Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
4,683 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Myrtle Dunbar, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18321141, 2 years 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 2 years 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, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adriano, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Brooks, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SonicSquare, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by L4m4d3us, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cpta1203, 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 5 out of 5by AMN2080, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lucas Dondo / Dondi, 2 years 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, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17552854, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by J.A. Stewart, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18303994, 2 years agoExcellent widget for daily work, that allows to write more clean and good text.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11025086, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by phil2b, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lordy, 2 years ago
- 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 5 out of 5by Ivan, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ju, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Niklas, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Laurent LC, 2 years ago