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Private Grammar Checker - Harper

The private grammar checker for 21st Century English

Users40KCurrent public install base
Rating4.2Store average score
Reviews101Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version1.12.0
ManifestV3
Size15.46MiB
Languages1English
Published
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Harper is an English grammar checker designed to be just right. I created it after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.

Grammarly was too expensive and too overbearing. Its suggestions lacked context, and were often just plain wrong. Not to mention: it's a privacy nightmare. Everything you write with Grammarly is sent to their servers. Their privacy policy claims they don't sell the data, but that doesn't mean they don't use it to train large language models and god knows what else. Not only that, but the round-trip-time of the network request makes revising your work all the more tedious.

LanguageTool is great, if you have gigabytes of RAM to spare and are willing to download the ~16GB n-gram dataset. Besides the memory requirements, I found LanguageTool too slow: it would take several seconds to lint even a moderate-size document.

That's why I created Harper: it is the grammar checker that fits my needs. Not only does it take milliseconds to lint a document, take less than 1/50th of LanguageTool's memory footprint, but it is also completely private. That's the power of open source.

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Store average score4.2Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.9Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text70Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews101Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Gustavo Azevedo2025年9月3日
5

Local. Privacy focused.

Version 0.60.0Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Lukas Werner2025年8月29日
5

Best free grammar checker that I've ever used! Also big plus that it all stays local.

Version 0.59.0Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Luke Sanabria2025年8月26日
5

I finally got a big enough ick using Language Tool given the widely-understood security and privacy concerns that I picked my head up to find something else. I am absolutely over the moon with what Harper provides. Slots in like a charm and works in the exact way I used LT, minus the shady key-logging and targeting potential. Thank you so much for building this!!

Version 0.59.0Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Steven Hubert2025年6月24日
2

Doesn't work with any MSFT product, Excel, Outlook, etc.. Basically anywhere you would actually need to use it.

Version 0.44.0Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Martin Caminoa Lizarralde2025年6月22日
3

Harper related files in TypeScript are requested regardless if I disable it on a specific website. Missing many rules, e.g. misuse of verb tenses e.g. use of relating or related does not make a difference in a sentence, misuse or overusing of pronouns, it's good to detect some typos though. Also it misses an editor for cases on which the extension doesn't work in an input field.

Version 0.44.0Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
Daniel2025年6月15日
3

Does not work in Google Documents, but LanguageTool does it

Version 0.42.0Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
imbolc2025年5月24日
5

I've been using Harper in Neovim for a long time and am glad to see it as an extension!

Version 0.38.0Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Filip Cujanovic2025年5月12日
5

Awesome extension! It's privacy focused, that means that every check it done locally on your computer, there is no server where your data goes! And because of that it's blazingly fast compared to Grammarly.

Version 0.34.1Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Notname Notname2025年5月2日
5

Harper is the privacy-focused grammar checker the world needs! I've been incredibly frustrated with overbearing suggestions from alternatives like Grammarly and concerned about their privacy policy. I've been using Harper on my notes in Obsidian for months, and it's been a game-changer! I'm so happy that it's available for the browser!

Version 0.31.0Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Justin Liu2025年5月2日
5

It works great!

Version 0.28.0Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful