Grammarly: AI Writing Keyboard Reviews

by Crís Hand

I have Paid for the Year for this app to use on my I-Phone and MAC Computer. On my MAC, there is an excellent program that does a lot and helps out with documents and saves them on this app's web-sight and gives you a lot of choices when writing up a report. With the I-Phone app, this app is missing the documents folder on this app's website; that dose not allow access to my projects I am working on my computer. I have tried to log in using my I-Phone on Safari APP just like I have done on my computer. The difference is my I-Phone dose not allow access; instead, I am directed to download I-Phone this app. I do have this app already on my phone. The computer version and the I-Phone versions are not the same. this app needs to allow multiple access of your saved work on different mac platforms like when using an I-Phone, MAC, or I-Pad that can access the same files. With my I-Phone there is not as strong of help as when I'm on my MAC computer. My I-Phome is missing Options Like: Set Goals, Overall Score, Correctness, Clarity, Engagement, Delivery, and Plagiarism.

by Oktechgiant

Honestly, not to knock this app, but for the price of their services you would think the keyboard functionality would be more efficient. Just for starters I'm finger swiping through this review w/ GBoard and typing faster than I can think of what I'm typing. The fact this app doesn't have a swift style typing function when every other free keyboard does is ridiculous. I mean if the base keyboard doesn't have any of the features every other keyboard offers, its automatically a second tier keyboard so you would think as a base offering they would include swipe to type, themes, etc. As for the premium features, that's where all the appeal is. The unfortunate part though is that their premium subscription model is really absurd for the value you're actually receiving for that premium. As is with most apps that are pay to play these days, I don't mind paying a monthly premium for something that actually makes my life easier on a day to day basis. But unless you're a journalist or some profession where writing is the primary task being performed, paying $12 /month for your keyboard to tell you how bad you are writing isn't really worth it. Lol if it was only a few bucks then sure but honestly Grammarly is the epitome of an unnecessary expense. They could do much more for what they're asking for their service. But that's just my opinion try it for yourself

by Tainted Blue

I use this app online all the time and I love it. But the iPhone version is laggy. It doesn't pick up all of my keystrokes the way the stock keyboard or even other third party keyboards do. It often misses when I hit the space bar and some other random letters and it just overall feels sluggish trying to keep up with my typing.

Another big problem that made me switch away from using it was its insistence on correcting the same word over and over and over and over and over again unless I typed exactly what I wanted and then selected the "quoted" version of it above. I'm used to the stock keyboard knowing that if I typed something a certain way and it corrects it, when I backspace and type it again the same way, it was intentional. this app doesn't understand this and corrects it over and over unless you go out of your way to tell it that spelling was intentional. As someone who types fairly fast, I got irritated really quickly having Grammarly correcting me in that way, especially when most of the time they weren't even spelling mistakes, but correctly spelled words that it assumed we're spelling errors due to it trying to predict the sentence.

I preferred this app simply because I could type out a whole chunk of text and it would then give me suggestions on how to fix my mistakes at the end. For me, having to monitor Grammarly 's corrections as I type defeats the purpose. And the sluggish response kills it for me.

by Amethystshouldbeimpressed

Hi! I just love your Desktop application, it is so useful and it works pretty well, except for the fact I can't make it work on Google. However, your app for mobile is very disappointing. It doesn't let me automatically look things up, the little green button on the corner of my screen only checks my spelling errors, which I don't make many of those anyway, and it doesn't check any of my grammatical errors. I made some very obvious ones to test it out but it didn't do a thing, and grammar is my biggest problem and the reason I downloaded it. I might have just used autocorrect with a normal keyboard. Also, I thought this would be a tiny feature I could put on my customized keyboard, but instead it gives me a whole new keyboard. This honestly is not a big deal, but there is a feature most third-party keyboards have called ”swipe input” that I highly recommend. All in all, make it more like the desktop application but include the swipe input.
Sincerely,
Unsatisfied
P.S. Wrote this with your keyboard ^~^

by Sassiesgirl

When I start typing and this app takes my words that I have put spaces between and turns the words into gibberish it is frustrating. This is an dxamlkemofbehatnutvdpoez. I was typing words and this is an example of what it does. I am not a fast typer so why this happens is a mystery. I use an iPad so I can see my finger touching the letters of the words and my the space bar so when gibberish shows in place of what I typed it upsets me that I have to constantly back track to correct the mess. What is going on this app? Unhappy user. Another irritating thing it sometimes does is not allow the word I typed. It keeps changing it and requires so many attempts before it accepts what I am typing that it is a huge waste of time.
The bugs are definitely not fixed. I have disabled it out of frustration. Initially when I first installed it over a year ago it was better than it is now. Too much AI influence trying to second guess me. Done with you!

