Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
Review by Tea
Rated 5 out of 5
by Tea, 4 years agoDidn't think myself the guy to write then patiently go through every error. the interface is really great and the way it sinks into the webpage is not disruptive. I'm glad its not in your face and merely just a suggestion tool if you feel you need it. excellent and essential add on for the Firefox web experience. great work guys. one minor issue that really is just a nitpick is the lack of dark mode or alternative themes. i use light mode 80% because i feel more productive but the option would be nice for those who use dark mode.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for your feedback. We support dark mode websites by using dark colors in the add-on interface automatically if used on a website with dark colors. It's independent of whether dark mode is activated.
5,153 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Johnba98, 17 minutes ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Moon Shot, 4 hours 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, 5 hours 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, 19 hours 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, a day 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 Firefox user 19605199, a day ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20067703, a day 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, 2 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, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20066758, 2 days agoI don't mind paid extensions but it's the fact that this basic functionality has been available for free and now you're forced to pay to use it.
Worked well while it lasted but it's unusable now - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20064595, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19074622, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Starfrost, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19498549, 2 days agoBuilding your reputation at the expense of your "free" users to later become premium-only. Disgusting.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19696547, 3 days agoThey want you to pay to use this. It was free for many years. Must have sold to private equity.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Disastrous-Class, 3 days agoWas free, now it's not. Suddenly ran out of premium which I never signed up for. Now it doesn't work. No point in having this now.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nacon, 4 days agoNo reason to keep this anymore.
I've found it strange that they couldn't just make this run locally instead of pinging their server all the time. It's no wonder why they need money to keep the server up. (Excuse for greed, maybe?)
For those looking for a replacement: Harper - Rated 1 out of 5by jasgrider, 4 days agoI'm uninstalling this add on as I cannot afford their paywalled premium service. It worked well in the past couple of years I've had it installed. The subscription for an individual month is $25 un-discounted if you don't pay them quarterly, yearly, or biannually.
Another good thing ruined by moving to a subscription model. - Rated 1 out of 5by NoaBoa, 4 days ago