Grammarly is not just a spell checker anymore, what it does now is a different product entirely

I installed Grammarly years ago to catch typos and mostly ignored everything else it suggested. Went back to actually explore it recently and realized it has become a completely different tool. Worth knowing what has changed.

The AI Chat feature lets you brainstorm and draft from a prompt directly inside Grammarly. So instead of writing somewhere else and pasting in to check, you can start the whole thing there. Useful for emails and documents where you want suggestions built into the drafting process rather than applied afterward.

The Humanizer is the feature I use most now. If you have written something that came out sounding stiff or robotic, or if you have used AI to generate a draft and want to smooth it out, you can put it through the Humanizer and choose a voice profile: Everyday, Executive or Scholar. You can also build a custom voice profile based on your own writing samples.

Reader Reactions is genuinely interesting. It predicts how a specific audience will respond to what you have written and suggests edits to address potential concerns before you send. I used this on a difficult email to a client and it flagged two things I had not noticed that could have landed badly.

The academic tools are worth knowing about if you are a student. AI Grader, AI Detector, Citation Finder and Plagiarism Checker are all in there. The fact that it now operates as a browser extension that sits across everything you write makes it more useful than a standalone editor.