- Alex.js: Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing. Whether your own or someone else’s writing, Alex helps you find gender favoring, polarizing, race related, religion inconsiderate, or another unequal phrasing.
- The Chicago Manual of Style: The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format.
- Chisel Editor: An AI-powered tool for writing books and stories.
- Cliche Finder: Finds and highlights cliches in your writing.
- Contributor Covenant: A code of conduct pledge, to respect and appreciate contributors and participants in open source projects.
- Danger: Formalizes pull request ettiquette.
- Grammarly: Grammarly makes sure everything you type is clear and mistake-free. It even checks for plagiarism.
- The Hemingway Editor: Hemingway helps you write with power and clarity by highlighting adverbs, passive voice, and dull, complicated words. Cut the dead weight from your writing.
- Inkwell: A lightweight Markdown editor built with Rust and Tauri. Split view, live preview, 4 themes, focus mode, typewriter mode, and version history. No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry.
- JigSaw: A technology incubator focused on countering extremism and removing censorship online.
- Kindling: A free, open-source novel writing app that bridges outlining and drafting. Your outline's scene beats become expandable prompts inside a focused drafting space. Built with Rust and Tauri.
- LanguageCheck: Analyses scientific papers written in LaTeX, offline or on overleaf. Analysis reports with suggestions for improvements include a list of common mistakes/ambiguities, tense consistency, a vs. an, spell check and paragraph topic sentences.
- Markdownlint: A tool to check markdown files and flag style issues.
- Markdownlint-cli: Provides a command line interface for MarkdownLint.
- Perspective API: An API that uses machine learning models to score the perceived impact of comments before they are sent. There is a demo nearer to the bottom of the page which can be used to try out the API.
- toprank: Open-source Claude Code plugin that includes an E-E-A-T focused content writer for SEO, keyword research with intent classification, and meta tag optimization. Pulls real Google Search Console data to drive recommendations, and pushes content changes directly to WordPress, Strapi, Contentful, or Ghost.
- Weallbehave: Weallbehave is a command-line tool for automatically generating and updating the
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.mdfor your projects. - Write Good: Write Good is a tool for improving language that can be run again code in a shell or within text editors via test editor plugins.
This list was started by Jason Farmer along with Jeff Wainwright to share tools that might make writing a bit more friendly. Any insights or suggestions are very much appreciated.
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