🆕 Software | LanguageTool

[nourkagha]

Basic Information

Name: LanguageTool
Category: Productivity Tools
URL: https://languagetool.org

Description

LanguageTool is a free and open-source grammar, style, and spell checker for more than 20 languages.

Additional context

This is a ridiculously high quality and excellent piece of software which would make a fantastic and valuable addition to the website.

It's a privacy-friendly and self-hostable alternative to Grammarly and is very mature and feature-rich, available as an app on most platforms and integrates with all major browsers and office programs, in addition to email clients like Thunderbird. It also has a VS Code plugin.

My connection with the software

None.

[dngray]

This might be useful when we begin translations, https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/30

[flexagoon]

By the way, you should know that while LanguageTool does not collect typed text when using the extension, it does have access to things which you type on their website in their editor

[dngray]

I can't think of a specific category this could go in, however I would be interested in seeing it mentioned when we do privacyguides/privacyguides.org#1686 as it does in fact appear to be self hostable.

I don't exactly know what category it would go in, perhaps a blog article?

[dngray]

Better yet, this is really a productivity tool. I don't know what I would write about it in a blog article that isn't already thoroughly documented on their website https://languagetool.org/services

[dngray]

I messed about with the docker container on my server. It's quite a neat tool. privacyguides/privacyguides.org#2013