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Grammarly itself is basically a closed-source version of LanguageTool https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by bpiche · 2026-09-23 · in Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

…[2] https://languagetool.org -- warning: is coated in somewhat-misleading AI keywords [3] https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by astra1701 · 2026-03-09 · in Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers

I think the next step up from a markov chain is throwing the results into https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool and checking for grammatical correctness, and retrying each sentence until valid.

comment by phendrenad2 · 2025-07-16 · in Lorem Gibson

LanguageTool (a Grammarly competitor) is also open source and can be managed locally: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool I generally run it in a Docker container on my local machine: https://hub.docker.com/r/erikvl87/languaget…

comment by shortformblog · 2025-06-21 · in Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

They use the LGPL license for a lot of their work. https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/blob/master...

comment by conradklnspl · 2024-09-18 · in Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

…write to OpenAI. If all you want is a better spelling/grammar checker, I highly recommend it. [1] - https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by slg · 2024-09-18 · in Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

…tool, thanks for sharing. If you are open to suggestions, I would love to have spellcheck in it. https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by plutokras · 2023-12-22 · in Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

…with standard software like LibreOffice, so you don't even need to write anything yourself. [1] https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by p-e-w · 2023-08-02 · in I'm betting on HTML

…that can emit tokens at blazing speeds[1], which feeds into higher-level abstractions. [0]: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenQuotes/blob/main/src/main/...

comment by thangalin · 2023-02-28 · in A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

Maybe use the docker container to avoid any Java setup stuff? This is what I usually do. https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool#docker

comment by bartmoss · 2022-07-26 · in Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

…privacy: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server Furthermore, there are options for docker: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool#docker

comment by bartmoss · 2022-07-26 · in Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

…thousand rules for English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch) and AI-based rules. [1] [1]: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/issues/6750

comment by cube00 · 2022-07-26 · in Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

…version may no better then what you would already get in something like LibreOffice. [1]: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/issues/6750

comment by cube00 · 2022-07-26 · in Ask HN: Do You Trust Grammarly?

https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by dewey · 2022-07-26 · in Ask HN: Do You Trust Grammarly?

https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool is pretty good for grammar. It's quite trivial to work with the REST API, try one of the docker images.

comment by NiekvdMaas · 2022-07-11 · in On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations

…and more than 20 other languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.” https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool https://languagetool.org/

comment by tmpplsignre · 2022-07-11 · in On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations

One can run language tool [1] also on premise (or directly on one's machine). [1] https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by riedel · 2022-02-25 · in Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?

github: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool languages: https://dev.languagetool.org/languages Improving LanguageTool: https://languagetool.org/dev

comment by pella · 2022-02-18 · in LanguageTool – FOSS Style and Grammar Checker for 25 Languages

Thanks. It’s good to see that it’s released under a LGPL license: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by Anthony-G · 2022-01-14 · in YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

The cli from here? https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by nxpnsv · 2021-05-04 · in The computers are getting better at writing

There's the open source part of it: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool Not sure if it's missing any notable features of the SAAS product.

comment by tyingq · 2021-04-14 · in My simple GitHub project went viral

…are mostly marketing, but I don't know how reliable this rumor was). 0: https://languagetool.org 1: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/tree/master...

comment by zverok · 2021-01-15 · in Rebuilding the spellchecker

https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool works very well (although I use the online version).

comment by The_Colonel · 2021-01-15 · in Rebuilding the spellchecker

A link to the official site would have been better: https://languagetool.org/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by phillipseamore · 2020-11-11 · in LanguageTool – A Grammarly competitor with offline support

…tools I see out there like LanguageTool are quite horrid when it comes to expressing the rules. https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

comment by wallflower · 2019-05-04 · in 500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app

…of LanguageTool, e.g.,[2]. [1] http://www.austenallred.com/the-hackers-guide-to-getting-pre... [2] https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/blob/master...

comment by ivan_ah · 2014-02-14 · in Hemingway Takes the Hemingway Test

Here are the rules this system checks: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/tree/master... Imagine a pre-commit hook for writing quality test ;) Here are some other scripts (much more basic) for "automated language tests":…

comment by ivan_ah · 2014-02-02 · in How we found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia