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Developer builds free, local AI proofreader for browsers

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A developer has created an open-source Chrome extension called inline-scribe that offers free, local AI-powered proofreading, functioning as an alternative to paid services like Grammarly. The extension runs AI models locally using Ollama, ensuring user data never leaves their computer. A key design choice was to have the AI model generate corrected text rather than attempting to produce structured diffs, which are often unreliable with smaller local models. The extension then uses a deterministic algorithm to calculate the differences between the original and corrected text, presenting them to the user for acceptance or rejection. AI

IMPACT Enables free, private AI-powered proofreading in browsers, bypassing cloud services and subscription fees.

RANK_REASON Developer-created tool leveraging existing AI infrastructure.

Read on dev.to — LLM tag →

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Developer builds free, local AI proofreader for browsers

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · mk668a ·

    Grammarly costs $12/mo — a local LLM does it for free (Chrome + Ollama)

    <p>I write a lot in the browser — email, GitHub comments, contact forms — and I wanted proofreading without uploading every keystroke to a company's cloud. My workplace bans Grammarly for exactly that reason.</p> <p>So I built <a href="https://github.com/mk668a/inline-scribe" rel…

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