MVC and MVVM are very similar software patterns, then what is the difference between MVC and MVVM? Let’s take a closer look at what the MVC and MVVM patterns do to help you understand what has and hasn’t changed. The key difference between MVC and MVVM is that MVVM features an abstraction of a View (the ViewModel) which manages the changes between a Model’s data and the View‘s representation of that data (i.e. data bindings) — something which typically is cumbersome to manage in traditional MVC applications.