Grammarly
Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant that works via browser extension, desktop app, and mobile keyboard. Goes beyond grammar and spelling to suggest tone adjustments, full-sentence rewrites, clarity improvements, and vocabulary enhancements. Pro plan includes plagiarism detection, brand tones, style guides, and 2,000 AI prompts per month. Works inside Gmail, Slack, Google Docs, Word, and most web apps.
Content creators and marketers who write daily, teams needing consistent brand voice across communications, non-native English speakers polishing professional writing, customer support teams maintaining quality standards
Grammarly recently consolidated Premium and Business into a single Pro plan at the old Premium price point. The browser extension is where most value comes from — it follows you everywhere you write. AI suggestions are not always right and can flatten distinctive voice. Best ROI for teams doing high-volume client communication.
Creative writers who find suggestions strip personality, technical writing with domain-specific jargon Grammarly does not recognize, businesses needing full content generation (it assists writing, not replaces it)
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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“I let Grammarly tell me how I'm an uneducated hick that don't speak good”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-09
“I'm more forgiving of stuff like Grammarly, because typos are annoying”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-30
“Grammarly has seriously started rewriting whole paragraphs recently, I have been having to reject more and more”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-30
“A huge problem with Grammarly, made worse by this, is that it becomes the equivalent of Académie Française for English and no further development of the language is permitted”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-17
“I was very happy with Grammarly swapping my dashes to em dashes”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-12
“Grammarly even from the start was very distracting to me even as a someone using english as a second language to communicate”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-09
“I used to struggle with grammar to the point that I had a grammarly subscription”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-26
“getting to the antivirus bundle level of adding pointless features. I want grammarly to... check my grammar. I don't want it to write for me or suggest things.”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-29
“the main advantage of Grammarly was the user experience of having mistakes and suggestions inline and just a click away while editing, as well as the quality of the suggestions”
MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-10-29
“I use Grammarly for finding outright mistakes (spelling and the like, or a misplaced comma or something)”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-16
“Grammarly is an amazing tool for creating written content without a plethora of mistakes, be it spelling, grammar, and structure.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-05
“the single largest feature of Grammarly's Slack plugin that I absolutely loved, and if my work allowed it, I'd have it again”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-07-14
“Refusing 2/3rds of grammarly's suggestions flattens everything to the same style/voice?”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-07-07
“I accepted maybe 1/3 of its suggestions, which is pretty damn good considering my book had already been edited by me dozens of times AND professionally copy-edited. But if I'd have accepted all of Grammarly's changes, the book would have been much worse. Grammarly is great for sniffing out extra words and passive voice.”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-07-07
“I love that Grammarly is integrated into everything, and I don't have to switch to an AI chat for minor text edits.”
POSITIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2025-07-02
“I used to love Grammarly until they essentially ruined their product”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-07-01
“Grammarly's inline use is actually pretty handy (even in this text box, I pause typing for a moment, and there's a Tab prompt that will auto-edit my text live)”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-07-01
“Grammarly certainly worked better for me when it was more dumb, using rules”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-06-21
“my grammarly and gboard predictions have become so, so bad over the last year”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-06-21
“Grammarly has been going downhill since they've been larding it with "AI features," it has become remarkably inconsistent. It will tell me to remove a comma one hour, and then tell me to add it back the next.”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-06-20
“Grammarly thinks I "lack professional communication" based on grammar errors. I'm published in peer reviewed journals and have had technical writing training for nearly 20 years. I think their review process is absolute bullshit.”
NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-19
“janky for me with a resume writing tool that I use, I removed the Grammarly extension and now I cannot redownload it”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Reddit · 2025-05-19
“editing tools like Grammarly (tbh, even MS Word's spell checker), which end up completely changing your prose and trying to make dialogue sound soulless”
NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-19
“Grammarly shows like 300+ corrections in a 6000 words article.”
NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-19
“I have tested out things like Grammarly and it is dreadful. Everything sounds the same.”
NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-18
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