Your editor returns a manuscript with changes. Track Changes might show some of them, but if they edited a copy without tracking, or if the revision history is messy, you're left reading both drafts side by side trying to spot what's different.
ChangeChecks gives you a clean comparison: paste the original draft on the left, the edited draft on the right, and see every change at a glance.
The workflow
What writers actually need
Writers don't need a line-by-line code diff. They need to understand what their editor did — which sentences were cut, which paragraphs were rewritten, which words were substituted. The merged view in ChangeChecks shows this like Track Changes in Word: removed text in coral with a strikethrough, added text in sage with an underline. You read the document naturally and the changes are visible in context.
The summary bar tells you the scale of the edit before you start reading. "12 regions changed, 42 words removed, 67 added, 94% similar" tells you this was a moderate edit — mostly additions. "3 regions changed, 8 words removed, 3 added, 99% similar" tells you it was a light polish.
Comparing chapter by chapter or section by section
Keeping track of revision history
After each editing round, you can save the comparison summary (change count, similarity percentage) as a lightweight record of what each revision pass did. Over multiple drafts, this gives you a sense of how the manuscript evolved — first draft to final.