Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
Review by Ardemus
Rated 2 out of 5
by Ardemus, a year agoAt first it seemed nice, but it's been getting in the way. At first it passively highlighted problem areas for me to review, but today it's been agressively throwing up dialogs on its own, blocking my work. It also abuses its access to my attention by marking an error but pitching it's paid service when I click on the text. It does have a good dictionary (much better than the native Firefox spell checker) but the gramar engine is stuck on pedantic. It enforces rules that aren't required unless you're writing a formal document. The last straw was when it started trying to autocomplete sentences. Today I typed, "work address:" and it threw my actual work address (and how does it know my real work address?) into the email. I ignored it but the suggestion kept popping up as I edited that part of the email. It ultimately inserted the address by itself, on a blank line, between "work address:" and the address I had already added. It even used a font style that didn't match the surounding text.
Developer response
posted a year agoThanks for your feedback. LanguageTool doesn't autocomplete - the autocompletion came from somewhere else (e.g., Gmail or a different add-on). We also don't open dialogs automatically, all dialogs only show up when you click on an error or button. Maybe you're confusing LanguageTool with a different add-on?
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- Rated 3 out of 5by lee terry, 6 hours agoIt is better than nothing but is often not great at spelling mistakes. I will misspell the word literally as literly and it will not give the word I want as a suggestion but when I search that word the search engine corrects me fine (there have been other words too but this was the most recent). Plus, the addon does not work in some places (like here for example).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18916174, 11 hours ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by fantic_UA, 4 days agoПоки що безтолкове доповнення, бо не підтримує чеську мову...
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- Rated 5 out of 5by AnneF, 6 days agoThis is amazing! Very unobtrusive and so easy to use, and does a wonderful job. I love it - thank you, thank you. Great job! It would be really great if it worked with Wordpad, but I guess you have to be in Firefox?
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18904642, 7 days agoWas working well for the longest time, but in the past month it's started messing up the corrections it does by deleting spaces and punctuation around the words being corrected.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17786337, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IonuțAlex18, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14732714, 7 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16554606, 8 days agoit has started to delete spaces between words after corrections
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tedzilla, 9 days agoI make a lot of errors, typos, and misspellings. LT helps me a great deal.