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Grammarly alternatives

18 other writing tools listed on this site share a category with Grammarly. They are ordered by how many categories they share and then by upvotes here — that is an ordering, not a verdict. We have not tested any of them, and there is no score on this page.

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Grammarly alternatives at a glance

ToolPricingOpen sourceUpvotes here
LexFreemiumNo37
ClaudeFreemiumNo35
WordtuneFreemiumNo11
ChatGPTFreemiumNo10
SpellbookContact for pricingNo43
HarveyContact for pricingNo40
Fireflies.aiFreemiumNo39
PerplexityFreemiumNo39
ReziFreemiumNo39
RaycastFreemiumNo38
QuillBotFreemiumNo36
FigmaFreemiumNo35
FraseSubscriptionNo34
CursorFreemiumNo30
JasperSubscriptionNo26
Otter.aiFreemiumNo25
NablaContact for pricingNo24
WritesonicFreemiumNo22

Lex

Word processor with AI feedback for serious writers

Lex is a clean document editor aimed at people who write prose rather than marketing copy. It offers inline drafting help, but its distinctive feature is structured feedback: you can ask for a critique of an argument, cl…

Freemium · Shares 3 categories with Grammarly

Claude

Anthropic's assistant for writing, analysis and code

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, desktop, mobile and through an API. It handles long documents, structured analysis, writing and software development, and can use tools, browse connected data sou…

Freemium · Shares 3 categories with Grammarly

Wordtune

Rewrite and refine sentences as you draft

Wordtune focuses on rewriting: highlight a sentence and it offers alternative phrasings that are more formal, more casual, shorter or longer.

Freemium · Shares 3 categories with Grammarly

ChatGPT

OpenAI's general-purpose conversational assistant

ChatGPT is OpenAI's assistant for conversation, research, writing, data analysis and coding. It combines web search, file and image understanding, image generation and a growing set of connected tools in one interface, w…

Freemium · Shares 3 categories with Grammarly

Spellbook

AI contract drafting and review inside Word

Spellbook works as a Microsoft Word add-in, suggesting clause language, flagging unusual or missing terms, and reviewing a contract against a firm's playbook without leaving the document.

Contact for pricing · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Harvey

Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services

Harvey builds AI workflows for law firms and in-house legal teams, covering contract analysis, due diligence, research and drafting against a firm's own document set.

Contact for pricing · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Fireflies.ai

Meeting recorder that pushes notes into your CRM

Fireflies.ai records and transcribes calls across the major conferencing platforms, generates summaries and action items, and syncs the results into CRMs and project tools so meetings turn into updated records.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Perplexity

Answer engine that cites its sources

Perplexity answers questions by searching the web and writing a synthesised response with inline citations you can check, rather than a list of links.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Rezi

ATS-focused AI resume and cover letter builder

Rezi drafts and formats resumes with an emphasis on passing applicant tracking systems, scoring content against common screening criteria and rewriting bullet points into measurable achievements.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Raycast

Extensible macOS launcher with AI commands

Raycast replaces Spotlight with a launcher that runs commands, clipboard history, window management, snippets and scripts, extended by a large community store.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

QuillBot

Paraphrasing, summarising and grammar in one suite

QuillBot is a writing toolkit built around a paraphraser that rewrites text in several tones and lengths. It also includes a summariser, grammar checker, citation generator, translator and AI detector, widely used by stu…

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Figma

Collaborative canvas for interface design and prototyping

Figma is a browser-based design tool where interface design, prototyping, design systems and developer handoff happen in one shared file.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Frase

Research, brief and optimise SEO content in one place

Frase pulls the top results for a query, extracts headings and questions, and turns them into a content brief you can write against with a live optimisation score.

Subscription · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Cursor

AI coding agent built into a familiar editor

Cursor is a code editor built on VS Code that puts an AI agent at the centre of the workflow. It indexes your repository so completions, chat and multi-file edits stay grounded in your actual code, and it can run longer…

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Jasper

Marketing AI for brand-consistent campaign content

Jasper generates marketing copy, campaigns and assets while staying inside a brand's tone, style rules and product knowledge.

Subscription · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Otter.ai

Live meeting transcription with searchable summaries

Otter.ai joins Zoom, Teams and Google Meet calls to transcribe in real time, then produces summaries, action items and a searchable archive of everything said.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Nabla

Ambient clinical documentation inside the EHR

Nabla generates clinical notes from ambient conversation during a consultation, supporting dictation, coding assistance and multiple languages, and writing directly into Epic and other major EHR systems.

Contact for pricing · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Writesonic

Content and AI-search visibility platform for marketers

Writesonic combines AI writing with tracking of how a brand appears in AI search. It drafts and optimises articles, landing pages and ads, then monitors mentions and citations across assistants such as ChatGPT and Perple…

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

How to choose a Grammarly alternative

This site holds four things about each of these products that are worth comparing before you open any of them, and none of them is an opinion. The pricing model above is the one recorded on the listing — a product marked Contact for pricing will cost you a sales call before it costs you anything else. The open-source column decides whether leaving later is a migration or an export. The shared-category count is how close the overlap with Grammarly actually is: a tool sharing three categories is doing roughly the same job, one sharing a single category may only touch the same part of it. Upvotes are votes cast here by people with accounts, and they say what this site’s readers picked, not what is best for you.

What we do not hold is a test. Nobody here has run these products side by side, so the last step is yours: open two of them and give each one the job you actually have.

Grammarly alternatives FAQ

What can I use instead of Grammarly?
18 other writing tools listed here share a category with Grammarly: Lex, Claude, Wordtune, ChatGPT, Spellbook, Harvey, Fireflies.ai, Perplexity, Rezi, Raycast, QuillBot, Figma, Frase, Cursor, Jasper, Otter.ai, Nabla and Writesonic.
Are any Grammarly alternatives free?
Lex, Claude, Wordtune, ChatGPT, Fireflies.ai, Perplexity, Rezi, Raycast, QuillBot, Figma, Cursor, Otter.ai and Writesonic record a freemium one — a free tier with paid plans above it. Those are the models on their listings here, not a check of their current price lists.
Are any Grammarly alternatives open source?
None of the 18 on this page are listed as open source.
How was this list of Grammarly alternatives put together?
By query, not by hand. It is every published listing on this site that shares at least one category with Grammarly, ordered by how many categories it shares and then by upvotes here. It is not a ranking against Grammarly — we have not tested any of these products, and nothing on this page is a score.