Hemingway vs. Microsoft Editor
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
Microsoft Editor is a grammar and spell check tool that catches grammar, capitalization, and punctuation errors. Beyond the basics, Microsoft Editor provides checks for clarity, conciseness, and formality. Support is offered for 20 different languages.
Offerings
- Free version allows use for 1 person and includes basic spelling and grammar
- Premium Microsoft 365 Personal allows use for 1 person and includes advanced grammar, clarity, conciseness, formal language, vocabulary, and punctuation conventions
- Microsoft 365 Family allows use for 2-6 people and includes everything in Microsoft 365 Personal
Reviews
Microsoft Editor has 2,447 ratings and 1,000,000+ users on their Chrome Web Store with an average rating of 4.7 stars out of 5 (as of May 2022)
Pros
- The premium version offers advanced grammar checking including checks for clarity, conciseness, and formality
- Supports 20 different languages
- Integrations for most of Microsoft Office Suite
- The premium version includes the desktop office apps Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneDrive cloud storage
Cons
- Free version has limited features and its grammar checker is not thorough
- Intended more for personal use; not built for teams
- Does not offer autocomplete or snippets/macros
- Doesn't offer API access or self-hosting
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