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Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by ushakov »

barankilic wrote: post #16
avivo wrote: post #15

It looks like it provides out of the box support for Overleaf! (Collaborative LaTeX editor) https://www.overleaf.com/blog/635-languagetool-a-free-browse... This is not true of Grammarly last I checked, you have to hack something together... (e.g. https://medium.com/@tardijkhof/how-i-made-grammarly-seamless... )

If you use VSCode as a text editor, you can use it locally on LaTeX files using LTeX extension ( https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=valentjn... )

and if you're into Markdown, i can also recommend prosemd

https://github.com/kitten/prosemd-lsp

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by ravi-delia »

account-5 wrote: post #22

No Android or Linux app. Subscription is high (like others have said). Appears no offline version (might be wrong) and the text is stored on their servers be default unless you manually delete it. I'll not be using it but good effort though.

> Appears no offline version

Sorta, you can always run the server locally on your own machine. It's a bit wasteful, but not terribly so.

> No Android or Linux app

I mean you can just use the plugins for browsers, email, and document writing. It won't work in the terminal (would it on MacOS regardless?) but I wouldn't consider that a downside. I'll be waiting for the Emacs package myself, but I doubt I'll have to hold my breath.

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by hemmert »

polyrand wrote: post #17

I've been using LanguageTool for a long time, and I'm also happily paying their premium subscription. 100% worth it and highly recommended. It's also excellent at non-English languages.

Same here, very very smart. It even gets typographic quotes right when nesting them (such as „The sign said ‚yes‘, clearly.“), keeps an eye on not jumping between tenses or different forms of addressing people („Du“ vs. „Sie“ in German).

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by lapser »

adamgordonbell wrote: post #27

I'm fond of Vale, where you can write your own rules or grab others off github. I wish we could crowd source a grammarly clone using it. Some efforts have been made to do so, but didn't get far. https://github.com/errata-ai/vale https://github.com/testthedocs/Openly

This is super cool. How does one find rules from GitHub?

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by k__ »

polyrand wrote: post #17

I've been using LanguageTool for a long time, and I'm also happily paying their premium subscription. 100% worth it and highly recommended. It's also excellent at non-English languages.

Is it better than Grammarly?

I mean, sending all data to a Grammarly service brings the same privacy issues as sending it to Language Tool.

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by ruoranwang »

account-5 wrote: post #22

No Android or Linux app. Subscription is high (like others have said). Appears no offline version (might be wrong) and the text is stored on their servers be default unless you manually delete it. I'll not be using it but good effort though.

Is there an alternative that provides an offline version?

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by abbe98 »

chessgecko wrote: post #20

https://quillbot.com/grammar-check is an alternative for English. Not open source, but very little of the grammar checker is paywalled if the other options seem expensive. (Disclaimer I’m a founder)

On my end Language Tool appears as 2/3th the price of your tool if I select a yearly subscription.
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