Grammarly – Good Or Bad Or Alternatives

I’m sure that many of you have been using Grammarly to assist with your writing skills. I have been using Grammarly Pro since 2019, but started with the free version, I must admit the free version of Grammarly is not bad.

My paid subscription came to an end a couple of weeks ago, I deliberately didn’t renew the subscription, as I thought I would try the free version of Grammarly again. Since Grammarly started using or relying on AI more, I have found the software much more irritating and annoying. I believe it’s constantly trying to check words and punctuation that is absolutely fine. My spelling is pretty good, but I wouldn’t say that I’m an expert on punctuation, however, it does appear that Grammarly likes to change words and punctuation just for the sake of it.

I’m amazed that Grammarly can carry out an update on the software and all of a sudden their punctuation changes. Lots of commas are suddenly added before the word “and” and all of a sudden “semi-colons” suddenly appear to be necessary everywhere. Why did that happen?!

Often, I will write in a Word document and then copy and plain paste the document into WordPress or whichever platform working within. It’s amazing how I can correct everything in Word, using Grammarly and then when I plain paste the document into WordPress, Grammarly will then want to change the words that I have already corrected and allegedly find more mistakes!

I must admit that the free version of Grammarly is much less annoying than the paid version. I’m wondering about just sticking with the free version of Grammarly. However, as expected, Grammarly has offered me a 50% discount to upgrade to the Pro version again.

I was wondering if any Wealthy Affiliate members use alternative software to Grammarly, I’m sure there are other similar spell checkers available.

Something that put me off Grammarly about 18 months ago was when I found that it had a terrific amount of settings, which was set to encourage wokeness. I won’t say too much in this blog post for obvious reasons, but all I want is a spellchecker, not someone’s political stance. The default settings in Grammarly are absolutely terrible. If anyone is using Grammarly I would make sure and check your settings, otherwise, they try and encourage you to write with a certain slant that definitely goes against the grain with me.

Any thoughts or help is appreciated, please.

Thank you for reading.

Roy