Last Updated on March 15, 2026
Eloquent is a proofreading tool for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, and more than 20 other languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.
It works fully offline, powered by the LanguageTool standalone server.
Eloquent can also run as a service in the background to make your local/offline LanguageTool server available to Firefox, LibreOffice and more.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/sonnyp/Eloquent
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Developer: Sonny Piers
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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Hi Steve. That was fast, I only submitted Eloquent yesterday. 🙂
BTW, how do you catalog all of the software and games that you post here on LL. A spreadsheet or database or other?
Keep up the great work.
Cheers.
Thanks for this submission Torin and your kind words.
I mostly use software including OnlyOffice (spreadsheets), RStudio, and WordPress to generate roundups and write articles. All open source goodness.