by TedRoberts777

Hi. As a person on SSDI and with a part time job I would highly recommend having the ability and flexibility in your business to offer scholarships to those in need. People like me would love to get off government programs and get the job that good writing habits could help grant. I gave this 3 out of 5 stars because I believe in your business and your a ability to honor my requests to provide scholarships to those that would qualify for such help based off government assistance proof or the proof of being disabled or low income by showing any form whether it’s via Medicare/Medicaid card or EBT card or even information found on a state ID that indicates a mental health disability. Please please do this not just to look good but for the ethics of looking out for success of others who desperately could use the quality a full package offers. Thanks in advance and I trust you’ll make the disability community and other groups that are lesser known proud knowing you put the people first before profit and who knows maybe a tax write off could be in your future. I will surely give you 5 stars if you implement such an idea to help people like me and others who cannot afford the paid version but could desperately use this.

by Mermy80

I'm my experience with this app, I have been using it to type messages and sometimes when I type names, it changes it to a different one. My friends would get confused so I just wouldn't use this app for texting. Another thing I have issues with in this app is that it tries to put my separate words into ones together. I was typing my review and it put the words ”with and in” together. When I put commas in between my sentences sometimes it says I'm wrong and I'm not. It is not like my reading class which actually gives way more information than this app. I'm sorry if you feel offended but I just think you need to make some improvements. Otherwise, of my issues, I give Grammarly/keyboard a 👍🏽. It is a great app and I hope you make some developments to help me with my problems. I don't want you to get mad so please don't. I'm just telling you what you can make improvements on so you can make your app better. Please respond to this and thank you for making this great app.

by PennCCRN

Overall, I like it although there are some issues that I find switching back to the built in Apple keyboard away from the this app keyboard. First, I noticed that when using a Bluetooth keyboard the this app functionality is not available. This is quite disappointing since I use my iPad to type quite a bit of material and by using my Bluetooth keyboard it negates the functionality of this app and I can only use it if I’m typing it on the screen. Second, I have noticed that when typing and searching for punctuation marks it’s quite difficult to find the exclamation point which is only available after changing not one, not two, but three different screens. This is grossly inefficient when typing long documents as it slows the writer down quite a bit.

Fix these things and I’d use it more frequently, I’ll reevaluate it over the next year and if not fixed I might discontinue my subscription. On plus side, I use it at work with Microsoft Office and it works great.

by Unbreakablegabby

It’s good, it’s not the best but it’s good. I hate how they want full access, that’s a little suspicious and sometimes it corrects wrong things (like if you write a whole story, it’s more than likely this app will be wrong on 30% of your “errors”) this app on the iPad is really bad but it corrects your obvious errors and there are some glitches for me on the iPad Pro, like when I want to add something to the dictionary it does it but the next time I go on this app it’s like it resetted. And I kind of hate how when you check your field and it doesn’t teleport to the part of the field it’s talking about, like it just stays wherever you were at. You’re staring at your keyboard the whole time and not looking at your actual text kinda
It’s a great app on the computer and I’d highly recommend it for typing that way but on all devices, you should always proofread after you check the field bc it doesn’t correct everything like how you’d like it to. It checks a word based on the previous and the following.

*DOWNLOAD AT YOUR OWN RISK FOR PRIVACY CONCERNS*

by Lawrenceperez7676

I am a blind user, and for me, this app is somewhat usable. I don't use the keyboard to type. When I'm done typing I just switch back to the this app keyboard, tap the this app button, and it allows me to correct my mistakes. One thing I like about the corrections is that it tells me if I accidentally capitalized something, or if I added too many punctuation marks, ETC. It makes things a little easier knowing that I can correct those mistakes easier to find and correct. But I wish that accessibility was better. On iPad, once you go into the this app keyboard, a VoiceOver user can't switch back to the Apple keyboard. Frustrating, because I have to go into settings to disable that. However, it lets me switch back to the Apple keyboard on my iPhone, so I don't know why it doesn't work on iPad. Any, I like using this app on my phone like I do any other device. this app is totally unusable on a PC or Mac, I've got a Mac with a bootcamp of Windows, but it just doesn't work on desktop.

by Jonnysalder

Grammarly is hugely improved from what it was in the past. I can actually use it now! You might have earned back a premium customer. I have just three nit-picky requests going forward.

1) Better tune the keys to reduce wrong keys. When I use the apple keyboard, it just knows what key I want, even if I tap wrong. I make more mistakes typing on this keyboard, ironically enough.

