Hemingway Editor vs Text Inspector
Hemingway Editor
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| Figure | Hemingway Editor | Text Inspector |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8.33/mo | £9.96/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 10 | 5 |
| Spec score · AI Readability Checkers | 8.1 (#9) | 8.4 (#3) |
| Spec score · Readability Checkers | 8.0 (#11) | 8.3 (#9) |
| Intended users | Hemingway describes Editor Plus as helping teams improve mass communications, internal communications, grants, sales proposals, and other written work. | The maker describes the tool as useful for language professionals, academics and students, including preparing teaching materials, tests and evaluating student work. |
| Purpose | Hemingway Editor scores writing for readability and highlights sentences and issues that can weaken or complicate a message. | Text Inspector analyses English texts and reports difficulty, readability, lexical diversity and CEFR levels. |
| Support | Hemingway directs users who need help to email [email protected]. | The help center explains cancellation through PayPal, subscription-update delays and invoice requests via email. |
Plans
Hemingway Editor
- Individual 5K (annual)$8.33 a month
- Individual 10K (annual)$12.50 a month
- Team 10K (annual)$12.50 a month
- Individual 5K (monthly)$10 a month
- Hemingway Editor 3 desktop$19.99, paid once
- Hemingway Editor Classic$19.99, paid once
- Individual 5K$100 a year
- Individual 10K$150 a year
- Team 10K$150 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
Text Inspector
- FreeFree
- Standard£9.96 a month
- Organisation£59.76 a month
- Developer API£360 a year
- API accessPrice not published
In their own words
Hemingway Editor
Hemingway Editor scores writing for readability and highlights sentences and issues that may weaken or complicate a message. Editor Plus adds rewriting for wordy sentences and passive voice, grammar fixes, and controls for tone, length and style. It also provides document review with writing feedback and suggestions, and supports importing and exporting Word, Markdown and HTML files. The Classic desktop app works offline and keeps writing on the computer; it can publish to WordPress or export HTML and Markdown for a blogging platform or CMS. Hemingway Editor is available on web, macOS and Windows. The free plan is available. Individual 5K annual access costs $8.33 a month, billed as 100 USD annually, and includes 5,000 AI sentences per month. Hemingway Editor 3 desktop costs $19.99, paid once and does not include new AI features. Hemingway says document content is discarded after processing and is not used to train AI models. For analysis or rewriting, content is sent through Hemingway to an LLM provider, currently OpenAI, Google or Anthropic, and then discarded. Editor Plus does not yet have SOC 2 or ISO certification.
Text Inspector
Text Inspector analyses English text for difficulty, readability, lexical diversity, and CEFR levels. Its overall difficulty score draws on more than 200 metrics, while the CEFR Level Checker gives individual words a level along with their commonness and difficulty. Listed tools include Statistics and Readability, Lexical Diversity, Scorecard, Tagger, EVP, BNC, COCA, Academic Word List and Phrases, Knowledge-Based Vocabulary Lists, and Metadiscourse Markers. An API lets people and organisations add analysis and scoring to their own products. The maker describes it as useful to language professionals, academics, and students preparing teaching materials or tests and evaluating student work. English is fully supported; other languages may receive limited statistics or lexical-diversity information. The Free plan covers 250 words and automatically deletes analysis data after six hours. The Organisation plan allows up to 13,000 words, the largest stated limit. A 30-day trial is listed for API access, which starts from £360 per year.