Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
Review by Endless Fantasy
Rated 2 out of 5
by Endless Fantasy, 2 years agoTwo stars for not including an option to select, an “Any dialect” in the which dialect to use dropdown, or select multiple as a bubble, as either a basic or advanced option.
I consider this a critical feature of any language tool, especially a spell check.
I'd also like to be able to select “Show both as a suggestion” For these features of premium let alone recommend it as a user I want more freedom of expression in how I type, sometimes to type in standard “wrong” variations and even recommend them (The horror!!!):
Wrong Punctuation
Incorrect Word Combinations
Advanced Missing Commas
Foreign Terms
It's also lacking several important features such as custom dictionaries from what I can tell.
There's no excuse for not loading from standard formats for this.
Review was edited using this software.
The software also disguises telling you about "Advanced" errors, as a form of very blatant advertisement, and front-loads its AI paraphrasing, and rewriting system as much as it reasonably can without impacting the user experience.
As a user I don't want this, I don't want to know if I made an advanced spelling mistake, because I know that The software does not support that because I read the page, I expect no scanning, not ad's for scanning disguised as good faith showcasing of your product, or the user's failures.
It needs to be a default off option like "Enable scanning of user text for premium features, to warn user about their mistakes" would be ideal.
There's not even any options clutter yet, good work, but its not configurable enough.
Id say my review rating is: Stalker HoC's reception.
I consider this a critical feature of any language tool, especially a spell check.
I'd also like to be able to select “Show both as a suggestion” For these features of premium let alone recommend it as a user I want more freedom of expression in how I type, sometimes to type in standard “wrong” variations and even recommend them (The horror!!!):
Wrong Punctuation
Incorrect Word Combinations
Advanced Missing Commas
Foreign Terms
It's also lacking several important features such as custom dictionaries from what I can tell.
There's no excuse for not loading from standard formats for this.
Review was edited using this software.
The software also disguises telling you about "Advanced" errors, as a form of very blatant advertisement, and front-loads its AI paraphrasing, and rewriting system as much as it reasonably can without impacting the user experience.
As a user I don't want this, I don't want to know if I made an advanced spelling mistake, because I know that The software does not support that because I read the page, I expect no scanning, not ad's for scanning disguised as good faith showcasing of your product, or the user's failures.
It needs to be a default off option like "Enable scanning of user text for premium features, to warn user about their mistakes" would be ideal.
There's not even any options clutter yet, good work, but its not configurable enough.
Id say my review rating is: Stalker HoC's reception.
5,162 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Riccardo, 2 hours ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Moo, 15 hours agoIt was okay, I only chose this over others as it was the least annoying. Not amazing, I never engaged much with the AI side (as in using it to fully refine things) but it got context better than others did when suggesting fixes, so there's 2 stars. But no, I'm not going to pay for it because it has AI rewrite features, because I don't use those, just grammar and spelling fixes.
It's unfortunate they have to make it premium only because not enough people are paying for it, but maybe that's because it's not *amazing*, just cheaper than Grammarly.
I think another reviewer put it perfectly; LT saves you the time it takes to open up an LLM and paste your text in. And now that on firefox you can have most LLMs just pop up in the sidebar, it really doesn't take that long. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 6107870, 19 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kackhaspie, 20 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20074616, a day ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nebulous_Phage, a day agoWas a handy tool! Shame that they decided to paywall this to premium. Removed and uninstalled.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20073181, 2 days agoUnfortunately, they decided to switch to Premium only for very dubious, greedy reasons. So I will no longer be using it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Anaverageuser, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14750288, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fenrir Strange, 3 days agoThis was a wonderful little tool for years, it is neither unique enough, nor useful enough to me to pay for this now that they want to blame AI for the change to paid premium service for spelling and grammar. y'all lost your damned minds over AI and got greedy
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18875723, 3 days agoShame on the decision to monetise. Was great while it lasted.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Johnba98, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Moon Shot, 3 days agoWent premium, not useful enough, nor unique enough to pay for, especially when all it actually does is save you typing it into chat GPT with the prompt "refine this:" followed by your text.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20013628, 3 days agoWas never that good to begin with, not sure why i even kept it around this long, the suggestions were almost always worse than what I've already came up with.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dmitry, 4 days agoQuoting privacy policy:
> Content we collect also includes information about your browsing session and the content of websites visited when using our browser extensions. Depending on the Service you’re using, this may include the content and metadata of all websites you’re visiting during your active browser session (e.g. website text, media, publisher and author names, URLs).
It's spyware. Even if you pay for that, which I regret doing.
Interesting nuance is that I believe couple of years ago it was not like this. Since US company (probably private equity) bought this, it turned into spyware. - Rated 1 out of 5by a_bored_browser_and_writer, 4 days agoThis worked great for me for many years. Unfortunately, now the basic function of spelling and grammar fixes are locked behind the premium service, so it's basically useless outside of the in-browser editor for me. How sad that they've done this.
- Rated 1 out of 5by lg, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19605199, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20067703, 4 days agoLes fonctionnalités de base de l'extension ne sont plus disponibles gratuitement, je peux comprendre. Mais, il n'y a pas de formule "basique" à coût réduit, on nous impose la version premium qu'on ait ou non besoin des fonctionnalités supplémentaires. 50€ par an pour des fonctionnalité qui ne m'intéresse pas, c'est sans moi.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Davide, 4 days agoYou have to pay an abo to use the app, not just some features, the description and info of this extension are misleading
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20066961, 5 days ago