[ProWritingAid] 1. ProWritingAid Review. Good English-improving Writing Software!

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ProWritingAid review. The English grammar correction software is good in performance but cumbersome to use.

I am trying to make my WordPress blog multilingual. As part of those attempts, I used the multilingual plugin called Translatepress, and now I am using another plugin called WPML. Of course, I don’t have a big income yet…

Anyway, the multilingual plugin is just a kind of board that allows you to make your website in various languages such as English, and ultimately you have to write the translated content yourself. The multilingual plugins mentioned above have the function of automatically translating blog content using Google Translate and other services. However, as you all know, the translation quality of Korean-English is not good enough, so users have to handle it themselves in the end. As a result, I found a way to use grammar correction software separately. Among these grammar correction software, Grammarly is probably the most famous, but I am also using ProWritingAid in addition to Grammarly.

This post contains many comparisons to Grammarly for the purpose of overall explanation. Please refer to this part.

ProWritingAid review. The English grammar correction software is good in performance but cumbersome to use.

Prowritingaid Interface — Personally, I Don’T Like The Interface…

Prowritingaid Summary — Personally, I Don’T Like The Interface…

ProWritingAid’s basic interface is a bit disappointing, but its its advantage is that it is thorough and detailed.

To be honest, the basic interface of ProWritingAid is a bit disappointing. At first, I didn’t know how to use it, but I could roughly understand it as I used it. Once you click the “Summary” button at the top of the screen, you can get a general overview of how much you need to fix your writing. Then, it checks each part such as structure, words, grammar, and style one by one and modify the parts that are lacking. I like that it is systematic, but the interface is not very good, so it is a bit cumbersome to use.

It’s like something analog. Also, I felt that there were many unnecessary spaces, and when I personally use writing apps or software, the most emphasized thing is the spacing between sentences. I thought it was strange that this part was not modified. Also, since grammar correction is the main function, so it is not very good at formatting and editing. It also feels a bit like a word processor. MS Office’s so-called “ribbon menu” has been adopted by many of softwares, but ProWritingAid seems to have been influenced by it in a half-hearted way.

However, the biggest advantage of ProWritingAid is that it is more detailed than other apps when correcting grammar. When using the software, you can write in a variety of styles, such as formal, academic, or informal. The style you choose will depend on the purpose of your writing. I’m not a native speaker and I haven’t tested it one by one, so I don’t know exactly what the difference is, but if you can set it more precisely according to your own purpose, it looks okay at first glance.

This is also the case for the Chrome and MS Word versions that will be explained later. Most of the changes are accompanied by detailed explanations, so you can understand why they are being made. However, these changes are not mandatory or compulsory. This is something that I like about ProWritingAid. In other words, we can say that it is software which is faithfully performing the basic function of the software.

ProWritingAid is excellent value for money.

Another advantage ProWritingAid has over Grammarly is its price. Usually, the price is not that expensive, but you can buy a lifetime pass with Black Friday discounts. Of course, Grammarly is also at a level where it is almost always on sale, but usually, these apps are only discounted for the first year and then return to their original price from the next year, but prowritingaid does not have such a thing.

It’s a pity that ProWritingAid doesn’t have its own app

Another disappointing thing about this app is that there is no separate app for smartphones. Of course, it seems that the development team has not completely overlooked the idea, as the web version appears to be somewhat usable on smartphones as well. However, it is still not as efficient as the actual app, as expected. While it is true that there may be a shortage of manpower for services like this, it is still disappointing.

In the past, Grammarly had only an app for iOS, while Android had only a keyboard app. However, when I recently checked while making revisions to my writing, I discovered that an app had appeared for Android as well. I have a desire to keep up with that trend to some extent. Even though I can tell what kind of usage is being encouraged by the app, I still think it’s important to be able to use it on a smartphone.

ProWritingAid is software that seems to be more recommended for use as a plugin.

In addition to the above, I am also disappointed that this software is updated quite slowly. This article discusses many of the shortcomings of the software. However, at least I could understand what the developers were trying to achieve in this part. I felt that the producers were more encouraging the use of the software as a plugin for other apps than as a standalone app.

ProWritingAid is writing software with plugins for Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Not only that but there is also a Google Chrome extension. The fact that Chrome extensions exist means they can be used in several web browsers such as Edge and Firefox. I may be wrong, but I feel like ProWritingAid updates its Word plugin more often than its standalone software.

In fact, the problem of the interface being poor, which was mentioned above, was hardly felt in Word or my Vivaldi browser. As mentioned above, the feeling of emptiness is less, and the problem of the editor itself can be resolved because Word and Google Docs have good editor functions.

Users may also want to use it as a plugin. For example, for people who use Scrivener, or who don’t use MS Word or Google Docs, an own editor seems to have been created. The intention is good, but the performance is…

This can be a good option if you mainly write in English on your desktop.

I’ve said a lot of good and bad things, but in the end, ProWritingAid is a software that is somewhat cumbersome to use despite its detailed and thorough features. So, personally, there are a lot of things that would be nice to improve, so it’s a pity. Especially the editor. However, if you mainly write on a desktop, it is likely that you are using one of MS Word or Google Docs. Therefore, I think there is some room for consideration.

To be honest, I think Grammarly is better in many ways except for the price. Even with the free version of Grammarly, there is no difficulty in using it to some extent. However, the two apps have subtly different grammar corrections. Therefore, I am currently using these two softwares and Microsoft Editor at the same time. To be honest, I don’t really like the editor, but it sometimes points out things that the other two don’t. Anyway, it is one of the most representative software mentioned as a substitute for Grammarly, so I hope it will be improved in the future.