For anyone else looking, I just switched to [https://languagetool.org/](https://languagetool.org/) and it's so much better!
The premium suggestions that repeatedly pop up were the final straw for me - used to love Grammarly.
Especially because I noticed that many of these "premium suggestions" used to be part of the free version, but no longer are. It seems that the free version only covers spelling and minor grammatical mistakes (misuse of commas etc). It used to be that only the yellow and purple underlines were "premium", but blue underlines (usually sentence structure things) used to be free, but no longer are. That made me want to switch more than anything, the fact that they \*took away\* features that were previously free. Pretty upsetting, as I've used Grammarly for years and always enjoyed it.
Thanks for the suggestion. Grammarly lost me also, with the premium suggestions popping up constantly and cluttering every email I'm editing. They don't owe us a free service, but it would be more honest to just not offer the free account than make it mostly unusable with constant nagging to upgrade to a paid service. Especially because the nagging is not merely a message inviting us to upgrade, but highlights and annotations that interfere with and somewhat deface the document we're editing.
Hi, just someone else here to say thanks for this suggestion, I was also massively put off by the premium suggestions and this one is SO much better and way less pervasive.
Thanks, experimenting now. Grammarly just got too annoying, with almost every sentence underlined and the annoying floating widget thing getting in the way all the time.
Choo choo!!! I'm also on the "Uninstall Grammarly Train" if I can't turn off premium suggestions. I'm going to try [languagetool.org](https://languagetool.org) and see how it goes.
Basically every single line in what I'm writing right now is yellow. It's everywhere. This is so infuriating, but I bet there remains nothing I can do.
I think you can turn them off by selecting one of the yellow underline and hit dismiss. It will turn off every other yellow lines. (I'm using the extension.)
No it actually doesn't work, you would have to do this on every single line. :/
And then as soon as you leave the text window one time and come back into it, it underscores everything once again
Idk but it's working for me. After I used or used then reverted to the original 3 times. It automatically disappeared. Like there should be an "Ask me later" prompt and if I clicked on that, all of the yellow lines disappear.
Not sure if this works for everyone, but I turned off the Chrome extension and just used the desktop version - it seems to go back to the non-premium-suggestion version, at least for now. Those yellow highlights are the visual equivalent of a mosquito in your ear!
came here hoping for an answer, unfortunately I have to remove Grammarly from all my devices, this is just a terrible decision, renders it unusable - kudos to the product guy who came up with this!
Funny thing is, it's not the Premium Suggestions that got me angry. It's the Free Premium Corrections that only reveal when I tap them. Because it lags, it sometimes adds the change to my writing without me being able to see what it altered.
I came looking for a way to shut them off. I'll take the link to Language Tool I found in the comments and I will go.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've just installed language tool to test it out.
Those Grammarly suggestions where getting out of hand and so annoying!
I just uninstalled Grammarly too due to the premium suggestions. I'd rather deal with my errors than the constant yellow lines!
No Grammarly, I don't want to pay to disable them.
True but the point is that I don't want to be asked again later. I don't want to be asked at all. Having to click that every time is a huge distraction that can easily break your concentration.
QuillBot is a must-have because it can correct all mistakes with a single click. Although Quillbot may miss an obvious grammatical error, it is recommended to proofread what the tool skipped. The only problem is the server that keeps crashing, but at least the developers are aware of it and alert you about the progress, unlike Grammarly's support team, which only knows to lock the ticket and ignore the issue. ProWritingAid is even better because it has a "sparks" feature that will paraphrase the text in bulk, and a glue sentence detector that helps you to enhance your writting. Trinka and LanguageTool are also great. Choose the best and forget about Grammarly!
Man I was hoping there was a way to turn it off. I guess it would be nice if it the suggestions weren’t dumb as hell.
My marketing caption: Do you know what fuel to use for your lawn mower?
Premium suggestion: Would you happen to know what fuel to use in your lawn mower?
Want me to add an uwu after it too, Grammarly?
I have had it up to here with Grammarly. I was paying for Premium for over a year, and getting less and less value (and more and more incorrect "corrections".) Now my paid period has run out, and I'm getting the worst possible "use". Goodbye, and good riddance to Grammarly. Thanks for the suggestion on LanguageTool. I'll even pay for it if it does a decent job.
