Scribens
AI-assisted rewriting, paraphrasing in 20 tones, text summaries and translation sit beside the grammar checker.
Free grammar and spelling checker in more than 40 languages that explains every correction.
- Starting price
- Free tier
- Free trial
- Free tier with up to 8,000 characters per day, with advertising
- Output
- Spelling, grammar and punctuation corrections with an explanation for each, plus paraphrased, summarised or translated text
Overview
Scribens is a grammar and spelling checker from a French company in Montpellier that corrects text in more than 40 languages and explains each mistake it finds. It is aimed at students, professionals, businesses and content creators who want their own writing corrected rather than generated. It runs as a web app and inside office suites, browsers and mobile keyboards. The free edition is funded by advertising and capped per day, while a Premium subscription and a multi-seat business pack raise the limits.
Our take
Pick Scribens if you correct text in French or several European languages and want a free checker that tells you why something is wrong, not only what to change. If your team needs a shared style guide or brand terminology enforced across writers, LanguageTool or Grammarly is the better fit instead. Anyone who would rather not see adverts while proofreading should budget for Premium from the start.
Key Facts
| Category | |
|---|---|
| Starting price | Free tier Premium is sold for one month, three months or one year; a business pack covers several workstations at a volume discount |
| Free trial | Free tier with up to 8,000 characters per day, with advertising |
| Output | Spelling, grammar and punctuation corrections with an explanation for each, plus paraphrased, summarised or translated text |
| API | Yes, an API for adding the checker to a website, with 50,000 free test characters and paid character packs |
| Languages | More than 40 languages |
| Hosting | Cloud (SaaS) |
| Made in | France |
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Placeholders. They are replaced as soon as the vendor sends material, and both open the same short form.
Features
- What it works on
- Text pasted into the web app or checked in place in documents, emails, slides, spreadsheets and web forms; up to 100,000 characters per check on Premium
- Checks covered
- Spelling, grammar, conjugation, agreement, prepositions, homonyms, punctuation and typography, each with an explanation. Premium adds a writing analysis that flags inconsistencies, contradictions, lack of clarity, repetitions, register shifts and long or complex sentences
- Scores and reports
- Text statistics on Premium, covering word and sentence counts, readability and reading time
- AI rewriting
- Yes, paraphrasing in 20 tones (unlimited on Premium), plus AI-assisted text rewriting, summaries and translation at up to 3,000 uses each per month on Premium
- Languages
- Correction in more than 40 languages, on both the free and the Premium edition
- Where it runs
- Web app, extensions for Chrome and Firefox, add-ins for Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel, Google Docs and Google Sheets, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, apps for Windows and macOS, and iOS and Android apps with a correcting keyboard
- Privacy and data handling
- Text is sent over SSL through a web application firewall; the vendor states that no text is stored on its servers or passed to third parties, except that Premium users who turn on the backup function keep recent texts as drafts for 7 days. The publisher is a French company subject to the GDPR
- Teams and sharing
- A business pack runs Premium on several workstations at a volume discount, with employees signing in through one shared email address
- API
- Yes, an API that adds a Scribens correction button to text fields on your own site, billed by characters consumed in packs of 10 million, with 50,000 free characters to test the integration
Integrations
- Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Google Docs
- Google Sheets
- OpenOffice
- LibreOffice
- Windows
- macOS
- iOS
- Android
Deployment and Support
- Deployment
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- Cloud (SaaS)
- Browser-based
- Support
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- Email helpdesk
- Onboarding
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- Documentation and knowledge base
- Company size
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- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Explains every correction with the grammar rule behind it
- Corrects more than 40 languages, also on the free edition
- Runs in Word, Outlook, Google Docs, LibreOffice, browsers and phone keyboards
- Vendor states submitted text is not stored on its servers
Limitations
- Free edition shows adverts and is capped at 8,000 characters a day
- Premium prices are not shown on the public website
- No shared style guide or team terminology described
Pricing
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Free
$0
Up to 8,000 characters per day, with error explanations, dictionaries and advertising.
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Premium
Not stated
Up to 5 million characters per month and 100,000 per check, writing analysis, unlimited paraphrasing, extensions and no advertising. Sold for one month, three months or one year.
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Business pack
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Premium on several workstations, with a discount that grows with the number of seats.
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