--- title: Build Your OWN Grammarly For Creative Writing! | daily.dev description: A hobbyist describes building a local, self-hosted alternative to Grammarly for creative writing by running Google's Gemma model locally and integrating it... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-own-grammarly-for-creative-writing--v0jth6jyq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Build Your OWN Grammarly For Creative Writing! | daily.dev og:description: A hobbyist describes building a local, self-hosted alternative to Grammarly for creative writing by running Google's Gemma model locally and integrating it... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-own-grammarly-for-creative-writing--v0jth6jyq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v0JTh6jYq.png og:image:alt: Build Your OWN Grammarly For Creative Writing! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Build Your OWN Grammarly For Creative Writing! **[The Serious CTO](https://daily.dev/sources/seriouscto)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hobbyist describes building a local, self-hosted alternative to Grammarly for creative writing by running Google's Gemma model locally and integrating it into Obsidian, a note-taking and text editor. The motivation was avoiding a paid Grammarly subscription. The builder admits the spell-checking capability is weaker than dedicated manuscript software. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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