LanguageTool is a more privacy focused grammar, spelling & writing assistant. Great for university work, professional work and just better written presentation all round. It supports Australian English as well as German, Spanish, French & Portuguese. Add-ons for most common browsers, Google Docs, MS Word, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Gmail & clients for Windows & macOS. It is an alternative to Grammarly and Hemingway.
Premium Pricing with 20% discount in AUD:
- 2 years $111.20 / $4.63/month - usual price $139.00
- 1 year $63.92 / $5.33/month - usual price $79.90
- Quarterly $39.20 / $13.07/month - usual price $49.00
- Monthly $19.92 - usual price $24.90
There are business/team plans too.
What Premium gets you:
- Enhanced grammar, punctuation and style checking
- Up to 100,000 characters per text field
- Suggestions to improve style and tone
- Detection of incorrect names and titles in e-mails
- Detection of incorrect numbers (e.g. IBAN, ISBN, …)
- Add-in for Microsoft Word
- Add-on for Google Docs
I recommend you check out their privacy policy, servers hosted in Germany, they keep in line with GDPR & German Federal Data Protection Act, they don't store the text that is submitted. They even have options to self-host it yourself, so absolutely nothing leaves your local machine/network. This is entirely the opposite of Grammarly, who have some sketchy privacy clauses.
I've been using the free version for work for a few weeks now after coming across it, and it's tidying up my awful grammar and spelling a lot. I also like the double-clicking a word for synonyms feature, it makes me sound smart. Not only that, but I've found it really low impact too using the Chrome extension, not slowing down sites or anything noticeably. (It just told me off for writing those previous 3 sentences in a row that all started with I/I've).
Sale is on for 48 hours.
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