Question 1

Does it accept British spelling?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and it treats both spellings as equally correct. Colour, organise, centre, defence and travelling all pass, and so do color and organize, which is what you want on a team writing in a mix. A US-only dictionary reports five errors in that first list, and a checker that argues with how you spell is a checker you switch off. The dictionary is the union of the American and British Hunspell word lists, about 49,000 base words each before affixes.

Question 2

Will it flag my product names and jargon?

Accepted Answer

It tries hard not to. Anything capitalised mid-sentence, inside backticks, in a URL or file path, in camelCase, ALL CAPS or containing a digit is skipped, and a name used anywhere in your draft is recognised as a name everywhere in it. Where one is flagged, no replacement is offered at all, because the honest option is adding it to your dictionary rather than renaming your product. Words you add are never questioned again, on any device.

Question 3

Does it fix things automatically?

Accepted Answer

Only where there is exactly one sane answer. Curated misspellings like recieve, definately and seperate are applied outright. Anything the dictionary merely guessed at is offered as a suggestion for you to accept, because "teh" is one letter from "ten", "the" and "eh", and only you know which you meant.

Question 4

What grammar mistakes does it catch?

Accepted Answer

The mechanical ones a rule can be certain about: their, they are and there; your and you are; its and it is in both directions; lose and loose; then and than; missing apostrophes; subject-verb agreement across a long clause; wrong verb forms after an auxiliary; doubled words; "should of"; spacing before punctuation; comma splices; unmatched quotes and brackets; doubled and trailing spaces; affect and effect; fewer and less; double negatives; an apostrophe in a plural; a singular subject with a plural verb across an "of" phrase. Twenty-five rules, each guarded to stay silent when the reading is ambiguous. Comma placement is deliberately left alone, because the serial comma is a house choice rather than an error.

Question 5

What does it deliberately not check?

Accepted Answer

Comma placement and passive voice, and both are deliberate. Comma style is house style more than rule, so a checker enforcing one would argue with half its users. Passive voice is not an error at all: it is reported in the editing reports as a rate rather than corrected, because turning a passive active means knowing who acted and the sentence often does not say.

Question 6

Can it replace Grammarly?

Accepted Answer

For the final check before you publish, yes, and without a second subscription. The two gaps are plagiarism checking and comma style, both documented rather than hidden.

Question 7

Is it really free?

Accepted Answer

Five drafts a day, free and with no account. Each one gets the whole check, and re-checking a draft you are still editing does not count again. Above five it is $9.99 a month for unlimited checks and rewrites.

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