Text Tools
Free text editors, grammar checkers, OCR and translation tools.
Text Editors
#editors
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Notepad++
Best free text/code editor for Windows. Lightweight and feature-rich.
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Obsidian
Free knowledge management with Markdown. Build your personal wiki.
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Typora
Clean Markdown editor with live preview. Distraction-free writing.
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Zettlr
Academic Markdown editor. Great for research and thesis writing.
Grammar & Writing
#grammar
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Grammarly Free
Grammar, spelling and style suggestions. Best free writing assistant.
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LanguageTool
Open-source grammar and spell checker. 20+ languages. Self-hostable.
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Hemingway App
Check readability and clarity of your writing.
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QuillBot
Paraphrase, summarize and grammar check. Generous free tier.
OCR & Translation
#ocr
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DeepL Free
Best machine translation available. More accurate than Google Translate.
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Google Translate
Supports 100+ languages. Camera/image translation via mobile app.
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LibreTranslate
Free, open-source machine translation API. Self-hostable.
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Google Lens
Free OCR and image-to-text via Google Lens.
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i2OCR
Free online OCR tool. Supports 100+ languages.