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Editsaurus

Highlights potential pitfalls in your writing to encourage good habits.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

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  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
Discontinued

The website is not available, and the last update is from August 2017.

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Properties

  1.  Educational

Features

  1.  Spell Checking
  2.  Text Highlighting
  3.  Readability
  4.  Grammatical Error Checking

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Editsaurus information

  • Developed by

    US flagTyler Walters
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Alternatives

    61 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Education & ReferenceNews & Books

GitHub repository

  •  83 Stars
  •  13 Forks
  •  3 Open Issues
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Editsaurus was added to AlternativeTo by candacebailey on and this page was last updated .

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Top Positive Comment
ShawnPConroy
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You enter your text on the left (all formatting is removed) and it shows a copy with highlights on the right. Here's what I found:

Pros

  • What I loved about this was that it found filler words you can often remove.
  • I also think it's brilliant to have a pronoun highlighter, so you can check that it's clear who the pronoun is for.
  • It does a great job of highlighting the usual grammatical pitfalls.
  • It highlight doubled words.
  • I also like that it has commonly misused or misspelled words and phrases.

Cons

  • I wish it had readability scores for each sentence.
  • I also wish it could handle formatted text.

Bonus: It has explanations of what it is checking for and links so you can learn what it each category of highlights mean.

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What is Editsaurus?

A tool to check creative and technical writing for potential improvements.

Highlights hard and fast rules such as:

Adverbs Filler Words Passive Voice Lexical Illusions Common Misused Words Pronouns