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Grammarly has a rating of 4.2 stars from 3,491 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Grammarly most frequently mention free version, great tool and sentence structure. Grammarly ranks 4th among Tutor sites.
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.
Amazing but
You know I'm in school so it helps me a lot but sometimes it doesn't work but it is like the best app ever thank you so much Grammarly I love your app a lot thx
As a technical article writer and not a native English speaker, Grammarly helps me take my writing to a higher level.
Proper grammar is so important. Grammarly works wonders. I recommend everyone have Grammarly. It is an easy fix to grammatical errors.
I have experienced one month premium version of Grammarly and found it amazing for academic writing, editing and refinement of text.
It simply doesn't understand the context. 3/4 of its suggestions or corrections makes no sense and its so expensive. Scam scam!
I am really happy to use Grammarly since it helped a lot when I needed to do some projects and stuff.
The team refunded me a membership renewal and made sure I was catered to. The platform itself is great. I recommend.
Great but all the "premium users only" stuff really bugs me.
PLUS I heard google does automatically does everything basic does.
Work as it should, got me when I was typing my school work and helped me to express the sentences correctly.
Uh. So bad was just plain annoying sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Do not waste your money
On this.
It helps me come up with better-written outputs as it notifies me immediately of my lapses and provides alternatives while writing.
Your corrections for my grammar is a big success! It's great! Thanks so much! Your comments help me improve a lot!
It's awesome and will recommend every writer/blogger to have it, it will help them a lot in avoiding errors when writing.
Very stupidly bad so stupid one! Like make thing就 want money! So no brain one! At lease have free trial, please
Amazing how much time one can gain by using this software and how it can help improve the quality of writing!
Never have I been able to express my thoughts so clearly and explicitly till I start using Grammarly. Thank you, Grammarly
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