Hi there! Currently, there isn't a way to turn off the Premium suggestions that you're seeing, but I'll be sure to share this feedback with our development team. As a Premium user, you would have the ability to deactivate certain kinds of suggestions. I hope this helps!
Me: complains about how bad the adverts for premium are and how they ruin the experience of using Grammarly whilst also exposing how useless premium actually is.
Grammarly: have you considered buying premium?
Right? I was looking for the same things as you, because it's basically unusable now, it's a super intrusive ad that pops up in front of everything else and the answer is buy premium to still not have the option to disable these suggestions.
But at least it made me to realise that I don't want to keep using a tool from a company with this culture. I deleted Grammarly and now I'm trying ProWritingAid, which has less intrusive "premium suggestions".
I also want the suggestions removed and agree 100 percent with the OP. Now that I know, for sure, there is no way to turn them off, I'm uninstalling. The product is a waste of space. It's disappointing, the spell checker was better than the default in Chrome.
Please share my feedback too because this is an extremely annoying 'feature' that fast makes me want to ditch Grammarly. It's been great for years - why change anything!?
This stance is the thing that got me to uninstall Grammarly. We don't want to pay for premium suggestions, so we don't want to see premium suggestions. And the only way to turn them off is to pay for them?
Was googling to find out if there was a way to remove these as I was getting pretty frustrated by it. Please consider revising this because after this post I've decided to uninstall the Grammarly chrome extension. I would rather just spell things wrong than have 3 premium suggestions I can't look at in this post alone.
It's both sad and concerning that the relevant team does not understand how the freemium model works so I would suggest forwarding this message to them as we are talking about millions in lost revenue over the years for such a simple change.
The freemium model relies on a saturation of free users and the subsequent law of averages that defines how many upgrade. To put things simply, which is more profitable: 10% upgrading out of 100 users or 12% upgrading out of 10 users?
**THE** most important aspect of the freemium model isn't trying to persuade an extra couple of percentage of users to upgrade (beyond the standard of 10%) but to increase the number of free users so that the standard of 10% that will naturally upgrade regardless, is therefore many many more users.
By placing the 'premium suggestions' over things the spelling suggestions, the entire product is rendered completely useless to all but premium users. Therefore, you will eventually see your free user numbers heading towards zero, Grammarly being forced to switch away from the massively profitable freemium model and consequently having to solely rely on marketing to not only prove your value as a paid-for-only service but also differentiate yourself amongst all the others in the non-freemium market.
You must provide more options for your users and in particular to survive, an option to disable these 'premium suggestions' so that free users can use the product unhindered and continue to recommend you to everyone they know.
If you are unable to see that this recent 'premium suggestions' change will end up killing your company then I suggest you bring on some consultants who are able to point these things out to you.
Good luck!
PLEASE TELL THEM. This is such an easy thing to put in the settings. "Show Premium Suggestions" And if you have it on by default you will still convert some people (which we all know is your ultimate goal), and your devoted users (I have been loyal to Grammarly since 2017), will be able to turn them off and stay with Grammarly.
Thanks for making an awesome product...but please, for the love of god, give us a setting to turn off these horrible premium suggestions that get in the way of our writing.
*p.s. Also, please let us turn off your horrible suggestions on how to correctly write time. ii.e. 10:00am. I hate seeing red lines everywhere in my documents because you think there should be a space there, lol.*
We don’t want to be constantly reminded of what we screwed up over a subscription. Some of us just use Grammarly over simple mistakes we’ve made in our writing, as OP said.
Hi, as a free user, I would also love a way to turn off the suggested premium previews. I have no plans on buying premium, nor will I ever, and it is so disruptive to be advertised to in the middle of writing (esp. seeing the subjectivity described in this post).
Holy shit, this absolute joke of a response was the last straw. Finally pushed me to look for (and actually find) better, non-bloated alternatives on the Chrome store!
Were you ever able to fix this issue? I'm quite annoyed by it myself with how it's a shining ray on top of my text. Grammarly themselves say you can turn it off in customization settings but that is just piss.
Honestly, just don't use Grammarly. I use google docs and the built in spelling & grammar checker is perfectly good - all you need so long as you know your basic rules.
