When comparing Diffen vs AlternativeTo, the Slant community recommends AlternativeTo for most people. In the question“What are the best comparison sites?” AlternativeTo is ranked 2nd while Diffen is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose AlternativeTo is:
Full website with lots of content, info, users, comments, etc. Value for free.
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Pros
Pro Has an intuitive, top-down way of discovering content
Comparisons are categorized and subcategorized.
Pro For new comparisons, Diffen takes data from Wikipedia
this is usually a pretty effective way to gather comparison data
Pro Formats queries like "X" vs "Y"
Which allows search engines to find the page for quick comparisons
Pro Comprehensive
Full website with lots of content, info, users, comments, etc. Value for free.
Pro Easy to skim through content
AlternativeTo makes it easy to quickly find stuff. The lists are organized by likes which floats the best content to the top, and helpful tags warn you of undesirable attributes (such as the product being discontinued or if it includes bundleware).
Pro Filtering and sorting capabilities
The ability to filter by platform and license means that you can easily filter out software that you can't use. More specific filters and sort orders are also available.
Pro Better usability
Slant is really terrible by design.
Pro Has a lot of information about products easily accessible
Pro Shows all options
If you have a large list(~100) on slant only the first ~15 entries are displayed - even if you click see full list.
Pro Less JavaScript
Which drastically improves the sites performance.
Pro Less manipulation
Less manipulation with guest/fake accounts.
Pro Does not use redirectingat
It does not use redirectingat so links won't break if you use an ad or tracker blocker .
Pro Straightforward
Pages load much faster and there is less annoying bling bling.
Pro Moderation is superior
It has a good moderation team that removes spam or hate posts.
Pro Tag based instead of individual Questions
It is tag based so there are less duplicates.
Cons
Con Data is often outdated
Con Can only compare two things at once
limits the ability to make informed decisions about choosing which product / service to pick
Con Limited details available on the site itself
AlternativeTo excels at showing you options, however it doesn't really tell you why one option is better/worse than another. It lists options by the number of likes it has received, but to directly compare the options is relatively hard to do.
