Digest Diff

What Is Digest Diff?

Digest Diff is an AI-powered tool that analyzes your codebase’s commit history — the changes, updates, and who made them — to produce insights about progress, collaboration, and how the code has evolved over time. It never accesses your actual code, making it useful for writing release notes, onboarding new team members, and understanding a project’s history.

Who’s Behind Digest Diff?

Digest Diff was developed by a company called Strongly Typed. Privacy is central to the design: the tool requires only read-only access to your GitHub repositories and never sees or stores your code. New users receive 5 free credits to try it.

Key Features

• Codebase overview: Understand your project through its commit history, with detailed overviews of how the code has progressed and how collaboration happened.
• Team contribution summaries: See what everyone has been working on — useful for stand-ups, retrospectives, and weekly reports.
• Automated release notes: Generate release notes directly from your commit history, with control over writing style, personality, tone, and length.
• Faster onboarding: New developers can get up to speed with an overview of the codebase’s history.
• Export and sharing: Save overviews and release notes as markdown files for easy sharing.
• GitHub integration: Fetch commit history directly from your repositories, or paste your git log in manually.

Who Should Use It?

Digest Diff is particularly helpful for developers working directly with code, and for developers joining a project who need to understand its history quickly.