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.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by reddragon696, an hour agoThis App has saved me from misspellings numerous times. I wish it offered more on the free side, but you can't have everything. I highly recommend it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Viktor, 5 hours agoUsed to be an amazing add, but they added AI features no one liked, then blamed the fact people use AI to push a stupidly expensive subscription
- Rated 1 out of 5by bigsecretofind, a day agoA complete corporate bait-and-switch. Avoid.
I found this extension while looking for a reliable grammar checker, and at first, it was amazing. But the developers just pulled the ultimate rug-pull on their loyal user base. They took a great free extension with solid, basic grammar and spelling features and locked everything behind a massive paywall.
They are now demanding an insanely overpriced subscription: $24 USD monthly or a whopping $69 USD per year just for standard grammar checking! Was the AI bill really that expensive that you had to alienate your entire community? I’m definitely not going to self-host an app just to get basic browser tools.
In short: Don't bother installing. Look elsewhere. - Rated 5 out of 5by Matt, 2 days ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by NekoBun, 3 days agoBait and switched everyone and is now its a completely Paywalled extension.
- Rated 1 out of 5by pustynny bubr, 3 days agoUsed to be perfect solution, now it's not thanks to AI implementation none asked for. Get ****** AI goons.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19973298, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by mj4346, 4 days agoWell...loved this extension for many years now, and praised it to friends for how useful of a tool it is, and they ruined it over night. I imagine that they couldn't afford the AWS AI bill for their stupid, shoe-horned, AI nonsense, and now the whole extension is going behind a paywall. You have to be a real moron to pay a subscription to a spell checker ($34.90 a month???? Are you insane??) Time to find a new extension I guess..
- Rated 4 out of 5by Rich, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Gatoway, 4 days agoHow to ruin your product overnight... Nobody wants AI Slop AND then forced to pay for it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Abyss, 4 days agoYeah No I'm not going to cover your AI running cost, A simple extension turned into a AI slop and now users are being asked to pay for it. LOL NO.
- Rated 1 out of 5by BrokenN571, 4 days agoBueno... fue bueno mientras duró. Simplemente no vale la pena pagar por un corrector, al menos no si es una suscripción que aun estando al 50% de descuento es estúpidamente cara, por más cosas que tenga. Un usuario normal que únicamente busca no errarle tanto a la gramática y quizá hasta aprender simplemente escribiendo no va a pagarlo. Porque también, para empezar, por algo estaba con la versión gratis. Si dan la opción de un único pago por una licencia de por vida quizá me lo pienso, pero aún así, al menos para mi (y seguro la gran mayoría de usuarios), la extensión vale máximo 10 USD y ya es mucho
- Rated 1 out of 5by JR, 5 days agoBrutal bait and switch. Smell ya later! (Harpers is a good free replacement).
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- Rated 1 out of 5by MasterKugelblitz, 7 days agoThis was a great extension for a really long time. Unfortunately, like so many companies nowadays, they decided to try and force AI on to everyone; inevitably costing them a lot of money. Instead of removing the AI features (which nobody uses), they've placed the burden of that cost on to the end user, and made the extension yet another subscription service. I've deleted my account, and removed the extension. Cheers guys!
- Rated 1 out of 5by torchsnow, 7 days agoThey went fully paid now. Useless add-on now. Use Harper, which is a million times better, open source, free forever, and private.