Hemingway Editor

Overview Hemingway Editor is the writing tool that has quietly been sitting in the browser tab of serious writers, editors, and communications professionals since 2013, doing one specific job better than any other tool on the market: telling you, in unambiguous colored highlights, that your sentences are too long, your writing is too passive, your vocabulary is unnecessarily complicated, and your paragraphs will lose the reader. Named after Ernest Hemingway's famously spare prose and built by the Long brothers — Adam and Ben — as a side project that turned into a decade plus mainstay, Hemingway Editor is the anti Grammarly. Where Grammarly is thousands of grammar rules and mechanical corrections, Hemingway is a small handful of readability principles applied ruthlessly. Where Grammarly whispers stylistic suggestions, Hemingway shouts at you with red, yellow, blue, green, and purple highlights. What Hemingway Editor actually does, cleanly stated, is score your writing against a readability model, highlight every sentence that is hard to read (yellow) or very hard to read (red), flag every adverb, every passive voice construction, and every phrase with a simpler alternative, and give you a grade level score that maps roughly to what US school year could read the piece comfortably. It is a mirror for prose — not a grammar checker, not a spell checker, not a full editor. And in 2024 2026, Hemingway added a genuinely useful AI layer called AI Fix that will rewrite flagged sentences into cleaner versions on demand, turning the tool from a…