ProWritingAid Grammar Checker and Writing Coach

For the smarter writer. A grammar checker, style editor, and writing mentor in one package. Learn how to improve your writing. Also includes a plagiarism checker.

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Overview

ProWritingAid is your online writing editor and personal writing coach. 

This free version runs on the first 500 words of your document. Full reports are available by purchasing the premium version, or by signing up for a 14-day free trial.

Of course it checks your grammar but it does much more to help you improve your writing:

- Check for consistency of spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization;
- Eliminate clichés and redundancies;
- Check for plagiarism and unoriginal content;
- Online grammar and spelling checker;
- Improve readability;
- Find overused words;
- Improve dull paragraph structure;
- Find repeated words and phrases;
- Eliminate vague, abstract, and complex words from your writing;
- High quality copy-editing and proofreading services;

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Nancy C Walker

August 15, 2023

I like ProWritingAid as a concept, but the extension is awful and frustrating. The program is supposed to underline writing errors and when the cursor hovers over the error a window is supposed to open to give suggestions on how to fix the issue. In reality, the program randomly underlines sections of text that have nothing to do with the writing error. For example in the sentence "Cristmis is a holiday." It might underline holiday and then give the suggestion to replace the word with "Christmas". That's assuming the new window opens at all. Most of the time, the new window will work with the first 1 or 2 errors and then stop working entirely. Additionally, when the new window does work, it blocks the text being edited, so there is no way to fix the error without some keyboard shenanigans and using the arrow keys for navigation. Overall, the extension isn't worth the headache because everything has to be copy and pasted to the website for any of ProWritingAid's features to work.

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Jake Pool

July 16, 2023

I like ProWritingAid on its own. But this GDocs addon isn't up to speed. It's nice when it actually works correctly. But there's a huge U/X issue with notification placement. For example, when I have a 'complex sentence' the notification blocks the sentence so I can't correct it without ignoring the notification. Why don't I use the app here and click 'Rephrase Sentence'? Because it goes into an endless loading loop 80% of the time an no suggestion pops up. Regardless, I should be able to correct it how I see fit without an annoying notification block in the way.

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Paul Smyth

May 11, 2023

I would rate it highly but it insists on telling me the English spellings are incorrect because they are the "UK" spelling. 1. There is no such things as British/UK English in the same way that there is no such thing as French French. There is English and there are derivatives such as American English. 2. Here's a suggestion, let me choose the correct English spelling instead of assuming that it's wrong. 3. The arrogance of Americans to assume that their ruination of English is correct. I can't believe that I pay for this

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Ron Taggart

May 3, 2023

When the program works, it is great. When it doesn't, it's beyond annoying. Do not, under any circumstances use the "improve document" option. It is a buggy mess. It will open a window within google docs that acts like a notepad and show you all of your mistakes. BUT it only really works on small documents, and tells you to try breaking your document into smaller parts. And if you implement changes, it removes any formatting from your document. The key that I have found is that the program works on a certain number of errors before it becomes unresponsive. Write your document out and either ignore or disable the app. When you go back to edit, work through from the beginning and remove as many errors as possible (in the normal document, not the improve mode). Only by doing so will you be able to work through errors further along in the document. Even "errors" that aren't wrong, make sure to dismiss them. This will work for about 30 pages before even doing that stops working. I really wish this program would just work without the little gimmicks. Hopefully they fix it. Especially since I paid for the "premium" version.

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Moeez Awan

November 24, 2022

Literally Nothing works. PC app doesn't work, google docs add ons on 3 different browsers don't work. Have to drag and drop blocks of text onto their website like it's 2003

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Amanda Peters

April 7, 2023

This app needs some major work before it will work well with google docs, at the moment even zooming on the document doesn't work with the add on. Sometimes I get the highlights to tell me there is an issue sometimes I don't. When I do have highlighted text, hovering over it for further information more often than not is a lesson in futility. Needs more work to it before I would recommend. I wish I'd known this before paying.

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Jenn Heathers

June 23, 2023

Love the full version of prowriting aid, however the Docs add-on is a bit glitchy, and often times stops working entirely in the middle of a document. A touch frustrating when using it for a tight-deadline project.

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Kelli Stremmel

January 27, 2023

I really like ProWritingAid, as it offers great feedback for work that it checks. For my personal use, the reports and feedback are a little too much, and I prefer something that just focuses on the basics. If you are looking for a very thorough check of your work, this is a great Add-On to use.

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Harrison Mitchell

October 17, 2022

If you do any kind of academic writing, skip ProWritingAid. If you use footnotes in your documents, you can expect it to delete random sentences and mess with your formatting. This is what their support team told me. They fail to mention this giant flaw anywhere on their website prior to purchasing. It also gives really silly and useless suggestions. The internal dictionary is also deficient. It thinks "unattributed" isn't a word, among many others.

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December 23, 2022

Any app or service that requires account creation for "free" usage is an immediate red flag! Avoid, plenty of ethical services in this space out there...

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