Nalaprop
Nalaprop is a free macOS text analysis utility that parses multilingual text, marks parts of speech, and builds word frequency lists.
What is Nalaprop?
Nalaprop is a native macOS language-analysis utility for exploring and studying text. It helps users open, paste, or type text and then examine how macOS identifies language, scripts, parts of speech, and word roots. The app is useful for writers, editors, students, language learners, and anyone doing close reading or word-frequency analysis on plain-text documents. It can highlight nouns, verbs, and other grammatical categories with color keys, switch between different analysis views, and generate frequency lists for words or their lemmas. Nalaprop also supports multilingual text and works with the language-analysis features built into modern versions of macOS. Howard Oakley publishes it as a free utility for Mac users who want a lightweight tool for linguistic inspection and concordance-style text exploration.
Key features
- Open plain-text documents or paste text for interactive analysis
- Highlight words by part of speech with color-coded views
- Identify languages and scripts within multilingual text
- Generate word frequency lists from the original words used
- Count words by lemma or stem to group inflected forms together
- Search analyzed text to explore repeated terms in context
- Save generated frequency lists for later use
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Nalaprop is a legitimate Mac utility for analyzing text and does not need unusual system-level access for its normal purpose. It works with text you open or paste into the app, so the main privacy consideration is the content of documents you choose to analyze. If you use it with sensitive writing, keep copies of that material in locations you trust and review what you save or export from the app.
Recommendation: Keep Nalaprop if you use your Mac for writing, editing, language study, or text analysis. If you no longer use its parsing and word-frequency tools, you can remove it without affecting macOS beyond losing the app and any files you created with it.
Common paths
/Applications/Nalaprop.app
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