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Grammarly vs. Free AI Tools: Do You Still Need It?

Kevin Stratvert via YouTube

Overview

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This video compares Grammarly with free AI writing tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to determine if premium grammar checking services remain valuable in 2025. Explore the unique strengths of each tool through practical demonstrations of email drafting, tone refinement, and style improvements. Learn what Grammarly excels at compared to its AI competitors, with detailed examples showing how each platform handles grammar correction, writing suggestions, and content generation. The comparison covers performance differences, integration capabilities across applications, and pricing considerations to help determine which tool best suits your writing needs. Complete with timestamps for easy navigation through sections on each tool's capabilities, overall comparisons, and final recommendations.

Syllabus

00:00 - Introduction
00:16 – What is Grammarly?
01:01 – What Grammarly does well
07:32 – What Microsoft Copilot does well
09:35 – What ChatGPT does well
10:56 – Overall comparison
11:33 – Pricing & integrations
12:05 – Final thoughts

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Kevin Stratvert

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