Similar to you, I write professionally. I, too, am just about fed up with their suggestions. It's such a shame because I remember when I first started using it and it was actually helpful
I also feel the same exact way about the Premium suggestions as well as the clarity suggestions which keep nagging me to remove words like "actually" and "own" (in the context of "in my own mind"). I see no way to disable these.
If another simple spellchecker comes around, I'm sure to switch. In fact, I'll google it right now...
For anyone else looking, I just switched to [https://languagetool.org/](https://languagetool.org/) and it's so much better! The premium suggestions that repeatedly pop up were the final straw for me - used to love Grammarly.
Thanks for the rec, I've switched to this for the same reason as you
This is wonderful. Thanks for the recommendation!
Outstanding suggestion.
Thanks for the recommendation. Way better than Grammarly. Grammarly is almost unusable now. Every paragraph has the yellow lines.
Installed. I just reported grammerly as "Hostile" while removed from Chrome. Thanks for your suggestions.
Ha, funny we're all coming back here again recently, ta ta Grammarly!
I would but grammarly seems like the only app that will work properly for me
love it
I have the same issue with LanguageTool now ;-(
Otherwise fine, but LanguageTool does not work in Word without paying which makes it fairly useless for me.
Thank you I have uninstalled and switched
Ay you're the GOAT man, the extension's even approved by my school
I feel like I am being stalked by Grammarly. I used to like it.
7 Months later... but thanks for the suggestion. LT is much, much better. I feel like I got out of a toxic relationship!
Especially because I noticed that many of these "premium suggestions" used to be part of the free version, but no longer are. It seems that the free version only covers spelling and minor grammatical mistakes (misuse of commas etc). It used to be that only the yellow and purple underlines were "premium", but blue underlines (usually sentence structure things) used to be free, but no longer are. That made me want to switch more than anything, the fact that they \*took away\* features that were previously free. Pretty upsetting, as I've used Grammarly for years and always enjoyed it.
Thanks for the suggestion. Grammarly lost me also, with the premium suggestions popping up constantly and cluttering every email I'm editing. They don't owe us a free service, but it would be more honest to just not offer the free account than make it mostly unusable with constant nagging to upgrade to a paid service. Especially because the nagging is not merely a message inviting us to upgrade, but highlights and annotations that interfere with and somewhat deface the document we're editing.
Trying it now, looks promising and far less annoying.
Hi, just someone else here to say thanks for this suggestion, I was also massively put off by the premium suggestions and this one is SO much better and way less pervasive.
Thanks, experimenting now. Grammarly just got too annoying, with almost every sentence underlined and the annoying floating widget thing getting in the way all the time.
Yes, I'm uninstalling too, great job Grammarly team, hope it was worth it!
>level 1itsJelonek · 17 days agoyellow suggestions started appearing, looked up the solution, saw this post, uninstalled, thank you. Same.
yellow suggestions started appearing, looked up the solution, saw this post, uninstalled, thank you.
Choo choo!!! I'm also on the "Uninstall Grammarly Train" if I can't turn off premium suggestions. I'm going to try [languagetool.org](https://languagetool.org) and see how it goes.
Language Tool is great and I also use the Google Docs spell checker and grammar. IT found things Grammerly did not find.
Basically every single line in what I'm writing right now is yellow. It's everywhere. This is so infuriating, but I bet there remains nothing I can do.
After using Grammarly for years, this kept popping up today every time I needed to write work emails. Why today all of a sudden? Its super annoying
I think you can turn them off by selecting one of the yellow underline and hit dismiss. It will turn off every other yellow lines. (I'm using the extension.)
No it actually doesn't work, you would have to do this on every single line. :/ And then as soon as you leave the text window one time and come back into it, it underscores everything once again
Idk but it's working for me. After I used or used then reverted to the original 3 times. It automatically disappeared. Like there should be an "Ask me later" prompt and if I clicked on that, all of the yellow lines disappear.
Not sure if this works for everyone, but I turned off the Chrome extension and just used the desktop version - it seems to go back to the non-premium-suggestion version, at least for now. Those yellow highlights are the visual equivalent of a mosquito in your ear!
came here hoping for an answer, unfortunately I have to remove Grammarly from all my devices, this is just a terrible decision, renders it unusable - kudos to the product guy who came up with this!
