Plumb
A writing style checker for Microsoft Word
Plumb scores every sentence of your document against the style you are aiming for, colours the ones that drift, and suggests rewrites that keep your facts.
Ten built in, from academic and business to legal drafting, Gothic fiction and plain language — or one you built from your own writing.
Every sentence or paragraph gets a score from 0 to 100 and a colour in your document, so the weak ones stand out on the page.
Pick a sentence and Plumb suggests two rewrites in the target style, each scored the same way as your document.
Each score answers one question: how closely does this read like that style? A sentence can be close to several at once, and you see the three nearest. Two of the ten are rule sets, scored by the rules they keep.
“The results were kind of surprising, honestly.”
Score line by line to find the sentence that breaks the tone, or by paragraph to judge a passage as a reader would.
Pick a sentence and Plumb rewrites it in the style you are aiming for. The register changes; the suggestions are written to keep what your sentence says, and every name in it. Each one is scored the same way as your document, so you see how much closer it reads before you accept it.
The results were kind of surprising, honestly.
The findings produced a degree of surprise.
Love the way a favourite author writes? Give Plumb their book, or your best reports, or your house style's examples, as a Word document, a PDF or a plain-text file. It learns how that writing reads, then scores your sentences against it and, with Plumb Plus, suggests rewrites in that voice. The learning and the scoring happen on your device.
The old house at the end of our street has been empty for years.
The decrepit house at the end of our thoroughfare has, for countless years, stood abandoned, its shadows whispering secrets of decay.
Describe the rules — "no weasel words", "under 30 words a sentence" — and Plumb gives every sentence a rule compliance. With Plumb Plus, it drafts the rule set from your description, and writes its suggestions to obey the rules.
Due to the fact that the redesign is significantly better, it should result in higher sales.
Rule compliance 20%
Scoring runs on your own device. No account, no upload, no server reading your document. Text leaves it only when you ask for a rewrite or a rule draft, and goes to OpenAI — through Plumb's service with Plumb Plus, which keeps none of it. What is sent.
Everything Plumb checks, for good.
€5 a month, or €50 a year — two months free.
Rewrites without the setup.
Not on sale yet. It will be sold on these terms.
Plumb is not yet in Microsoft's add-in store. Until it is, you add it to Word yourself from one file — it takes a minute.
You need: Word 2021 or later, or Microsoft 365, on Windows; Word for Mac 15.32 or later; or Word on the web. The first time it opens, Plumb downloads its language model (about 35 MB), once.
plumb.xml.plumb.xml in a folder and share it on your network (a \\computer\share path, not C:\…).On a Mac, use Word on the web for now: these steps have not yet been tried in Word for Mac.
Stuck? See Support.