Software for the readabiity of texts
TextQuest/Refo is available as a desktop application for Windows and MacOS. Different licences are available depending on the application.
TextQuest analyses a text with one or more readability formulas. These have been developed for various:
- Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Afrikaans, Turkish, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian.
- Readers: children, young people, adults, foreign learners, soldiers, patients.
- Text types: fictional, non-fictional, technical manuals, school books, children's books
The results depend on the particular formula:
- Index value: it is usually between 0 and 100, the higher the value, the more comprehensible the text.
- Reading age: shows the minimum age required for text comprehension.
- Reading level: the minimum grade in the US school system required for text comprehension.
TextQuest shows the results in another window and informs about the interpretation of the results. These can be processed further via the clipboard.
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Startup screen 
Selection of languages 
Selection of recipients 
Results 
Vocabulary sorted by alphabet ascending 
Vocabulary sorted by alphabet descending 
Words with 7 or more letters 
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