having to rerun comparisons.

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Why would I use Draftable Legal over Microsoft Word Compare?

The MS Word Compare function is great for simple or one-off comparisons and is familiar and free when you have MS Office installed. However, it’s not sufficient for legal professionals who need a specialist solution for faster, more accurate, and more complex document comparisons.

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With Draftable Legal, you’ll get:

Enhanced accuracy – Word Compare has limited accuracy, but Draftable Legal can identify character-level changes and moved text.
Greater workflow efficiency – Draftable Legal seamlessly integrates with key software and major DMS including iManage, NetDocuments and SharePoint.
More supported file types – While Word Compare only supports Word documents, Draftable Legal supports a range of document types including Word, PDF, scanned PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, and free text.
Different output types – Draftable Legal has more options for comparison output types, which can be exported, including PDF Redline, PDF Changed Pages Only, and Native Tracked Changes format.
Different comparison views – Word Compare only allows you to view comparison output in Tracked Changes. With Draftable Legal, you can view the output in our purpose-built PDF viewer, native Tracked Changes format, or a side-by-side view.
Customisation – Draftable Legal lets you customise your output, with options to create multiple pre-set rendering profiles for the whole firm, a specific team, or even individual users.
Dedicated customer support - As a specialised software provider, Draftable offers responsive and personalised customer support that enormous legacy companies cannot match. With our customer support teams operating from different continents, we can quickly resolve any issues.

Draftable Legal also provides a range of deployment options, so you can choose the best option to suit your team’s needs.

What types of documents can I compare and redline?

Draftable Legal supports a wide range of document types including:

Word to Word
Word to PDF (including scanned documents) or vice versa
PDF to PDF (including scanned documents)
PPT to PPT
Excel to Excel
Free text within an email or document.

What output types are available?

Draftable Legal offers the following comparison output types:

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‍Word and PDF files:

Redline as PDF
Redline as PDF with changed pages only
Redline as Word with tracked changes
Side-by-side view

PowerPoint files:

PowerPoint as tracked changes (opens in PowerPoint)
Side-by-side view

Excel files:

Excel (opens in Excel Spreadsheet Compare)*
Side-by-side view

*Requires a Microsoft 365 subscription or Office edition with Spreadsheet Compare.

Will Draftable Legal pick up all the changes I need to see?

Accuracy is critical when it comes to comparison software. With over a decade providing comparison solutions, we have developed our proprietary engine to ensure every change is detected, including:

Text changes
Text styling
Font changes
Layout changes
Headers & footers
Footnotes
Watermarks
Cover pages
Character level changes (e.g. changing a capital case to lower case)
Moved text, including text moved from a table into free text and vice versa

Can I customise Draftable’s redline comparison output?

Yes, you have the power to customise your redline comparison output, through pre-set rendering sets (known as “Profiles”). You can create multiple pre-set rendering profiles for individual users, a specific team, or the whole firm. Profiles can be created, managed, and configured by individual users, and system administrators via Group Policy.

Supported options include:

Ignore or include comparison elements*
Show changes at the character or word level
Compare or ignore comments
Include or exclude comparison summary page
Customise the author of changes
Customise markup stylings (customise how insertions, deletions, and moves are shown)
Include or remove the margin line for locating changes

*Supported comparison elements include: Text styling, font changes, layout changes, headers & footers, footnotes, watermarks, and cover pages.

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Can Draftable Legal compare scanned documents?

Yes, Draftable Legal has built-in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support which enables you to compare scanned documents in PDF format. You can configure your software to perform OCR on scanned files automatically based on detection of scanned files, or configure to ‘never’ run.

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Once OCR is enabled, you can compare scanned PDF files by simply uploading them to the Draftable Legal launcher, with no additional steps required.

Does Draftable Legal offer an offline option?

Draftable Legal is delivered securely through an offline Desktop Application. You can buy licenses for your team, and use Draftable Legal privately on your desktop.

What are the deployment options?

Draftable Legal offers a range of deployment options so you can choose the best option for your team or organisation:

Default installer (Regular Executable): Recommended for most scenarios. It's the easiest to use, has minimal requirements, and is ideal for individual users.
Per-user MSI installer: Typically the best option for enterprise deployment.
Machine-wide MSI installer: Only recommended for specific deployment scenarios where the other installers are unsuitable, such as Microsoft RDS and Citrix deployments where a single shared installation is needed, typically for storage efficiency.

