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I've been using LanguageTool for a long time, and I'm also happily paying their premium subscription. 100% worth it and highly recommended. It's also excellent at non-English languages.

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Is it better than Grammarly?

I mean, sending all data to a Grammarly service brings the same privacy issues as sending it to Language Tool.

There is a big difference in terms of privacy: LanguageTool is open source and you can run it on your own computer. You can install it as browwer plugin, a LibreOffice plugin, or a standalone server that you can access from Emacs for example (the latter is no longer promoted on their website, but you can download JAR files from https://languagetool.org/download/).

Yes, but from what I got, only the basic features are open source and self-hostable. The premium features that bring it on-par to Grammarly aren't part of that.

Same here, very very smart. It even gets typographic quotes right when nesting them (such as „The sign said ‚yes‘, clearly.“), keeps an eye on not jumping between tenses or different forms of addressing people („Du“ vs. „Sie“ in German).

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