Add Spell Checking to Desktop App

[Donald_Sipe]

The Airtable Electron app—like many others, but not all (see Slite’s app)—lacks support for checking spelling errors as you type. Look, I’m gunna level with you… I suck at spelling. But, I’d rather not have everyone else know it. If you could add spell check support you’d be doing me a solid. Thanks!

[Rodney_Sammut]

Anyone from airtable going to comment on this? Is this something that is being considered. I use the airtable desktop app to input product reviews and online content and have to copy paste everything out into Microsoft word to do a spell check, highly inefficient but necessary as spelling mistakes do happen!

[Morgan_Ramey]

Please add a spell check feature!!!

[ScottWorld]

Just a reminder that you can use the web version of Airtable to get spell check from your web browser’s spell check capability. And the web version has all the same features as the desktop version.

[Adrian_Dorringt]

I think I’ll switch back to using Safari for now, rather than the App, so I can get spelling check back.

[Keenan_Mock]

The suggestions here, while helpful, are not solutions, but workarounds for the issue: Lack of spellcheck within the Airtable app.

I’d like to add my name to the list of those who would find native spellchecking beneficial.

[itoldusoandso]

Have done some research and here are some findings…

Spellcheck - Github Airtable-Spellcheck app - anybody tried? Apps

I know this question was asked here earlier and yes I can use browser spellcheck. It was asked here… and here… and here about Grammaly… I found Grammarly works for me fine, no problems, I see underlined, click, get menu and select to replace… I use Opera browser so maybe try that. For Grammarly to work you need to expand the specific text field cell. I also tried another option called Sapling Grammar and they also work with Airtable. It underlines the spellcheck issues but to use the…

[Donald_Sipe]

I found a workaround to this, but it’s not simple. There is a project on GitHub called Nativefier which you can use to create apps for any website. Once you install nativefier, you can create your own AirTable app which will have spell check enabled by default.

To run nativefier on an M1 Mac the command is:

nativefier --arch "arm64" -i '/path/to/airtable/icon.icns' https://airtable.com

[itoldusoandso]

What spellcheck does it use, is there Chrome spell check included?

[Shaya_B]

Any actual resolution here? Airtable MUST get their act together on this. The app should have a spell checker feature already. We are in 2022…

[Yvo_Gerard_Drie]

OK, I can see spell checking at work nowadays in Airtable v1.5.3 deskop version on M$Windows (11).
But can I also turn this feature off, since typing in another language than English causes lots of inappropriate red underlining ? (While otoh all of Windows and of Airtable itself should preferably remain in_English.)