From TechCrunch:
Ginger VS Grammarly: When it comes to grammar checkers, Ginger and Grammarly are two of the most popular choices on the market. This article aims to highlight the specifics of each one so that you can make a more informed decision about the one you’ll use.
What is Grammarly?
If you are a writer, you must have heard of Grammarly before. Grammarly has over 10M users across the globe, it’s probably the most popular AI writing enhancement tool, without a doubt. That’s why there’s a high chance that you already know about Grammarly.
But today we are going to do a comparison between Ginger and Grammarly, So let’s define Grammarly here. Like Ginger, Grammarly is an AI writing assistant that checks for grammatical errors, spellings, and punctuation. The free version covers the basics like identifying grammar and spelling mistakes
While the Premium version offers a lot more functionality, it detects plagiarism in your content, suggests word choice, or adds fluency to it.
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What is Ginger
Ginger is a writing enhancement tool that not only catches typos and grammatical mistakes but also suggests content improvements. As you type, it picks up on errors then shows you what’s wrong, and suggests a fix. It also provides you with synonyms and definitions of words and allows you to translate your text into dozens of languages.
Ginger Software: Features & Benefits
- Ginger’s software helps you identify and correct common grammatical mistakes, such as consecutive nouns, or contextual spelling correction.
- The sentence rephrasing feature can help you convey your meaning perfectly.
- Ginger acts like a personal coach that helps you practice certain exercises based on your mistakes.
- The dictionary feature helps users understand the meanings of words.
In addition, the program provides a text reader, so you can gauge your writing’s conversational tone
Ginger vs Grammarly
Grammarly and Ginger are two popular grammar checker software brands that help you to become a better writer. But if you’re undecided about which software to use, consider these differences:
- Grammarly only supports the English language while Ginger supports 40+ languages.
- Grammarly offers a wordiness feature while Ginger lacks a Wordiness feature.
- Grammarly shows an accuracy score while Ginger lacks an accuracy score feature.
- Grammarly has a plagiarism checker while ginger doesn’t have such a feature.
- Grammarly can recognize an incorrect use of numbers while Ginger can’t recognize an incorrect use of numbers.
- Grammarly and Ginger both have mobile apps.
- Ginger and Grammarly offer monthly, quarterly, and annual plans.
- Grammarly allows you to check uploaded documents. while Ginger doesn’t check uploaded documents.
- Grammarly Offers a tone suggestion feature while Ginger doesn’t offer a tone suggestion feature.
- Ginger helps to translate documents into 40+ languages while Grammarly doesn’t have a translation feature.
- Ginger Offers text to speech features while Grammarly doesn’t have such features.
Link to the rest at TechCrunch
While many visitors to TPV are familiar with Grammarly, PG would appreciate comments from Ginger users about what’s particularly helpful to their writing.
I start to use Grammarly premium on my blog about trucks and I have to say that is the best tool for text improvement
Suprisingly, MS WORD recognizes non-english words and if tbe dictionary is installed correctly applies the accents for you. That’s all the assistance I need. Grammar checking I ignore. I consider “grammatical correct” as an option, not a commandment. Sometimes coloring outside the lines works best.
The best test of these things is to run more-obscure works by great stylists through them. One of my favorite “test pieces” in English is Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language.” I can’t speak for the current version of G__y (refusing to give that piece of garbage its entire name for the benefit of search-engine metrics!), but a prior-but-relatively-recent version choked so badly that I had to reboot the machine.
And if you really want to choke a grammar/spell-checker, just feed it a short work of nonfiction that includes inline citations — whether the insanely picky system of legal citations (yes, Virginia, whether there’s a space after the period varies and is considered significant) or the more relaxed MLA author-and-date-in-parentheses. <sarcasm> But nobody whose writing ever involves actually “showing their work” ever really needs writing assistance, not even under severe time pressure. </sarcasm>
Much closer to the concerns of fiction writers, none of these programs handle multilingual issues well. Just having a snooty, ill-educated Upper West Side matron insert a couple of sentences in marginally correct French at a cocktail party (just before The Butler Does It) throws off all rule-based systems (whether purportedly “heuristic” or otherwise), and not just for that passage. (Or, if you’re more comfortable, having a Muslim character end a sentence with “in’shallah“… and getting the rhythm, punctuation, spelling, and spacing correct for each between a Moroccan and a Kuwaiti character…)
Naw, you’re too kind.
Just feed it some James Joyce, preferably from Finnegans Wake.
Or maybe some Lewis Carroll.
My first thought was ULYSSES.
Not sure what would happen if you feed it to a potential writing “AI”, though.
The sooner the aspiring writer realizes it’s about Story, not grammar or syntax, the better.
“…common grammatical mistakes, such as consecutive nouns…”
I have no idea what this means. Rather, “consecutive nouns” is straightforward, but is not a grammatical mistake. Do they think it is, or do they mean something else here?
I’m curious, too. … “Boston cream pie recipe” ???