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>https://languagetool.org for sure. Europe-based, can host your own server. Plus, it's the only one that doesn't seem to eat my Mac's battery.
>Some (might be all, actually?) parts are open source as well.
I was pretty impressed with languagetool and set up my own server (as I'm not interested in sharing with random strangers).
I used it for a while (local server, Firefox addon), but haven't used it for a while.
Yesterday I noted that the Firefox addon was chewing a goodly portion of CPU (perhaps because the local server is down?).
As such, I removed the addon and won't be going back -- not because languagetool is bad, it works quite well actually -- but because it didn't add enough value to me (note that only applies to me) to make the CPU load worthwhile.
That said, I heartily recommend self-hosted implementations of languagetool!
For developers who already have Docker running on their machine. I can strongly recommend running it locally with e.g. Docker Compose.
Safes effort with maintaining an installation and keeping the background process running. Plus, it also works when network connectivity drops.
https://github.com/Erikvl87/docker-languagetool/blob/master/...