Portable tinySpell+ 1.9.61

A tiny spell checker that works with any Windows application

Portable tinySpell is a lightweight educational utility that notifies you whenever you misspell a word. It covers all word processing applications and integrates many customization preferences.

Since installation is not a prerequisite, you can drop the program files anywhere on the hard drive and run the executable immediately. Otherwise, you can save tinySpell to a USB flask disk or similar storage unit to run it on any workstation without prior installers. More importantly, no entries are added to the Windows Registry, Start menu or anywhere else on the hard drive.

At initialization, tinySpell creates an icon in the system tray area and its status immediately becomes active. Henceforth, you can open any word processing tool and write text. When a misspelled word is detected by tinySpell, it beeps and displays the respective entry in a red font just above the original word.

By triggering some keyboard shortcuts (which can be reconfigured to your preferences), you can open a replacement list and access web information (the search, dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia modules on Merriam-Webster.com).

As far as customization goes, tinySpell can be scheduled to run at every system startup and offers the possibility of adding words to the dictionary and inserting replacements in the document. Plus, you can change the beeping sound from default to a custom file (WAV format) or disable it, increase and emphasize the spelling tip label and change the text color, create a list with text-based applications to ignore, as well as disable the tool from checking Clipboard text, to name tinySpell's notable settings.

The program has a minimal impact on the system performance, so it doesn't interrupt user activity. It quickly identifies misspelled words and includes a help file. We have encountered one minor issue throughout our evaluation, as the default beep sound did not work. On top of that, tinySpell offers support only for American English and does not feature language pack imports.