Hindustani is a name for what is arguably a single language, but is generally treated as two distinct languages:
While the spoken forms of the two are close enough to be mutually intelligible, there are differences; most notably, they are written entirely differently. Hindi uses an alphabet derived from Sanskrit (the language of the ancient Hindu texts) and is written left-to-right. Urdu uses a Persian variant of the Arabic alphabet and is written right-to-left. Urdu also uses more loanwords from Arabic, Persian and Turkish, though Hindi has some as well.
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