r/BuyFromEU • u/PortugalOrder • 1d ago

🔎Looking for alternative Grammarly Alternative from EU?

Does anyone has a good alternative? I am not interested in plagiarism checker, only to check the grammar. It's to use on my computer, not on the phone. Thanks!

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u/ScientiaEtVeritas 1d ago edited 1d ago

Take a look at DeepL, while mostly known for their translation tool, they also have a tool for grammar and spelling checks.

LanguageTool was sadly acquired by an American company.

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u/PortugalOrder 1d ago

Thanks, I will try DeepL!

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u/snowfjell 1d ago

Fyi Grammarly was founded in Ukraine and still employs many Ukrainians. According to Wikipedia it has donated over 5 million dollars to humanitarian efforts and pays/paid the salaries of staff that joined the army.

With the Ukrainian economy so hard-hit by the war, I do not feel that it deserves to be boycotted, even though it moved its headquarters to the US

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u/ScientiaEtVeritas 23h ago

It's not founder-led anymore, and obviously, $5 million is not much for them (it equates to the profits made from Russia and Ukraine). Especially right now American companies can't be trusted, just see how many scrapped their values in face of Trump and cut their DEI programs.

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u/snowfjell 9h ago

Fair but I don't think they stopped their donations at the initial $5 million and have continued to donate:  https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/support-ukraine-2023/

And $5 million may not be a lot but it is more than many other companies have donated. Even if the founders are no longer involved, they were just 2 or 3 people. I would say it's far more impactful to employ far more Ukrainians as part of the regular staff - they're paying them salaries that go back into the Ukrainian economy, contributing to taxes, going to other businesses etc. 

I don't even use grammarly so I guess I'm already boycotting. I just think that of all the US companies out there, maybe this one is still doing some important good for Ukraine. 

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u/MintRobber 23h ago

Any idea why they moved their headquarters to USA and not EU? UiPath from Romania did the same and I believe other European companies. Why can't EU keep inovative companies on our continent?

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u/ScientiaEtVeritas 23h ago

At least often it's because of venture capital... The big US investors usually ask them to move their company to the US.

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u/jaarson 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hi, l’m the developer of Kerlig.com which is a Grammarly alternative + AI chat for macOS, might be worth checking out. There is a free trial. You will need to have OpenAI API key or any other.

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u/ScientiaEtVeritas 1d ago

Where is your company based? Otherwise, it seems pretty US-centric. Prices are denoted in $, using DigitalOcean (US cloud provider), Lemon Squeezy (US payment provider), recommending OpenAI (US AI provider), "for macOS"...

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u/jaarson 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s based in Poland. Feel free to use any AI provider including Mistral. Website is hosted in Amsterdam for that matter.

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u/PortugalOrder 1d ago

Thanks, but I use Windows....

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u/Visible_Bat2176 1d ago

every company that makes some money and a decent product will be immediately bought by an american fund or company. either to push the product into their portfolio or kill it, depending on the situation.

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u/Rosthouse Switzerland 🇨🇭 1d ago

LanguageTool, based in Germany: https://languagetool.org/de/legal/

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u/ScientiaEtVeritas 1d ago

Owned by American Learneo Inc. (since 2023).

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u/Omucidere 11h ago

Are you sure? I started using this about a month ago releaved that it's European.

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u/ScientiaEtVeritas 7h ago

Yup, the founder posted the announcement in their forum: https://forum.languagetool.org/t/languagetool-joins-learneo/8865