Draftable Legal is an enterprise document comparison platform built for legal professionals. It goes beyond simple redlining, compare Word, PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint files with multiple output formats including redline PDFs, Word tracked changes, departures tables, and side-by-side views.With integrations into leading document management systems like iManage, NetDocuments, and SharePoint, plus features like Bulk Compare, 1-Click Compare, AI-Ready Redline export, and a powerful Change List for reviewing, tagging, and filtering changes, Draftable Legal fits seamlessly into your existing workflows.
Your IT team may have already installed and configured Draftable Legal for you. If so, you can skip steps 1 and 2.
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Activate your product key
Once installed, launch Draftable Legal. What happens next depends on how your product key was configured.
Product key pre-configured by IT
Enter your product key manually
If your IT team has already deployed your product key (for example, via Group Policy or registry configuration), Draftable Legal will open directly to the New Comparison window — no activation is required on your part.You’re ready to go! Skip ahead to Running your first comparison.
If your product key has not been pre-configured, Draftable Legal will prompt you to enter it on launch.
If you don’t already have a license or haven’t purchased Draftable, visit our pricing page to get started. If you’re looking to buy for a team, book a demo with our sales team.
Enter your product key in the Product Key field.
Click Activate.
A confirmation screen will appear showing your license details. Click Continue.
Draftable will run first-time checks to verify your system is correctly configured for all Draftable features. This takes one to two minutes. We recommend letting it complete — if any issues are flagged, contact Draftable Support. If you prefer, you can skip this step by closing the window.
Click Continue once the checks are complete. The New Comparison window will appear.
This allows you to compare two documents and have them shown on a comparison screen in a Side by Side view. This can make it very easy to see the differences between two documents and works best for PDF files (but Word files are also supported). Side by Side comparisons also have the option to create a comparison output (or export), and is very useful when comparing Excel and PowerPoint files.
The Tracked Changes comparison type will generate a Word document (.docx) with the changes marked up as Track Changes. Once ready, you will be prompted to either save or open the output. This will open in Word and let you use Word’s inbuilt Tracked Changes functionality to navigate through changes and accept/reject changes.
This Comparison Type creates a Word (docx) file with static redline markup but no tracked changes metadata. This is particularly useful when using metadata cleaning tools that would otherwise remove tracked changes information.
Draftable has dedicated comparison algorithms for Excel and PowerPoint files that produce redline output in the native Office format (.xlsx or .pptx). The output opens directly in Excel or PowerPoint so you can continue working on the file after review.
Excel and PowerPoint files can also be compared as a Redline and reviewed directly inside the Draftable Comparison Viewer. This gives you access to the interactive Change List, tagging, filtering, and export options without leaving Draftable.
A specialised report that presents changes at the section or clause level rather than as inline edits. The Departures Table highlights the entire section where a change occurred, making it ideal for long contracts and policy documents where stakeholders need to understand the scope of changes at a glance. Output format is DOCX only.
A streamlined output that includes only the pages where changes were detected between the original and revised documents. Unchanged pages are excluded entirely, providing a quicker way to review modifications without a full redline. Output format is PDF only.
Text-Only Compare strips all formatting, styles, numbering, and layout from both documents before comparing, leaving only substantive text changes. This is useful for documents with complex formatting or as a fallback when a standard comparison produces unexpected results.
When both inputs are set to free text, Draftable displays a real-time redline preview directly in the Compare Selector as you type or paste — no need to click Compare. The output can be copied as tracked changes, redline, or AI-ready format for use with generative AI tools.
