vale-styles vs Openly

vale-styles

Checks for Vale based on popular style guides (by testthedocs)

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Openly

A Vale linter style that aims to replicate Grammarly in an open-source, privacy-friendly way (by testthedocs)

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vale-styles		Openly
	Project
1	Mentions	4
45	Stars	125
-	Growth	0.8%
0.0	Activity	3.3
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Shell	Language	Gherkin
MIT License	License	MIT License

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vale-styles

Posts with mentions or reviews of vale-styles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-19.

Markdown Linting
9 projects | dev.to | 19 Aug 2021

Besides the official Vale style guides Buildkite, Linode, and Write The Docs have rules online that you can copy into your repo or use as inspiration for your own rules.

Openly

Posts with mentions or reviews of Openly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-17.

Writing like a pro with Vale and Neovim
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2022

They don't mention that can write the rules yourself and also pick and choose from existing rules from github.
There is an attempt to build and open source version of grammarly using vale rules here.
https://github.com/testthedocs/Openly
A little grammar help, anyone?
2 projects | /r/technicalwriting | 2 Oct 2021

Check out Openly (https://github.com/testthedocs/Openly) -- it's a "Vale linter style that attempts to emulate some features of the commercial, and closed source, Grammarly."
Markdown Linting
9 projects | dev.to | 19 Aug 2021

Grammarly Clone in Vale
"Stealing" style guide content
2 projects | /r/technicalwriting | 17 Aug 2021

There's even a project of someone trying to simulate Grammarly, although it looks a bit dead right now: https://github.com/testthedocs/Openly

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vale-styles and Openly you can also consider the following projects:

proselint - A linter for prose.

languagetool - Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages

markdownlint - Markdown lint tool

vscode-ltex - LTeX: Grammar/spell checker :mag::heavy_check_mark: for VS Code using LanguageTool with support for LaTeX :mortar_board:, Markdown :pencil:, and others

write-good - Naive linter for English prose

docs - Linode guides and tutorials.

markdownlint - A Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.

vale - :pencil: A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind.

Vale - Compiler for the Vale programming language - http://vale.dev/

alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing