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 1 out of 5by Casandra, an hour agoI have used this tool for a very long time, and love the way it helps me. But now I have to pay :( sad day
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19992789, 4 hours ago>create free extension
>add unwanted bloat that requires monetization
>lock everything behind bloat
>monetize in an attempt to pay for bloat
>userbase departs en-mass
bizniz 101 😎 - Rated 1 out of 5by SEBAS204, 20 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sage, 2 days agoI have used this tool for a very long time, it worked as I wanted it to. But now I have to pay for it? What nonsense is that? I'll be removing this extension, and moving onto other tools that check spelling without some AI nonsense.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14754695, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fara, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19968939, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by GR, 2 days agoI won't pay for this. Do not download if you expect free spell checker
- Rated 5 out of 5by Donna, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lobster84, 3 days agoGreed took over and now this tool is only free to use in a 14-day trail period, unless you want to pay for premium, this tool is useless. Shame because it was a good tool. Plenty of free alternatives out there. I would even prefer to go back to write in a text editor, do a spell check online with a free tool and then paste the corrected text where I want to post it. Besides that, with AI getting better every day, online spellcheck can easily be done without using this tool.
Uninstalling the extension. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19987060, 3 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Sandra, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ignistiare, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18539452, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19975738, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by IriyAleo, 4 days agoThe main functionality has been paid for. Now there is no reason to use this extension when there are a bunch of free alternatives.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Davide, 4 days agoYou can not use this addon, if you can't connect to languagetool.org (alledgedly to accept the privacy policy) even when using a LOCAL server...
- Rated 5 out of 5by reddragon696, 5 days 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 days 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