Grammarly's Desktop Editor will stop working in 30 days

Started as a service aimed at university students looking to improve their English, Grammarly now targets a variety of users and provides a wide range of features, including AI-assisted writing/suggestions. Grammarly Editor for Windows and Mac has been also available as a standalone app for Windows and Mac. Today, its users received a warning that it will shut down in 30 days.

Regardless of the platform used to access it, the basic (free) Grammarly account only comes with grammar, spelling, and punctuation checking, conciseness analysis, tone detection, and auto-citations. The Premium tier, starting at $12/month, brings plagiarism checking, full-sentence rewrites, vocabulary suggestions, citation style formatting, and more. The Business subscription, as its name suggests, comes with multi-user/enterprise-focused features, including style guides, snippets, and so on, all for at least $15/user/month.

Thankfully, the demise of the Desktop Editor app doesn't mean that its users will be forced to find another similar service. First of all, the web-based Grammarly Editor now provides access to the generative AI assistance (100 prompts per month for free users, 1,000 for Premium, and 2,000 prompts/month/member for Business accounts). Last but not the least, Grammarly's own Desktop Editor alternatives are Grammarly for Windows and Grammarly for Mac, which will keep receiving updates in the foreseeable future and bring the features of this service in all apps and websites via a widget (exclusions can also be set).