Analyze My Writing vs Readability Analysis Tool (RAT)

Analyze My Writing is a free web-based analyzer for text content and readability. It counts words, sentences, characters, punctuation, and word or sentence lengths. The service lists common words, two-word and three-word phrases, and a word cloud. Readability results include Gunning Fog, Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG, Coleman-Liau, and Automated Readability indices, plus Fry and Raygor graphs. It calculates lexical density, shows parts of speech and tagged sentences, and highlights words that can indicate passive voice. Cloze tests can remove every nth word, selected words, or a random percentage; selected-word mode requires fewer than 5,000 characters. The Free plan costs nothing, needs no registration, and allows unlimited texts, with length limited by the browser and system. Submitted text is not saved, and no cookies or third-party cookie code are used. Log files may include technical visit details. Users must be at least 18.

Readability Analysis Tool (RAT) checks German text for readability anomalies using configurable rules. It accepts .docx files and marks detected issues as comments in a separate copy with a -rat.docx suffix, leaving the original intact. RAT also creates an HTML report with statistics, readability formulas, anomalies, and a quality gate indicating whether text may be too trivial or difficult. Its documented formulas are Flesch and Wiener Sachtextformel. Report details can include reading and speaking time, sentence and word counts, average word and sentence measures, common parts of speech, and configured keyword percentages. Users can adjust anomaly rules and thresholds; the report records anomalies they reject as false positives or mark as incorporated. RAT runs from the command line using a Java JAR, with configuration and output-directory options. The project lists performance of 40 seconds for 10,000 words, or 50 pages. It runs on Linux and Windows, uses Java, UIMA, and DKPro Core, and is licensed under GPLv3.