Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

IMO not using LLMs is a big plus in my book. Grammarly has been going downhill since they've been larding it with "AI features," it has become remarkably inconsistent. It will tell me to remove a comma one hour, and then tell me to add it back the next.

DeepL Write was pretty good in the post-LLM, pre-ChatGPT era.

DeepL is different in my opinion. They always focused on machine learning for languages.

They must have acquired fantastic data for their Models. Especially because of the business language and professional translations which they focus on.

They keep your intended message in tact and just refine it. Like a book post editing. Grammarly and other tools force you to sound like they think is best.

DeepL shows, in my opinion, how much more useful a model trained for specific uses is.