hunspell vs textidote

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hunspell		textidote
	Project
20	Mentions	6
2,001	Stars	891
2.1%	Growth	-
7.9	Activity	7.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
C++	Language	Java
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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hunspell

Posts with mentions or reviews of hunspell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.

Is GNU Aspell the best spell checker for emacs on macOS?
8 projects | /r/emacs | 23 May 2023

Hunspell seems popular as well. I believe it's the one used by Firefox and LibreOffice, and I think it's the system spell checker in MacOS already? 🤷‍♂️
Why don't common browsers use Soundex for spelling suggestions?
1 project | /r/browsers | 6 Mar 2023

Almost all browsers use the Hunspell library for spell checking. You should investigate what methods it uses for stemming and suggesting corrections. How does that algorithm work for non-English languages? The main variation you will see between browsers in spelling suggestions is the base dictionary that is used.
Does anyone know how to change the dictionary that W10 pulls from? Ideally replace with Google's brain?
1 project | /r/techsupport | 13 Feb 2023

I don't think so. Looking at the Chromium source it appears to use Hunspell. This is an okay spell checker, but not AI based AFAIK, only "Morphological analysis, stemming and generation".
Autocorrect anything with Google as a go-to spell check
5 projects | /r/AutoHotkey | 5 Feb 2023

Are you familiar with Hunspell? Dictionaries are comprehensive enough to be part of different Office Suites, so I don't see them as constricted to autocorrect.
Spell checker
1 project | /r/LaTeX | 17 Jan 2023

If you're using Linux or MacOS, you should try hunspell.
hunspell version?
3 projects | /r/libreoffice | 1 Jan 2023
Text Editor that supports spelling and grammar checking.
4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 17 Dec 2022

i prefer and use hunspell
spell-check selected text?
2 projects | /r/AutoHotkey | 13 Oct 2022

One can implement Huntspell which is what all browsers use (for example when typing in text areas). Is very simple and is C++.
COMO FAZER COM QUE MEU PROGRAMA IDENTIFIQUE QUE UMA PALAVRA NÃO EXISTE
1 project | /r/programacao | 10 Jul 2022
Documentation on writing a spell checker
2 projects | /r/firefox | 7 Apr 2022

textidote

Posts with mentions or reviews of textidote. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-27.

Writing like a pro with vale & neovim
5 projects | /r/neovim | 27 May 2022

Otherwise you can have a look at TeXtidote, although I'm not sure whether it can be used as a null-ls source or if it only works as a stand-alone program.
Textidote
1 project | /r/LaTeX | 11 Feb 2022

Hm, I can't reproduce the error. If I download the latest release https://github.com/sylvainhalle/textidote/releases/tag/v0.8.3 and run java -jar textidote.jar example.tex (with example.tex from the GitHub repository) the output is different from the output of java -jar textidote.jar --check en example.tex. In particular, the second command reports tex to be a spelling error and gives a ridiculous amount suggested spellings.
Grammarly integration in AUCTeX
4 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Feb 2022

Textidote is also based on languageTool. It doesn't use LSP, but it can generate nice browseable HTML to look at all of the errors. It's not emacs-specific, but there's a snippet in the README of how to integrate it with flycheck.
Grammar checker for scientific writing
9 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Dec 2021

Check out textidote too. It's languagetool understanding \LaTeX syntax, and you can set it for flycheck-checker. Emacs-langtool coupled with langtool-ignore-fonts is also good for \LaTeX documents. You may want to configure them to disable a few rules to reduce false positives.
textidote: Spelling, grammar and style checking on LaTeX documents
1 project | /r/planetemacs | 25 Oct 2021
spell checker for LaTeX files
2 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Oct 2021

I really like Textidote. It does spell and grammar checking: https://github.com/sylvainhalle/textidote

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hunspell and textidote you can also consider the following projects:

SymSpell - SymSpell: 1 million times faster spelling correction & fuzzy search through Symmetric Delete spelling correction algorithm

ltex-ls - LTeX Language Server: LSP language server for LanguageTool :mag::heavy_check_mark: with support for LaTeX :mortar_board:, Markdown :pencil:, and others

nuspell - 🖋️ Fast and safe spellchecking C++ library

grammar-guard.nvim - Grammar Guard is a Neovim plugin that checks your grammar as you write your LaTeX, Markdown or plain text document.

spellsitter.nvim - Treesitter powered spellchecker

vim-angry-reviewer - Vim plugin for style correction for academic writing and scientific papers

WeCantSpell.Hunspell - A port of Hunspell v1 for .NET and .NET Standard

lsp-ltex - lsp-mode ❤️ LTEX

cspell - A Spell Checker for Code!

Emacs-langtool - LanguageTool for Emacs

JamSpell - Modern spell checking library - accurate, fast, multi-language

langtool-ignore-fonts - Force Emacs Langtool to ignore certain fonts. For example, this can be used to prevent langtool from highlighting LaTeX in math-mode.