I've been using LanguageTool over Grammarly for the past few years, and love it. Granted, I just use it occasionally, and it's possible that Grammarly is a tad better - but it's more than enough for my needs.

It's not as good as grammarly, but it will definitely help and isn't that hard to run. My tricks to run it on a cheap digital ocean server

0. Use the docker version

1. use maxsize memory flag to keep the memory under control

2. set up a cron job to kill/restart it in the middle of the night, every night.

3. use a reverse proxy to hide the address at least a little bit

Thanks for the pointer! I've been looking for a Grammarly alternative for ages now.

Their product is both ridiculously overpriced for what you get ($30/month, last I looked, for a spelling/grammar checker along the lines of what MS Word provides), a massive privacy/security violation (you have to send everything you type for the service to do its job; no corporate IT with a pulse would be okay with this), and worst of all, it's buggy as hell. Last time I tried it, it refused to work on HN even though this is a bog standard text field, and I spent a ton of time trying to get it to stop correcting things that didn't need corrected.

Thank you! If this tool works as good as Grammarly, I will cancel Grammarly subscription.

I second this. JetBrains IDEs use LanguageTool under the hood via the Grazie plugin [0]. I haven't used Grammarly ever since Grazie was introduced.

Check Settings → Natural Languages → Grammar → Rules for all available grammar rules.

[0] https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12175-grazie

Thanks. It’s good to see that it’s released under a LGPL license: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

Another alternative I've been using for some time: https://grammica.com

More honest in what way?