Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
160 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mercury, a year agoWill legitimately not work for me, no matter what I try. It tells me that I have not written enough (minimum of 5 characters) even when I have written hundreds of words, and it will not update at all. Completely useless.
Developer response
posted a year agoPlease post to https://forum.languagetool.org, letting us know which site that happens on. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18428698, a year agoDon't bother unless you already plan on paying for it. This is bad if you're using it for free.
If you don't pay, it will sometimes say something to the effect of "one more writing error detected", but you can't get it to elaborate or remove this notification without paying. It's infuriating to the point that I couldn't continue using it. - Rated 1 out of 5by MERTENS LUC, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by jam.may, a year agoKeeps automatically changing language on me. Very annoying and there's no option to change it back.
Developer response
posted a year agoPlease send us more detailed feedback on the forum at https://forum.languagetool.org/. Generally, the language detection should work well once it has enough text (>15 characters or so). - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18474298, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nikita, a year agoThis is a privacy nightmare, so obviously "Recommended" by Mozilla.
Dear lord.. - Rated 1 out of 5by Sam, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Grom, a year agoI guess it's useful if you're terrible at writing, and it's helped me fix a couple minor errors, but overall this tool is terrible. It recommends putting commas everywhere you could possibly think of, misses a ton of grammatical errors, and is generally not useful. The thing that drove me over the edge was when it would recognize "Dursley" and "Dursley's", but would correct "Dursleys" back to "Dursley's".
It's more of a nuisance than a help. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12228898, a year agoTürkçe neden yok? bu yüzden kullanamayacağım. :(
- Rated 1 out of 5by AH, a year agoNot very good at the Basic level. Hard core sales to upgrade to the paid level. I already use Grammarly.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jakk, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alonzo, a year agoWorks quite well, but the red warning message with supposedly further errors found, which you can only see in the premium version, makes the tool useless and confusing. Deleted.
Developer response
posted a year agoThat's not quite correct. European Portuguese is available for spelling and grammar checking, but not for paraphrasing.- Rated 1 out of 5by Overflow8471, 2 years agoIt is sad that the add-on is no longer open source and does not make transparent what is read and transmitted to the server. Complete regression.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoOur privacy policy at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/languagetool/privacy/ describes what is transferred to the servers. This is also linked in the add-on description and in the onboarding process during installation. - Rated 1 out of 5by Myrtle Dunbar, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Andy, 2 years 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 2 years 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 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14493762, 2 years 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 2 years 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". - Rated 1 out of 5by Ron Gillis, 2 years agoI was not able to select British English, as used in Canada. Many different spellings.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoCould you please contact our support and describe the details of the issue? We're not aware of any problems with switching the language variant. You can find the support email address at https://languagetool.org/legal/ - Rated 1 out of 5by danc2, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18220567, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Andre, 2 years agoVery slow to correct spelling and adds a lot of latency when writing.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Trashy, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by xris, 2 years agoModule complétement ridicule, ne connait même pas l'orthographe française, et quand on essaye d'utiliser la prétendue "intelligence artificielle" on obtient des phrases complètement tordues qui ne veulent rien dire. Parfaitement à l'image de tout système "d'intelligence artificielle", écrit des contre-sens, ne respecte pas les règles grammaticales, nul ! A éviter à tout prix.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoCould you provide some specific examples that don't work? We have many happy users who use LanguageTool for French.