Justyna Dorsz

LanguageTool

LanguageTool Refund

A few days ago I wrote I bought LanguageTool. This is just a quick update to let you know I canceled the subscription and asked for a refund.

I’ve tested LanguageTool for a few days and I don’t recommend it after all. It didn’t point out most of the mistakes in my writing, even the obvious ones. As an example, in one of my latests post LanguageTool saw no more mistakes but both Grammarly and ProWritingAid found over 30 issues each. And some of those mistakes were missing articles or prepositions, and once by wrote “though” instead of “thought” — I would have expected LanguageTool to find those errors but it didn’t.

Anyway, at least the LanguageTool team has been professional about the refund. I logged into my account, opened the “Help” section and created a support ticked to ask for a refund. They refunded me within a day.

You have 14 days since the purchase to ask for a refund. So if you bought it after reading my post a few days ago you still have over a week left to decide. I am not saying you should cancel your subscription. I am just clarifying that I don’t endorse LanguageTool.

Grammar

I struggle with grammar, so I’ve bought LanguageTool, which is a tool for finding grammar and style errors in your writing.

LanguageTool is less know that Grammarly, which you might have heard of. I was considering buying Grammarly, but found out that there are some privacy issues — Grammarly stores and have the right to view all your text! LanguageTool doesn’t do that.

Over the next few days, I will go through my posts — a few hundred of them — and fixing all the mistakes that LanguageTool finds.

Edit(July 9, 2021): Decided to refund LanguageTool. It didn’t catch most of the mistakes in my writing. I was within 14 days from the purchase and they refunded me with no problems.