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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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Ceb Bec2026年3月6日
5

Just perfect. The sweet spot between incredible speed and relevant suggestions.

Version 1.9.0Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Rafael Gonçalves2026年2月27日
1

Não tem PT-BR

Version 1.8.0Language pt
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
David Desperado2026年2月24日
5

Thank you to all the developers for such an awesome, free extension. Works great!

Version 1.8.0Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Becky Foshee2026年2月24日
4

I love that it is private! It's helps to review your text for mistakes and gives suggestions. It does not do as well as Grammarly; however, I prefer Harper because it values my privacy and does not use AI or sale my data. I recommend Harper to all my privacy conscious friends and family. I also like that it does not change my text for me.

Version 1.8.0Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Tom Lawrence2026年2月18日
5

Works greats over all, the only issue I would run into from time to time was using it the web interface of Discord.

Version 1.6.0Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
John Voegtlin2026年2月18日
1

put lines of code into all of my back-end website edit boxes that caused invisible errors (including input boxes that were hidden?!) why must it add a harper-render-box with a popover and style attribute everytime I open a page with an editable text box and then just leave them there?

Version 1.8.0Language en
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
David2026年2月14日
4

good and easy

Version 1.6.0Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Edward van Tonder2026年2月14日
5

Does what is says on the tin.

Version 1.6.0Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
m k2026年2月14日
5

I am going to keep it in my toolkit and disable Gra*** (you know the name) addon for a while - let's spellcheck my dirty texts domestically after about of month of using it - it is still a nice tool for writing features I'm missing: - disable for selected websites - a little bit more "human consumable" settings page (now it is 1km long, very flexible, but ..) - save settings somewhere (so i can use the same settings for more Harper integrations - like in other editors)

Version 1.6.0Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Layman Team2026年2月12日
5

I love this grammar checker, it's not perfect but its free and private! Harper is a fantastic open source library for grammar checking in English if you need it, and the developer has plugin versions that extend beyond the chrome extension if you need it. The current bug I have is it doesn't automatically work on every site, and it cannot change text directly. Nor does it cover as much as a freemium or paid option. But at least it reminds you to review.

Version 1.6.0Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful