GrammarlyReviews 3,489

Grammarly is a really helpful app. I really love it, and it has really improved my spelling and portrayal skills in writing. I think Grammarly is really great, but I have two cons. First of all, I feel like Grammarly helps my spelling skills more than helping my tendency to plagiarize text. I wish that was balanced out. One more con I have is that I really don't want to buy Grammarly Premium, but I feel like there are SO many more helpful suggestions with Premium. I wish I could do more on Grammarly without having to buy Premium. Overall, I really love Grammarly, but I think that there could be some edits.

I have been testing Free Grammarly for about a week now, primarily with previously-proofed manuscript chapters. I wanted to see if it was worth the investment. However, I have found significant flaws, and more than one outright deception.
Without upgrading, the preferences for creative writing are locked, which means that colloquial dialog is constantly flagged. The algorithm appears to be comma-crazy too. Commas everywhere, and my editor agrees this is nonsense.
But let's discuss that Premium grammar checker.
I stumbled onto this by accident when Grammarly decided to promote their Premium fixes on one of my chapters. (By the way, the 'promotion' brought my $1400 laptop to a crawl.) First thing it did was flag every quotation mark. Every one of them. 88!
I thought this was a font issue and changed it but to no avail. I thought indentations might work, but Grammarly doesn't indent and the Premium flags indentation. Not convenient.
The most insidious discovery was how Grammarly hides some of the free feature fixes from me and reserves them for Premium, such as extra commas, commas a professional publishing editor said were unnecessary. I discovered this by fiddling around on the page promoting the Premium and watching the number of fixes rise or drop depending on what I did. Should I pay $25 a month for fixes my editor would delete?
The final thing I did was to paste in Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby. Grammarly only found 41 grammatical errors ("To-day", for instance, which still flags as an error on their 'web checker'. I shall uninstall it in a few minutes).
Now, if ol' Scott Fitzgerald would only upgrade to Premium they offer an additional 81 fixes that will make his story-telling shine!
This product is most-deservingly NOT recommended.

All my life, I have been looking for help in my spelling and layout and trying to make sense in my communications, especially in these current days when this is so important, and being from a generation in stopping and referring to a dictionary. But, oh no more, Grammarly is the answer to mine nasd the World's dreams.
So when my Assessor advised me about Grammarly, I never looked back. The product is truly superb, not cheap. Still, the old saying is you pay for what you get, and this is a professional and well-thought-out tool and cannot recommend it enough; and has been commented about my new style of writing and is noticeable in so many ways and not just spelling. Still, it puts a whole new meaning in what I am trying to get across!
The after-sales and customer service is second to none, truly superb and cannot do enough to make you happy!
WELL DONE!

I haven't heard of this free service before until I asked my classmate. She always checks papers here. I do not worry about my grammar mistakes anymore.