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Spell Catcher is the modern-day descendant of a spell-checking app from ancient times (as a Desk Accessory called Thunder, from 1985), now with powerful, system-wide spell-checking and text-expanding features.
By default, this muscular app tracks every word you type on your Mac, across every application, and provides you with much more than the live visual feedback you get in separate apps with built-in spell-checking. Spell Catcher can give you automatic typo fixing, spoken alerts (for example, pointing out repeated words, or curious spellings with a quick "Curious!"), instant access to the dictionary and thesaurus (with support for multiple dictionaries and online sources), and serious text-expansion capabilities that let you set up an extensive "shorthand glossary" for frequently used words, phrases, or even multipage documents. Spell Catcher also includes a "Ghostwriter" feature, which can be a life-saver in the event of a crashed app or lost doc: it records all your keystrokes and saves those to a text file, which you can recover later.
For the most part, Spell Catcher runs invisibly in the background, but you can invoke its features directly through the app, using keyboard shortcuts, or through the Dock, Input, or Services menus. The initial setup for Spell Catcher can be time-consuming, getting its settings to match your preferred work flow and habits, but this app has excellent documentation, active forums, and a responsive developer. Note: now that Spell Catcher has been fully updated for Snow Leopard, version 10.3.4 is the last to support Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger).
Publisher's Description
From Rainmaker Research:
Spell Catcher X is the powerful writing tool preferred by educators, students, writers, bloggers - anyone who writes on their Macintosh. It's the all-in-one writing solution for those who need standardized custom dictionaries for use in all their applications, those that write in multiple languages, and anyone that simply wants to be a faster, more effective writer. Use it in Mac OS X applications such as email, web browsers, instant messaging, Microsoft Word and other word processors, graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop, video and movie programs, databases, and spreadsheets.
What's new in this version:
New
- Includes a Quick Look generator, supporting previews of Learned Words, Omitted Words, Shorthand Glossary, Dictionary Server, and Modify Selection Macro documents.
Enhanced
- Better handling of soft hyphen characters (Unicode SOFT HYPHEN U+00AD) during Spell Checking.
- Improved compatibility with Spell Catcher’s input methods and Google Chrome.
Fixed
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All versions:
4.1 starsout of 66 votes
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Current version:
4.8 starsout of 6 votes
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"Invaluable for anyone who writes."
Version: Spell Catcher X 10.3.7
Pros
Works smoothly in the background, easily configurable, unobtrusive
Cons
Sometimes a bit too zealous in checking things.
Summary
I would recommend this application to anyone who writes on the Web.
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"Swiss Army Knife for writers"
Version: Spell Catcher X 10.3.7
Pros
A real Swiss Army Knife - does spelling, auto fill, remembers what you typed in case of program crash and much more. A must for any serious writer.
Cons
Does so much it takes a while to learn and get fine tuned to do exactly what you want.
Summary
If you write much on a computer, it's a "must have" tool.
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"The best and most full featured spell checker."
Version: Spell Catcher X 10.3.7
Pros
The best and most full featured spell checker. It works with just about any app. It lets me keep typing even after I have made an error. I can then go back and accept the change and it will fix a word several words back in my sentence.
Cons
Nags me a little too much ;-)
Summary
The best spell checker available for nearly all apps.
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"A truly excellent product"
Version: Spell Catcher X 10.3.7
Pros
Works in any application. Has an abbreviation expander, ghost writer for capturing text you write and can retrieve should something go wrong etc etc.
Cons
The only annoying thing is sometimes spell catchers input disappears and you have to reactivate.
Summary
For anyone that writes a lot, say in a Word Processor, on the web or wherever, it is indispensable.
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"Absolutely indispensable!"
Version: Spell Catcher X 10.3.7
Pros
Works well with Mac OS X 10.6
Always active behind the scenes
Comes with a top notch dictionary and Thesauarus and can make use of online resources if connected as well.
Can be modified for optimal use in different applicationsCons
Can't think of anything.
Summary
I have used this since it first came out with the Mac Classic OS. I knew Evan Gross back in the days of the Toronto Macintosh Users group when he gave presentations on the projects he was working on including this one. The guy is sheer genius and my thought is that he has gotten SCX to work so well that Apple would be dumb not to approach Evan to work for Apple and build his knowledge into the next iteration of the Mac OS.
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"I have used this program for years."
Version: Spell Catcher X 10.3.7
Pros
Great Program, I have never found any problems using it for our monthly newsletter.
Cons
Cannot think of any!
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