Grammarly vs ProWritingAid

Choose Grammarly if you write email and documents all day or run a team that shares approved terms and reusable text. Choose ProWritingAid if you edit a novel or another long manuscript on your own. Both start with a free plan and move to monthly paid plans, with higher plans sold by quote, and ProWritingAid also sells a one time license.

Teams that write in several languages will find Grammarly useful. It corrects text in languages other than English, which helps people writing in a second language. Usage reports show how a team adopts the tool and where errors trend. A limit is that the app or extension can freeze documents or stop responding in other apps.

Novelists get the most from ProWritingAid, which runs its reports across a whole manuscript rather than a paragraph. Story planning comes before the draft, and written feedback on a finished chapter comes after it. Those steps suit self publishing authors who edit a novel chapter by chapter before release. A limit is that deeper manuscript analysis is sold separately through credits.

Grammarly's users praise its grammar and spelling fixes, which improve everyday and business writing. They also like the real time help inside the email and document apps where they already write. Complaints centre on renewal charges higher than expected, refunds that are hard to get and constant prompts to upgrade. ProWritingAid's reviewers like suggestions that catch mistakes as they type, and manuscript reports that help edit a novel before a human editor. They dislike repeated style flags that are hard to dismiss and a strict refund policy.

Grammarly describes a data intelligence platform that uses it for editorial quality control across marketing, support and sales teams. The vendor reports savings, less editing time and faster support resolution. One ProWritingAid customer is an individual author who uses it to proofread and edit books. That job is the one its manuscript reports are built for.