TextGears

TextGears combines a web-based writing checker with an API for adding text analysis to other products. It is strongest for teams that need more than grammar correction, including language detection, summaries, and keyword extraction. Its broad API toolset is appealing, but plan quotas and AI’s narrower language coverage matter when choosing it.

Overview

TextGears checks spelling, grammar, style, and readability, and offers style suggestions. Its API adds autocorrection, language detection, summarization, and keyword extraction, making it a more versatile building block for education, HR, content, and advertising services than a correction-only tool. The maker says more than 830 companies use the API, which receives over 10.8 million requests per day.

Developers can send HTTP or HTTPS requests and receive JSON; TextGears also provides a Postman collection and a JavaScript library link. The API clusters are in the United States, Estonia, and Singapore, and customers can choose a cluster. Each has a 99.9% availability guarantee. TextGears says it is GDPR ready and will not share customer data with third parties.

Key features

The API supports 11 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and Greek. Dialect codes include en-US, en-GB, en-ZA, en-AU, en-NZ, fr-FR, de-DE, pt-PT, and pt-BR. That range is useful for multilingual products, but it does not mean every language is covered by TextGears AI. The pricing FAQ recommends standard plans when language breadth matters more than AI analysis quality.

Readability metrics are best used on passages of at least 30 words, since accuracy depends on text size. The maker documents a plugin for adding text checks to web pages, but its current version cannot attach to a textarea element, limiting its usefulness for common form-based workflows.

Technical support is available in English and Russian; TextGears says it answers 96% of requests within 24 hours. That is a useful response target, though support in other languages is not promised.

Pricing

The free plan costs nothing and is billed monthly. It allows 500 requests per month, 200k characters per month, and up to 4k characters per request. That is a practical way to evaluate modest usage, but the monthly request and character caps make it a poor fit for a busy production service.

PRO costs $2.48 a month, billed from $2.48 per month. It includes unlimited checks, translations, and paraphrases of long texts, custom dictionary rules, and an option not to store texts. It suits users who need high-volume text work and those who value the storage option; the stated plan terms do not give a numerical request or character cap.

Silver costs $29.95 a month and includes 50k text-checking requests per month, 20000k translation or rephrasing characters per month, up to 4k characters per request, and a 0% payment fee. Dictionary setup is unavailable, so it is less suitable for teams that need custom vocabulary. Gold costs $99.95 a month and raises the allowance to 500k checking requests and 100000k translation or rephrasing characters per month, with up to 16k characters per request and a 0% payment fee. That larger per-request ceiling matters for longer submissions as well as heavier usage.

Platinum has custom pricing. It is aimed at higher-volume customers needing millions of text-checking requests, individual character quotas and request lengths, 24/7 support, usage statistics, and AI. The free plan and Silver cap requests at 4k characters each; Gold and PRO are the stated options for longer texts, with PRO framed around long-text work.

Platforms

TextGears is available on the web and through an API. This supports direct checking in a browser or integration into a service; the documented web-page plugin’s inability to attach to a textarea is a constraint for developers seeking that particular approach.

Who it's for

TextGears is a good fit for product teams embedding writing checks or text analysis into education, HR, content, or advertising workflows, as well as universities and students needing language and readability checks. It is less compelling for users who need AI analysis across all 11 languages, or for developers who require a textarea-attached plugin.

Pros and cons

• Broad API functions: alongside grammar and spelling checks, it supports autocorrection, readability, language detection, summarization, and keyword extraction.
• Selectable hosting regions: customers can choose among clusters in the United States, Estonia, and Singapore, each with a 99.9% availability guarantee.
• Useful language and dialect coverage: 11 languages and multiple dialect codes support multilingual applications, though AI does not cover every language.
• Meaningful usage ceilings on paid plans: Gold allows up to 16k characters per request, while Free and Silver stop at 4k; higher limits come at a substantial price increase.
• Web plugin limitation: the current plugin cannot attach to a textarea, which rules out a common integration pattern.
• Readability caveat: metrics are recommended for texts of at least 30 words, so short snippets are a poor fit for that analysis.

Alternatives

For a range of other readability tools, browse Readability Checkers; for a broader set focused on grammar, see Grammar checkers.

• Readability Formulas suits readers seeking free readability calculators and its Readability Scoring System across web, macOS, Windows, or an extension.
• ATOS Analyzer is a free web option for passages or books, with a 25,000-character text limit and 10MB maximum upload.
• Eclipse Readability Studio is a free, open-source choice for Linux, macOS, and Windows users.
• ProWritingAid is an extension-based free option for writers, with 500 words per report run and two report runs per day.
• Readability Analysis Tool (RAT) is a free GPLv3 project for Linux and Windows that supports .docx files and German readability rules.
• Analyze My Writing offers free, unlimited web-based text analysis without registration, subject to browser and system text-length limits.
• AnchorKite Readability Checker is a free web checker that needs no signup and can work offline after loading.
• ApyHub Readability Scores Documents API is another API option, with a free Starter plan offering 3,000 atoms per month, one API key, and one team member.

Verdict

Choose TextGears if you need a web checker plus an API that goes beyond corrections into readability, summaries, language detection, and keyword extraction. Its selectable regions and substantial paid-plan quotas strengthen the case for product teams. Look elsewhere if you need AI analysis across all supported languages, a textarea-attached plugin, or a free tier without monthly request caps.