Grammarly vs. Ginger: Which One is Better in 2022?

Eu vi um post no Facebook hoje à noite que dizia que você é julgado pela sua ortografia. Não tenho certeza se isso é verdade em bate-papos e mensagens de texto, mas certamente é nos negócios.

A Business News Daily survey reveals that spelling errors change the way people see you and that most business people find typos unacceptable. Yet, on average, we’re quite poor at spelling and grammar—and that’s true of all age groups and educational backgrounds.

Grammarly and Ginger are two popular applications that check for and correct errors before you send critical messages. How do they compare? Read this comparison review to find out.

Grammarly checks spelling and grammar for free. For a fee, it will help you improve your writing and guard against copyright violations. Grammarly works on all popular platforms, integrates with Microsoft Word and Google Docs, and is the winner of our Melhor verificador gramatical arredondar para cima. Leia nosso completo Revisão gramatical Aqui.

Gengibre is an affordable Grammarly alternative. It won’t check for plagiarism, but it covers most of the other features that Grammarly offers.

Grammarly vs. Ginger: comparação direta

1. Plataformas suportadas

Where do you do your writing? Is it Word, Google Docs, even on your phone or tablet? That’s where you need your grammar checker to work for you. Fortunately, Grammarly and Ginger run on many platforms.

• On desktop: Grammarly. Both run on Windows, but only Grammarly runs on a Mac.
• On mobile: Ginger. You can access both apps on both iOS and Android. Grammarly provides keyboards, while Ginger offers full mobile apps.
• Suporte ao navegador: Grammarly. Ambos oferecem extensões de navegador para Chrome e Safari, mas o Grammarly também suporta Firefox e Edge.

Vencedora: Gramaticalmente. Ele supera o Ginger fornecendo um aplicativo para Mac e suportando mais navegadores. No entanto, a solução móvel da Ginger é melhor.

2. Integrações

Em vez de usar um novo aplicativo para toda a sua escrita, você pode achar mais prático acessar uma verificação ortográfica e gramatical do aplicativo em que está escrevendo. Além disso, inserir e retirar seu texto desses aplicativos independentes requer um pouco de trabalho, e você pode perder a formatação e as imagens no processo.

Muitos escritores usam o Microsoft Word. Mesmo que não escrevam nele, muitas vezes eles são obrigados a enviar seu trabalho nesse formato para que as alterações do editor possam ser rastreadas. Felizmente, você pode instalar um plug-in do Office para verificar o trabalho antes de enviá-lo – Grammarly no Mac e no Windows e Ginger no Windows apenas.

Grammarly vai um passo além ao integrar o Google Docs, outro aplicativo comumente usado por escritores e editores, especialmente aqueles que escrevem para a web.

Vencedora: Grammarly. It plugs into Microsoft Office on both Mac and Windows and supports Google Docs.

3. Verificação ortográfica

Há um artigo no Entrepreneur.com intitulado “Não subestime o quanto a ortografia é importante nas comunicações empresariais”. O autor cita um estudo da BBC News que descobriu que erros de ortografia podem significar perda de vendas e perda de dinheiro – na verdade, um único erro de ortografia pode reduzir as vendas online pela metade.

The article recommends passing everything you write past a second pair of eyes. If you can’t find a person, a grammar checker is the next best thing. How reliable are the eyes of our two apps? I created a test document to find out. It contains these intentional spelling errors:

• “Errow,” an actual spelling mistake that any spelling checker should easily identify since it’s not in the dictionary.
• “Apologise,” which is spelled correctly in the UK but not in the US. As an Australian, I often need help with this type of error. I wanted to see if they’d pick it up, so I set both apps to detect US English.
• “Alguém”, “ninguém” e “cena” estão todos escritos corretamente, mas estão errados no contexto. Ambos os aplicativos afirmam fazer verificações sensíveis ao contexto, e eu queria testar essas declarações.
• “Gooogle,” a misspelled company name. Spelling checkers aren’t always reliable when it comes to correcting proper nouns, and I hoped that these internet-connected apps could do better.

