🛠️ Tool
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Freemium
Beginner
Why we picked it If you cannot yet hear which of your sentences read as translated, this free tool shows you. Paste your draft and it highlights the sentences that are hard to read (yellow and red), the passive voice, and the fancy words that have a plainer alternative, then gives you a readability grade to aim lower on. It will not fix your voice for you, but it flags the exact spots where formal, tangled writing is tripping the reader up.
Hemingway Editor
From Hemingway App Free web version, paid desktop app
- Colour-coded highlights point at your hard-to-read and overly complex sentences so you know precisely what to simplify.
- It flags passive voice and formal words that have simpler alternatives, the usual tells of copy that reads translated.
- The free browser version does all of this: aim for a lower reading grade (roughly 6 to 9) for general marketing copy.