@ProWritingAidBotFree
76 / 100
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A last pass over a message, a post or a listing - the typo you would have noticed after sending it.
| # | Bot | Price | Languages | Inline | Groups | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @ProWritingAidBot | Free | EN | no | no | 76 |
| 2 | @GrammarNaziBot | Free | EN | no | yes | 74 |
| 3 | @SpellCheckBot | Free · Free, and no paid plan is advertised. | EN · RU | no | no | 70 |
| 4 | @grammarNz_Bot | Free · Free and open source, with no paid plan advertised. | EN · ES | no | yes | 69 |
| 5 | @correctorbot | Free | — | no | no | 66 |
| 6 | @check_my_text_bot | Free · Free, and no paid plan is advertised. | EN · RU | no | no | 66 |
We sent each bot the same paragraph with four planted errors - a misspelt word, a doubled word, a bureaucratic filler phrase and a correct but rare word - and looked at what it caught and what it flagged wrongly. We also checked whether it works in a group and whether it returns a correction or just a verdict.
A speller finds words that do not exist. A style checker finds words that exist and should not be there - the vague qualifiers and bureaucratic constructions that make a paragraph unreadable while every word in it is spelt correctly. Running both takes a minute and catches two unrelated classes of problem; running one and calling it proofreading does not.
Spelling engines are language-specific: a checker built for English will mangle a French or Spanish text, and a French one will not help with an English post. Check which language a bot is actually built for rather than which languages it claims to accept. For a group chat, a bot that corrects messages as they arrive is a different tool again, and belongs only in chats that agreed to it.
No. Spelling and style are separate checks - use a speller for mistakes and a stop-word checker for the wording.
Yes, but it reacts to everyone's messages, so add it only with the chat's agreement and give an admin a quick way to remove it.
Each is built for one. Check what the engine behind it was made for before you trust it with a text in another language.
