I love how Grammarly improves my writing, but I hate how intrusive the desktop app is. It gets in my face, overlaying my writing and app controls. It’s worse than Clippy. Is there an alternative?
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I created a Keyboard Maestro Macro to Toggle Grammarly Desktop that’s tied to a keyboard shortcut. This makes it easy to summon Grammarly when I need it and dismiss it when I don’t.
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Isn’t Apple Intelligence going to do that after the .1 releases later this month?
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Yes, that is what I have heard and read.
I prefer LanguageTool to Grammarly.
Not sure if the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools is as robust. They work in different ways.
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I use a PopClip extension where I highlight a paragraph I typed and send to ChatGPT to fix my grammar. The PopClip extension will then replace the paragraphs. Painless and not intrusive.
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Ulysses has grammar checking built in.
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I recently stopped using Grammarly because I noticed they started using an LLM as a backend, rather than its old algorithm. The language it suggested was typical of an LLM. Since I already subscribe to ChatGPT, I decided to keep only that, as it does the same thing and much more.
I am also using Popclip to launch it, I have it open the native ChatGPT app so I can prompt to improve the grammar further:
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So do MS Word and iA Writer.
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I switched from Grammarly to ProWritingAid because Grammarly was annoying me with its overlay as well. PWA’s recent updates has massively improved its ability to be silenced. Its integration with Scrivener is also really useful to me.
It remains to be seen in Apple Intelligence will replace it in the future.
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I’ve never used Grammarly, but just a guess that you all will find Apple’s AI disappointing. I’ve been running the 15.1 Beta with AI. While you can use the tools just about everywhere as they are effectively a system service, they run more as a batch service rather than interactive.
You select the text you want to process. The AI chugs away and gives you the option to replace the entire text with its alternative. You can’t be selective and it doesn’t mark the changes it made so you have to manually compare, word by word, before you decide.
I had Apple AI proofread the above text and it only made one change: While you can use the tools just about everywhere as they are effectively a system service, they run more as a batch service rather than interactively.
Telling Apple AI to do a rewrite, I got:
I’ve never used Grammarly, but I suspect that many of you will find Apple’s AI disappointing. I’ve been testing the 15.1 Beta with AI enabled. While you can use the tools in various contexts, as they are essentially system services, they operate more like batch processing rather than interactive.
To use the AI, you select the text you want to process. The AI then performs the task and presents you with the option to replace the entire text with its alternative. Unfortunately, you can’t select specific words or phrases, and the AI doesn’t mark the changes it made. As a result, you have to manually compare the text word by word before making a decision.
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