Grammarly: AI Writing Assistant and Grammar Checker App

Intrusive, obnoxious, inaccurate, and unhelpful. Not quite sure why I tried it, nor why I ever thought it would be anything more than it turned out to be. Cannot point to a single instance of it being in any way even remotely helpful. 1 star because zero stars is not an option.

it flagged my girlfriend's real human written content, which she spent 2 HOURS on, as AI slop. FIX YOUR DAMN APP

it's good but to much i almost got fired from my new job and everything because of this never again everyone hated me bcs of this app like I'm nice and it typed out some bad and mean things for my family friends my job i had to get over 20 jobs bcs of grammar so i don't use it anymore when i found out it was bcs of grammar i tried to sue them i mean they even made one of my family members take their life almost I'm done when i tried to sue they denied it still trying to i have so many hospital fees now they said some harmful things that i didn't really look at until i saw what i sent to them so i cried for weeks about that i mean my family never use Grammer unless you don't really love your family and friends

Will ignore anything you say not to correct; will ignore if you don't want a-in-between-every-dang-word. AND IF YOU TELL IT TO STOP CORRECTING A BRAND NAME OR A HUMAN NAME IT WONT EVER EVEN IF YOU TELL IT TO 400 TIMES

Leaving for good after 9 years, here is why: - Misses obvious, simple mistakes. (a lot) - Suggestion quality is getting worse and worse. - Aggressively upselling premium tier. - High RAM & CPU usage. - Commonly breaking other extension features. (learned to disable Grammarly first when there is any browser problem) - Fixing simple errors is hidden behind a paywall. (biggest time waster and deal breaker) - Subscription $140/year in the AI age is a joke. Make it $12/year, and you likely get 10x more subscribers. You don't need 20 developers because nobody needs your (anybody's) fancy AI features. There is nothing special you can offer in the future that can't be replicated and deployed in a matter of days. Cut your expenses to a minimum and freeride with a core working product, or do what you do and burn in the near future.

Have the option to turn off pro suggestions. It's really annoying to keep showing pro suggestions when you can't do anything about it. Yes, I'm on the free version. But, add something were it's not so freaking intrusive. Add down in the left corner a promo or say upgrade to see pro suggestions. But, underlining several words and saying you can't know nothing about it and have to dismiss it annoying and intrusive to the point where I just uninstalled Grammarly and won't even consider buying a subscription. Instead, I went with the extension "Private Grammar Checker - Harper". It's totally opensource. Runs locally. And not intrusive at all!

doesn't work well in google doc

old grammarly used to be much better, now it causes so many errors and is always incorrect.

Their programmers seem to be under the impression it is 1999! Really poor. Difficult to find services. NO customer service. NO telephone service = NO SERVICE at all. Not worth the aggravation nor the money.