2) I would also appreciate swipe texting.

3) Having multiple levels of pressing to select exactly what text you want was a huge game-changer for apple’s keyboard. (you have hard press to move the cursor, but your missing the second hard press to select text.) This feature on apple’s keybors changed the iphone into my favorite writing device for short writing sessions. I would love to be able to rely on the this app keyboard for that same level of precision.

For thise reasons, I will continue using apple’s keyboard when drafting. However, this keyboard is finally good enough to keep on my phone and use when editing. Well done to project development and the software engineers that improved this so much!

Ps: upon rereading this review before sending it, I notice many errors, but the this app keyboard claims I have none. I'll leave them in so you see.

by P0TAT03S

There are some minor things that I would like to carve. First off, I'm a brand new user on my iPhone, but I use this app a lot on my laptop. Not the best at typing on the iPhone, so I thought ’let's use that app that I have on my laptop.’ so I downloaded Grammarly . I opened my Google Docs, which is where I would likely write my stories, and then I started to use it. I like to use a lot of apostrophes as well as a lot of quotation marks. But it seems like if you attempt to try to put it with a sentence, they face the wrong way. Here’s an example:
”Sally slid her pale hand across the smooth marble countertop, not knowing what she was getting herself into.”
In the beginning, the first quotation mark is the wrong way. I know it may not bother you, reader, but it does bother me very much. I’m a person who gets annoyed when the little things aren't correct. Please fix this as I really love this app but I can't stand this issue. It happens when I use apostrophes, too. For instance:
On the wall it read: ’nice try, but you won't beat me, oh, did I forget to mention your beloved sister?’
See how the apostrophe does it as well? It bothers me
so. Please fix this. Thank you for reading my long review. Again, it bothers me so much that I would have to delete Grammarly on my phone, but not my laptop. Thank you so much,
Potato.

by Jmanorama

I love Grammarly . I use it at work with my emails and reports, I use it in my text messages I need to send when they’re important. I’ve definitely seen improvements in my writing for the years I’ve been using it.
However, I want to access the additional features like checking my tone. I often notice on the web version on my work computer that it’s noticing issues with my tone and possibly coming off across as being pass aggressive.
I can't afford the $140 a month, and I certainly can't afford the $30 a month.
If there was an option for $2 a month that just unlocked some of the premium features that fixed my tone, and especially my wordiness- I’d sign up for that in a heartbeat.
Thanks for being great this app! You've definitely helped a ton!

by JTBx1999

I've been using this app on & off since my freshmen year of college. I had a horrible writing experience in high school, so I knew writing papers in college would be challenging. I highly recommend trying it out, especially if you're a college (or even high school) student. It's above the price range I would like to pay as a college student (I usually do the Quarterly plan), so that's why I changed my rating from 5 to 4. If I could do a 4.5 instead, I would. There is no discount for students without having being purchased by the institution. Various companies (Apple Music, ASOS, etc.) offer discounts for students through a verification system, and I'm sure many students across the world would benefit from a student discount.

P.S. All of this was typed using the this app keyboard. Sounds very sophisticating, right?

by Casperyana

this app is so easy to use it’s literally the best app out there for grammar and spelling it’s very useful and has its benefits the only thing I don’t like about Grammarly is that it doesn’t capitalize words that need to be capitalized and I also don’t like how I change the keyboard it makes it a little harder to type but what I do like about it is that the . It is on the main keyboard so you don’t have to press needing to get a period this is very useful thank you so much for making Grammarly I wish I discovered Grammarly sooner. this makes it so much easier life it’s way better than Microsoft word. this app finds things that Microsoft word cant which is very very helpful and fixes his sentences which is also good except for the capitalization I wish it would fix that and yeah five-star rating oh and one more thing I wish it told me where to put a period

by Sailor_0703

For any keyboard like this, it cannot see what you type, if you don’t allow it to. That is the entire point of these apps(especially this one in particular, while some others, the main purpose is elsewhere). This keyboard app is supposed to correct your grammar/spelling. However, it cannot correct your grammar if it cannot “see” what you write, and it cannot see what you write without “full access.” So, if you don’t want that, then don’t knock the developers for writing and making the software that they claim to be making.
Also, just for the record, all of your information that you type is still going out online. When you put a credit card into a website, that info is sent out via internet, and collected through multiple parties regardless of what keyboard, software, or device you are using. If you can’t handle that, then go hide in a cave.

by JMacBerwickPI

Grammarly is the only one, in this subject, that I have been impressed by, and can catch errors and make excellent suggestions. I have been called the famous pejorative term: GRAMMAR NAZI”.

