GitHub - gardner/LocalLanguageTool: Self-hosted LanguageTool private instance is an offline alternative to Grammarly

2025-05-11 08:59:55

gardner@lemmy.world

I made a repo, mostly so I could easily set this up on new machines. Basically, it’s a self-hosted offline private version of Grammarly.

Go forth, and use good grammar! 🔮

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2025-05-11 23:44:16

oldfart

oldfart@lemm.ee

It seems to be some kind of AI that polishes your writing style, helps change tone of the text etc.

2025-05-12 00:00:41

corsicanguppy

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

Please tell me it can spell better than grammarly. That website REALLY shows its roots.

2025-05-12 01:20:41

koala

koala@programming.dev

Running LanguageTool locally is a bit of a pain, with some manual steps. Plus you have to fetch some data files. You can find around a few projects like this one to make it easier to run LanguageTool.

And yes, as the poster mentioned, LanguageTool keeps some code exclusive to their paid version. There’s a bit of a tension because they ask people not to extend OSS LanguageTool with their paid features.

There’s also this interesting clone, but it seems abandoned.