Use to love it now it sucks. I'm not a pro member - and a proud one. been a member since January 11th, 2020 according to them via the extensions. Sample text: My version - Me and him was going to the store yesterday but we ain’t had no money. She don’t know nothing about why they is late. Grammarly's all corrected version: Me and him was going to the store yesterday, but we ain’t had no money. She doesn’t know anything about why they are late. Correct version: He and I were going to the store yesterday, but we didn’t have any money. She doesn’t know anything about why they are late. It changed some things and forgot sometimes. What ChatGPT says about Grammarly's all corrected version: Grammarly sometimes operates in a descriptive mode that tolerates dialectal or informal English (e.g., AAVE or conversational tone) if the style settings allow it. That doesn’t make the sentence grammatically correct in standard formal English — it just means it's acceptable in a casual register. Your second sentence is correct. First sentence breakdown: Errors in that sentence: 1: Subject pronoun case error “Me and him” is object case. The subject of a sentence must be in subject (nominative) case. Correct forms: I and he ✔️ “He and I” 2: Subject–verb agreement error The subject is plural (“He and I” = two people). Therefore the verb must be plural. “was” = singular ✔️ “were” 3: Nonstandard auxiliary construction “ain’t had” is nonstandard in formal English. ✔️ “didn’t have” 4: Double negative “didn’t” + “no money” = logical cancellation in standard English. ✔️ “any money” Grammatically correct version: He and I were going to the store yesterday, but we didn’t have any money. So: ✔️ Acceptable in informal speech. ❌ Incorrect in standard written grammar. Grammarly optimizes for surface-level fluency, not linguistic accuracy or meaning and those are not the same thing. 1: It confuses “sounds natural” with “is correct” As you just saw: “Me and him was going…” That is object case used as a subject + subject-verb disagreement. If your Grammarly didn’t flag that, it means the model decided: “People say this in real life, so it’s probably fine.” That’s not grammar — that’s statistical tolerance of common mistakes. Grammarly is trained on how people actually write, not how language is formally structured. So when enough people misuse something, it starts treating misuse as acceptable. That’s descriptive linguistics leaking into prescriptive use-cases. If you’re writing academic papers, legal docs, clinical notes, formal emails, or anything evaluative, you do not want “common usage smoothing.” You want rule-bound agreement, case consistency, and syntactic validity. Grammarly cannot guarantee that. 2: It will silently alter meaning Grammarly regularly suggests tone rewrites, clarity rewrites, and conciseness rewrites. These are semantic edits, not grammatical ones. Example pattern: “He failed to comply with the protocol.” becomes “He didn’t follow the rules.” Same vibe, not the same legal implication. You just downgraded a compliance failure into a behavioral lapse. It edits for readability, not precision. 3: It encourages cognitive outsourcing This is the biggest long-term cost. You stop asking: Is this subject or object case? Does this verb agree? Is this restrictive or nonrestrictive? Is this clause dependent? And you start asking: “Is there a red underline?” Now your internal grammar engine atrophies, because you’ve replaced analysis with tool approval. You’re training yourself to pass a UI check, not to understand structure. Grammarly is a proofreading assistant, not a grammar authority. Use it to catch typos, flag obvious agreement errors, and clean up punctuation. Do not use it to determine correctness, validate sentence structure, rewrite meaning-sensitive material, or replace actual grammatical knowledge. the name “Grammarly” is misleading if you take it at face value.

Grammarly just lost me because I pay them by the year, and they keep hitting me with pop-ups to go pro when I am sorry, Grammarly your about to lose as anyone of my AIs can do what you do. Anyone stupid enough to pay for them now is losing if they are paying for an AI like Claude of GPT. And the annoying pop-ups are a sign of weakness, so I figure they will be out of biz soon enough.

not impressed -no real help

This is not AI, it is dumb A%%S extension. After last update every spelling error is highlighted as 'rephrase' And the stupid Grammarly icon in text field always gets in the way of writing and it's impossible to move it on the side.

It is very aggravating that you have to sign in over and over when it should be on your laptop.

AI slop can't even be trusted to correct spelling anymore. GARBAGE

Can someone explain what does 'standWithUkraineBannerPopup.common.chunk.js' do?

No French, better call it: "Grammarly: AI Writing Assistant and Grammar Checker App for English" so people don't waste their time

Extremely intrusive and disruptive. Still constantly shows up after disabling it.

I find it to be an incredibly annoying pop-up.

Honestly, it's like you guys create a product for busy people and then decide to ignore they're busy people. What do you mean I have to constantly close that pop-up with the 50% off? I don't care, if I cared I would've taken it... But I didn't, and I won't (On behalf of all the accounts I manage, and my clients, we WON'T). What do you mean I can't write in peace because suggestions are excessive and, more often than not, useless (The commas, dude. Beautiful things usually, a burden with this app). It used to be lighter on the user experience, and better in all aspects. Now they wanna make more money, and as a true testament of modern marketing: They're gonna make it YOUR problem. So, at every corner you'll be reminded you have money, and they want your money. As I said, this is an app for writing and reading. It should be pretty simple, clean and straight-forward. It is not, and soon as any kind of competition shows up *I will switch*. Just for fun, just for the H of it. You guys can go and interrumpt other people while they're working.

Too much pop up ads.

It is now really in your face about the pro version if you are using the free one. Just irritating. Time to get rid of it. Prior to that I really liked it.

Thanks for 10+ pop ups with ads per day, disabled

The extension can be useful. Not TOO useful. But i get a pop up to buy premium every damn time my cursor accidentally moves through a yellow underscore. This is too much guys.

im tired of subscription notification!! and cant remove it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doesn't work on Chrome!

Can't uninstall. Constantly asking to upgrade. Even after un-install I keep getting the requests. DO NOT INSTALL - this is ransomware!!!!!

don't know how to take it off

First off the extension when correcting will put a , insid,e of a sentence like this and that is a new problem that I tried to fix through there guide. Also they had a feature for woke writers you could turn on and off which I appreciated. Now if you write illegal immigrant it automatically says it misspelled and corrects to undocumented. Keep your politics out of your app or face poor reviews. If people want your politics great, and that goes for the reverse if undocumented was transitioned to illegal it would be the same issue.

