Lingofy vs Spell checker and Grammar checker by Scribens

Works about 50% of the time, with constant stalling. Furthermore, if you use Dropbox ... expect the Dropbox website to stop working as soon as you install Lingofy. Abysmal customer service that takes weeks to get back to you. Would not recommend ... but there's no other option out there for AP Style users who want a one-click checker for WordPress.

- Bryan Esler

It catches very few things in the AP style guide. The webinar on the AP website repeatedly stressed that Lingofy is better than other such tools because it can understand the full context of your writing and figure out where the errors are. The reality is that it can't even see basic diction errors (that are cataloged in the AP guide) such as further vs. farther, lay vs. lie, or hanger vs. hangar. If you give it a combined error such as "US navy", it fails to recognize that "US" should be "U.S." (in article text) and therefore fails to recognize that "navy" should be capitalized. This is the problem with just about every initialization that I tested (it got NATO correct, but not much else); if you don't happen to enter the one incorrect form that Lingofy is expecting, then it just passes your mistake. Put it all together and you really can't have any confidence that this tool has detected errors that you overlooked. In my testing, it was incapable of spotting more than 10% of the style rules in the AP guide. If these expectations had been fairly managed, I would rate the app higher, but they try to convince you that this thing really can evaluate your text and it really cannot. Also, if this app were not already five (I think) years old, I could see cutting it some slack. But at this point, promises of future improvements should probably be dismissed as unlikely to occur. Most of my testing was conducted using the Google Docs extension, but I also ran some stuff through the Chrome extension in the form of Facebook posts (I chose that after realizing that the Chrome extension could not scan a Salesforce Knowledge article, even in editor mode). In the end, I give it two stars because the customization functionality works reasonably well and nothing else I've seen offers a capability like that. It would be a promising thing except that again, I suspect nothing new is coming down the road on this. It has been released for five years and appears unchanged in that time.

- Matt White

Missed every typo on the page. Only has three dictionaries (and only one English dictionary, US). Doesn't actually do anything that I can see.

- Jason Heeris

There are lots of people saying this extension does not work. However, IT DOES, and it does so very well. I just installed it for google docs where I needed it, and it works great- it does have a few bugs, like trying to remove the space between the period and the first letter of the sentence, but it has many great features that other checkers make you pay for. I am currently using it in conjunction with at least 5 other grammar checkers, and this is the first one I have tried that does so much for so cheap (free!). Works great, hope it never gets removed by the developers. Love it!

- Brendan

it wouldnt work... it says its compatible with my device yet it doesnt want to do anything. I followed the intrustions yet its not working, and not even a tutorial on it...

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