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.
🔒 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
- Paste the text you want to check.
- Read the dominant tone and secondary tones.
- 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.
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