This will check for errors in your writing whenever you’re using the Chrome browser. You can click on the extension to view and change your settings.
Grammarly as a plug-in for Microsoft Word
Download the Grammarly add-in for Microsoft Word if you use Word as your primary text editor.
I typically use Word for all sorts of writing. The add-in is pretty handy and non-intrusive with a docked interface that sits at the right of your screen. I love that it keeps making suggestions as I go so I don’t have to spend time at the end going through all suggestions one by one.
What’s right for you: Free vs. Premium vs. Business vs. Enterprise?
Grammarly provides three types of plans—Free, Premium, and Business. That sounds great, but let’s talk about what you’ll get for your $$$ in each of these plans.
Grammarly Free
If you’re someone who writes occasionally or if you just need a basic grammar and spell checker, the free plan will suit you well.
The free plan covers basic suggestions, conciseness, and tone detection. However, the free plan still manages to polish your writing by a good margin.
You can use all Grammarly apps and extensions with your free plan. However, the free plan doesn’t include the plagiarism checker or the expert writing help option.
Grammarly Premium
Grammarly’s Premium plan also checks for advanced grammar and spelling mistakes, in addition to what’s included in the free plan.
The Premium plan also checks for consistency, phrasal predictions, and helps you rephrase your sentences for better clarity and delivery. Grammarly’s Premium plan also gives you access to the plagiarism checker and the expert writing help option.
However, you can’t take the Premium plan for a spin because there’s no free trial for the Premium plan. You’ll need to pay Grammarly to test it.
To clearly understand the benefits of Grammarly’s premium plan, let’s run the same text in both the plans to look at the difference in the amount and type of suggestions.
The free plan gave 7 suggestions, mostly basic grammar and punctuation suggestions.
The premium plan gave 23 suggestions, including the basic grammar & punctuation suggestions and some more advanced grammar & phrasal suggestions.
Grammarly Business
If you’re an agency owner or a business that focuses on collaboration and brand tones, consider the business plan on Grammarly.
The business plan gives you more goodies like:
- Collaboration
- Analytics
- Snippets, and
- Style guides
The collaboration feature allows you to add team members—writers, editors, formatters—to your Grammarly account.
Once you’ve added the members, you can use Grammarly Analytics to get insights into your team’s activity. It also gives you an overview of communication, a usage summary, Grammarly suggestions, and the tones used by your team members.
Then, you’ve got snippets. Snippets are essentially phrases that you use very often in your business.
For instance, say you’re launching a new product. Chances are that you’ll have to repeat yourself as you start getting product inquiries. But with snippets, you can skip the mundane, repetitive task and streamline your enterprise comms, while still staying on-brand. Neat, huh?
Your business likely has a specific tone of voice, formatting standards, and structure for communications. Grammarly will use its AI-powered algorithm to try and make suggestions to get you back on track if your writing sounds off-brand using its Style Guide feature.
The Business plan truly is a polished version of Grammarly that goes a step further than its competitors like ProWritingAid.
The business plan is Grammarly’s top-of-line, but here’s the good news: Grammarly provides a 7-day free trial for the business plan so you can try it out before spending any cash.
Grammarly Enterprise
The business plan in Grammarly can only support up to 149 team members. For more team members, you have to switch to Grammarly’s Enterprise plan.
This plan includes all the features present in Grammarly Business. This plan supports unlimited team members and it has advanced security. It allows for domain authorization and bulk user management.
The enterprise plan also includes a dedicated customer success manager along with phone support during business hours.
Grammarly’s Subscription Pricing
Premium Plan
