• ActivSpell Server Side Spell Checker - Checks the spelling of text boxes on web sites. Spell Check interface purely html/java script, spell checking full server side.
  • AfterScan - Spell-checker and automatic proofing and correction tool. Product overview, FAQs, screenshots, FAQs, and trial download.
  • Alcoda Software - Editors and spell checkers for users and developers, for Windows, Oracle, and InterDev, with multiple language dictionaries, thesaurus and definitions.
  • As-U-Type - Windows 95/98/NT4/2000 program to correct spelling and expand text on the fly. Trialware from Fanix software.
  • AutoSpell - Multiple spelling checker programs for web masters, Windows users, and Active X developers.
  • Björn's Online Spellchecker - A free online spellchecker for several languages.
  • DbNetSpell - A web based spell checker which supports multiple languages and is designed to exploit special features of the Microsoft family of browsers.
  • Design215 - Free web based spell checker. Copy and paste up to 24000 characters. Optional slang word list.
  • Excalibur - LaTeX aware spelling checker for the Macintosh. Free.
  • Fornada Software QuickSpell - Windows 95/98/NT desktop spell checking utility. Shareware.
  • FreeEngl - An open source spell checker developed with a reduced version of the CMU dictionary.
  • GlobalSpellChecker - Check spelling and meaning from any application using MS Word 97 or above.
  • GNU Aspell.Net - Free and open source spell checker. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker.
  • ieSpell - ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage.
  • Isota - Spellchecking software products for end users as well as developers.
  • Ispell - An interactive spell-checking program for Unix. Dictionaries are available for a large number of European languages.
  • JOrtho - Open source spell checker written in Java; it can be bound to any JTextComponent and uses dictionaries based upon Wiktionary.
  • JSpell - An international web based spell checker for Java, JSP, IIS ASP .NET, Cold Fusion, HTML forms and JavaScript.
  • Spell 400 - Adds spell checking to any iSeries or AS/400 applications.
  • Spell Catcher - Multilingual spell checker, thesaurus, dictionary and writing software, with interactive autocorrect, autotext, autoformat and shorthand abbreviations with universal availability across applications, for both Mac and Windows.
  • Spell Check Anywhere - Spell check text typed in any Windows program.
  • Spell Checker for Edit Boxes - Checks the spelling of any edit control in almost any application under Windows 3.1/95/98. Dictionaries available in several languages. Free for private use, shareware for businesses. From Michael Quinion Associates.
  • SpellCheck.net - Free online spell checker, copy and paste a word or document up to 5000 characters to check and correct it online.
  • Spell.Com - Online word and word fragment look up database.
  • Speller Pages - A free, open source web user interface and JavaScript library for a server-side spell check program, available in PHP or Perl/CGI versions.
  • Spellex - Spell checking software for the medical, pharmaceutical, legal, bioscience, dental, and scientific and engineering fields, integrated with Word or WordPerfect.
  • SpellingCow Spell Checker - A web-based spell checker that can be installed on any Internet web form. Add just two lines to install. Free and licensed versions available.
  • Spellink - Multilingual spell-checker software. Check spelling for English, German, French, Spanish in any Windows application. Dictionary: business, science, humanities, medical and technical.
  • Suggester Spell Check - Java library to provide local spell checking service. Free.
  • tinySpell - A free English spell-checker for Windows. Checks word in clipboard and/or on the fly. Small and easy to use. Resides in the system tray.
  • Ultralingua - Grammatica is a multilingual grammar and spelling checker for Windows and Mac OS X.
  • WBOSS (Web Based Open Source Spell Checker) - Perl/JavaScript application that can be used directly from a Web browser. [GNU GPL]
  • Wintertree Software - Linguistic products for software developers: Sentry spell check engine, ThesDB thesaurus engine, dictionaries, grammar checkers. For MFC, ANSI C/C++, Office, VB, Delphi, Java, Web, and ASP.
  • XDE's Spell Checker Server - Spell checking server. Detects and offers suggestions for misspelled words. It may be installed on NT IIS, Unix derivatives such as Linux and Solaris web sites.
  • XMLmind Spell-Checker - A Java spell-checker engine.

  • Checking Out Three Freestanding Spell Checkers - Applelinks.com reviews Excalibur, Spellswell Plus, and Spell Catcher for Macintosh, giving 3, 3, and 5 stars respectively. (January 20, 2000)