diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index 2ccfcebf..685c6dbc 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ dependencies {
     implementation libs.bouncycastle
     implementation libs.unified.push
 
+    implementation libs.bundles.xmldiff
+
     testImplementation libs.androidx.test.junit
     testImplementation libs.robolectric
     testImplementation libs.bundles.mockito
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/components/viewthread/edits/ViewEditsAdapter.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/components/viewthread/edits/ViewEditsAdapter.kt
index 88396bce..075a84e2 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/components/viewthread/edits/ViewEditsAdapter.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/components/viewthread/edits/ViewEditsAdapter.kt
@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
 package com.keylesspalace.tusky.components.viewthread.edits
 
+import android.content.Context
+import android.graphics.Canvas
+import android.graphics.Paint
+import android.graphics.Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD
 import android.graphics.drawable.ColorDrawable
 import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable
+import android.text.Editable
+import android.text.Html
+import android.text.Spannable
+import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder
+import android.text.Spanned
+import android.text.style.ReplacementSpan
 import android.view.LayoutInflater
 import android.view.View
 import android.view.ViewGroup
@@ -30,6 +40,7 @@ import com.keylesspalace.tusky.util.show
 import com.keylesspalace.tusky.util.unicodeWrap
 import com.keylesspalace.tusky.util.visible
 import com.keylesspalace.tusky.viewdata.toViewData
+import org.xml.sax.XMLReader
 
 class ViewEditsAdapter(
     private val edits: List<StatusEdit>,
@@ -47,11 +58,11 @@ class ViewEditsAdapter(
     ): BindingHolder<ItemStatusEditBinding> {
         val binding = ItemStatusEditBinding.inflate(LayoutInflater.from(parent.context), parent, false)
         binding.statusEditMediaPreview.clipToOutline = true
+
         return BindingHolder(binding)
     }
 
     override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: BindingHolder<ItemStatusEditBinding>, position: Int) {
-
         val edit = edits[position]
 
         val binding = holder.binding
@@ -90,7 +101,11 @@ class ViewEditsAdapter(
             )
         }
 
-        val emojifiedText = edit.content.parseAsMastodonHtml().emojify(edit.emojis, binding.statusEditContent, animateEmojis)
+        val emojifiedText = edit
+            .content
+            .parseAsMastodonHtml(TuskyTagHandler(context))
+            .emojify(edit.emojis, binding.statusEditContent, animateEmojis)
+
         setClickableText(binding.statusEditContent, emojifiedText, emptyList(), emptyList(), listener)
 
