I learn a lot using ProWritingAid (even though I don’t listen religiously to its suggestions), often pointing out things I was confident were fine in my text and forcing me to reconsider what I wanted to say and how to say it. It lacks a dark theme, which is something that’d help a lot with my poor eyesight. I use a mix of WordWeb, Microsoft Office, Antidote and ProWritingAid.Īs a replacement for the Dictionary, WordWeb is great and gives Windows this super-fast-everywhere access to definitions. Many dictionaries are freely available online too. ProWritingAid only offers a trial version. If you don’t want to spend any money, Grammarly offers a free online version… it’s severely limited but useable. Antidote is a standalone app, not just a plugin.BTW, if you already own Antidote for Mac, you should also own a license for the Windows version. Grammarly and ProWritingAid are subscription based.Not Antidote that fully works offline-Antidote now offers an optional online version too. Grammarly and ProWritingAid need to send your text to their online servers to do their work.Grammarly and ProWritingAid are only available for English.If you’re looking for English-only grammar and spellcheckers, there is also ProWritingAid or Grammarly. The main differences between those apps are: Multiple dictionaries: definitions, synonyms, antonyms, history, conjugations, and so on.Next to the already mentioned WordWeb, an app like Antidote is available for French and/or English, and offers a lot for its price: Third-party spellcheckers and dictionaries You can also install add-ins to Word to get direct access to Wikipedia and Bing translation in a side panel. But, beside basic grammar, they still aren’t that good for fiction/creative work, imo. If you haven’t tested them in a long time, they’ve drastically improved. Microsoft Word comes with a French and an English dictionary, a grammar and a spellchecker (probably for other languages too). It works very much like the Mac dictionary: Ctrl+click a word to get its definition (English only), no matter where you use it. The best solution I’ve found to get a quick definition anywhere in Windows and in almost any app, is WordWeb. Windows itself doesn’t have a dictionary at all (Edge and Office have their own dictionary/translation modules, though). But there are workarounds, using some nice apps. TL DR: There is nothing like the Dictionary app for Windows. The Mac Dictionary, with a partial list of dictionaries. Add to that a tight integration to macOS-you can invoke it from almost any app containing text, with a gesture or a right-click on a word-it’s hard not to love this app. You can use it as a front-end to search Wikipedia. It comes with an integrated French-English dictionary, and others I don’t use. It includes English, French, German dictionaries, and a few others. It’s also one of the most underestimated. As a writer, Dictionary is one of my favorite apps under macOS.
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