Grammarly

I tried to cancel the subscription before the trial ends but i couldn't find the cancellation link anywhere. Then my card got charged $139.95. I didn't know what to do so i contacted my tech savvy friend and he came across this post from grammarly (picture attached). Somehow he managed to cancel the subscription the same day the charge was posted. I initiated a dispute with the credit card company but grammarly wouldn't refund my money. What an easy trick to steal hard earned money. Specially since this is a service mostly used by students, who easily become prey. If this is not fraud i don't know what is.

This software runs in the background and lets you know if you violated a "rule" of spelling or grammar. It fixes (really corrects, not like an iPhone which occasionally makes a change that you did not want) and lets you know that a change of spelling was made. It underlines a phrase that could be improved and offers suggestions that you have to accept (instead of correct).

I'm not fond of the built-in need for commas in a sequence of three items or more. The hyphenation rules are useful, however.

I opened an account with Grammarly a couple of years ago but found it didn't really suit my somewhat specialised purposes (though I think it's good for most users) and I stopped using it. My subscription renewed automatically last week so I contacted them to say I hadn't intended it to renew and hadn't been using the service for a long time. They had no legal obligation to refund my subscription as the automatic renewal is made clear in their T&Cs but they immediately refunded the money to my paypal account. So overall I was very impressed by their customer service and integrity.

When I have to write an article ASAP, I usually check it through free Grammarly version. Sometimes, it helps with prepositions and missed punctuation or automatically misspelled vocabulary, but it annoys me how it tries to "guess the right words" and it simplifies and distorts what I want to say because I like using slightly unusual vocabulary, especially when writing something creative (but I rarely use archaic words or anachronisms, so it should have known the linguistic meanings I employ). I think Grammarly should be able to discern more idioms and phrasal verbs, and any literary devices. What is funny, it doesn't identify its own name, underlining it in red when I write about it, lol. I must also confess, having read all the negative comments about the Premium version, I'll keep on using only the free one. Sorry, Grammarly, you can be helpful, but you're not so cool as your advertisers say.

Grammarly is accurate and easy to use - I love the simplicity of hover and click, rather than click-right-click-choose-from-drop-downlist-click-again with other spell checkers. Just makes things so much faster, especially for those of us who don't have great typing skills. I've used Grammarly for a while on my personal computer. There is so much bad grammar and spelling on the internet, but if more people used this, it would save a lot of eye-rolling and teeth-gnashing amongst grammar and spelling perfectionists!

The program sometimes missed words that teachers don't. The program is okay to correct grammar mistakes, but as soon as your membership is over, they will charge you again. They will take your money and no refund AT ALL. I am not happy because I did not want my membership to be renewed, and they did it anyway. I honestly just eliminated my account and got charged. For the record, I won't be needing this service At ALL for the next whole year. Nothing that they said will ever help this feeling.

It checks grammar, clarity, etc. It is the only grammar checker I've found that lets you customize your purpose. For example, you can say you were writing a story, email, etc. It can also predict sentences based on what you've written before. If you ever see anything you might want Grammarly to improve, you can give feedback and advice. When it auto-corrects (Which it doesn't do too frequently) you can hover over the word and click 'Change back' if you don't like it. Every week it will send an email of your tones, how productive you were etc. One of my favorite parts is that it uses emojis to detect your tone. (Formal, informal, friendly, optimistic, etc) One of my most useful extensions and I LOVE IT!