         if (edit.poll == null) {
@@ -184,3 +199,177 @@ class ViewEditsAdapter(
 
     override fun getItemCount() = edits.size
 }
+
+/**
+ * Handle XML tags created by [ViewEditsViewModel] and create custom spans to display inserted or
+ * deleted text.
+ */
+class TuskyTagHandler(val context: Context) : Html.TagHandler {
+    /** Class to mark the start of a span of deleted text */
+    class Del
+
+    /** Class to mark the start of a span of inserted text */
+    class Ins
+
+    override fun handleTag(opening: Boolean, tag: String, output: Editable, xmlReader: XMLReader) {
+        when (tag) {
+            DELETED_TEXT_EL -> {
+                if (opening) {
+                    start(output as SpannableStringBuilder, Del())
+                } else {
+                    end(
+                        output as SpannableStringBuilder,
+                        Del::class.java,
+                        DeletedTextSpan(context)
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+            INSERTED_TEXT_EL -> {
+                if (opening) {
+                    start(output as SpannableStringBuilder, Ins())
+                } else {
+                    end(
+                        output as SpannableStringBuilder,
+                        Ins::class.java,
+                        InsertedTextSpan(context)
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** @return the last span in [text] of type [kind], or null if that kind is not in text */
+    private fun <T> getLast(text: Spanned, kind: Class<T>): Any? {
+        val spans = text.getSpans(0, text.length, kind)
+        return spans?.get(spans.size - 1)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Mark the start of a span of [text] with [mark] so it can be discovered later by [end].
+     */
+    private fun start(text: SpannableStringBuilder, mark: Any) {
+        val len = text.length
+        text.setSpan(mark, len, len, Spannable.SPAN_MARK_MARK)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Set a [span] over the [text] most from the point recently marked with [mark] to the end
+     * of the text.
+     */
+    private fun <T> end(text: SpannableStringBuilder, mark: Class<T>, span: Any) {
+        val len = text.length
+        val obj = getLast(text, mark)
+        val where = text.getSpanStart(obj)
+        text.removeSpan(obj)
+        if (where != len) {
+            text.setSpan(span, where, len, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A span that draws text with additional padding at the start/end of the text. The padding
+     * is the width of [separator].
+     *
+     * Note: The separator string is not included in the final text, so it will not be included
+     * if the user cuts or copies the text.
+     */
+    open class LRPaddedSpan(val separator: String = " ") : ReplacementSpan() {
+        /** The width of the separator string, used as padding */
+        var paddingWidth = 0f
+
+        /** Measured width of the span */
+        var spanWidth = 0f
+
+        override fun getSize(
+            paint: Paint,
+            text: CharSequence?,
+            start: Int,
+            end: Int,
+            fm: Paint.FontMetricsInt?
+        ): Int {
+            paddingWidth = paint.measureText(separator, 0, separator.length)
+            spanWidth = (paddingWidth * 2) + paint.measureText(text, start, end)
+            return spanWidth.toInt()
+        }
+
+        override fun draw(
+            canvas: Canvas,
+            text: CharSequence?,
+            start: Int,
+            end: Int,
+            x: Float,
+            top: Int,
+            y: Int,
+            bottom: Int,
+            paint: Paint
+        ) {
+            canvas.drawText(text?.subSequence(start, end).toString(), x + paddingWidth, y.toFloat(), paint)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Span that signifies deleted text */
+    class DeletedTextSpan(context: Context) : LRPaddedSpan() {
+        private val bgPaint = Paint()
+        val radius: Float
+
+        init {
+            bgPaint.color = context.getColor(R.color.view_edits_background_delete)
+            radius = context.resources.getDimension(R.dimen.lrPaddedSpanRadius)
+        }
+
+        override fun draw(
+            canvas: Canvas,
+            text: CharSequence?,
+            start: Int,
+            end: Int,
+            x: Float,
+            top: Int,
+            y: Int,
+            bottom: Int,
+            paint: Paint
+        ) {
+            canvas.drawRoundRect(x, top.toFloat(), x + spanWidth, bottom.toFloat(), radius, radius, bgPaint)
+            paint.isStrikeThruText = true
+            super.draw(canvas, text, start, end, x, top, y, bottom, paint)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Span that signifies inserted text */
+    class InsertedTextSpan(context: Context) : LRPaddedSpan() {
+        val bgPaint = Paint()
+        val radius: Float
+
+        init {
+            bgPaint.color = context.getColor(R.color.view_edits_background_insert)
+            radius = context.resources.getDimension(R.dimen.lrPaddedSpanRadius)
+        }
+
+        override fun draw(
+            canvas: Canvas,
+            text: CharSequence?,
+            start: Int,
+            end: Int,
+            x: Float,
+            top: Int,
+            y: Int,
+            bottom: Int,
+            paint: Paint
+        ) {
+            canvas.drawRoundRect(x, top.toFloat(), x + spanWidth, bottom.toFloat(), radius, radius, bgPaint)
+            paint.typeface = DEFAULT_BOLD
+            super.draw(canvas, text, start, end, x, top, y, bottom, paint)
+        }
+    }
+
+    companion object {
+        /** XML element to represent text that has been deleted */
+        // Can't be an element that Android's HTML parser recognises, otherwise the tagHandler
+        // won't be called for it.
+        const val DELETED_TEXT_EL = "tusky-del"
+
+        /** XML element to represet text that has been inserted */
+        // Can't be an element that Android's HTML parser recognises, otherwise the tagHandler
+        // won't be called for it.
+        const val INSERTED_TEXT_EL = "tusky-ins"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/components/viewthread/edits/ViewEditsViewModel.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/components/viewthread/edits/ViewEditsViewModel.kt
index c5959d26..6dc0e25f 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/components/viewthread/edits/ViewEditsViewModel.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/components/viewthread/edits/ViewEditsViewModel.kt
@@ -18,17 +18,32 @@ package com.keylesspalace.tusky.components.viewthread.edits
 import androidx.lifecycle.ViewModel
 import androidx.lifecycle.viewModelScope
 import at.connyduck.calladapter.networkresult.fold
+import com.keylesspalace.tusky.components.viewthread.edits.TuskyTagHandler.Companion.DELETED_TEXT_EL
+import com.keylesspalace.tusky.components.viewthread.edits.TuskyTagHandler.Companion.INSERTED_TEXT_EL
 import com.keylesspalace.tusky.entity.StatusEdit
 import com.keylesspalace.tusky.network.MastodonApi
+import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.MutableStateFlow
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.StateFlow
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.asStateFlow
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.api.LoadingException
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.api.Operator
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.config.DiffConfig
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.config.TextGranularity
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.config.WhiteSpaceProcessing
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.core.OptimisticXMLProcessor
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.format.XMLDiffOutput
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.load.SAXLoader
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.token.XMLToken
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.token.XMLTokenType
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.token.impl.SpaceToken
+import org.pageseeder.diffx.xml.NamespaceSet
+import org.pageseeder.xmlwriter.XML.NamespaceAware
+import org.pageseeder.xmlwriter.XMLStringWriter
 import javax.inject.Inject
 
