GrammarlyReviews 3,489

I downloaded Grammarly to help me with work, but the second I pressed the download button on my computer I regretted it immediately. Not only is it not helpful and short-handed, it also fills your inbox with thousands of emails about their offers or deals. I even deleted Grammarly and wrote to the company about how mad they're making me. Besides the fact that the emails they send say the same thing, over, and over again, they can't reach out to google docks. This forces me to use the Grammarly Editor, which is completely useless. It says I misspell everything, and corrects it, then it says that its own correction is incorrect! After a few minutes of this, it finally stops correcting and settles for a phrase that doesn't make sense. I am warning you, this app is such a hassle and the emails are so annoying. Please follow my advice and don't get Grammarly. Thank you for your time.

I thought I will try the pro version after trying the free add on. It was advertised that I can do 14 day trial. To my suprise they took the money straight away and not as a normal company would do after 14 days. I thought I will give it a go anyway. The difference between pro and free is... none. Unless my writing skills are so good I don't need it there was no difference between the two. The critical issues showing in free version simply disappeared in pro - even on the same unchanged text... When I approached them for a refund and explanation I got ignored. Do not waste your money, Word will do the same job.

I'm using the free add on version in Firefox. I do freelance copywriting and wanted to check for AP style: it doesn't. It barely checks anything, no style aside from a "tone" indicator (won't tell you how to change tone). It very often misreads the context. In the sentence above "add on version," it wants to change to "add on the version"; if anything it should suggest hyphenating "add on". In a sentence about moles, it couldn't tell "tunnel" was supposed to be a verb, not a noun, and wanted to add an "a" in front of it. If you're writing complex sentence structures, it often makes wrong suggestions. If English is not your first language or you really struggle with grammar, don't use it. It's also annoying! It is quicker than a right-click spellcheck when you hover your mouse over a suggested correction, but it will stay there even as you keep typing, covering what you're writing. I haven't tried the paid version, but the free one is frustrating more often than helpful. The things it is good at are spelling (not verb tense), when to hyphenate or combine into one word, and capitalizing proper nouns.

If you have Microsoft Word or any other software/program and you're not actively writing on the daily, save your money. I paid for a year in advance while I was in school, but failed to read the fine print where my purchase was an automatic subscription. I was recently charged for another year. (YAY! Right around the holidays when I need the funds the most) Despite not using or needing the service, Grammarly will not issue a refund. I miss the days of boxed software where we weren't all sucked into subscriptions and auto-billed... So, here I am, using Grammarly with "passive voice" errors to give "meh" reviews ALLLLL over the internet.

The corrections that Grammarly suggests are largely BS. There are many free programs that do the same for free. If you have Microsoft word, there is no reason for you to get Grammarly. I paid for one month to check it out and apparently I got charged for 3 months because they hid in their terms of service that if you don't cancel your subscription they continue charging you. They spend all their money on advertising and obviously very little on their good for nothing program. Do yourself a favor and do not get scammed.

Working as an RA, I do a considerable amount of academic writing, and Grammarly is a lifesaver when it comes to missed commas and other minor errors; however, there are some cons.

Firstly, It is very pricey compared to similar services. An annual subscription is nearly 139.50 USD, which is absurd.

Secondly, it fails to catch some significant errors. For example:

"If Conan O'Brien meat you, he'd eat you."

On the plus side, my Reddit comments have fewer errors, which means fewer Redditors PMing me death threats and telling me to kill myself, which is nice!