Are you looking for a tool to help you with your grammers and spelings? Ginger is a free tool that may be able to help. It lets you get both grammar and spelling corrections in all three major browsers, and Microsoft Office.

Ginger lets you get grammar and spelling correction entirely from within your browser. Adding to the standard red underlines for spelling errors, Ginger underlines problems it finds in think green lines. Right-clicking on an underlined word gives you a small popup window telling you what Ginger thinks you should do. For instance, it might advice you to use is instead of am, or add a the to the beginning of a noun.

Unfortunately, Ginger’s app support is less than amazing. It supports Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome, but doesn’t support any of the lesser-known web browsers, and entirely lacks support for any Metro not-Metro app. It does however include support for any modern Microsoft Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint version, enabling you to produce error-free documents and presentations.

Ginger is overall a nice program. It’d of course be nice to have more application support, but even as it is, Ginger offers a wide-enough range of program support, as most people now spend most of their time in their web browser. It’s free, but if you pay them $89 for the Premium version, it’ll create custom quizzes based off of your mistakes, enabling you to actively learn to write better English.

Price: Free!

Version discovered: v2.6.42

Supported OS: Windows

Download size: 11.0MB

VirusTotal malware scan results: 0/42

Portability: Requires installation

Ginger homepage

[via Freeware Genius]