Reviews for Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool
Grammar and Spell Checker - LanguageTool by LanguageTooler GmbH
Review by Firefox user 18321141
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 18321141, 4 months agoThis is not a local spellchecker (all browsers use to have local spellcheckers)
"LanguageTool" forwards all of your text to third party servers (wasting data and adding latency) and does not show you errors until responses are received from those servers (huge lag)
Mobile Firefox removed its spellchecker because Android had a spellchecker, but Google removed Android's spellchecker because most browsers has spellcheckers.
LanguageTool is now the sole result for https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?q=spell%20checker but our business does not allow apps that forward text to remote servers.
Now 4 stars due to responses about local servers
"LanguageTool" forwards all of your text to third party servers (wasting data and adding latency) and does not show you errors until responses are received from those servers (huge lag)
Mobile Firefox removed its spellchecker because Android had a spellchecker, but Google removed Android's spellchecker because most browsers has spellcheckers.
LanguageTool is now the sole result for https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?q=spell%20checker but our business does not allow apps that forward text to remote servers.
Now 4 stars due to responses about local servers
Developer response
posted 4 months agoYour business can also run the LT server locally, as described at https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server. The latency for checking is usually <1 second, please report a bug in our forum at https://forum.languagetool.org/ if it's slower for you.
4,022 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by jam.may, 2 days agoKeeps automatically changing language on me. Very annoying and there's no option to change it back.
Developer response
posted 2 days agoPlease send us more detailed feedback on the forum at https://forum.languagetool.org/. Generally, the language detection should work well once it has enough text (>15 characters or so). - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14201786, 3 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18475603, 3 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13381346, 3 days agoWenn sie immer funktonieren würde könnte ich mir überlegen dafür zu bezahlen. Nachdem das leider nicht so ist, sehe ich nicht ein auch nur 1 Cent dafür auszugeben
Developer response
posted 2 days agoBitte kontaktiere uns doch im Forum (https://forum.languagetool.org) mit einer genaueren Fehlerbeschreibung. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18474298, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andreas Holzapfel, 8 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Fattinger, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18151918, 9 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Ken E, 12 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Stefan, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18395807, 12 days agoMit der vorgänger ausführung war ich immer top zufrieden.J.Winzer
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nikita, 13 days agoThis is a privacy nightmare, so obviously "Recommended" by Mozilla.
Dear lord.. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11746698, 15 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12233941, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vid, 16 days ago