Text Tools

Writing Tone Detector

Writing Tone Detector analyses your text and identifies its dominant tone — formal, casual, positive, negative, urgent, confident or neutral. Great for checking whether an email sounds too harsh, a social post is on-brand, or your writing matches the right audience.

Last updated: July 2026

A tone detector reads your text and identifies its dominant tone — formal, casual, positive, negative, urgent, confident or neutral. It analyses word choice, sentence structure and punctuation patterns using a curated linguistic dictionary. All processing happens in your browser with no upload.

Writing Tone DetectorRuns in your browser

🔒 Tone detection runs entirely in your browser using linguistic analysis — no text is uploaded, no AI API is called.

How to use Writing Tone Detector

  1. Paste the text you want to check.
  2. Read the dominant tone and secondary tones.
  3. See a breakdown of tone signals found in your text.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate is tone detection?

It's a rule-based linguistic analyser, not a neural AI model. It's good for catching obvious tone mismatches but may miss subtle irony or context-dependent tone.

What tones does it detect?

Formal, casual, positive, negative, urgent, confident and neutral. Each with a percentage score.

Is my text uploaded?

No — analysis runs entirely in your browser.

Related text tools