Gorby

Gorby is a privacy-focused text analyzer and editor: it quietly tracks readability and flags complex sentences, passive voice, clichés, redundancy, overused words and article misuse while you write — giving you the insights and then stepping out of your way, rather than rewriting your sentences like a certain green-button overlord. Analysis runs locally in the browser, with readability scores, sentence-level analysis, keyword insights, focus mode, AI-assisted editing, text tags, writing goals and reports. Desktop app available; $12-59 plans.

"Privacy-first" is a real differentiator here — lawyers, medical writers and anyone under confidentiality constraints can't paste their text into cloud analyzers, and local analysis solves that.

Who it's for: professionals editing sensitive documents who want quality feedback without uploads, writers who find inline AI rewriting disruptive rather than helpful, and non-native English speakers working on article usage and sentence complexity. The quiet-assist design respects a truth most writing tools miss: the point is to make you a better writer, not to make you a prompt operator.