Hemingway vs. LanguageTool
Hemingway is a popular editor that helps writers make their writing more bold and clear. Given a document, Hemingway provides statistics such as number of words and paragraphs, a readability score, and suggestions for passive voice, complex phrases, and hard to read sentences.
Offerings
- Web and desktop editor
- Statistics including reading time, words, sentences, and paragraphs
- Flagging of adverbs and passive voice
- Flagging of complex phrases and sentences
Reviews
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Pros
- Quick to use
- Simple design and colorful interface that highlights different categories of errors
- Desktop application runes offline
Cons
- Not focused on business use cases
- Relies on relatively simple heuristics
- Doesn't suggest edits and no browser extension
LanguageTool is a multilingual grammar and spell checker. It includes an open-source edition as well as a premium business edition. The key languages support included English, German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Offerings
- Free version provides basic grammar, punctuation, and style checking
- Premium version has enhanced grammar, punctuation, and style checking as well as suggestions to improve style and tone, add-in for Microsoft Word, and add-on for Google Docs
- Enterprise version provides everything the premium version does along with user management
Reviews
LanguageTool has 7,370 ratings and 1,000,000+ users on their Chrome Web Store with an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 5 (as of May 2022)
Pros
- Can detect of incorrect names and titles in e-mails as well as incorrect numbers
- Supports multiple languages
- Separately there exists an open-source offering
Cons
- Free version only provides checking for 10,000 characters of text
- Premium version only allows up to 100,000 characters per text field
- Grammar checker has limited capabilities as it has rule-based recommendations
- Not focused on business use cases
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| Self-Hosting |