Top Free Alternatives to Grammarly
Stop paying expensive subscriptions for Workspace & Notes tools. Discover the best free and open-source replacements for Grammarly.
Why switch from Grammarly?
Grammarly transmits everything you type to their proprietary servers, raising significant privacy and security concerns for business and personal writing. Open-source style and grammar checkers verify your text locally or on your own server.
LanguageTool
Free / Premium Paid
Style and grammar checker for more than 30 languages. Open-source and privacy-friendly.
Key Features
- Multi-language grammar checking
- Style recommendations
- Personal dictionary
- Browser extensions & Office add-ins
Pros
- + Very high accuracy for multiple languages
- + Can be self-hosted via Docker for 100% offline checking
- + Fast performance
Cons
- - Advanced style checking features require premium API key
- - Self-hosted server requires significant RAM for language models