Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
Review by Tim
Rated 1 out of 5
by Tim, 3 hours agoWhen using any of the non-American English languages, I found that many words are missing. Absolutely bizarre that it doesn't have all the words in from the big dictionaries as a base-line. This was ok when it was free, but I'm not paying for a spell checker that doesn't know what's in the dictionary. You know your AI is slopping it up when Word 97 does a better job.
5,236 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by loomloon, 2 hours ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Nícholas Kegler, 2 hours agoIt was good, but I often had issues with the extension. It was full of bugs. Recently, after accepting changes, it stopped replacing the original text correctly and would basically concatenate the old text with the corrected version.
Now they want to start charging for usage, which is fine— I get it. But at least make the product reliable before asking people to pay for it. - Rated 1 out of 5by Rvier.fr, 4 hours agoNo free tiers anymore. Require a premium account, so identification required. And add difficulty to run his own hosted server.
- Rated 1 out of 5by treilly94, 5 hours agoWas great until they wanted to charge a monthly subscription
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17759722, 5 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by defcon2XX8, 5 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by mrbruno, 5 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Midas, 7 hours agoMajor privacy concern. The extension's privacy policy states that it can collect and store text, prompts, chats, files, metadata, IP addresses, usage data, and browsing-related information. It also states that collected data may be used for analytics, service improvement, and AI model training.
I only want a text-correction tool. Sending and retaining this much data is unacceptable for such a basic function, especially when handling potentially sensitive text. EU and especially US users should carefully consider the privacy implications before installing this extension. - Rated 1 out of 5by jo, 12 hours agoUninstalled because it's no longer free. I don't understand why this would be the case when there are free alternatives. Very disappointing.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20111655, 14 hours agoWas free for basic functionality, now all features require subscription.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Chris Hayes, 15 hours ago$6 / month for a grammar checker is too much. Seems like the extension is just trying to capitalize on the AI hype. LanguageTool has been a reliable alternative to Grammarly for years, so only docking 2 stars.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14073020, a day agoLocking the browser extension behind a fire wall is a scumy thing to do.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16675063, 2 days agoGreat free tool until it gave in to greed, will wait for an alternative
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20109001, 2 days agoWorked great until it didn't. But asking way too much for a spellchecker.
I don't mind paying for things, would have been happy to give £10 for a perpetual license.
But £4 a month?! Taking the piss m8. Uninstalled. - Rated 1 out of 5by AlkseeyaKC, 2 days agoIt was great until they wanted money for it. Sorry, but not everyone has $15 they can dish out to all these companies pay walling us. Maybe I would consider if it was cheaper and I had more income, but I don't. BECAUSE OF ALL THE GD SUBSCRIPTIONS to live my life!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Moulin, 2 days agoDommage, c'était une très bonne extensions mais devenue payante. Alors que "nos abonnés Premium soutiennent déjà l’essentiel de nos coûts de serveurs"... Sous prétexte de développé des nouveaux outils IA dont personne ne veux...
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20106540, 3 days agoSpell checker doesn't need to be related to AI. All you do is burn resources and kill the planet. Paying to submit text to AI for spell check is absurd.
- Rated 1 out of 5by NXY, 4 days agoNo longer free to use. All features are locked behind a paywall after a short period of use.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Evissam, 4 days agoIt's straight garbage now. It claims that "Some features may require payment," that isn't true. It works for a while, then tells you your premium trial expired, and it stops working.