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  • The company is being rebranded, not the product. Makes total sense, considering the brand equity, and also them going in the direction of productivity suite. Could be interesting.
    by nkko
  • Switched to https://languagetool.org/ and I'm super happy about it.
    by DLion
  • I've been a long time use of Grammarly. I have used it for most of my books. I have a 150 week long streak using it. I've used it as an example of good ux for AI.

    Now I'm considering vibe coding a replacement that just does grammar fixing...

    Ironic, because I don't want the AI writing, only the grammar checking

    by __mharrison__
  • I’m guessing their moat is pretty much gone. Not too surprised they’re pivoting
    by coffeebeqn
  • Given their extensive expertise in browser and OS plugins, I understand this move.

    You can foresee a challenging future for the Grammarly product for a long time. Now that the "improve writing with AI" feature is everywhere, there are fewer reasons to pay for their subscription (e.g., I didn't renew this year because I have multiple AI subscriptions, and Grammarly was the least critical of them).

    However, for me, the main advantage of Grammarly was the user experience of having mistakes and suggestions inline and just a click away while editing, as well as the quality of the suggestions (with an LLM chat, there's a lot of trial and error and junk you need to filter out).

    I understand their move, but I wish they had developed a good minimalist native text editor with the same Grammarly suggestions and click-to-correct interface.

    by diegof79
  • That is my number one issue with startups. They all start minimalist and end up bloated, some sooner than others, and what made them great disappears behind all this bloat. See: tyranny of the marginal user.
    by charlie0
  • They rebranded but the pricing and packaging options are still stupid and poorly segmenting the product. Basically, there's still a different (and higher) price to get email or not.

    On top of that, Grammarly's 3 products (Coda, Go and Grammarly itself) all look the same. What are honestly the differences between these three:

      * Product 1: Everyone’s favorite AI writing partner.
  * Product 2: The all-in-one AI workspace for teams
  * Product 3: AI that works in every app you use
    These people probably know what they're doing, and probably also have a lot of restrictions from previous users so migrating is hard. But I'd unify the value prop, just one product: AI Superpowers, including all the "features": Email, writing assistant etc.

    And then the packaging done per Enterprise features and metered.

    by santiagobasulto
  • I thought Grammarly's brand was far better known than "Superhuman". I've never seen a YouTube ad for the latter.
    by triceratops
  • Imagine searching web or any system really for "superhuman". Grammarly will be buried ten pages deep under other results.
    by Yizahi
  • The name Superhuman makes a lot more sense for a company with a suite of AI productivity products. The "Grammarly" name was too focused on their original use case of just improving writing.
    by jhaile
  • It seems off-putting and absurd to me. Especially given the result is neither super nor human.
    by libraryatnight
  • "Superhuman" gives me the creeps as a German.

    I know it has a positive connotation with super heroes in US culture but for me it sounds like Übermensch. Especially as it is the direct opposite of "subhuman".

    Plus outside of tech bro circles, people either actively hate generative AI or are at least super annoyed by the over-hype of it. Duolingo went all in on AI and got a huge shitstorm.

    Branding your company on a current hype that might either burst soon or/and leave lots of people unemployed is maybe not a wise decisions.

    by cardanome
  • It is a good product name. I can almost imagine an unimaginably rich AI company buying it just for the name.
    by 0cf8612b2e1e
  • "Grammarly announced Tuesday the acquisition of email client Superhuman in a push to build out its AI for its productivity suite. Neither companies provided details about the financial terms of the deal..... Superhuman was founded by Rahul Vohra, Vivek Sodera, and Conrad Irwin. The company raised more than $114 million in funding from backers including a16z, IVP, and Tiger Global, with its last valuation at $825 million, according to data from venture data analytics firm Traxcn." [1]

    Interested to understand what would be the terms of the deal if Superhuman was valued at $825mm and what the founders cleared if the all the VCs rounds had 2-3x liquidation preferences.

    edit: added source

    [1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/grammarly-acquires-ai-emai...

    by haltingproblem
  • Acquired 4 months ago, rebranding now.
    by nathancahill
  • A great tool if you want your own unique voice to blend seamlessly into the tidal wave of LLM-generated mush flooding the internet.
    by faefox
  • I really like your comment. Of course all the LLM-generated content really is for other LLMs to read/scrape.
    by port11
  • Grammarly is a powerful writing assistant that offers grammar, punctuation, and style suggestions to improve your writing. It’s an essential tool for maintaining your unique voice in a world filled with generic, LLM-generated content. With Grammarly, you can ensure your words stand out and resonate amidst the noise.
    by emil-lp
  • Recently switched to Harper https://writewithharper.com/, a vastly superior grammar checker
    by zonged
  • For those who find red squiggly lines too distracting, I built a lightweight Chrome extension (<1MB) that approaches grammar correction in a minimalistic way: Highlight text -> Select "Correct grammar" from the toolbar -> Replace text.

    The quality is unmatched because it uses SOTA models like GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini.

    Yes, you can use your own API key as well.

    https://jetwriter.ai

    by jerrygoyal
  • Harper is a nice alternative, but it's still rough around the edges.

    For instance, if you have a misspelled word, and the correction options come up, you can't get out of them and return to where you were by using the keyboard. You can hit Escape to close them, but it doesn't restore your place in the text field, so you have to use your mouse to get back where you were.

    As a programmer who tries to use the keyboard as much as possible, this (incredibly easy to fix, I'm sure) bug drives me crazy! Almost enough to make me go back to Grammarly.

    by hungryhobbit
  • Just as everything tends to evolve into something resembling a crab, all software seems to eventually become email — and, now, an LLM.
    by treetalker
  • This company cannot afford to ignore LLMs.
    by fullshark
  • To be fair, productivity and writing tools are a better fit for LLMs than a lot of other use cases.
    by MajimasEyepatch
  • “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” — Zawinski’s Law

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

    by Brajeshwar
  • This is getting to the antivirus bundle level of adding pointless features. I want grammarly to... check my grammar. I don't want it to write for me or suggest things.
    by jccalhoun
  • Too bad, management wants you to train this shitty chatbot they plan to replace you with
    by torginus
  • My Anker earbuds have a new update adding AI. :P
    by Mistletoe
  • Maybe it's just because I'm a reasonably decent writer but I used to know someone who was adamant about using Grammarly because it would increase traffic to my website--and I was basically "don't care."

    ADDED: Because it would make the writing friendlier to more people.

    by ghaff
  • Perhaps you do, but I think this misses the point. For-profit writing is the most successful use case for LLMs today. A significant proportion of all the docs I see at work reek of LLMs. A fair amount of articles you read in the media are written by LLMs. Lawyers use it for legal briefs (sometimes with comical results). Doctors use it for patient notes.

    Basically, a significant portion of the population doesn't like writing or isn't good at it and really wants a "get it done" button. I might not love it, but the market is there.

    So Grammarly is addressing a very real need. Further, it's really the only way for them to stay relevant, because you're getting AI editing / writing features in Gmail, Docs, Office 365, etc.

    by chemotaxis