Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for aligning records for visual comparison are described herein. In one aspect, the method includes identifying a plurality of records. A reference record is selected from the plurality of records. One or more non-reference record is merged into the reference record to generate a merged reference record. The merged reference record includes one or more fields missing in the reference record. The missing fields are included as blank fields from the non-reference records. The merged reference record is merged into a non-reference record to generate the merged non-reference record. The merged non-reference record includes fields missing in the non-reference record. Missing fields are included as blank fields. The merged records are displayed on a user interface in a card view.