LanguageTool is a free grammar checker and paraphraser for English, Spanish, and 20 other languages. Instantly check your text for grammar and style mistakes.
It’s working pretty well for me with integration into Firefox, (libre)office and you can decide if you want to run your own server locally, or rely on their server as a premium subscription.
Note about deepl: according to their EULA they collect all what you type there and use it for training their algorithm. They are much smaller that Google and co, what makes me thinking that your data could be more “visible” in the training results.
I think this is only the case with the free version. Source: I worked with some big German companies which wanted to have an autotranslate function for their software. DeepL was the top choice, because the quality is very good and the data protection agreements for the paid service left no questions.
They have total different use cases. DeepL is a translator, language tool checks for style and grammar.
I use both frequently and both do a very good job. I have a prime membership of language tool and I like it. Both are German companies and operate under GDPR.
Their extension isn’t open source anymore, see here, so I don’t recommend it personally, especially with how sensitive the data it collects is, its basically a keylogger, so trust is super important imo.
While I appreciate the sentiment, isn’t that effectively the same as “if the restaurant won’t give you the complete recipe for their pizza sauce, how do you know they’re not trying to poison you?”
At least restaurants are subjected to health and safety inspection. Software never have, and right now opening their code is the only way to ensure that.
Ouch, thought that if you used the extension with a self-hosted local server that it was fully open source. Looks like I’ll be uninstalling then.
I’m okay with some proprietary extensions and stuff, but when it comes to the stuff that I type, I’d rather be able to know exactly what it’s doing with it.
First time I’ve heard someone say they’re jealous of an America’s free schooling system lol. Even in deep Africa villages they have free schooling systems, so idk where you are where that doesn’t exist.
Were you trying to make a point or just gave up, because I’ve literally never seen anywhere without free education. Unless you’re talking about higher education which isn’t being discussed here.
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I wonder how grammarly desktop is for privacy
Their whole service is built to collect everything you type.
Literally a key logger with extra steps.
I think it’s better to link to their github since the website has references to a premium sister project that isn’t FOSS: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
I haven’t used this myself but I’m curious if anyone likes it
I self host a server. It works on my laptop and android. I like it, but some of the suggestions are bad.
Haven’t used grammarly in years, so I can’t compare.
I like it very much and thanks to the various extensions it’s also trivial to use in Firefox and Libreoffice.
It works on Firefox/Fennec/other forks on Android.
At last the browser extension is closed source. I don’t know the others
https://beehaw.org/comment/893089
It’s working pretty well for me with integration into Firefox, (libre)office and you can decide if you want to run your own server locally, or rely on their server as a premium subscription.
Just wish there was a language tool keyboard for android
You can use it in Firefox/Fennec/other forks on Android. It’s better than nothing.
I am but it would be nice to have it in other apps on my phone
Opinions vs deepl?
Note about deepl: according to their EULA they collect all what you type there and use it for training their algorithm. They are much smaller that Google and co, what makes me thinking that your data could be more “visible” in the training results.
The service as such is good, though.
I think this is only the case with the free version. Source: I worked with some big German companies which wanted to have an autotranslate function for their software. DeepL was the top choice, because the quality is very good and the data protection agreements for the paid service left no questions.
Most probably this is correct. One can say the same about most enterprise targeting offers, for example by Microsoft.
People who consider it for private usage should make decisions knowing such details.
This isn’t the case for some specific corporate contract for the pro version. But, it’s not publicly available.
Interesting thought about the visibility
Disclaimer: this is a personal impression/thoughts, I could be dramatically wrong here.
It’s not bad at all, and multilingual. I like it as I can write in multiple language making less mistakes.
off topic: is deepl down or something ? thing doesn’t respond :/
edit: now works
They have total different use cases. DeepL is a translator, language tool checks for style and grammar.
I use both frequently and both do a very good job. I have a prime membership of language tool and I like it. Both are German companies and operate under GDPR.
Deepl’s “write” tool (the one I linked) gives style suggestions
I didn’t know that.
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Interestingly I knew about Languagetool long before I got to constantly see Grammarly ads. With the right tools it’s useful for checking latex etc.
Syntax?
Their extension isn’t open source anymore, see here, so I don’t recommend it personally, especially with how sensitive the data it collects is, its basically a keylogger, so trust is super important imo.
If they don’t trust you with the source, you can trust them with your data.
While I appreciate the sentiment, isn’t that effectively the same as “if the restaurant won’t give you the complete recipe for their pizza sauce, how do you know they’re not trying to poison you?”
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Except a restaurant is not asking to log every word of yours in exchange for pizza.
At least restaurants are subjected to health and safety inspection. Software never have, and right now opening their code is the only way to ensure that.
Thanks for pointing out! This tool seems to look and work awesome, but non-foss browser extension is an instant ‘NO’…
Ouch, thought that if you used the extension with a self-hosted local server that it was fully open source. Looks like I’ll be uninstalling then.
I’m okay with some proprietary extensions and stuff, but when it comes to the stuff that I type, I’d rather be able to know exactly what it’s doing with it.
Damn, I didn’t know that. :/
tell me anything that isn’t
By extension do you mean the browser extensions only or also the add-on for word processor ?
I use this often when I’m writing articles, it’s incredibly easy to use and I’ve yet to have any issues with it.
I use it on Waterfox, for what it’s worth. Absolutely recommend.
Why do you use waterfox?
When I switched from FF to WF it was lighter on system resources, faster and cut out a lot of the telemetry included in FF.
I’ve not used Firefox for well over a year now, so I can’t speak to that still being the case, but those were the main draws for me.
I switched off of waterfox and back to firefox with arkenfox user.js when I noticed they were behind on a security update.
My foss alternative was an English class
With happy ending?
you got free schooling? lucky bastard
First time I’ve heard someone say they’re jealous of an America’s free schooling system lol. Even in deep Africa villages they have free schooling systems, so idk where you are where that doesn’t exist.
how good do you think the free schooling in africa is rofl
That’s a completely different topic
regaddlsss
Usually not foss and rather expensive.
Not really. There’s even English classes in remote Africa. It’s FOSS because textbooks and dictionaries exist.
Dunno where you live where textbooks are free and not proprietary.
They’re not free, they’re accessable.
Good bit, spelling accessible wrong was the cherry
Were you trying to make a point or just gave up, because I’ve literally never seen anywhere without free education. Unless you’re talking about higher education which isn’t being discussed here.
Ah, you took the bit too far, brevity etc. 6/10
Do you know what FOSS even means?
Right, must be military grade encryption
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