Hemingway App
Score the readability of your writing and flag wordy sentences, passive voice, and complex words, with an optional AI-assisted Plus tier for grammar fixes and rewrites.
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Overview
The Hemingway App grades your writing for readability and flags the specific sentences making it hard to read: passive voice, complex adverbs, hard-to-read sentences, and suggestions to simplify. It's not a grammar checker, it's a clarity checker. The grade level score tells you who can actually read your writing at a glance.
Writers, content teams, and communicators use it to catch the bad habits that make prose dense: overlong sentences, hedging adverbs, passive constructions. The desktop app works offline; the web version is free. Integrates with Dropbox and Medium.
Key Features
- Readability grading
- Passive voice detection
- Sentence complexity analysis
- Adverb flagging
- Word count
- Desktop app (offline)
- • Instant visual clarity on which sentences need work, faster than self-editing
- • One-time desktop pricing is excellent value for regular writers
- • Forces writing discipline that makes every piece more readable
- • No suggestions for rewrites, flags problems without solving them
- • Rigid rules can conflict with intentional stylistic choices
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