vale
:pencil: A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind. (by vale-cli)
remark-lint
plugins to check (lint) markdown code style (by remarkjs)
| vale | remark-lint | |
|---|---|---|
| 58 | 3 | |
| 5,453 | 1,037 | |
| 1.8% | 0.9% | |
| 7.8 | 6.1 | |
| 2 days ago | 5 months ago | |
| Go | JavaScript | |
| 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.
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 2026-03-27.
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Treating blog posts like production code
vale for writing style.
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Vim + Markdown = Writer's Heaven
Vale is a command-line tool that brings code-like linting to prose. It is not a grammar checker. You can find it here.
- CLI tool for deterministic validation of LLM output
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Practical linting for agent context files
This can be accomplished in your own scripting, but here you may want to consider other tooling meant for validating against prose like Vale
- Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup
- Vale CLI
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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
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vale and remark-lint you can also consider the following projects:
proselint - A linter for prose.
markdownlint - A Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.
languagetool - Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages
vscode-markdownlint - Markdown linting and style checking for Visual Studio Code
markdownlint - Markdown lint tool
eslint-mdx - ESLint Parser/Plugin for MDX