remark-lint
plugins to check (lint) markdown code style (by remarkjs)
vale
:pencil: A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind. (by errata-ai)

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remark-lint | vale | |
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3 | 52 | |
989 | 4,884 | |
1.4% | 1.4% | |
8.9 | 8.8 | |
3 months ago | 21 days ago | |
JavaScript | Go | |
MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
remark-lint
Posts with mentions or reviews of remark-lint.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-09.
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How do you use a Style Guide?
we first looked into Vale but are moving to Remark Lint. Both have VS Code extensions so you can have it prompt you as you work.
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Why I'm writing a blog every week this year and why you should write more too!
I want to just give a shout out to Remark which is a linter for your READMEs which makes so much sense to me. Our code should be of a consistent standard, so why not the READMEs too!
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How to create a custom lint rule for Markdown and MDX using remark and ESLint
With our dependencies all installed, we can start creating a .remarkrc.js, which will contain all the plugins that will be consumed by the remark processor. For details about alternative or advanced configurations, please refer to Configuring remark-lint.
vale
Posts with mentions or reviews of vale.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-01.
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Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman in AI platform push
For a more-classic, more-human experience (i.e., computer flags potential issues, you decide and correct if necessary) there are proselint and vale.sh.
https://github.com/amperser/proselint
https://vale.sh/
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Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
Surprised coming into this that I don't see anyone mentioning vale[0]. I've been using it for ~4 years now and love it.
I use grammarly briefly when it came out and liked the idea. Admittedly it has more polish than vale for people writing in google docs, &c. Still, I stick with Vale. Is there any case for moving to Harper?
[0] https://vale.sh/
- Vale: A markup-aware linter for prose
- Three shell scripts to improve your writing
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Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
In the same space, I recommend checking out the Vale linter. Fairly powerful and open source, too. And doesn't rely on a backend.
https://vale.sh
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FIXME Please: An Exercise in TODO Linters
Vale is a code prose checker. It takes a more opinionated approach to editorial style, and thus can require lots of tuning, but it is very extensible. Let’s have it check for TODOs. Run trunk check enable vale to get started.
- Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook [pdf]
- Grammarly editor writing service are malfunctioning
- Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose
- Ask HN: Best tool to proof-read technical documentation?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing remark-lint and vale you can also consider the following projects:
remark-react - Deprecated plugin to transform to React — please use `remark-rehype` and `rehype-react` instead
markdownlint - Markdown lint tool
vscode-markdownlint - Markdown linting and style checking for Visual Studio Code
write-good - Naive linter for English prose
remark-html - plugin to add support for serializing HTML
lsp-grammarly - lsp-mode ❤️ grammarly

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