Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
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Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
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Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
#2It's hard to test it since the majority of features are behind a paywall.
Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
#3It's hard to test it since the majority of features are behind a paywall.
Honestly i've been using it free for over a year now and I'm very happy with it. I think the free tier is worth the shot.
Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
#4It's hard to test it since the majority of features are behind a paywall.
Even when you selfhost your instance, It is worse than the free-tier unless you keep ngrams database updated routinely.
Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
#5full of false positives - nothing special here, my 2c
Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
#6full of false positives - nothing special here, my 2c
Would you say it's better or worse than Grammarly? Are you talking about the free version or the premium version?
Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
#7It's hard to test it since the majority of features are behind a paywall.
Even when you selfhost your instance, It is worse than the free-tier unless you keep ngrams database updated routinely.
Unlike other products, self hosting only gives you the same as their basic version. So even keeping it up to date will never match their premium offering. This is of course fine, just making people aware before they spend time setting it up because they don't make this very clear (I had to find a Github issue to get this conformation in writing)
The free self-hosted version you can download from https://languagetool.org/download/ lacks all the premium rules (several thousand rules for English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch) and AI-based rules.[1]
[1]: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/issues/6750
Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
#8Oof, that is a high monthly subscription cost
Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
#9I'm a heavy user of LT. Very happy with it.
A really nice feature of LT is that you can add your own rules. A rule editor is provided here:
https://community.languagetool.org/ruleEditor2/
Basically, whenever you catch an error in your writing you add a rule to ensure that it is caught the next time. After a few years your rule set will catch a large portion of your writing errors. It's fun too.