

Other features include a plagiarism checker, a vocabulary booster, and a check to be sure you’re writing your dates, abbreviations, times, and capitalizations the same way throughout the document. For example, you may write an academic paper and email differently. You can also customize how Grammarly checks for errors according to different document types. While the free version highlights errors in red, if you upgrade, the app highlights words or phrases that could be better in yellow, along with suggestions for improvements. “It's more detailed than what you get with the built-in grammar checkers of both Google Docs and Office 365.” “I appreciate the descriptions' clear language and use of sample sentences to illustrate mistakes,” Ben Moore writes in PC Mag. It dramatically cuts down on the time you spend looking up grammatical conventions. If you hover over the word, Grammarly suggests some fixes and offers to tell you more about the problem.

It underlines each potential problem in red, like you’re used to seeing in Google Docs and Microsoft Word. So whether you’re typing away in Gmail or LinkedIn (basically anything with a text field), Grammarly will act as a second pair of eyes and scan for basic spelling and grammar errors. Grammarly’s browser extension for Google Chrome works by checking everything you write on the web in real-time. But I don’t doubt that everyone can be a better writer, and Grammarly can help with that.

The Grammarly homepage proclaims that “Everyone Can Be a Great Writer.” I have my doubts. Below I’ve written up the top five productivity Google Chrome extensions in terms of users, in descending order. I then ranked the remaining extensions in terms of popularity, from most to least based on number of users.
