A Gard alternative that looks past the spelling pass.

Usually because the expensive mistakes weren’t spelling: you need prices, dates and claims verified against a brief or price list; your campaigns ship in sizes and languages that have to agree with each other; or translations need checking against the master copy, not only for language errors. Gard’s own guides leave those comparisons to you.

Everything Gard checks (spelling, grammar and punctuation on images and PDFs, in many languages) plus the context layer: reference comparison, cross-version consistency, and translation checks against a master. Findings should stay pinned to the artwork, like Gard’s.

Both read the text on finished images and PDFs, in the browser and in desktop apps for Mac and Windows. LYNCE treats that text as a claim to verify, not just text to spell-check: every price, date, offer and translation is checked against the brief, the price list and the other versions you scan with it, and every finding carries a severity and a suggested fix.

Yes. The LYNCE desktop apps for Mac and Windows watch the folders you export to: new images and PDFs are picked up automatically, a subfolder’s files can be checked together as one scan, and each folder can carry its own brief. The difference is the last step: Gard scans on save, while LYNCE puts new files in a queue and checks them once you confirm, so nothing is sent or charged without you.

In automated visual proofreading: LYNCE and other image-text checkers. In adjacent spaces: proofing platforms like Filestage or Ziflow (human review workflows with some automated checks) and ad-ops validators (file specs, not content). Which one fits depends on whether you need the errors found for you, or the review routed for you.