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Since I'm not a native English speaker I find the Grammarly extension quite good. This creates a problem in professional settings though, since there'd be a sha

• The_Colonel 6y ago
  https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool works very well (although I use the online version).
• zverok 6y ago
  I believe that LanguageTool[0] is the closest open-source counterpart to Grammarly. Though, in my experience, it is not a half as useful... But multilinugal and open-source. I have a distant dream of doing to it what I did to Hunspell (write a code/series of articles explaining how it works and why it is so hard), but we'll see. For what I know, LanguageTool is based just on a huge set of rules (you can see them in the repo[1]); and Grammarly is a mix of rule-based and machine-learning suggestions (I heard a rumor that it is 99% rule-based, and talks about ML are mostly marketing, but I don't know how reliable this rumor was). 0: https://languagetool.org https://languagetool.org 1: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/tree/master/languagetool-language-modules/en/src/main/resources/org/languagetool/rules/en https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/tree/master...
  • lqet 6y ago
    Indeed, I have an installation of LanguageTool on my private server to avoid the privacy issues mentioned above. I have plugins for Thunderbird, Chromium and vim running. The browser plugin is by far the best.