-class ViewEditsViewModel @Inject constructor(
-    private val api: MastodonApi
-) : ViewModel() {
+class ViewEditsViewModel @Inject constructor(private val api: MastodonApi) : ViewModel() {
 
     private val _uiState: MutableStateFlow<EditsUiState> = MutableStateFlow(EditsUiState.Initial)
     val uiState: StateFlow<EditsUiState> = _uiState.asStateFlow()
@@ -45,8 +60,59 @@ class ViewEditsViewModel @Inject constructor(
         viewModelScope.launch {
             api.statusEdits(statusId).fold(
                 { edits ->
-                    val sortedEdits = edits.sortedBy { edit -> edit.createdAt }.reversed()
-                    _uiState.value = EditsUiState.Success(sortedEdits)
+                    // Diff each status' content against the previous version, producing new
+                    // content with additional `ins` or `del` elements marking inserted or
+                    // deleted content.
+                    //
+                    // This can be CPU intensive depending on the number of edits and the size
+                    // of each, so don't run this on Dispatchers.Main.
+                    viewModelScope.launch(Dispatchers.Default) {
+                        val sortedEdits = edits.sortedBy { it.createdAt }
+                            .reversed()
+                            .toMutableList()
+
+                        SAXLoader.setXMLReaderClass("org.xmlpull.v1.sax2.Driver")
+                        val loader = SAXLoader()
+                        loader.config = DiffConfig(
+                            false,
+                            WhiteSpaceProcessing.PRESERVE,
+                            TextGranularity.SPACE_WORD
+                        )
+                        val processor = OptimisticXMLProcessor()
+                        processor.setCoalesce(true)
+                        val output = HtmlDiffOutput()
+
+                        try {
+                            // The XML processor expects `br` to be closed
+                            var currentContent =
+                                loader.load(sortedEdits[0].content.replace("<br>", "<br/>"))
+                            var previousContent =
+                                loader.load(sortedEdits[1].content.replace("<br>", "<br/>"))
+
+                            for (i in 1 until sortedEdits.size) {
+                                processor.diff(previousContent, currentContent, output)
+                                sortedEdits[i - 1] = sortedEdits[i - 1].copy(
+                                    content = output.xml.toString()
+                                )
+
+                                if (i < sortedEdits.size - 1) {
+                                    currentContent = previousContent
+                                    previousContent = loader.load(
+                                        sortedEdits[i + 1].content.replace(
+                                            "<br>",
+                                            "<br/>"
+                                        )
+                                    )
+                                }
+                            }
+                            _uiState.value = EditsUiState.Success(sortedEdits)
+                        } catch (_: LoadingException) {
+                            // Something failed parsing the XML from the server. Rather than
+                            // show an error just return the sorted edits so the user can at
+                            // least visually scan the differences.
+                            _uiState.value = EditsUiState.Success(sortedEdits)
+                        }
+                    }
                 },
                 { throwable ->
                     _uiState.value = EditsUiState.Error(throwable)
@@ -54,6 +120,10 @@ class ViewEditsViewModel @Inject constructor(
             )
         }
     }
+
+    companion object {
+        const val TAG = "ViewEditsViewModel"
+    }
 }
 
