LanguageTool

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LanguageTool is a style and grammar proofreading software for English, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, and a lot of other languages.

Description

LanguageTool is a style and grammar proofreading software for English, French, German, and a lot of other languages. You can think of LanguageTool as a software to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect some grammar mistakes.

Supported languages are: Asturian, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Ukrainian. Please note that the level of support differs a lot between languages.

If you have trouble with the installation, please see our checklist.

Homepage: https://www.languagetool.org

Release List

Release Description Compatibility Operating Systems License Release notes  
4.8 Error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian 4.1 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
4.7 Error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian 4.1 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
4.6 Error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian 4.1 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
4.5.1 Bug fix for options dialog 4.1 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
4.5 Error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, Galician, German, German (Leichte Sprache), Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian 4.1 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
4.4.1 Bugfix: opening the options dialog sometimes didn't work 4.1 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
4.4 Error detection improvements for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, German (Leichte Sprache), Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian. 4.1 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
4.3 Error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, German (Leichte Sprache), Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian 4.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
4.2 Error detection updates for Breton, Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, German (Leichte Sprache), Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian 4.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL
 
 
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4.1 Error detection updates for Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 4.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
4.0 Error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian. Initial support for Serbian has been added. 4.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
3.9 Error detection rule updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 4.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
3.8 Error detection rule updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, and Ukrainian. 4.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
3.7 Error detection rule updates for Breton, Catalan, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian. The languages Lithuanian, Malayalam, and Icelandic are not part of this release anymore due to a lack of maintenance. 4.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link
3.6 Major updates and improvements for Portuguese. Error detection rule updates and improvements for Breton, Catalan, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian. 4.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL external link