I thought I was an expert at using the English language as I have a Degree with Honors in English Literature from Stirling University. I love the English language and hate when it is misused by those who should know better.

this app is just like having a partner, looking over my shoulder and gently reminding me of a typo and, God Forbid, a grammatical mistake. I have the premium product and it is worth 10 times the fee, as I am constantly writing emails and reviews, unfinished fiction and nonfiction. It goes on and on and on, and I now have a partner to look over my works and catch mistakes that I would never have seen.

by Savnative503

Hello, my name is Alberto, and this is my review for this app. I have started to use this app two years ago and I have found it do be one if not one of the most valuable applications that I use. It is very easy to set and utilize I can employ this application in just about everything that I wright online from school, work to social networking I have the confidence to post knowing that this app has analyzed my spelling as well as my punctuation. The free trial has all the basic needs to get your writing skills on their way to a great start. In the paid services it has advanced options that go beyond other spelling services I have used the past. One of my favorite advanced options is the copyright checker I feel confident now that when I submit an assignment that the work is unique as well as this app correct. I would recommend this product to anyone who is in school or anyone who writes for there career.

by Whitney Uark

It’s a huge help if you wanna text professionally and proper this will allow you to illuminate questioning if you’ve written something incorrectly or having to take the time to verify that you wrote the appropriate word and it will even show you synonyms to use if you don’t want to use the word that you type but you can’t think of an alternate word this will allow you to pick a list of synonyms that scroll below the texting area right above the keyboard, keeping everything discreet and compact but enough to understand how to navigate Grammarly as a keyboard and especially if you’re writing something professional via work or doctors office or somebody that you don’t want any slang text or language in your message the Swole remove all of that and show you appropriate options and it will tell you how your writing sounds if it sounds positive and honest and empathetic it’s a great app and I recommend keeping this on your phone or computer or tablet unless you’re an English teacher or professor in you are a master of the English language.

by SVE68

Grammarly is an invaluable resource and well worth the yearly fee, should you choose to go that route.
If you're at a college level or beyond, I would recommend the paid version because it extends past spelling and grammar. The paid version allows your writing to come across much smoother, well organized and can address the to the audience as needed much more than the average writer.

Here is the one thing that needs improvement. Not all writing is for journalism or a college-level paper. Although Grammarly allows you to adjust for the audience, what it doesn't account for is a scientific view point to where some words need repeating and not assigned to a synonym. For example, the world hypothesis. If I'm running a statistic test and need to report the output, then using certain words that are the same is important.
Although Grammarly gives you the option to delete the recommendation, it becomes a bit of a hassle having to delete multiple times.

A suggestion might be to allow the writer to choose their audience and subject before starting the checking process. Grammarly needs to have the ability to decipher the difference between an English writing paper or a paper that is scientific in nature.

That's it!

by Sparkplug_18

I gave Grammarly one star. I was just simply doing my business on my phone and then an ad for this app popped up. It looked like a fun game or something so I downloaded it. (Turns out Grammarly was not what is advertised that it was, which is false advertising and that is illegal.) So, once I downloaded Grammarly I turned on notifications and gave Grammarly permission to email me. After I realized that Grammarly was not what it was advertised to be, I deleted Grammarly . Not too long after I deleted Grammarly , I got an email from this app. I thought this was strange since I deleted Grammarly . But, this app kept on and kept on sending me emails. I was getting fed up with it so I tried to reply to their email, and the email basically said that their support team would not reply to me. It had a link to their support team website so I clicked on it and went to their site. When I got on the site I searched and searched and could not find a single way to contact them and it is getting BEYOND aggravating that they keep sending me emails and there is no way to stop them. It’s stupid and annoying so there is no way this company is getting more than one star.

by JoshieeeeP

I got Grammarly because my husband has it downloaded on his laptop and I love it. I am pretty bad at grammar, so Grammarly was a life saver. However when I downloaded it for my iPad; which I have the Keyboard laptop case thing on it, well Grammarly pretty much didn’t like the Keyboard case. It told me to turn it off and use the keyboard that Grammarly provides. Which is the touchscreen option and that’s completely inconvenient when you have to type a long 24 page papers.

I also hate the fact that after you switch on the this app keyboard, you get another thing that pops up and says, “allow full access”. By the way, I’m so glad they gave the option instead of just taking full access. But anyways, I’m against full access because when you allow them full access, you basically sign your life and rights away. They tell you that all the information you type or previously typed, like credit card info and address, will be collected and stored in their personal database. And that’s not all, but I rather not sit here and spell it out for you (ba-da-ting). Not-happenin-over-here-captain. So I installed it and 5 minutes later deleted. You can try it for longer if you want, but do it at your own risk!

