Ugh.... What a disappointment. Pulling the rug out from under your entire userbase by putting all functionality behind a paywall without warning. Yeah, screw you buddy.

It seems the development plan was: "How can we charge more?" and someone replied, "Let's add AI." The result: the same old features and some limited, an expensive subscription. The product didn't improve enough to justify the change, but the price certainly found a way to increase. A creative strategy, indeed.

yeah you are dumb for this premium decision

Well, you knew what you were getting into when you made the extension paid. Nobody uses your AI functions, you created the problem yourself and increased costs.

And with it only being a premium subscription, it's not worth it anymore.

Loved this tool until this week. Some how for some reason it keeps thinking I want to write in Spanish instead of English. I found a place to change the language and made it English again. Still everything is in Spanish.

Best spell check ever!

"We've made the difficult decision to limit the LanguageTool browser extension to Premium users only". and with that basis, I have made the very easy decision to remove your extension. Hint: just because 'AI' seems to be in every conversation doesn't mean you have to force fit AI capabilities into a spell checker. Too enamored with technology?

I’ve used LanguageTool for many years and it was a core part of my writing workflow, especially in the browser.
The recent decision to move the browser extension behind a Premium paywall breaks that workflow significantly.
I understand infrastructure costs are increasing, but removing free real-time browser correction makes the tool much less accessible for long-time users.
Keeping the limited free tier (basic grammar/spelling) or offline fallback would make the transition much easier to accept. No, instead LanguageTooler GmbH chose to AI-wash their greedy, money hungry decision.
Goodbye, LanguageTool.
You were a really useful extension.

It USED to be good. But, instead of keeping good code that was effucient to run, the company behind this extension jumped onto the LLM bandwagon, and decided to force the costs of running that power-hungry junk onto the users. $15/month for a spelchekar — no way.

Asking to use a premium account is predatory, just don't use AI.

Maybe if they didn't try to cram a bunch of bullshit AI into their existing decent language tool they wouldn't have insane server costs and to remove the free use version. I'll just move on thanks.

"The rise of generative AI has made it more challenging to sustainably monetize our offering"
Blame AI all you want, but your extension is not that great, especially for languages other than English.

You're going down the IFTTT path, and no one will need you anymore. Greed will be your undoing.

ok that we can't have everything free, but that price only for a language check? au revoir

14 days left? No, thanks. Already removed.

"We have made the difficult decision to limit the use of the LanguageTool browser extension to Premium users only"

My dyslexia, isn't something I can't opt out of.
However, removing your extension from my browser, is and was the easiest decision I made.