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Hemingway Editor Review: The Free Writing App For Smooth Flow

Writing Apps are digital aids meant to improve your writing. These apps provide sentence suggestions, grammar checks, formatting help. A freelance writer dealing with multiple projects uses these apps to speed up the editing process. This Hemingway Editor review is for those who don’t know which writing app would suit them.

Hemingway Editor Review: The Free Online Editor

There is no confusion as to which famous American novelist- Ernest Hemingway- the software is a namesake to.

There is an easy-to-use online editing version and a desktop app. The desktop version needs you to make a one-time $19.99 payment. It comes with a wider range of benefits, from direct publishing options to offline mode.

Surprisingly, the online interface covers the main range of editing help you could possibly need. If you can afford the desktop version, do so. If you can’t, there’s not much lost as long as you have the basics of writing right.

How Does The Hemingway Editor Work?

The minimalist interface of the Hemingway Editor doesn’t pay attention to anything but writing. You can directly type onto the text box or copy-paste your previously written piece. There is a write mode and an edit mode.

The write mode comes with no distraction on screen. The edit mode points out your tiny mistakes. Then, you follow the editor’s instruction to do some magic.

1. Color-Coded System

Once you start typing, you will notice the editor highlighting a couple of texts (unless your writing is perfect).

  • The blue is for the use of adverbs. Depending on the word count, the editor would give you a frame of how many adverbs you should keep.
  • Yellow is for exponentially complex sentences. Breaking it up helps the writing flow smoothly.
  • Purple is for a suggestion of simpler words. We found this one a bit faulty since it doubles down from simple to 3-year-old reading word usage.
  • Green is for passive voice. Remember, all writing classes would encourage you to write in active sentences whenever possible.
  • Red is for lengthy and complex sentences. Lengthy sentences don’t always mean bad. However, someone reading them should not have to read a passage twice.

These are merely suggestions. If you think a word choice or a sentence is better the way it is, then keep it that way.

2. Scoring System

The readability scoring system of Hemingway can be confusing. Readability is defined by Grade 1 to 11. While you might think Grade 11 would be a good score, it actually means your writing is particularly difficult for people to read. The work can only be read by those who have attended Grade 11.

The lower your Grade score is, the more digestible it is for internet users. Hemingway’s own writing usually scores from 4 to 6 on the editor. You should aim for a Grade 5 to 6 score to maintain the balance between extremely simplicity and creativity.

3. Formatting

Formatting is a huge part of how your content is accepted by readers. Depending on what you’re writing, try to use headings, bullets, links, and quotes. A reader short on time can skim through the main points of your content this way.

The editor also lists the total reading time, paragraphs, word count, and sentences. It’s like Google Docs except you can’t save the content on the editor.

Hemingway App Alternatives

If you used the writing app and didn’t like it. Here are some alternatives:

  1. ProWritingAid
  2. Grammarly
  3. WritingAssistant

However, none of them offer the free benefits like Hemingway’s.

Final Thoughts

This Hemingway Editor review was written on the editor. That’s how useful the app is for any beginner writer. While the editor points you in the right direction, the ultimate choices are still left to you. The app does not edit for you.

In the end, machine-based apps can’t understand human complexity. It’s always better to use them as what they are- writing aids – instead of the ultimate solution.

 

Writer : Oishi Dasgupta

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