FAQ
Short answers first, deeper context after. If something is missing, write to hello@talklint.me.
talklint is an AI-powered writing checker designed specifically for non-native English speakers. It identifies eight categories of issue — articles, tenses, word order, prepositions, collocations, spelling, punctuation, and naturalness — and explains each correction in one sentence written for a learner.
People who write English daily but it is not their first language: engineers, designers, founders, students, anyone who emails in English at work. It is not for monolingual editing teams or marketing teams polishing native writing.
talklint maintains a personal journal of your mistakes grouped by type, so you can see your own patterns over time. Grammarly fixes the current sentence and moves on. talklint also writes explanations for learners (not native editors) and is meaningfully cheaper at $4.99/month vs Grammarly Premium at $12/month.
LanguageTool is a rule-based linguistic engine; talklint is an LLM-backed checker, so it handles naturalness and idiom better. LanguageTool offers more languages today; talklint focuses on English first and explains issues in plain language a learner can use.
English in v1. The architecture supports additional target languages; Spanish, German, and French are on the roadmap once the English experience is dialled in.
No. We never store the text you submit or the AI’s response on our servers. We keep only your anonymous subscription identifier and a daily check counter. Your saved journal entries live on your device. This is enforced by an automated test in our backend that fails the build on any leak.
No. talklint relies on a large language model running on our servers — the corrections cannot be generated entirely on-device. Your saved journal is readable offline, but new checks need a connection.
Every time talklint shows you a correction, you can tap a bookmark to save it. Saved entries land in the Journal tab, grouped by mistake type. The journal lives on your device — never on our servers — so you own your learning history.
Yes. The free tier gives you 5 checks per day with texts up to 100 words and a journal that stores up to 20 saved mistakes. Plenty for a daily email or social post.
Free includes 5 daily checks. Pro is $4.99/month, $39/year (about $3.25/month, saves 35%), or $79 lifetime. Apple and Google process all payments.
Yes. Cancel from your App Store or Play Store subscription settings. You keep Pro until the end of the current billing period. We never bill you again after cancellation.
For grammar checking specifically, yes — talklint is tuned for the task, returns structured output with verified character offsets, and never strays into rewriting your voice the way ChatGPT will. ChatGPT is more flexible if you want to ask follow-up questions; talklint is faster and more reliable for the specific job of catching mistakes.
Yes for grammar, naturalness, and word-choice issues. talklint will not check citation formatting (APA, MLA, Chicago), and it will not catch domain-specific terminology errors a subject-matter editor would. For high-stakes academic work, treat talklint as a first-pass tool, not a final reviewer.