Grammarly alternatives

Sharing a category with Grammarly is what puts a product on this page at all. These 18 writing tools are the closest of the ones that do, ordered by how much of Grammarly’s categories and tags each one covers and how closely its own description reads like Grammarly’s — 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
WordtuneFreemiumNo11
Flawlessly AIFreeNo0
ChatGPTFreemiumNo10
LexFreemiumNo37
ClaudeFreemiumNo35
SuperhumanSubscriptionNo18
Jetwriter AIFreemiumNo0
ProWritingAidFreemiumNo0
DeepLFreemiumNo0
Yomu AIFreemiumNo0
SaplingFreemiumNo0
QuillBotFreemiumNo36
Wispr FlowFreemiumNo0
LogicBallsFreemiumNo0
RytrFreemiumNo9
HyperWriteFreemiumNo0
Compose AIFreemiumNo0
MonicaFreemiumNo0

Wordtune

Rewrite and refine sentences as you draft

  • Freemium
  • Shares 3 categories and 1 tag with Grammarly

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

Flawlessly AI

Free AI grammar and writing checker

  • Free
  • Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Grammarly

Flawlessly AI is an online writing assistant that corrects spelling, grammar, punctuation, and tone to help users produce polished text.

ChatGPT

OpenAI's general-purpose conversational assistant

  • Freemium
  • Shares 3 categories with Grammarly

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…

Lex

Word processor with AI feedback for serious writers

  • Freemium
  • Shares 3 categories with Grammarly

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…

Claude

Anthropic's assistant for writing, analysis and code

  • Freemium
  • Shares 3 categories with Grammarly

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…

Superhuman

Fast email client with AI triage and drafting

  • Subscription
  • Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Superhuman is an email client built around speed and keyboard control, with split inboxes, follow-up reminders and read status.

Jetwriter AI

Personalized AI writing assistant for web and browser

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Jetwriter AI is a browser extension and application that assists with writing, grammar correction, translation, and email drafting across various websites.

ProWritingAid

The complete toolkit for storytellers

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Grammarly

ProWritingAid provides writing and editing software designed to help authors and writers finish their books. The platform includes planning tools, grammar and style checkers, manuscript analysis, and story critique featu…

DeepL

AI-powered translation and language platform

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Grammarly

DeepL is an end-to-end AI language platform providing accurate text, document, and real-time voice translation alongside a writing assistant.

Yomu AI

Academic writing AI assistant

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Grammarly

Yomu AI is an AI-powered assistant designed for students and researchers to write essays, research papers, literature reviews, and theses.

Sapling

AI language model toolkit and assistant

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with Grammarly

Sapling provides an API, SDK, and turnkey integrations for tasks such as grammar and spell checking, autocomplete, AI detection, paraphrasing, and sentiment analysis.

QuillBot

Paraphrasing, summarising and grammar in one suite

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

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…

Wispr Flow

AI-powered voice dictation for every app

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Wispr Flow is an AI voice-to-text application that turns spoken speech into polished writing across various devices and applications.

LogicBalls

AI that verifies before it generates

  • Freemium
  • Shares 3 categories with Grammarly

LogicBalls provides an AI platform designed to clarify and verify user intent before generating outputs. It features thousands of specialized smart tools for writing, research, explanation, and analysis across multiple s…

Rytr

Lightweight AI copywriter with use-case templates

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Rytr is a straightforward AI writing assistant with templates for emails, product descriptions, ad copy, blog outlines and social posts across many languages and tones.

HyperWrite

AI writing assistant with autocomplete and research tools

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

HyperWrite is an AI-powered writing assistant and document editor that offers predictive sentence completions, content generation, and research capabilities.

Compose AI

AI-powered writing assistant and autocomplete extension

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Compose AI is a browser extension that helps users write emails, documents, and messages faster. It provides sentence autocompletion across web tools and generates text on demand using artificial intelligence.

Monica

All-in-one AI assistant and productivity extension

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Grammarly

Monica is an all-in-one AI assistant powered by leading models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini. Available as a browser extension, desktop app, and mobile app, it offers capabilities such as AI chat, web and video summarizat…

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 categories and tags under each entry are how close the overlap with Grammarly actually is: a tool covering all of Grammarly’s categories is doing roughly the same job, one sharing a single category may only touch the same part of it — and a tool can be high on this page on the strength of its description alone, which means it describes the same work in the same words rather than that anybody checked it does that work well. 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: Wordtune, Flawlessly AI, ChatGPT, Lex, Claude, Superhuman, Jetwriter AI, ProWritingAid, DeepL, Yomu AI, Sapling, QuillBot, Wispr Flow, LogicBalls, Rytr, HyperWrite, Compose AI and Monica.
Are any Grammarly alternatives free?
Flawlessly AI record a free model; Wordtune, ChatGPT, Lex, Claude, Jetwriter AI, ProWritingAid, DeepL, Yomu AI, Sapling, QuillBot, Wispr Flow, LogicBalls, Rytr, HyperWrite, Compose AI and Monica 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. Sharing a category with Grammarly is what qualifies a listing at all; these 18 are the closest of those, measured by how much of Grammarly's categories and tags each one covers and how closely its description reads like Grammarly's. That is a measure of closeness and not a ranking against Grammarly — we have not tested any of these products, and nothing on this page is a score.