GitHub Pixel Diff by illusionist nemo
Adds a pixel-level image diff to the image viewer on GitHub and GitLab — next to 2-up, Swipe and Onion Skin.
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About this extension
GitHub and GitLab both show you two versions of an image. Neither shows you what changed between them.
Pixel Diff adds a fourth mode next to 2-up, Swipe and Onion Skin — in GitHub's image viewer and in GitLab's merge requests. It compares the two images pixel by pixel, paints every difference red, and crops the result to the area that actually changed — so a three-pixel shift in a long screenshot is a three-pixel shift you can see, not a picture you have to hunt through.
The comparison runs in your browser, in a background thread. The extension has no server, collects nothing, and sends nothing.
Open source: https://github.com/Nemo-Illusionist/gh-pixel-diff
Pixel Diff adds a fourth mode next to 2-up, Swipe and Onion Skin — in GitHub's image viewer and in GitLab's merge requests. It compares the two images pixel by pixel, paints every difference red, and crops the result to the area that actually changed — so a three-pixel shift in a long screenshot is a three-pixel shift you can see, not a picture you have to hunt through.
- A threshold slider: raise it to ignore compression noise, lower it to catch everything.
- Before / after / diff, and all three side by side, sharing one scale and one crop.
- Images that changed size are aligned and compared anyway.
- SVG and other vector images are rasterised before comparison.
- Works on the images the site has already loaded — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
- A GitLab of your own: add its address on the settings page, grant access, and the mode appears in that instance too.
- No merge request at hand? Two images of your own compare the same way at https://nemo-illusionist.github.io/gh-pixel-diff/
The comparison runs in your browser, in a background thread. The extension has no server, collects nothing, and sends nothing.
Open source: https://github.com/Nemo-Illusionist/gh-pixel-diff
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for viewscreen.githubusercontent.com
- Access your data for gitlab.com
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for viewscreen.githubusercontent.com
- Access your data for gitlab.com
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
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- Version
- 0.17.0
- Size
- 103.36 KB
- Last updated
- 8 hours ago (Sep 27, 2026)
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- MIT License
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