Description
Improve your writing with a spell + grammar checker and writing suggestions.
Extension Rankings
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Ranking Summary
Overall Rank
Extension Rank
"Autocomplete" Keyword
"Assistant" Keyword
"Writing Tools" Keyword
"Writing" Keyword
"Text Expander" Keyword
"Spelling Checker" Keyword
"Spelling" Keyword
"Spell Checker" Keyword
"Suggestion" Keyword
"Rephrase" Keyword
"Premium" Keyword
"Quillbot" Keyword
"Provide" Keyword
"Paraphrasing" Keyword
"Grammar Checker" Keyword
"Google Docs" Keyword
"Checker" Keyword
Featured Rank
Review Summary
Sapling Grammar Checker is praised for its accuracy, helpful rewriting suggestions, smooth integration across platforms, and strong AI content detection. Users appreciate its ease of use and suitability for professional and educational writing. However, some users face inconsistent operation within Chrome, experience high memory usage, and find the subscription cost steep. Account creation requirements and weak multilingual language support (notably for Dutch) have also been noted as drawbacks. Overall, the extension offers an effective writing assistant with some areas needing improvement.
Pros
- Highly accurate grammar and spelling error detection, outperforming many other grammar assistants.
- Supports integration with various platforms including Google Docs and some chat environments, enhancing usability.
- Provides helpful rewriting and rephrasing suggestions that improve sentence clarity and conciseness.
- Useful for improving language skills and detecting AI-written content effectively.
- API is well documented and easy to use, suitable for developers and startups.
Cons
- Inconsistent performance issues when used through Chrome, causing occasional malfunction.
- Relatively high memory usage (noted as >34MB) which might affect browser performance.
- Subscription pricing is considered expensive by some users, especially moving from free to paid plans.
- Requires account creation which is a barrier for some users wanting quick or anonymous use.
- Multilingual support is lacking or problematic, particularly inaccurate checking of Dutch text and language setting mishandling.
Permissions
This extension can:
- activeTab
- alarms
- clipboardRead
- clipboardWrite
- identity
- identity.email
- offscreen
- scripting
- storage
- tabs
- webNavigation
This extension can access:
- <all_urls>
- *://*/*
Additional Information
3.1.1.5
March 31, 2025
2.48 MB
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