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 Agent_Smith, 5 minutes ago"We've made the difficult decision to limit the LanguageTool browser extension to Premium users only". and with that basis, I have made the very easy decision to remove your extension. Hint: just because 'AI' seems to be in every conversation doesn't mean you have to force fit AI capabilities into a spell checker. Too enamored with technology?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Infomanraf, 2 days agoI’ve used LanguageTool for many years and it was a core part of my writing workflow, especially in the browser.
The recent decision to move the browser extension behind a Premium paywall breaks that workflow significantly.
I understand infrastructure costs are increasing, but removing free real-time browser correction makes the tool much less accessible for long-time users.
Keeping the limited free tier (basic grammar/spelling) or offline fallback would make the transition much easier to accept. No, instead LanguageTooler GmbH chose to AI-wash their greedy, money hungry decision.
Goodbye, LanguageTool.
You were a really useful extension. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19957142, 2 days agoIt USED to be good. But, instead of keeping good code that was effucient to run, the company behind this extension jumped onto the LLM bandwagon, and decided to force the costs of running that power-hungry junk onto the users. $15/month for a spelchekar — no way.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vycer, 2 days agoAsking to use a premium account is predatory, just don't use AI.
- Rated 1 out of 5by SolarTara, 2 days agoMaybe if they didn't try to cram a bunch of bullshit AI into their existing decent language tool they wouldn't have insane server costs and to remove the free use version. I'll just move on thanks.
- Rated 1 out of 5by 🅱eter, 2 days ago"The rise of generative AI has made it more challenging to sustainably monetize our offering"
Blame AI all you want, but your extension is not that great, especially for languages other than English. - Rated 1 out of 5by shark_bloody, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19231021, 3 days agoYou're going down the IFTTT path, and no one will need you anymore. Greed will be your undoing.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Aner, 3 days agook that we can't have everything free, but that price only for a language check? au revoir
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mari, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Xend, 3 days ago"We have made the difficult decision to limit the use of the LanguageTool browser extension to Premium users only"
My dyslexia, isn't something I can't opt out of.
However, removing your extension from my browser, is and was the easiest decision I made. - Rated 1 out of 5by Shady, 3 days ago"We have made the difficult decision to limit the use of the LanguageTool browser extension to Premium users only"
Instead of leaving the basic spell check without the useless AI stuff, you've taken everything away. Good luck with your development, and we will find alternatives. - Rated 1 out of 5by FraYoshi, 3 days agoIt has been a nice service, respectfull of our privacy, and most of all, free. Unfortunately greed is reaching everywhere, you can use it now as a Premium service, or stop using it, as do it. Since it became unusefull, I'm gonna leave lower the total score, as it was the main drive for me to use it. I would have made a one-time payment IF NECESSARY, we not another subscription. Greed is reaching all the corners of the internet unfortunately.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Attom, 4 days agoA difficult decision? $15 a month? Are you actually insane? LOL. Who was the brilliant mind behind that? Uninstalled and never want to see your crappy extension in my way.
Nice way to drive away your user base by pure GREED 🙏 - Rated 1 out of 5by UncleFred, 4 days agoExtension switched to a $15/month subscription service. I don't mind paying a one-time fee for a product I really enjoy, but I refuse to pay for subscriptions.
There's a ton of grammar tools out there, especially now with AI. They don't have the market leverage to milk their users like this.
This will prove to be the worst businesses decision of their lives. - Rated 1 out of 5by Alsada, 4 days agothe DIFFICULT decision to throw in more shit and make it premium-only, huh. wonder who asked.
- Rated 1 out of 5by deadeyejay, 4 days agoimagine paying a subscription for spell checker lmaoooo. BYE
- Rated 1 out of 5by itsxge, 4 days agoWay to choose profit over user base. Grammar tools have existed long before generative AI and will continue to exist for long after. Extension works well, but not worth paying premium. Do better.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Luzefer, 4 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17799591, 4 days ago1 star wouldn't be fair, since the extention works fine. But i have an allergy for all subscriptions, so this goes in the dumpster for me. On to the next one and good luck!