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Fonts for Diff Tool on Windows Pc

Developed By: B. Gruber

License: Free

Rating: 4,2/5 - 29 votes

Last Updated: February 19, 2025

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Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version 2.0
Size 9.5 MB
Release Date February 03, 19
Category Productivity Apps

App Permissions:
Allows an application to write to external storage. [see more (2)]

What's New:
2.0: Improved setup, adding 64 bit support1.9: Adapting of folder names on devices having Android N1.8: Sets the powerful WenQuanYi font, having more than... [see more]

Description from Developer:
This package installs fonts which can be used for APPs like DiffTool (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.difftool) to display Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Th... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download Fonts for Diff Tool and install on Windows PC. Fonts for Diff Tool is free Productivity app, developed by B. Gruber. Latest version of Fonts for Diff Tool is 2.0, was released on 2019-02-03 (updated on 2025-02-19). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 1,000. Overall rating of Fonts for Diff Tool is 4,2. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 29 users, 3 users had rated it 5*, 19 users had rated it 1*.

How to install Fonts for Diff Tool on Windows?

Instruction on how to install Fonts for Diff Tool on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Fonts for Diff Tool on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

  1. Install using BlueStacks
  2. Install using NoxPlayer

Step By Step Guide To Install Fonts for Diff Tool using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "Fonts for Diff Tool" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install Fonts for Diff Tool on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Fonts for Diff Tool" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Other versions available: 2.0.

Download Fonts for Diff Tool 2.0 on Windows PC – 9.5 MB

This package installs fonts which can be used for APPs like DiffTool (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.difftool) to display Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Hangul and many other characters.
Please check licenses below and that your device has 32 MBytes of free flash first!

This package contains the WenQuanYi Font with more than 34000 characters, it supports Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and many other languages:
• wqy-MicroHei.ttf (Apache 2 * / GPL 3 License **)
More Info about it and its sources see:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WenQuanYi

And this package contains the 4 GNU Free Fonts supporting Latin, Cyrillic, South Asian fonts and others:
• FreeMono.ttf (GNU FreeFont License ***)
• FreeMonoBold.ttf (GNU FreeFont License ***)
• FreeSans.ttf (GNU FreeFont License ***)
• FreeSerif.ttf (GNU FreeFont License ***)
More Info about it and its sources see:
https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/

All these fonts will be stored into the folder: /sdcard/Android/data/com.difftool.fonts/files/fonts
With any file explorer, you can of course move these files to your external SD card (to save internal flash).

For DiffTool other True Type Fonts can be also downloaded from internet or can be copied from your PC. For example free for private use only is Bitstream Cyberbit see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Cyberbit EXTERNAL LINKS with 32910 chars or have a look at http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html which has more than 64000 characters and is nearly complete.
Nearly all Microsoft Office® and many Mac® **** users do have a licensed "Arial Unicode MS" font on their computer, which has 38917 chars and works with DiffTool too.

* The WenQuanYi Font Apache 2 License:
Copyrights:
- © 2007, Google Corporation
- © 2008-2009, WenQuanYi Project Board of Trustees
- © 2008-2009, mozbug and Qianqian Fang (Droid Sans Fallback extension interface)
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

** The GPL 3 License:
See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

*** The GNU FreeFont License:
Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.

!!! All license information is also stored as text next to the installed *.ttf files !!!

**** Mac® is a regisered trademark of Apple Inc.
**** Microsoft Office® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation 
2.0: Improved setup, adding 64 bit support
1.9: Adapting of folder names on devices having Android N
1.8: Sets the powerful WenQuanYi font, having more than 34000 characters, as DiffTools default
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.