 sealed interface EditsUiState {
@@ -68,3 +138,67 @@ sealed interface EditsUiState {
         val edits: List<StatusEdit>
     ) : EditsUiState
 }
+
+/**
+ * Add elements wrapping inserted or deleted content.
+ */
+class HtmlDiffOutput : XMLDiffOutput {
+    /** XML Output */
+    lateinit var xml: XMLStringWriter
+        private set
+
+    override fun start() {
+        xml = XMLStringWriter(NamespaceAware.Yes)
+    }
+
+    override fun handle(operator: Operator, token: XMLToken) {
+        if (operator.isEdit) {
+            handleEdit(operator, token)
+        } else {
+            token.toXML(xml)
+        }
+    }
+
+    override fun end() {
+        xml.flush()
+    }
+
+    override fun setWriteXMLDeclaration(show: Boolean) {
+        // This space intentionally left blank
+    }
+
+    override fun setNamespaces(namespaces: NamespaceSet?) {
+        // This space intentionally left blank
+    }
+
+    private fun handleEdit(operator: Operator, token: XMLToken) {
+        if (token == SpaceToken.NEW_LINE) {
+            if (operator == Operator.INS) {
+                token.toXML(xml)
+            }
+            return
+        }
+        when (token.type) {
+            XMLTokenType.START_ELEMENT -> token.toXML(xml)
+            XMLTokenType.END_ELEMENT -> token.toXML(xml)
+            XMLTokenType.TEXT -> {
+                // wrap the characters in a <tusky-ins/tusky-del> element
+                when (operator) {
+                    Operator.DEL -> DELETED_TEXT_EL
+                    Operator.INS -> INSERTED_TEXT_EL
+                    else -> null
+                }?.let {
+                    xml.openElement(it, false)
+                }
+                token.toXML(xml)
+                xml.closeElement()
+            }
+            else -> {
+                // Only include inserted content
+                if (operator === Operator.INS) {
+                    token.toXML(xml)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/StatusParsingHelper.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/StatusParsingHelper.kt
index 2ac4782c..18c95c8a 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/StatusParsingHelper.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/util/StatusParsingHelper.kt
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 @file:JvmName("StatusParsingHelper")
 package com.keylesspalace.tusky.util
 
+import android.text.Html.TagHandler
 import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder
 import android.text.Spanned
 import androidx.core.text.parseAsHtml
@@ -23,12 +24,13 @@ import androidx.core.text.parseAsHtml
 /**
  * parse a String containing html from the Mastodon api to Spanned
  */
-fun String.parseAsMastodonHtml(): Spanned {
+@JvmOverloads
+fun String.parseAsMastodonHtml(tagHandler: TagHandler? = null): Spanned {
     return this.replace("<br> ", "<br>&nbsp;")
         .replace("<br /> ", "<br />&nbsp;")
         .replace("<br/> ", "<br/>&nbsp;")
         .replace("  ", "&nbsp;&nbsp;")
-        .parseAsHtml()
+        .parseAsHtml(tagHandler = tagHandler)
         /* Html.fromHtml returns trailing whitespace if the html ends in a </p> tag, which
          * most status contents do, so it should be trimmed. */
         .trimTrailingWhitespace()
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values-night/theme_colors.xml b/app/src/main/res/values-night/theme_colors.xml
index 348652a7..cb57cf8d 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values-night/theme_colors.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values-night/theme_colors.xml
@@ -28,4 +28,7 @@
     <color name="botBadgeForeground">@color/white</color>
     <color name="botBadgeBackground">@color/tusky_grey_10</color>
 
