You cannot judge the difficulty of your own writing, because you already know what it means. Highlight a passage and Dock scores how hard it reads and the grade level, then hands back a simpler version in the same field, for the writing that has to be understood on the first pass.
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You cannot judge the difficulty of your own writing, because you already know what it means. Dock gives you a readability score and the reading grade level for the passage, so the vague sense that something is dense becomes a number you can act on. Instead of guessing whether a reader will follow, you can see where the writing sits and whether it matches who you are writing for.
A score on its own only tells you there is a problem. Dock also returns a simplified version of the passage: shorter sentences, plainer words, the jargon unwound, the same meaning made easier to take in. So you do not just learn the writing is too hard, you get the clearer version to use, and the gap between dense and readable closes in one pass instead of several rounds of editing.
Readability matters most when you write for someone who is not you: a help-center article a frustrated customer is reading, instructions a patient has to follow, copy for a wide audience. On those surfaces, writing that is too dense does not just read poorly, it fails its job. Dock works everywhere you type, so it is right there in the CMS and the email where being understood is the point.
The check fits inside writing instead of interrupting it. You highlight the passage on the page you are working on, Dock shows the score and the grade level, and the simplified version is right there to drop in. There is no exporting the text to a separate readability site and pasting it back, so checking how hard your writing reads becomes a quick step, not a detour.
Add Dock to Chrome and check readability right where you write. See the score and grade level, take the simpler version it hands back, all in the same field. Free, in every box you type in, no separate site to paste into.