Best Grammar Checkers for Authors

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Dale ranks five spelling and grammar checkers for authors in 2024 from cheapest to most expensive, urging viewers to test before subscribing because rates change. Hemingway Editor, which he found in 2015, is free in the browser and highlights complex sentences, passive voice, adverbs and hard-to-read phrases; its paid desktop app works offline and can publish to WordPress and Medium, while the newer Hemingway Editor Plus, about $10 to $15 per month on the annual plan, adds AI rewrites, with 5,000 AI sentences per month on the 5K plan and 10,000 on the plan about five dollars more. Lingu, formerly Textly, offers multilingual checking, paraphrasing, a GPT-4 AI copilot, a style guide and a content score, works across major browsers, Google Workspace, Word, Outlook and mobile, and its Personal Pro annual plan is $99, about $8.25 per month, with a 7-day free trial. His personal favorite is ProWritingAid, which he uses in Word and the browser for detailed reports on style, grammar, overused words, readability, structure and more; the free plan limits users to 500 words and 10 rephrases per day, and he cites a $399 lifetime license, noting he bought lifetime access in July 2020. Grammarly, he says, supports over 500,000 apps, offers tone suggestions, full-sentence rewrites and custom style guides, with 100 AI prompts on the free plan and 1,000 on Premium. He also mentions Microsoft Word’s Editor, WhiteSmoke at about $10 to $13.33 per month, Ginger at $9.99 to $19.99 per month with translation for over 40 languages, and using free ChatGPT on 1,000 to 2,000 words at a time.

Key takeaways

• ProWritingAid is Dale’s top pick for authors, ahead of the more general-purpose Grammarly, largely because he holds lifetime access.
• Hemingway Editor is the cheapest entry point: free in the browser, with a paid desktop app for offline use and exporting.
• Lingu’s Personal Pro plan is presented at $99 per year, about $8.25 per month, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan.
• Grammarly’s free plan includes 100 AI prompts for rewrites, while Premium raises that to 1,000 and adds tone adjustment and plagiarism checks.
• Free alternatives he notes include Microsoft Word’s built-in Editor and using free ChatGPT on small blocks of about 1,000 to 2,000 words at a time.

Episode details: published June 15, 2024 · 13:00 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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