How does Draftable handle security and privacy?

Security is our top priority. We are ISO27001 certified and as we specialise in document comparison for large organisations, we can cater to teams with obligations around privacy and security. We will gladly work with your IT and Dev teams to ensure a smooth deployment process. Contact us to discuss our self-hosted version or API, or read more about our Security.

Do you have sales & support teams in my region?

Draftable is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, but we have a global team. Our customer support teams, sales representatives, and engineers are based across the globe, including the US, UK, EU and APAC, so you’ll enjoy responsive and dedicated support.

Is there a free trial available?

You can sign-up online for a free 5-day trial so you can take Draftable Legal for a test run with all features enabled and no limits on usage.

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We also offer extended team trials as we understand that internal processes can take time and we want you to be sure that Draftable Legal is 100% right for you. We often see large organisations starting with a three-week trial.

For team trials, contact our team and we’d be happy to set it up for you.

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Can Draftable perform OCR on scanned documents?

Draftable Legal is a document comparison solution built for legal teams. It helps you compare any two documents in a secure desktop application, and highlights (redlines) all differences and changes between two documents for faster and more efficient reviews. Click here to see a sample comparison.

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Draftable has provided general-purpose document comparison solutions for over 12 years, with more than 750 customers worldwide. We started building a specific comparison solution for legal teams in 2021, in response to demand from the legal industry, fueled by consolidation in the market. We launched Draftable Legal in 2023, and more than 200 law firms and large organisations have now made the switch. Read more about our customers and case studies.

Trusted by over 700 law firms worldwide.

Damien Behan, Innovation & Technology Director, Brodies
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‍"Draftable Legal is intuitive and easy to use, integrates with our document management system and in-house formatting style and can handle multiple document formats. However, what also stood out was that the customer service was attentive and responsive, with requests for enhancements considered and actioned swiftly. Draftable Legal has not just replaced our previous system, it has given us additional functionality and has been warmly received by our colleagues. Draftable Legal is a great solution for any law firm looking to futureproof its comparison capabilities."

Jason S. Gilbert, Manager of IT, Walter | Haverfield
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‍"You can pay more for a bigger ‘brand name’, but you won’t get more for the money you spend. Draftable Legal is an efficient application by a company that is building a stable and user-friendly program. They will do their best to get this program in the hands of your staff that need it most, and your staff will not be disappointed."

Bill Tanner, CIO, Allens
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‍"Draftable Legal has exceeded our expectations in every way. The high-quality software and features have made it an indispensable tool for our team, and the firm was also impressed with the ease of deployment, exceptional support, and great pricing."

Kayla Kuri, Director, Phillips Murrah P.C.

"I really like Draftable Legal and have recommended it to firm management to replace our existing compare software. Over the past few weeks, I’ve tried four different compare solutions, and Draftable is by far the most user-friendly while still providing all the key features you actually want and need in a compare software. Many other more expensive options were more difficult to use, provided unnecessary features, and had significant glitches. Draftable Legal was an easy choice to make!"

Glen Glorioso, Director of IT, Messner Reeves

“Draftable made the whole experience incredibly easy, from setting up a trial to placing an order and deploying the software. The Draftable team were great to work with and was accommodating in allowing us to set up an evaluation for multiple users. Deployment in their Citrix environment was easy and straightforward and the system administration via Group Policy is amazing! We had it up and running for all users in just a few hours and the end users love how fast it runs comparisons."

Sarah Simmonds, Practice Manager, JRT Partnership

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"Draftable Legal’s superior performance and responsive customer service establishes them as industry leaders in the document comparison field. Their product stands out particularly in terms of accuracy, and the improved efficiency of document comparison processes as part of the document drafting and review workflow. Exceptional support was provided by the Draftable team, swiftly addressing minor issues during the early testing phase. We recommend firms who are looking for a reliable legal document comparison service to trial Draftable Legal."

Lee Hodge, IT Director, Sparke Helmore‍

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“The team were impressed from day one, and even more so when our feedback was integrated into the product so swiftly. Our lawyers found the tool easy and intuitive to use and got it on the first go. They benefited from useful features like Draftable’s proprietary move algorithm, which has proven to be more accurate in detecting and showing when content has been moved within a document.”

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