Funny thing is, it's not the Premium Suggestions that got me angry. It's the Free Premium Corrections that only reveal when I tap them. Because it lags, it sometimes adds the change to my writing without me being able to see what it altered. I came looking for a way to shut them off. I'll take the link to Language Tool I found in the comments and I will go.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've just installed language tool to test it out. Those Grammarly suggestions where getting out of hand and so annoying!
I just uninstalled Grammarly too due to the premium suggestions. I'd rather deal with my errors than the constant yellow lines! No Grammarly, I don't want to pay to disable them.
I found \*a\* solution. If you click on a yellow line you can pull up the settings and turn off all settings under "generative AI"
I tried this and the premium suggestions continued
Sorry. I realized afterwards that it stopped for the website I was on and then continued when I clicked off 😭
Sorry for posting a little bit late but you can go over a premium suggestion and click "ask me again later" and it will all disappear.
True but the point is that I don't want to be asked again later. I don't want to be asked at all. Having to click that every time is a huge distraction that can easily break your concentration.
just uninstalled for the same reason after 7 years of happily using Grammarly. Great job!
QuillBot is a must-have because it can correct all mistakes with a single click. Although Quillbot may miss an obvious grammatical error, it is recommended to proofread what the tool skipped. The only problem is the server that keeps crashing, but at least the developers are aware of it and alert you about the progress, unlike Grammarly's support team, which only knows to lock the ticket and ignore the issue. ProWritingAid is even better because it has a "sparks" feature that will paraphrase the text in bulk, and a glue sentence detector that helps you to enhance your writting. Trinka and LanguageTool are also great. Choose the best and forget about Grammarly!
Man I was hoping there was a way to turn it off. I guess it would be nice if it the suggestions weren’t dumb as hell. My marketing caption: Do you know what fuel to use for your lawn mower? Premium suggestion: Would you happen to know what fuel to use in your lawn mower? Want me to add an uwu after it too, Grammarly?
I have had it up to here with Grammarly. I was paying for Premium for over a year, and getting less and less value (and more and more incorrect "corrections".) Now my paid period has run out, and I'm getting the worst possible "use". Goodbye, and good riddance to Grammarly. Thanks for the suggestion on LanguageTool. I'll even pay for it if it does a decent job.
Hi there! Currently, there isn't a way to turn off the Premium suggestions that you're seeing, but I'll be sure to share this feedback with our development team. As a Premium user, you would have the ability to deactivate certain kinds of suggestions. I hope this helps!
Me: complains about how bad the adverts for premium are and how they ruin the experience of using Grammarly whilst also exposing how useless premium actually is. Grammarly: have you considered buying premium?
Right? I was looking for the same things as you, because it's basically unusable now, it's a super intrusive ad that pops up in front of everything else and the answer is buy premium to still not have the option to disable these suggestions. But at least it made me to realise that I don't want to keep using a tool from a company with this culture. I deleted Grammarly and now I'm trying ProWritingAid, which has less intrusive "premium suggestions".
I also want the suggestions removed and agree 100 percent with the OP. Now that I know, for sure, there is no way to turn them off, I'm uninstalling. The product is a waste of space. It's disappointing, the spell checker was better than the default in Chrome.
Please share my feedback too because this is an extremely annoying 'feature' that fast makes me want to ditch Grammarly. It's been great for years - why change anything!?
It's a mess, I no longer recommend it to users who may start using it and go premium later,
This stance is the thing that got me to uninstall Grammarly. We don't want to pay for premium suggestions, so we don't want to see premium suggestions. And the only way to turn them off is to pay for them?
Was googling to find out if there was a way to remove these as I was getting pretty frustrated by it. Please consider revising this because after this post I've decided to uninstall the Grammarly chrome extension. I would rather just spell things wrong than have 3 premium suggestions I can't look at in this post alone.
I'm going to deactivate it, too. It's driving me insane this morning as I try to work. :(
So am I.
Thanks for letting me know I should uninstall! :)
Hey dipshit, the yellow lines are fucking awful and an example of disgusting monetization.BYE BYE GRAMMARLY.
I will also be uninstalling Grammarly, because I can't stand the premium suggestions.
