Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
5,279 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by zerojun, 2 hours agoAs of September 4, 2026, at 8:54 p.m., this add-on no longer functions as described, which constitutes misleading advertising.
Now, users with limited financial means are being intentionally excluded—and this is happening at a company that receives public funding, which makes me seriously question its eligibility for such funding.
The add-on used to be very good, but due to a decision that was made, it’s barely worth 1 star anymore.
It’s a shame that there are companies that intentionally exclude people. - Rated 1 out of 5by Alice, 14 hours agoWelp, here we are.
"he rise of generative AI has made it more challenging to sustainably monetize our offering".
translation: "due to the server costs of running AI in our spellchecker we will start charging money for it".
Drop AI and the server costs will instantly become more manageable, I imagine.
To be clear, I'm not against a developer charging for their product - I am against developers jumping on a fad bandwagon and then crying about it. You're running a SPELLCHECKER, guys, you don’t need AI to run a dictionary search.
But now we can have "AI POWERED PARAPHRASING" How, oh how did the product even operate before the blessing of AI???
I just cannot treat this seriously, sorry, Word processor had this running smoothly 15 years ago, catch up! - Rated 1 out of 5by Skin55, 17 hours agoHave loved using this app for a few years now. Now, out of nowhere, it's added Ai and now is behind a paywall. Go F yourself.
- Rated 1 out of 5by funderburg, a day agoPulled the usual bait-and-switch requiring payment for it to work it all. Uninstalling.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Retro2201, 3 days agoReally helps when communicating in a language that you're not 100% fluent.
The premium is expensive, but then it's not just a web browser extension; you can use it in countless apps, so for me it was a good deal at the time. I bought the 2 year one for around 80€. - Rated 5 out of 5by firaweti, 3 days agoExtrêmement pratique pour corriger des phrases entières en peu de temps. L'implémentation du correcteur est compatible avec la majorité des sites que j'ai pu consulter et les corrections ont toujours été pertinentes et rapides !
- Rated 1 out of 5by George, 4 days agoThis addon worked great until the premium tier became required.
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13325943, 7 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Matrix_Cracker, 7 days agoSorry - this is the badest move you can make. Telling AI ist ramping up the costs ist really a bad one and -in two- really not true. There are a lot of good examples out there how it's done. Without harming privacy anyways. And the pricetag is much to high. As a user of the premium subscription this makes me cancel that subscription anyway, because I was in belive supporting all the free (Plug-In)-Users with the high pricetag to the desktop version.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12303032, 7 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by anitabueckler, 8 days agoJust use v9.0.1 and the add-on works again as it should. The dictionaries are included, that why it's about 15MB. Or we could simply edit the xpi (which is a ZIP) to fix the latest version. ;)
- Rated 1 out of 5by juntra, 8 days agoJeez, forcing a premium subscription to use the extension. I switched over to this from grammarly because it became AI slop filled, but now this extension has done the same and is removing the free tier because of it. AI is expensive, harms the environment, and generally isn't worth the costs. Remove the AI features and return the free tier, you'll get way more users by doing that.
- Rated 1 out of 5by deo, 8 days agoUsed to be good, considering the free tier. Now only for premium subscribers. The developers should explicitly state this information upfront in the first lines of the extension description, allowing users to avoid spending time installing it and then uninstalling it a couple of minutes later.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mark, 8 days agoNow asking for money for something which can be obtained for free or lower cost. Just because you dump in "AI" features that no-one asks for you can't then to try and use this to justify a "premium" price.
This move never works. - Rated 1 out of 5by toohehimforthem, 9 days agoUsed to be free for a long time, but has started asking for a premium subscription just to use it at all. I'm disabled and was using it to spell check but I can't afford this. I guess its back to mixed up words now if I'm not having a very efficient day with fighting it.