Even Grammarly’s free plan checks spelling and grammar. It checked my document in Google Docs and successfully corrected every spelling mistake.

Assinei o Ginger Premium. Como ele não suporta o Google Docs, tive que copiar e colar o texto em seu aplicativo online. Sua verificação ortográfica foi útil e identificou todos os erros, exceto um. Na frase “É o melhor verificador gramatical que já vi”, a última palavra deve ser escrita “visto”. Gengibre sentiu falta.

I then had Ginger check a test email I composed in Gmail’s web interface. Again, it corrected most errors but missed a big one: “I hop you are welle.”

When checking the same email, Grammarly corrected every error successfully except for the first line, “Helo Jonh.”

Vencedora: Grammarly. Both apps found most of the errors. In my tests, though, Grammarly consistently does better. It’s been rare for Grammarly to miss a mistake in the last year and a half that I’ve been using it. I can’t say the same for Ginger.

4. Verificação gramatical

Outro artigo no Entrepreneur.com é intitulado “Gramática de e-mail ruim não é boa para conseguir um emprego ou um encontro”. A gramática ruim cria uma primeira impressão ruim que é difícil de superar. Precisamos ter confiança em nossos corretores gramaticais! Meu documento de teste também continha vários erros gramaticais:

• “Mary and Jane finds the treasure,” a mismatch between the number of the verb (singular) and the subject (plural).
• “Less mistakes” uses the wrong quantifier, which should be “fewer.”
• “I would like it, if Grammarly checked…” contains an unneeded comma.
• “Mac, Windows, iOS and Android” is missing a comma after “iOS.” The final comma in a list is known as the “Oxford comma,” and its use is debated. I’m curious to see what these two apps make of it.

Grammarly correctly identified each error, including the missing Oxford comma. In my experience, Grammarly is the most reliable app when it comes to punctuation. Other grammar checkers tend to leave it alone for the most part.

Ginger is a prime example of missing punctuation errors. It didn’t identify the extra or missing comma. I was curious, so I added a sentence with some blatant punctuation errors. Even here, Ginger only flagged the use of double commas. It didn’t even correct a double period I added.

More disappointing is that it missed both grammar errors. The first error is a little tricky since the word directly before “finds” is “Jane,” and “Jane finds the treasure” makes perfect sense. It didn’t parse the sentence well enough to discover that the subject is actually “Mary and Jane”—its AI isn’t intelligent enough.

Ginger isn’t the only grammar checker to miss this error. It’s interesting to note that when I change the sentence to “People finds…” every program that I tested found the mistake. That makes Grammarly’s success even more impressive.

Vencedora: Grammarly. It identified all of the grammar and punctuation errors while Ginger didn’t recognize any of them.

5. Melhorias no estilo de escrita

Ambos os aplicativos podem melhorar a qualidade da sua escrita, especialmente quando se trata de clareza e legibilidade. A página Premium da Grammarly afirma: “A Grammarly Premium vai além da gramática para garantir que tudo o que você escreve seja claro, envolvente e profissional”. A página inicial de Ginger ostenta: “Ginger estará lá para garantir que seu texto seja claro e do mais alto calibre”.

Grammarly marks spelling and grammar errors in red. Grammarly Premium also advises you about your writing’s clarity, engagement, and delivery.

To find out how helpful Grammarly’s advice is, I signed up for a free trial of its Premium plan and had it check the draft of one of my articles. Here’s some of the feedback I received:

• Because the word “important” is often overused, Grammarly recommended I use the word “essential” instead. That makes the sentence more engaging.
• A palavra “normal” é igualmente usada em excesso. Grammarly sugere que “padrão”, “regular” ou “típico” são alternativas menos chatas.
• I also frequently used the word “rating,” so Grammarly suggested I use other words like “score” or “grade.”
• Sometimes I used several words where one would do. Grammarly suggested alternatives—for example, “daily” instead of “on a daily basis.”
• Grammarly also warned about long, complex sentences, taking into account the intended audience you select. It left me to work out the best way to simplify them and suggested splitting them into multiple sentences.

