Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
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Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
#2After years with Grammarly, I wanted a simpler, cheaper way to improve my writing. So I built Scramble, a Chrome extension that uses an LLM for writing enhancements.
Key features: - Uses your OpenAI API key (100% local) - Pre-defined prompts for various improvements - Highlight text and wait for suggestions - Currently fixed to GPT-4-turbo
Future plans: add LLM provider/model choice, custom prompts, bug fixes, and improve default prompts.
It's probably buggy, but I'll keep improving it. Feedback welcome.
Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
#3After years with Grammarly, I wanted a simpler, cheaper way to improve my writing. So I built Scramble, a Chrome extension that uses an LLM for writing enhancements. Key features: - Uses your OpenAI API key (100% local) - Pre-defined prompts for various improvements - Highlight text and wait for suggestions - Currently fixed to GPT-4-turbo Future plans: add LLM provider/model choice, custom prompts, bug fixes, and im…
This is awesome. Can’t wait to install it and put it through its paces.
Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
#4After years with Grammarly, I wanted a simpler, cheaper way to improve my writing. So I built Scramble, a Chrome extension that uses an LLM for writing enhancements. Key features: - Uses your OpenAI API key (100% local) - Pre-defined prompts for various improvements - Highlight text and wait for suggestions - Currently fixed to GPT-4-turbo Future plans: add LLM provider/model choice, custom prompts, bug fixes, and im…
how much does it cost in a normal day?
Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
#5Awesome, I was just about to look for something like this and it showed up on HN!
Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
#6Nice job—I'm always a fan of 'bring your own key' (BYOK) approaches. I think there's a lot of potential in using LLMs as virtual copy editors.
I do a fair amount of writing and have actually put together several custom GPTs, each with varying degrees of freedom to rewrite the text.
The first one acts strictly as a professional editor—it's allowed to fix spelling errors, grammatical issues, word repetition, etc., but it has to preserve the original writing style.
I do a lot of dictation while I walk my husky, so when I get back home, I can run whisper, convert the audio to text, and throw it at the GPT. It cleans it up, structures it into paragraphs, etc. Between whisper/GPT, it saves me hours of busy work.
The other one is allowed to restructure the text, fix continuity errors, replace words to ensure a more professional tone, and improve the overall flow. This one is more reserved for public communique such as business related emails.
Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
#7Seems like it just has some prebaked prompts right now. FF's AI integration does this much already with custom prompts and custom providers. Pls let me set my own base url. So many tools already support the openai api.
All of that to say, this is of course a great addition to the ecosystem.
Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
#8Loved it. I'd love to use something like "right-click, fix grammar" under iOS—not just rewrite. I want to keep my own voice, just with minimal conformant grammar as a second-language speaker.
Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
#9Grammarly grammar checking predates modern LLMs by many years, so I assume they’re actually using some kind of rule-based engine internally.
Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
#10Loved it. I'd love to use something like "right-click, fix grammar" under iOS—not just rewrite. I want to keep my own voice, just with minimal conformant grammar as a second-language speaker.
AFAIK Apple Intelligence will include essentially that.