Limato

Limato is a paraphrasing tool that rewrites rough English into native phrasing anywhere you type in the browser. A Chrome and Edge extension that rewrites selected text in place, aimed at non-native English writers who want to drop the tells that make their messages sound foreign.

Limato is a browser extension that rewrites selected text in place, with a particular focus on people who write in English as a second language. The premise is narrow and deliberate: grammar checkers correct mistakes, while Limato tries to remove the stylistic tells that make a fluent non-native writer sound foreign. Its Native tone is described as an aggressive rewrite that typically cuts 30 to 50 percent of length, with the company reporting a measured median of 37 percent shorter output across 40 drafts. Long openers, stacked hedges and overly formal phrasing are the patterns it targets. In practice the tool lives inside whatever you already have open. Select text in Gmail, Slack, LinkedIn, Notion, X, GitHub or any editable field on any site, trigger the extension with a hotkey, choose a tone and get the result back without copying anything into a separate tab. Rewrites can replace the original inline or be copied to the clipboard. Seven tones cover native, humanize, formal, casual, simplify, academic and grammar-only modes. A separate feature explains a selected word or phrase in your own language, reading it in context rather than returning a dictionary entry. Translation is folded into the same action. Limato lists 34 target languages, including English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian and Korean, and the native rewrite and translation both work across all of them. The engine is stated as GPT-4o-mini. That combination of rewrite plus translation in one step is the main thing separating it from DeepL Write, which the company positions as single-language polishing, and from Grammarly, which it frames as comma-level correction. Who it suits: freelancers, support staff, sales teams and students sending daily messages in a language they did not grow up with, plus anyone drafting in one language and delivering in another. The free tier allows 20 rewrites per day when signed in and 5 anonymously, and Pro at $5.99 per month or $47.99 per year removes the cap. Standalone checkers and rewriters on the site work without the extension. It is a rewrite layer, not a full document editor, and it will not help with long-form structural editing.