Comments on: The Best Proofreading Software To Use: 2024 Edition

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:07:37 +0000

In reply to Stephen Strum. Thanks Stephen. That means a lot to hear, and if you get any info back, let me know.

By: Stephen Strum

Stephen Strum — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 00:38:57 +0000

This review was extremely helpful. I am a medical writer and have used the free version of Grammarly. I found the premium version was recommending their style of writing as opposed to a style that is more commonly used and acceptable in creating science-related articles. So I do use Grammarly free version. I did not find PerfectIt to be sympatico with my writing style and I did not purchase it after the 14-day free trial.

I am sufficiently curious about the quality of translation from English into other languages to try Ginger or ProWritingAid. I have shared this URL with colleagues because it is very complete and easy to read. Thank you so much.
Stephen

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:36:06 +0000

In reply to Danny Lin. That is interesting. I haven't encountered this before. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll look for ways to address this the next time I update the article!

By: Danny Lin

Danny Lin — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:42:09 +0000

It’s interesting to paste your post “best meal delivery services for one person” to ProWritingAid and see the report.

Interestingly for the following sentence,
“Finding recipes and high-quality ingredients for these popular diets can be time consuming, but Factor 75 makes it simple by sending out delicious, fully prepared, single-serving meals every week.”

It says “Possible missing a hyphen” in “time consuming”. Then you click on “Realtime” twice to force it off and on and do a recheck, it then says “Don’t use a hyphen when this follows a verb”. This is really confusing.

By: Guhan

Guhan — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:23:40 +0000

Thanks for the reviews. This was very useful to me. Appreciate it! We need more people like you

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 13:19:30 +0000

In reply to Andy. Nice!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 11:23:33 +0000

Thanks for the great overview. I use Grammarly a lot and thankfully it now includes Google Docs in its Chrome Extension.

By: Jake Carter

Jake Carter — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:01:14 +0000

Good afternoon Kyle,

I’ve only used Grammarly. I’ve found the premium (paid version) very useful. On the Grammarly web site there’s a comparison between the free version and premium.

Until today, I hadn’t heard of these other tools. Daphne Gray-Grant, author of 8 1/2 STEPS TO WRITING FASTER, BETTER, suggested ProWritingAid in one of her online seminars. After reading your article, I think I’ll give it a spin.

I use Grammarly for all my daily writing (even emails) and academic writing. In other words, it follows me everywhere. Since I don’t typically use Google Docs, I wasn’t aware Grammarly won’t work with Google Docs. That’s a plus for ProWritingAid.

Price wise, ProWritingAid appears to be much more cost effective than Grammarly. A lifetime license for ProWritingAid is on sale right now for $239 bucks. At $140 per year, Grammarly is exorbitant by comparison if you plan to use these tools long term. I would have difficulty going back to life without a grammar/editing tool.

Odd as it may seem, I suspect I will use both Grammarly and ProWritingAid. Particularly for journal articles and long academic papers, more help is better.

I’m not putting in a plug for Daphne, but as a career editor, her opinion is worth noting. If the document is particularly dear to you, consider hiring a professional editor. I believe you offer this service.

Jake Carter
rcarte31@vols.utk.edu

By: Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:15:47 +0000

In reply to Rohan Yadav. Yes, using these software can help crosscheck your own grammar....especially when posting comments :)

By: Rohan Yadav

Rohan Yadav — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 05:03:24 +0000

Thanks for discussed about the software’s for a proofreading but i think a person who have good grammar and vocabulary skills who can also go through these software’s for a crosscheck.

By: Paco

Paco — Sat, 16 May 2020 17:29:59 +0000

Hi Sir!
I have a question. Is there any software that I can do copy and paste like in google traductor? Like, I put the text at the left and at the right shows me the correct version, to do the work faster. Good article and thanks!