- Are you looking for the best grammar checking app in 2020?
Have you heard of Grammarly?
Have you heard of ProWritingAid?
Are you wondering which one's going to be worth it?
Well, on today's video we're gonna be talking about
Grammarly versus ProWritingAid,
which is the best grammar checking app in 2020?
Stay tuned.
Hi I'm Dale L. Roberts, a best selling author
as well as a self-publishing advocate who wants to show you
how to publish books that sell.
Full disclosure before we get any further into the video.
I'm gonna be referring you over to some affiliate links,
that means I will make a small profit for any sale
of each of the licenses for Grammarly or ProWritingAid.
It doesn't affect your cost,
it does greatly help out in supporting this channel.
So now that we've got that out of the way,
let's talk about Grammarly versus ProWritingAid.
Let's take a look at Grammarly first of all,
and its cost and features.
Now there is a free model which comes with the basics
so you're just gonna get the standard grammar
and spelling and punctuation checker.
It's not gonna be anything too fancy,
probably the same thing you're gonna get through,
say Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
They also provide site support and also you have the
Microsoft Word add on so meaning that you actually
can add on an additional Grammarly support inside there,
so not only would you get Microsoft Word's
spelling and grammar checker,
but you also have Grammarly to work with.
Now there's also the premium model.
This is my preferred avenue and the one I've used for
a few years now.
And it runs about 11.66 per month, you pay annually.
So it comes out about $139 and 92 cents annually,
and you're probably going (makes sounds).
Okay, you get all the free stuff
and you also get full site access and all of the features,
and all the features are just you can go and
put what type of document you're gonna use,
what type of voice you want.
It's a real in-depth analysis
of the type of document you want to produce.
Now, the other model is the business model,
and that's if for some reason,
you want to have the premium access for a team.
So if you're having like say three people or more,
so if you've got like say a business that you'll
want to share Grammarly with everybody,
then this is the option you wanna shoot for,
and it runs about 12.50 annually,
which is about $150 total for one whole year.
Now summarize ProWritingAid,
all right now their cost and features
are pretty much the same, but you're gonna discover
they come at a bit of a cheaper cost
than what it does for Grammarly.
But don't just automatically assume ProWritingAid is
going to win the battle on this one just from being cheaper.
Now the free option has a summary report of key issues,
19 writing reports, edit 500 words at a time.
Now notice there's a little bit of a ceiling here,
we can't put too many words in there before they're like,
no you're gonna have to upgrade.
And you can only use it online.
So in other words, you will be able to use anything
that's gonna be desktop or any kind of plugin for
any type of apps.
Now for the premium version, you're paying $79 annually.
So you compare that to Grammarly,
that you are doing about $140 annually
and ProWritingAid is only $79 annually.
And so you get everything that's in the free version
but there's no word limit, you get a desktop version
and integrations with Microsoft Word, Google Docs,
Chrome, Scrivener, and so freaking much more.
I honestly it just, it would probably take another
30 minutes for me to tell you all the stuff.
There's also something that's called Premium Plus.
Now you may be scratching your head going,
oh, maybe this is the business option.
No, no, it's not the business option.
Premium Plus is $89, so $10 more.
You get everything I mentioned before from premium
but they also give you 50 plagiarism checks per year.
50 plagiarism checks.
Mind you you get plagiarism checks
unlimited when you go with Grammarly,
something to think about.
So let's go ahead and with this discuss the pros and cons
of Grammarly versus ProWritingAid.
Starting out with the pros, Grammarly and ProWritingAid
have a free model that's more than sufficient.
If you just need checks on grammatical errors and typos,
then either one of these are gonna be more than sufficient.
I'm gonna give the leg up to Grammarly, and here's why.
It has the less limits on the number of words you can check,
whereas ProWritingAid they stop you at 500 words.
The next pro of Grammarly and ProWritingAid
of course is going to be
every imaginable program and device supported.
So this is kinda cool that you can just use just about
any one of them but I'm gonna have to,
though ProWritingAid has a lot of coverage on just about
everything imaginable,
I'm told you can do an entire video on it,
Grammarly has a leg up,
they actually have an app for your phone that you can use.
I used the app and was fairly underwhelmed,
but I know a few viewers and followers of this channel
shared with me that they really liked the app
and found it very useful.
So Grammarly is gonna get the leg up on this one.
The next pro of Grammarly and ProWritingAid
is the different styles and reports.
Now I'm gonna have to get more of a leg up to ProWritingAid.
Though you can get a ton of reports and get it to
where it edits in a certain fashion to Grammarly,
it's way more granular over on ProWritingAid.
And in fact, I've even heard some fiction authors
swear by ProWritingAid versus Grammarly.
So if you're a fiction author, then chances are very likely
ProWritingAid is gonna be a good fit for you.
Now comes the cons of Grammarly and ProWritingAid.
Let's get the first one out the rip here.
It is the free version is just simply a tease, okay?
You will get teased with fixing a few innocuous mistakes
and some typos, but when it comes to actually
syntax and any kind of heavy editing,
you're gonna have to pony up the expenses,
so it's just not enough to really like get it to where,
you know, oh wow free this is awesome.
It's, it's free, you get what you pay for
and I'm gonna tell you that there's really
no leg up on this one, there's no real winner.
To me I think Grammarly does give you a little bit more
editing for free but I mean free is free.
The next con of Grammarly and ProWritingAid
is the site integration.
Now, I'm just gonna have to say this that some sites,
both of them have extensions on your browser
that will work for like say YouTube or Facebook or Twitter
or so on and so forth.
And some tend to be a bit wonky,
but I'm gonna have to actually say for the cons,
ProWritingAid kind of gets a little bit more of the leg down
if you will, on this one because it was extra wonky.
Now this has been about a year ago that I used it last
in some of the sites and when I was typing out,
it would give me some recommendations
to fix and I would say okay, I'll do that.
And then all of a sudden it would just copy and paste
something else into it and it would just be a jumbled mess.
I did not like any of the extension plugin for ProWritingAid
so for that reason that's a con for them.
And the last con is gonna come down to both Grammarly
and ProWritingAid and the features.
If you're the type of person that gets overwhelmed
that the number of features, try to go through each one
of them for Grammarly compared to ProWritingAid,
and you might get overwhelmed by ProWritingAid
whereas with Grammarly, they kinda just show you
a good overhead view and they don't show you all
of the exact reports that you can pull from it.
And so I think for that reason,
they get the leg up on this one.
So the cons are gonna go more in favor of ProWritingAid,
because it's just, it's a little overwhelming.
But here's the thing is you don't have to use
all the features, really honestly
I even had a viewer that like called me,
I think you don't have to use all the features,
just use the ones you need and leave the rest of it alone.
But before I decide to pick a winner,
I'm gonna do something different here.
Instead of me being this influencer telling you
who is the winner of Grammarly versus ProWritingAid,
I'm gonna have you decide down inside the comments
which of these apps is best to you,
which one sounds the best to invest in?
I'd love for you to go ahead and give each one of them
a shot when you visit Grammarly and ProWritingAid
through any of the links of DaleLinks.com/Grammarly
and DaleLinks.com/ProWritingAid.
And speaking of Grammarly, I actually have
an in-depth tutorial on how to use the software,
how to install it, how to run it the best that you can.
Whether it's free or premium,
you can take a look at this very next video
where we do the Grammarly deep dive tutorial.
I'll see you there.