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MarcF
May 11, 2021

Compare versions in Version History

  • May 11, 2021
  • 32 replies
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Hi,

I’m looking for a way to see what has changed, in the versioning, when viewing Figma files sent to me. As far as I can tell you can only view old versions and not see what changed between an old version and a current one. It’s particularly difficult to detect changes on files with many pages/boards/wireframes.

It would be great if you could click a version and compare it to the current version with a highlight and greyscale/colour content to easily see what’s new/what’s not.

Thanks

32 replies

Pat_Maechler
New Member
July 20, 2023

I tried to workaround this limitation by creating branches and reverting to old versions.

Unfortunately that did not work out.

Vitaliy_Sverdlov
July 24, 2023

Also voting for this feature by both hands! This will help to bill the time in the end of the week. Now it takes hours to understand what I worked for during these 5 or 7 days. A lot of history stamps but no evident changes in frames.

August 16, 2023

This functionality is available in dev mode > compare changes.
Still it would be nice to add some designer-to-developer communication, for example push changes to “ready for development”, similar to the “publish library function”.

Figma Learn - Help Center
November 21, 2023

I’m building a tool that takes screenshots everyday, of every Figma file I need changelog, and I can visually compare them with mapbox/pixelmatch. If there is a change I keep the latest screenshot, if not… no.

My only problem is with huge Figma files. I’m getting an error because the request to api takes too long

Marcus_Tucker
New Member
November 21, 2023

Sadly the current implementation of “Compare changes in Dev Mode” leaves a lot to be desired - most fundamentally, it’s far too difficult to see what’s actually changed! 😣

Will raise a separate suggestion about this now.

February 9, 2024

Any updates? +1

djv
Figmate
Community Support
February 12, 2024

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

This isn’t on our immediate roadmap, but we’ll pass it onto our team for future consideration.

111855
June 10, 2024

I hope that will be soon. The community is in dire need for such a feature.

masni_bennett
New Member
July 25, 2024

Resolving conflicts is really dire at the moment as a library manager, as I have no idea what’s different between versions, much of the time.

I either have to cross my fingers and hope it’s ok (potentially impacting 100s of teammates) or blow away my work and redo it.

I’d love a way to see a code diff, even if it’s hard to read, just for my sanity.

Sam_Hildebrandt
September 24, 2024

As a viewer, I want a different filter/background or something to differentiate the current version from the version history so that when I briefly look at the board, I know what version I’m looking at and if it is the current one