Grammarly vs. Hemingway
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.
Offerings
- 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
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)
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
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.
Offerings
- Web and desktop editor
- Statistics including reading time, words, sentences, and paragraphs
- Flagging of adverbs and passive voice
- Flagging of complex phrases and sentences
Reviews
Hemingway does not have a Chrome Web Store listing, so public review data is unavailable
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
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