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Free Punctuation Checker Online

Catch missing and extraneous commas, apostrophes, and hyphens — and capitalization and whitespace errors along with them.

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Punctuation checking beyond English

¿Cómo estás? Répétez, s’il vous plaît. Skip typing accents and diacritics by hand — pick a language to get started.

Why Sapling

Use this page to proofread your text on your computer, tablet or mobile phone device. Paste any documents in the editor above, or install one of our integrations to get suggestions across all websites.

No more time spent manually copy-editing. Sapling is fast and learns to give more relevant suggestions over time. Boost your productivity with Sapling by spending more time communicating and less time reviewing.

Sapling's free punctuation checker is a writing assistant that suggest edits from large neural network-based language models. These models learn patterns in how language works from millions of example sentences. See one comparison here.

Use this punctuation checker for free. If you need to process larger volumes of text, consider contacting us to get access to Sapling's API.

The text you are reading right now was written by a human, but proofread by AI. Sapling is one of the best tools to correct punctuation mistakes in your documents. Proper punctuation is important because you need it for clarity, professionalism and credibility. Simple punctuation mistakes are missed by the best writers by accident, and that can be avoided by running a punctuation checker as a back-up proofreader. Don't let poor punctuation affect your academic or business endeavors: try Sapling on your writing on this page.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. Sapling's online punctuation checker is free to use on this page. A Sapling Pro subscription unlocks additional suggestions and features in the browser extension.

Sapling catches missing and extraneous commas, apostrophes, hyphens, and quotation marks, along with terminating punctuation. It also fixes capitalization and common whitespace errors such as double spaces.

Yes. Sapling offers punctuation and grammar checking for Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese, including accents and diacritics.

This page is intended for interactive use. For high-volume or programmatic punctuation checking, Sapling offers an API.