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Umwelt vs Diffoniq™

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Umwelt compared with Diffoniq™
DetailUmwelt logo UmweltDiffoniq™ logo Diffoniq™
What it doesAn epistemic state engine that tracks what each character knows, and how they learned it Compare files, folders and archives side by side on Windows
StageNot given Established
FoundedNot given 1995
Based inNot given AT
Pricing modelOpen source Free trial
PricingAGPL-3.0-only open source license. Commercial license available for closed-source products, services and hosted APIs. Free Play Exception covers free games, mods, interactive fiction and tabletop tools (excluding games with price, in-game purchases, ads, paid content or early access). from $35 one-time, per user. Free 30-day full-featured evaluation. Volume tiers available for teams. Free 2.x upgrade for WDiff32 licensees.
Key features
  • Tracks what each character knows and how they learned it
  • Prevents AI models from leaking story information or twists
  • Records confirmed history that is never deleted
  • Single portable .umw file for entire world state
  • Works across TypeScript, .NET, CLI and any language via JSON protocol
  • Query from any character's point of view at any moment in time
  • Performance of 55-65 microseconds per query with half a million holdings
  • Free Play Exception for non-commercial games and tabletop tools
  • Side-by-side text comparison with in-place editing
  • Archive support for ZIP, 7-Zip, RAR, tar, CAB and ISO formats
  • Rename detection for files and archives
  • Recursive directory comparison with ignore rules
  • Binary byte-by-byte comparison mode
  • Folder synchronization with preview
  • Export reports as HTML, plain text or JSON
  • Integration with git, TortoiseGit, TortoiseSVN, IDEs and file managers
  • Persistent hash cache for fast repeat comparisons
  • Full Unicode support including UTF-8 and UTF-16
What makes it different
  • Separates world state from character knowledge to prevent narrative leakage
  • Guarantees written down with conformance testing across all clients
  • Idempotent writes ensure consistency across retries
  • Works without AI or can control what AI models are allowed to know
  • Open source with commercial licensing option for closed-source products
  • No cloud, no accounts, no extraction required for archive comparison
  • Rename detection identifies moved files instead of showing as delete plus add
  • Native Windows application with persistent hash cache for speed
  • Works without leaving the diff: edit, merge and save within the same window
  • Free full-featured 30-day trial with no functional limits
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)Not checked yet no change since last check2 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)48
Citation Flow (Majestic)129
Referring domains (Majestic)17

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