+    <!-- colors used to show inserted/deleted text -->
+    <color name="view_edits_background_insert">#00731B</color>
+    <color name="view_edits_background_delete">#DF0000</color>
 </resources>
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values/dimens.xml b/app/src/main/res/values/dimens.xml
index b6f88d09..abba099e 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values/dimens.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values/dimens.xml
@@ -61,4 +61,6 @@
     <dimen name="preview_image_spacing">4dp</dimen>
 
     <dimen name="graph_line_thickness">1dp</dimen>
+
+    <dimen name="lrPaddedSpanRadius">4dp</dimen>
 </resources>
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values/theme_colors.xml b/app/src/main/res/values/theme_colors.xml
index 2f5da6b8..32f2727f 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values/theme_colors.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values/theme_colors.xml
@@ -28,4 +28,7 @@
     <color name="botBadgeForeground">@color/tusky_grey_20</color>
     <color name="botBadgeBackground">@color/white</color>
 
+    <!-- colors used to show inserted/deleted text -->
+    <color name="view_edits_background_insert">#CCFFD8</color>
+    <color name="view_edits_background_delete">#FFC0C0</color>
 </resources>
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index a8136666..72bb0667 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ bouncycastle = "1.70"
 conscrypt = "2.5.2"
 coroutines = "1.6.4"
 dagger = "2.45"
+diffx = "1.1.1"
 emoji2 = "1.2.0"
 espresso = "3.5.1"
 filemoji-compat = "3.2.7"
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ sparkbutton = "4.1.0"
 truth = "1.1.3"
 turbine = "0.12.1"
 unified-push = "2.1.1"
+xmlwriter = "1.0.4"
 
 [plugins]
 android-application = { id = "com.android.application", version.ref = "agp" }
@@ -99,6 +101,7 @@ dagger-android-processor = { module = "com.google.dagger:dagger-android-processo
 dagger-android-support = { module = "com.google.dagger:dagger-android-support", version.ref = "dagger" }
 dagger-compiler = { module = "com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler", version.ref = "dagger" }
 dagger-core = { module = "com.google.dagger:dagger", version.ref = "dagger" }
+diffx = { module = "org.pageseeder.diffx:pso-diffx", version.ref = "diffx" }
 espresso-core = { module = "androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core", version.ref = "espresso" }
 filemojicompat-core = { module = "de.c1710:filemojicompat", version.ref = "filemoji-compat" }
 filemojicompat-defaults = { module = "de.c1710:filemojicompat-defaults", version.ref = "filemoji-compat" }
@@ -134,6 +137,7 @@ sparkbutton = { module = "com.github.connyduck:sparkbutton", version.ref = "spar
 truth = { module = "com.google.truth:truth", version.ref = "truth" }
 turbine = { module = "app.cash.turbine:turbine", version.ref = "turbine" }
 unified-push = { module = "com.github.UnifiedPush:android-connector", version.ref = "unified-push" }
+xmlwriter = { module = "org.pageseeder.xmlwriter:pso-xmlwriter", version.ref = "xmlwriter" }
 
 [bundles]
 androidx = ["androidx-core-ktx", "androidx-appcompat", "androidx-fragment-ktx", "androidx-browser", "androidx-swiperefreshlayout",
@@ -153,3 +157,4 @@ okhttp = ["okhttp-core", "okhttp-logging-interceptor"]
 retrofit = ["retrofit-core", "retrofit-converter-gson", "retrofit-adapter-rxjava3"]
 room = ["androidx-room-ktx", "androidx-room-paging"]
 rxjava3 = ["rxjava3-core", "rxjava3-android", "rxjava3-kotlin"]
+xmldiff = ["diffx", "xmlwriter"]