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Tone checker.
Paste your draft and BRYME estimates its formality from surface signals — connectives, contractions, casual words, exclamation marks and sentence length — so you can match the tone to your reader.
← All toolsPaste a paragraph or a full draft. BRYME estimates how formal it sounds and shows you which signals produced that estimate.
About this tool
How to use the tone checker.
What it does. Estimates whether a piece of writing reads as formal, neutral or conversational, and shows you which signals produced that estimate.
How to use it. Paste a paragraph or a whole draft. Read the band first — Formal, Neutral or Conversational — then look at the signal table to see what is driving it. If the score is higher than you want, add a few contractions and address the reader directly. If it is lower than you want, cut the exclamation marks, replace casual words, and use connectives like however and therefore to join ideas.
Why it matters. Most writing that fails does not fail on grammar; it fails because the register is wrong for the reader. A cover letter that sounds like a text message and an email to a friend that sounds like a contract both misfire. Tone is a deliberate choice, and it is much easier to adjust once you can see it.