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Grammarly vs. Hemingway

Integrations, team features and security side by side, then each product's plans, pros and cons.

Feature comparison of Grammarly, Hemingway and Sapling
Feature Grammarly Hemingway Sapling
Integrations
Microsoft Word YesNoYes
Microsoft Outlook NoNoYes
Google Docs YesNoYes
Products and features
Style guide YesYesYes
Tone prediction YesNoYes
Autocomplete NoNoYes
Snippets / macros YesNoYes
Suggested responses NoNoYes
Customization
Built for sales NoNoYes
Built for support NoNoYes
Multiple languages NoNoYes
Custom models NoNoYes
Security
HIPAA YesNoYes
SOC 2 Type II YesNoYes
API access NoNoYes
Self-hosting NoYesYes

Sapling is shown for reference.

Grammarly

Grammarly is an extremely popular cloud-based writing assistant that provides spelling and grammar checking across a number of applications. Grammarly also provides a tone prediction tool and a plagiarism checker along with an editor on its website.

Screenshot of example edits by Grammarly

Plans

  • Free version is meant for casual writing as it only provides basic writing suggestions for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and conciseness
  • Premium version is meant for students or working professionals and includes a lot more features such as tone adjustments, advanced suggestions, and word choice
  • Enterprise plan is meant for accounts with 50+ users and gives team management tools such as style guide, snippets, and analytics dashboard

Pros

  • The most well-known and widely used grammar application
  • Clean and easy-to-use integration UI
  • Website editor with additional checking functionality
  • Includes plagiarism checker to check writing assignments against 16 billion webpages

Cons

  • Not focused on business use cases
  • Currently only supports English
  • Frequently suggests rule-based recommendations
  • Does not provide direct API access

Reviews

Grammarly has 41,641 reviews and 10,000,000+ users on their Chrome Web Store with an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 (as of May 2022)

Hemingway

Hemingway is a popular editor that helps writers make their writing more bold and clear. Given a document, Hemingway provides statistics such as number of words and paragraphs, a readability score, and suggestions for passive voice, complex phrases, and hard to read sentences.

Screenshot of example edits by Hemingway

Plans

  • Web and desktop editor
  • Statistics including reading time, words, sentences, and paragraphs
  • Flagging of adverbs and passive voice
  • Flagging of complex phrases and sentences

Pros

  • Quick to use
  • Simple design and colorful interface that highlights different categories of errors
  • Desktop application runs offline

Cons

  • Not focused on business use cases
  • Relies on relatively simple heuristics
  • Doesn't suggest edits and no browser extension

Reviews

Hemingway does not have a Chrome Web Store listing, so public review data is unavailable

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