Hemingway App

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Grade your writing for readability and fix the exact sentences making it hard to read — passive voice, complex adverbs, run-ons. Clarity editing in 30 seconds.

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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)

Pros

• 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

Cons

• No suggestions for rewrites — flags problems without solving them
• Rigid rules can conflict with intentional stylistic choices