Grammarly vs ProWritingAid: Best Grammar Checking App 2020

About this video

Dale compares Grammarly and ProWritingAid, disclosing upfront that he earns affiliate commissions on both. On pricing as he reports it: Grammarly Premium runs about $11.66/month billed annually (about $139.92/year) and its business tier about $150/year; ProWritingAid Premium is $79/year and Premium Plus $89/year, the latter adding 50 plagiarism checks a year, whereas he says Grammarly’s plagiarism checks are unlimited. Free tiers differ sharply: Grammarly’s free checker has no comparable word cap, while ProWritingAid’s free version analyses only 500 words at a time, offers 19 writing reports and works online only. He gives Grammarly the edge on word limits, device coverage (including its phone app) and a less overwhelming interface, and ProWritingAid the edge on granular style and style reports — he notes fiction authors often swear by it — plus wider integrations including Scrivener. Cons for both: the free versions are teasers that push upgrades for serious editing, and browser extensions can be glitchy; he recounts ProWritingAid’s extension once pasting jumbled text into a page. Rather than declaring a winner, he asks viewers to trial both through his links and decide in the comments.

Key takeaways

• ProWritingAid is cheaper ($79/yr vs ~$140/yr as reported) with deeper, more granular reports
• Grammarly’s free tier is less limited; ProWritingAid free caps analysis at 500 words
• Fiction writers may prefer ProWritingAid; simplicity favours Grammarly
• Both free versions are teasers — serious editing requires paying
• Trial both before committing; feature overload is a real cost

Episode details: published June 24, 2020 · 8:51 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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