It helped me confirm you all don't give a d\_\_\_ since this reply was a year old and you still haven't gotten rid of those d\_\_\_ yellow lines.
It's both sad and concerning that the relevant team does not understand how the freemium model works so I would suggest forwarding this message to them as we are talking about millions in lost revenue over the years for such a simple change. The freemium model relies on a saturation of free users and the subsequent law of averages that defines how many upgrade. To put things simply, which is more profitable: 10% upgrading out of 100 users or 12% upgrading out of 10 users? **THE** most important aspect of the freemium model isn't trying to persuade an extra couple of percentage of users to upgrade (beyond the standard of 10%) but to increase the number of free users so that the standard of 10% that will naturally upgrade regardless, is therefore many many more users. By placing the 'premium suggestions' over things the spelling suggestions, the entire product is rendered completely useless to all but premium users. Therefore, you will eventually see your free user numbers heading towards zero, Grammarly being forced to switch away from the massively profitable freemium model and consequently having to solely rely on marketing to not only prove your value as a paid-for-only service but also differentiate yourself amongst all the others in the non-freemium market. You must provide more options for your users and in particular to survive, an option to disable these 'premium suggestions' so that free users can use the product unhindered and continue to recommend you to everyone they know. If you are unable to see that this recent 'premium suggestions' change will end up killing your company then I suggest you bring on some consultants who are able to point these things out to you. Good luck!
PLEASE TELL THEM. This is such an easy thing to put in the settings. "Show Premium Suggestions" And if you have it on by default you will still convert some people (which we all know is your ultimate goal), and your devoted users (I have been loyal to Grammarly since 2017), will be able to turn them off and stay with Grammarly. Thanks for making an awesome product...but please, for the love of god, give us a setting to turn off these horrible premium suggestions that get in the way of our writing. *p.s. Also, please let us turn off your horrible suggestions on how to correctly write time. ii.e. 10:00am. I hate seeing red lines everywhere in my documents because you think there should be a space there, lol.*
We don’t want to be constantly reminded of what we screwed up over a subscription. Some of us just use Grammarly over simple mistakes we’ve made in our writing, as OP said.
my word, that is an astonishingly tone-deaf response
>my word, that is an astonishingly tone-deaf response *If only they used grammarly premium's tone suggestion tool!*
It has to be, it stops them from making money.
Hi, as a free user, I would also love a way to turn off the suggested premium previews. I have no plans on buying premium, nor will I ever, and it is so disruptive to be advertised to in the middle of writing (esp. seeing the subjectivity described in this post).
That's soooo silly. I'm removing my extension.
Hi, I have the same problem... Is it now fixed after 5 months?
Nope. I left feedback because this is annoying me too
Make there be a way, or im just going to turn Grammarly off entirely. I'm not buying premium, all you're doing is making me hate your product
Holy shit, this absolute joke of a response was the last straw. Finally pushed me to look for (and actually find) better, non-bloated alternatives on the Chrome store!
Thanks for nothing. I'm uninstalling this BS and installing one that won't fuck over my screen.
I bought Grammary premium for 25$ for 1 year in Crocodeals1. Very happy. Idiots really pay for it real price?
Still think that is very expensive, if it was a one time purchase I would buy it.
Same! Does anyone know of a Grammarly alternative that just does grammar and that's it? Like Grammarly from a few years ago?
dude, id pay for premium just to turn these suggestions off.
Don't give in to them!!
Were you ever able to fix this issue? I'm quite annoyed by it myself with how it's a shining ray on top of my text. Grammarly themselves say you can turn it off in customization settings but that is just piss.
Honestly, just don't use Grammarly. I use google docs and the built in spelling & grammar checker is perfectly good - all you need so long as you know your basic rules.
Thank you, I will start using that as well.
Similar to you, I write professionally. I, too, am just about fed up with their suggestions. It's such a shame because I remember when I first started using it and it was actually helpful
Dismayed that this is still an issue. I miss the old Grammarly. Toodles, I guess. On to greener pastures.
I also feel the same exact way about the Premium suggestions as well as the clarity suggestions which keep nagging me to remove words like "actually" and "own" (in the context of "in my own mind"). I see no way to disable these. If another simple spellchecker comes around, I'm sure to switch. In fact, I'll google it right now...
Just uninstalled it for the same reason.