This was a total re-write of Spell Catcher 1.6, from Control Panel to Application + Extension, from THINK Pascal to Metrowerks. This was the first multi-lingual version, and used Proximity Technology's linguistics for both spelling and look up (thesaurus and dictionary definitions).

The "8" referred to the 8 languages that were included, and that it was built with Apple's Mac OS 8 in mind.