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Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

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645 points ReadCarlBarks | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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icapybara ◴[20 Jun 25 23:54 UTC] No.44333232[source]▶
Why wouldn't you want an LLM for a language learning tool? Language is one of things I would trust an LLM completely on. Have you ever seen ChatGPT make an English mistake?
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1. InsideOutSanta ◴[21 Jun 25 08:51 UTC] No.44335861[source]▶
Yeah, I agree. An open-source LLM-based grammar checker with a user interface similar to Grammarly is probably what I'm looking for. It doesn't need to be perfect (none of the options are); it just needs to help me become a better writer by pointing out issues in my text. I can ignore the false positives, and as long as it helps improve my text, I don't mind if it doesn't catch every single issue.

Using an LLM would also help make it multilingual. Both Grammarly and Harper only support English and will likely never support more than a few dozen very popular languages. LLMs could help cover a much wider range of languages.