Very unconfertale the previous version is better grammerly than the new one.

The amount of times the popup for a "Pro" plan pops up... Holy hell, I never felt like I wanted to uninstall something so quickly. People will buy if they are interested. If you had 100 popups and still haven't bought, then it means people aren't interested. Not everyone swims in money. So stop with the popups.

Free version spams all the time forcing you to upgrade

Too heavy for what it does, and it recently stopped working without an account.

The support staff is terrible on helping fixing issues with Grammarly. They have not helped me fix my issue and you can't talk to a live person. I'm going to have to cancel this web site and find a different option.

annoying

I love grammarly. but recently they integrated some chat bot called Superhuman Go into this extension. It is soooo annoying. I turned this off in grammerly settings but it keeps appearing on my side panel no matter how may times I remove it. I don't want that, I only need grammerly, and there's no way to remove that intrusive sh*tbot.

So expensive

Dude if I unsubsribed from your marketing emails, it doesn't mean I would like seeing a pop-up window about your black friday sale out of no where.

I installed Grammarly for Grammarly, not for some ai chat superhuman thing. Don't show it by default

I've just been trying to figure out what this dumb and intrusive plugin is that suddenly appeared in my browser. I checked the code and it's Grammarly that's decided to add it to every webpage. What a joke! Bye bye.

no real help for setting up on Chrome. I found it difficult to set up. for set up I give it not even on star

Used to be a 4 star application but now it's terrible. The comma placement bug is way too old to not be sorted out. The suggested rewording will also change the meaning of sentences and constantly suggesting changes on top its own changes.

So there is this free pro samples, but I just looked at and became 2, yeah fine, but then I looked at it again and it became 1, and then 0, how is this possible, Grammarly fix this goofy mistake

I hate the stupid "AI chatbot" that showed up out of nowhere with no announcement or warning and sticks out from the right of my browser like a sore thumb. Uninstalled.

I had to uninstall this extension because it added an AI chatbot to my browser.

So yeah I ussed to LOVE Grammarly. Used to. Until they decided to hop in the train of making ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING AI and it became unusable. I used Grammarly for writing almost everything since my mother tongue isn't English and it helped me a lot finding mistakes and typos, and hence I cannot use it anymore. Grammarly uses EVERYTHING you write to train their AI and the AI they work with is being fed with ALL YOUR DATA. This is insane, I never allowed anything I write to be used for that purpose, but huh, why ask for consent when you can just force users to accept it by never even telling them about it, am I right? Funny, that is clearly against best practices. I don't feel safe anymore using this app in none of my devices. I write books and I don't want someone else's AI slop to feature MY writing. But, furthermore, I am not safe writing down my email, my personal emails, my passwords, since EVERYTHING will be scraped by Grammarly's AI and/or probably sold to other AI companies. And all of this without even grasping the problem of AI per se, which is killing the planet and making people's lives unlivable by taking up vital resources like water for it to work, all of that while rising up unemployment since companies are firing real people to replace their jobs with AI (which then makes the worst results ever that has to be double-checked by real people, who get paid so poorly for that job, thus making corporations even richer by making worse and worse products for the masses). So please, inform yourself too about the dangers and evils of AI and say NO to it and uninstall any app that forces you to use AI. I definitely will switch to Harper, another grammar-checking tool that keeps everything you write private. Good riddance, Grammarly. I do hope one day you realize your mistake and hire real people back and leave any AI features so that your product has the utility and greatness it used to have. But, for now, it is goodbye, forever.

very bad

not helpful. major glitch when you let it rephrase or fix wording. it jumbles all the wording up.

I wish there was a -5 stars. I came here to read the reviews to see if anyone else had the same problems as me with this SUPER GLITCHY APP. Sure did, tons and tons of bad reviews all saying the same thing. How this app is glitchy and NOT worth the 76.00 I paid! And guess what? NO REFUNDS so we are all screwed here! I keep contacting customer service but it reminds me of Amazons customer service, we all know how "good" they are! I hate this app!

Not sure why the pop-up disappears when I try to correct the selected text on page.......it is incredibly frustrating. Very disappointed.