I’m telling my husband on you this app.

by Korgey

I have Paid for the Year for this app to use on my I-Phone and MAC Computer. On my MAC, there is an excellent program that does a lot and helps out with documents and saves them on this app's web-sight and gives you a lot of choices when writing up a report. With the I-Phone app, this app is missing the documents folder on this app's website; that dose not allow access to my projects I am working on my computer. I have tried to log in using my I-Phone on Safari APP just like I have done on my computer. The difference is my I-Phone dose not allow access; instead, I am directed to download I-Phone this app. I do have this app already on my phone. The computer version and the I-Phone versions are not the same. this app needs to allow multiple access of your saved work on different mac platforms like when using an I-Phone, MAC, or I-Pad that can access the same files. With my I-Phone there is not as strong of help as when I'm on my MAC computer. My I-Phome is missing Options Like: Set Goals, Overall Score, Correctness, Clarity, Engagement, Delivery, and Plagiarism.

by A Living Breathing Trashcan

I’m what you might call an A student in 7th grade. English is a bit if-y from time to time but pretty consistent with an A-/B+ on most reports. I downloaded Grammarly for the first time a few weeks ago and decided to try it out on an history paper and got the standard A. I then tried it out a few weeks later on my most recent English assignment and everything was good except the grammar which got me an 80. Grammar is meant to be exactly what you fix. Your standard autocorrect keyboard doesn’t go below the level of the 4th grade. Your “world class linguists” must still be sucking on pacifiers at this point. It couldn’t even get the capitalization right! It in fact messed it up. Your Tv ads show college level students getting an A on papers when using this app, when in actuality unless they’re willing to pay for premium they should’ve considered dropping out of middle school because they will be bombing every college english course in existence. Whoever designed the marketing for Grammarly is a first class idiot. It’s not clever to charge for something that actually works. People like me will just uninstall.

by PugQueen1

I just got Grammarly and I already don’t like it. I installed Grammarly because I saw the adds quite frequently and it said Grammarly checked how much sense the sentence made. I don’t really need any help with grammar, but I would like the function of checking sentences for the most efficient way to write sentences and get your point across. But I found out that you have to pay money for the only function that I wanted. Some people would be okay with that, but on all of the adds, they said it was completely free. I guess I don't like apps or people that lie to me. Plus, it is not like you only have to pay 2 dollars and never pay again. You have to pay around 8 dollars a month!
I also don't like having to give Grammarly full access to whatever I m writing, but this was not a huge deal, because I don't really type very important personal information but it still makes me feel uneasy.
I am writing a book on my iPad with a hardware keyboard (it is in my case that I bought for the iPad). though it refuses to work with that and personally, I don't enjoy typing with little letters when I could be using a keyboard that is easier to type on. If none of this bothers you, please get Grammarly . The grammar advice always makes sense, but I'm going to delete Grammarly immediately.

by Mrlemmers

I really like this keyboard actually, it does something even the stock keyboard doesn't really do. It has sentence predictions alongside of the normal ones. This really feels like a great alternative to the stock keyboard but with each new version it seems like the keyboard sees performance hiccups. With the current version, the keyboard seems to cause a delay when sending messages. The user presses the send button but then there is a delay before it actually sends. Not a huge issue, but it is something the stock keyboard doesn't do. Also, this keyboard does not seem to learn the way the user types similar to SwiftKey or the stock keyboard. Again not a huge issue, just the predictions are pretty much locked to what is in the dictionary already. You can have it learn words you type, just not the way you type.

by Sarito O Sary

I think it’s great. It’s serves its function. My only comment is that since I write Spanglish at times to my family in Cuba the autocorrect gets lost and just replaces every word. It’s a constant battle. Other than that it works awesome ! At times, it’s better to stop obsessing over miniature flaws and focus on what’s actually important. Personally I feel like a Hipócrata because I am here giving my opinion when I know NOTHING about apps or technology. I just care and every chance I get to write and raise my voice I take it. Personally, who cares what people have to say. Most of the time what they is a lie to bring someone down. Believe when I tell you that if you don’t matter people who not stress it. The reason you matter is the reason no one will stop. People can’t seem to be happy for others. That’s fine let me them be. Now, stop taking in all the comments and negativity and BULL. Open your eyes sweetheart.

PS. I wish there was a review about the correct and less misleading search tool.

Maria R.