Best Free Online Grammar Checker: Grammarly Review Free Version

About this video

Roberts reviews the free version of Grammarly as an online grammar checker for busy entrepreneurs, fast typists, and others who want to clean up typos and errors without line-by-line editing. He says the free version includes the Chrome browser extension for use on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and email, Grammarly for Microsoft Office (PC only at the time), an online account with cloud storage for manuscripts and other writing, a desktop app he rarely uses, and a mobile app he deleted from his iPhone after about a day because he found it clunky. Free features cover critical grammar and spelling checks and optional performance stats by email comparing the user to other Grammarly users. He contrasts this with Premium, which adds advanced checks for punctuation, grammar, context, and sentence structure, vocabulary enhancement, genre-specific style checks, and a plagiarism detector he says checks more than 16 billion web pages. Premium is sold monthly, quarterly, or annually, with the annual plan offering the biggest price break. He recommends trying free first, and addresses safety concerns by explaining that the browser permission to act on the user’s behalf is for applying accepted fixes in real time.

Key takeaways

• The free version provides critical grammar and spelling checks via a Chrome extension, an online account with cloud storage, and a desktop app.
• Grammarly for Microsoft Office was PC only in this review, and Roberts warns that a change made through the plug-in cannot be undone with Ctrl+Z.
• Roberts found the Grammarly mobile app clunky, disliked its autocorrect, and deleted it from his iPhone after about a day.
• Premium adds advanced punctuation, context, and sentence-structure checks, vocabulary and genre-specific suggestions, and a plagiarism detector Roberts says checks more than 16 billion web pages.
• Roberts advises starting with the free version before upgrading, and notes Premium is available monthly, quarterly, or annually, with the annual plan giving the biggest price break.

Episode details: published March 4, 2019 · 11:35 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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