Inclusive language checker
Scan text for outdated or exclusionary terms and get neutral alternatives.
Inclusive language checker
Paste any English text and this tool scans it for words and phrases that are widely considered outdated, gendered or exclusionary, then suggests a neutral replacement for each one. It is built for editors, developers and writers who want a quick pass before publishing a blog post, a job listing, documentation or code comments.
Three categories can be checked independently: gendered terms ("guys", "chairman", "manpower"), technical terminology with a fraught history ("whitelist", "blacklist", "master/slave"), and health- or age-related language ("crazy", "handicapped", "elderly"). The strictness setting controls how far the check goes — lenient shows only the clearest cases, strict also flags mild or context-dependent wording. Add your own term list (one pair per line, "term=>replacement") to catch house-style words the built-in list does not cover.
Choose how the result is shown: a list of findings with the line number, the matched term and an explanation, or the marked-up text itself, where flagged terms are either highlighted with a suggestion inline or swapped for the first suggestion automatically. Turn on "ignore code blocks" to skip fenced and inline code, and "ignore quoted lines" to skip blockquotes and quoted sentences — useful when the text under review includes snippets or citations that should not be edited.
Everything runs locally in your browser using a built-in word list; nothing is uploaded anywhere, so it is safe to check unpublished drafts and internal documents. Copy the result, download it as a .txt file, or send it back into the input to refine the custom term list and run another pass.