Grammarly: AI Writing Keyboard 4+

Conflicted!

I like the idea of the app. However, I have been unable to figure out the best way to use it. I have premium, and it regularly chastises me regarding my constant misuse of passive voice, and only once in a while does it tell me what to do about it. I am proclive to speak that way, so why would I automatically know what my Alternatives might be? Sometimes, it is self-evident, but other times I am just lost. I also have an issue with some of the corrections they instill because I write how I speak and have a weird way with words. It's a part of my character. For example, it doesn't like that I used the word “obviously“ in the sentence above, but I used it to emphasize my statement, and that's what I want it to say. Lol smh On the other hand, (Grammarly) is an essential tool that helps me see what my weaknesses are and how to improve on them, so I gave it four stars. Thank you, Grammarly. Would recommend.

Addendum: This is a very helpful tool for someone who can use it more efficiently than I But I guess mine didn't renew and when I was about to renew it manually I had to stop and ask myself “Why should I restore my purchase?”- I like to have it available to me but I don't know if it's worth the high cost. I have to think about it for a while.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! Grammarly Premium offers rewrites for passive voice sentences when it's clear who or what is performing the action in the sentence. For example, if you write “The warning was ignored by everyone,” Grammarly suggests “Everyone ignored the warning.” ​​​If there is no clear way of rephrasing the sentence, Grammarly will still help you identify the use of passive voice. Also, if you are a Grammarly Premium user, you can deactivate these types of suggestions as instructed here: https://gram.ly/cbbHVjK. If you ever spot an incorrect suggestion by Grammarly, feel free to send an example to us. To do so, please click "App Support" next to the "Write a review" button on our App Store page.

Nice

Suggestion: when a correction is suggested it would be nice if the reason/rule of grammar is quoted so we’ll learn at the same time. Maybe that's a premium service idk but that way you actually learn versus just blindly accepting correction and sometime not knowing exactly what or why the grammatical error is you’re making. IJS....Also I was proofreading my answers to a test and out of four questions asked one was supposed to have a grammar error. I typed all four sentences exactly into Grammarly but it didn't indicate any errors/corrections needed. Yet of course according to the test you were to identify the one that was wrong. So I hope I chose the right answer based on their criteria. So I don't know what's right the test or Grammarly. The test results don't tell you which were right answer not wrong; if they consider yours wrong, they just say it's wrong & give you the calculated score. Can somethings really be that subjective? I'm going to try and research the questions via another source and see if I can get different result. If that's the case then I may have an appeal to the test results scoring based in those questions that possibly could have more than one way for an answer to be considered correct.! Perhaps they need to update or clarify questions so there are no options for a correct answer. I'm sure there are plenty in this review because I ignored all suggestions.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! Thanks for sharing this with us. You can learn more about our suggestions by opening the revision mode and pressing the G Button. Each suggestion card will have a more detailed description in revision mode.

Impressive and helpful but pricey

This app is very impressive. At first, I didn’t use any of the options that had to change the mistakes, but by accident, I pressed that green, the top left, and to my surprise, I started reading what it said and was so surprised how it caught the mistakes and how easily it was to change them. I also really like how they added the number row to the keyboard. My previous phone had that when I upgraded, the keyboard no longer had that which is why I was searching for a new keyboard. I kinda got frustrated and just stopped and came across Grammarly and kept it now I’m glad I did. The main reason I like it or I should say love it is the part where it will improve what you have written. For example, if you want to sound compassionate, you can choose that option and it will do that for you, which is truly an amazing feature. So far, I’m liking it, and I am very much leaning towards purchasing the premium, but it is kind of pricey which is why I am only giving it four stars. I think that it could be just a little lower and that would be the only reason why four stars, but besides that, it’s a great app, especially when texting and communicating with others and you want to revise your message to where others will understand it and not perceive it wrongly which has happened to me in the past.