GrammarBot For Mac

Generative AI can make a lot of things easier, including writing. Aside from just making things up from prompts, language models are able to check and correct your grammar, and they’re particularly useful for those who have limited experience with the language.

GrammarBot is a fairly simple app that uses a large language model (LLM) to check and correct your grammar. It features a very basic UI and features, and it relies on a language model that is stored locally and needs to be downloaded before use.

The whole UI is essentially one window, where you can paste or type whatever you need to correct. Click Check, and the language model will be put to work analyzing your text to see how it can be improved.

The process generally doesn’t take too long, and the result is displayed in the same window. Everything is done locally, which is an advantage privacy-wise, but it does mean a lot of disk space is used to store the language model.

Grammar-wise, I didn’t really run into any issues, as the processed text seems to be quite accurate. However, if your prompt is already mostly error-free, it will make often unnecessary changes as it tries to improve it.

If you’re looking for an app that can fine-tune what you’ve already written, this is probably not it. It will take your ideas and adapt the text to suit a particular writing style, with no options to customize the result.

GrammarBot can be useful if you have very little practice writing in English and need to appear fluent. It can take even very badly-written sentences and turn them into proper English. However, if you just need something to find and correct individual spelling or grammar issues, a classic language checker would be a better choice.