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The premium version has a semi-hidden AI suggestion feature. If you double click a word it will select the whole sentence and suggest rewrites that are more formal or shorter. I've found the AI feature great for inspiration.
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…
https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-langtool
Now that I checked, looks like there’s another package, but I didn’t t try it.
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?
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.
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No subscription is required for the base version no account, either. Of course, the base version doesn't have all the features as premium, but it is still excellent, in my opinion. I have used the free version for years. There is an offline version, as it is open source. The full text isn't stored on the servers, but you can always just deploy it yourself for maximum privacy: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server…
Does it work on Linux? Debain?
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
I'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.