Grammarly Review

It works everywhere, and that is the whole product. The extension and the desktop app put the same checker into a browser, a mail client, a document and a text field on a form, so the correction happens where the writing happens rather than in a separate window nobody opens. The free tier catches real mistakes and is genuinely enough for most people.

The paid tier adds tone, clarity rewrites and a plagiarism check, and for anyone writing professionally in a second language it does work that is hard to buy elsewhere at that price. Two things drag on the verdict. The first is a value question. A general model in a browser tab now does most of the rewriting for nothing, so twelve dollars a month buys convenience and reach rather than capability, and reviews that used to be enthusiastic now hedge.

The second is conduct. A feature that attributed its editing suggestions to named subject matter experts drew a class action and was pulled in March after authors and journalists objected, which is the right ending to a thing that should never have shipped. The business tier bundles a mail client and a document tool a writer did not come for. Useful, still, and no longer the obvious purchase.