I wouldn’t make every change that Grammarly suggested, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t helpful. I particularly appreciated notifications about repeated words and complex sentences.

Ginger takes a different approach: Instead of giving suggestions, it provides tools, starting with a dictionary and thesaurus. Unfortunately, you can’t click on a word to get its definition or synonyms and have to type them manually.

Another tool is the Sentence Rephraser, which lets you “explore different ways to phrase your text.” That sounds helpful, but I’m disappointed with its implementation. Rather than rearranging your sentences, it merely replaces a single word, usually with a synonym.

Ginger’s final tool is an online personal trainer. It takes note of your mistakes and gives you multiple-choice drills to help you improve. However, they seem to be designed for students rather than professionals.

Vencedora: Grammarly, which highlights where you can improve the clarity, engagement, and delivery of your text, taking your intended audience into account.

6. Verifique se há plágio

Ginger does not include this feature, so Grammarly wins by default. It compares your document with billions of web pages, academic papers, and published works to make sure there are no copyright infringements, then links to the sources so you can check for yourself and cite them correctly.

Vencedora: Gramaticalmente. Ginger não consegue verificar se há plágio.

7. Fácil de usar

Both apps highlight errors in the text and allow you to make corrections with the click of a mouse. They approach this in slightly different ways. With Grammarly, you click on each underlined word to see an explanation of your error and some suggestions. By clicking on the desired word, it will automatically replace the incorrect one in the text.

Rather than working word-by-word, Ginger can make corrections line-by-line. When you click on an error, it suggests how to reword the entire line, which you can achieve with a single click. If you only want to correct a single word, hovering over it will give you the chance to correct it. The app doesn’t explain your errors.

Vencedora: Tie. Both apps are easy to use.

8. Preço e valor

Let’s start with the value offered by each app’s free plan. Grammarly wins here by offering unlimited spelling and grammar checks with full functionality. Ginger’s free plan will do a limited number of checks (the number is unspecified) and only works online.

It’s with the Premium plans that Ginger seems to have a significant cost advantage. Grammarly’s yearly subscription is $139.95, while Ginger’s is $89.88, about 36% cheaper. Their monthly subscription prices are very close, $20 and $20.97, respectively.

They’re the currently advertised prices, but the value proposition is a little more complicated than it looks. Ginger’s Premium plan offers fewer features, and its current prices are listed as 30% off. It’s not clear if that’s a limited-time offer. If it is, the cost may increase to $128.40.

Meanwhile, Grammarly regularly offers significant discounts. Since signing up for a free plan, I have been emailed a discount offer every month; they’ve ranged from 40% to 55% off. If I was to take advantage of the offer of 45% off I have in my inbox right now, a yearly subscription would cost $76.97, which is somewhat cheaper than Ginger’s current price.

Vencedora: Grammarly. While at first look it seems that Ginger is significantly cheaper, we need to take into account Grammarly’s very generous free plan, as well as discounts that are regularly offered.

Veredicto final

Errors in your writing affect your reputation. If you can’t be trusted to make sure your spelling and grammar are correct, people may wonder how reliable you are in other areas of life and business. A quality grammar checker can pick up a wide range of errors before it’s too late, saving you embarrassment and money. Our shootout between Grammarly and Ginger has been one-sided.

Grammarly funciona em mais plataformas e identifica uma variedade maior de erros de ortografia e gramática — gratuitamente. Seus recursos Premium são mais adequados para escritores e profissionais de negócios e são fáceis de usar.

At first glance, the only thing Gengibre has going for it is its lower price. But when you consider what Grammarly’s free plan provides, and the regular discount offers for the Premium plan, this advantage is quickly erased.

As a result, I can’t recommend Ginger. Grammarly is reliable and offers the features needed by writers and business people. The only question is which plan suits you best: Free or Premium?