Grammarly vs. WhiteSmoke

When drafting important emails to clients, stakeholders, or partners, Grammarly ensures the tone is professional and polite while eliminating grammar or spelling errors.While preparing reports, proposals, or presentations for internal or external use, Grammarly helps maintain clarity, proper structure, and a formal tone. Employees whose first language is not English use Grammarly to enhance their writing, making it more fluent and grammatically accurate.

Incentivized

WhiteSmoke provides a plagiarism checker to aid in data processing with other online databases that may have similar content. WhiteSmoke supports the use of a style checker that includes grammar, punctuation, and other aspects that work together to create a grammar checker.

Incentivized

• Ease of use - Grammarly is super easy to use. Anyone can use the app whether in a text editor like Microsoft Word or on the Grammarly website.
• Integration - This one is a game-changer. It integrates with the main programs I use on a regular basis including email, Microsoft Office, Firefox, desktop, phone and iPads. I didn't need to change to anything or use something different so it was an ideal match.
• Goals - This is a really cool function of Grammarly. With Goals, you can choose your audience, formality and domain type. So it works for a wide range of users. Depending on the audience type, Grammarly automatically can suggest changes to your content to help ensure your goals are being met.

Incentivized

• Detection and correction of the misspelled word, as well as the correct word but with an incorrect context.
• Its grammar checker will make your writing free of awkward grammar mistakes.
• Your copyeditor will improve the quality and impression of your writing, which will be widely accepted by your writing.
• It also serves as a plagiarism checker.
• It can translate up to 50 languages, etc.

Incentivized

• User experience/technical issues on certain tools - in Google Calendar, for instance, Grammarly checks text that you type into the "Email Guests" modal window on calendar events. However, because of the way Google calendar works, if you right-click a word that Grammarly highlighted, the calendar event modal window will close and you will lose everything you typed. This is an extremely frustrating experience that has gotten me multiple times.
• Incorrect suggestions - it doesn't happen that often, but occasionally Grammarly does highlight words or make suggestions that don't make sense or aren't optimal. I'm sure the Grammarly team is working continuously to improve the tool to make it smarter and smarter.
• Lack of support on all platforms - although Grammarly works on most text areas you encounter online, there are still some areas it doesn't work - I'm not sure if this is an issue with Grammarly or not, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

Incentivized

• The WhiteSmoke Windows application is limited to 10,000 characters at a time. That is not 10,000 words. It's 10,000 characters, which means each letter, punctuation mark, and space. However, this problem does not apply to your web-based application.
• No free version.
• Slow customer service.
• The lowest price level only works within the browser.
• Provides some false positives.
• You need internet access to work.
• The translator function uses Google Translate.

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Either I'm as dumb as a bag of nails, or Grammarly has been an invaluable tool in our communication arsenal since we've been users since 2017. I don't recall which podcast we heard it on, but it may have been when Jordan Harbinger was on Art of Charm. I listen to about 8 podcasts a day, so it was probably on something I listened to, demo'd it, and then ponied up for a paid subscription.

Incentivized

It was very easy. I have it applied to all of my browsers as an extension so that I know I have entirely accurate grammar in anything I write for my company. I appreciate having something that will always be applied to anything on my computer. I wish I didn't need to use the Grammarly keyboard on mobile; I want it to read my text boxes like my computer does.

Incentivized

I have not really used customer support. I used the FAQ page to see how to re-install Grammarly because it wasn't functioning properly in longer documents. It seems to be working better now, but it still does not always underline all of the issues in the actual text. Thus, it is sometimes difficult to know where the errors are located.

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Perhaps if you have a team that is not overly computer savvy, which in that case, I'd challenge your hiring decision, there's not much involved. I'm sure there are YouTube videos that go in-depth about implementation but it's really quite simple.

Incentivized

Nothing comes close to Grammarly in terms of ease of use and quick setup. It practically works right out of the box without any rigorous configuration. It also allows you to pick a specific dialect which isn't available in other apps. And since Grammarly introduced AI features, its counterparts lost their advantage.

Incentivized

I highly appreciate the software for its awesome features for writing perfection. Here one can easily find the writing accurately in a short time. [The] translator function of [the] software is just awesome to use. And the features of the software [are] perfect to find grammatical mistakes, [the] pronunciation of the writing. Overall the software is just cool to me[.]

Incentivized

• It saves me time.
• It allows me to produce enormous quantities of writing to the highest quality with great speed.
• Overall, it has greatly improved the quality of my writing .
• Helps me get those pesky commas in the right place to improve readability.

Incentivized

• This software offers excellent functionalities, including a spell and grammar checker and a translator. With the ability to correct and translate each word between 55 different languages.

Incentivized