Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
4,240 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14843840, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by JaumeI, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex Pedruzzi, 9 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Sebo1020, 9 months agoThe spell check system automatically checks punctuation first and highlights text in yellow ...which automatically blocks/disables spell check itself, how come there is no way to configure the order of these options
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17683143, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Myrtle Dunbar, 9 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18321141, 10 months agoThis is not a local spellchecker (all browsers use to have local spellcheckers)
"LanguageTool" forwards all of your text to third party servers (wasting data and adding latency) and does not show you errors until responses are received from those servers (huge lag)
Mobile Firefox removed its spellchecker because Android had a spellchecker, but Google removed Android's spellchecker because most browsers has spellcheckers.
LanguageTool is now the sole result for https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?q=spell%20checker but our business does not allow apps that forward text to remote servers.
Now 4 stars due to responses about local serversDeveloper response
posted 10 months agoYour business can also run the LT server locally, as described at https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server. The latency for checking is usually <1 second, please report a bug in our forum at https://forum.languagetool.org/ if it's slower for you. - Rated 4 out of 5by Reggie L Addison, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adriano, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Brooks, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SonicSquare, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by L4m4d3us, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cpta1203, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Andy, 10 months agoI'm so sad this add-on isn't working anymore. I've used this for over a year and it was incredible, even without accessing the paid tools. Today I starting working as usual, correcting some papers, and I saw the tool didn't catch very simple mistakes (one of the sentences was "I cook burger and pizza"). IDK what happened, but I'll be deleting the extention for now.
Developer response
posted 10 months agoWe haven't changed the error detection logic recently. However, it's possible that some errors are not detected, but we're constantly improving the system. - Rated 5 out of 5by AMN2080, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lucas Dondo / Dondi, 10 months agoI absolutely love it! It even looks for onomatopoeias, and when writing in Spanish (my main language) and I look for more information over some correction made, it redirects me directly to RAE's explanation! So, so, so, so, so nice! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
P.D.: RAE is the "Real Academia Española", like English's Cambridge.
P.D.: Oh, and I wait for the Android app! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18287681, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17552854, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by J.A. Stewart, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18303994, 10 months agoExcellent widget for daily work, that allows to write more clean and good text.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11025086, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by phil2b, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lordy, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14493762, 10 months agoPerfect!
If you like all the text you write sent to advertisers and shady third parties.
Just take a look at their privacy policy, easily the creepiest extension I've come across so far.
Can't understand how it's still in the "Recommended" section. Mozilla WTAF.Developer response
posted 10 months agoYou're probably confusing the add-on and the website. On the website, we use several common tools that almost everybody else uses, e.g. Google Analytics. You're of course free to call that "shady". The add-on doesn't use Google Analytics, and I'm not sure what you refer to as "shady third parties".