Autocrit Vs Grammarly are two different writing tools that both have their unique set of features. But which one is the better choice?
With its plagiarism checker, Grammarly can detect if your writing resembles other sources. It also highlights words and phrases that are overused in your text. This feature is great for writers who want to avoid plagiarism.
1. Grammar
Grammarly is a popular writing software program that can help you detect and fix spelling, grammar and style errors in your content. It also checks for vocabulary and word choice issues. You can use it with Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and Scrivener.
It highlights common mistakes like misused commas, overused words and repetitive phrases. It can even catch dangling modifiers, infinitives and truncated sentences. You can also choose the level of severity you want it to flag.
It’s a great tool for non-native English speakers as it can help them improve their content quality and writing style. However, it might not be as accurate as human proofreading. Its free version offers limited features, but the premium version is worth the price. It also comes with a plagiarism checking module. It can compare your document against 16 billion web pages to check for duplicate content. It can also flag if your document contains slang terms, fictional names or apostrophe-missing.
2. Style
Unlike Grammarly, Autocrit has a more comprehensive approach to composition advice. Its style analysis looks for cliches, overused words, wordy sentences, and improper comma usage. It also checks for tone and voice, ensuring that your writing sounds confident and professional.
It even helps you to correct jargon and technical terms. It is able to distinguish between homographs such as axe and ax, and can detect plagiarism and provide you with details of the original source if it matches your paper.
Unlike Grammarly, which is limited to email and Instagram, Autocrit can be used on any platform and has a desktop app as well. It works with Microsoft Word, Scrivener, and most popular browsers. However, it does not support offline access. The free version is decent, but has issues with recognizing some words and generating too many false alarms (e.g., ‘axe’ instead of ‘ax’). It also has an issue with apostrophes that can cause it to flag certain custom names.
3. Dialogue
Autocrit has a different niche from the likes of Grammarly and ProWritingAid as it is geared more towards Fiction writers. However, it still offers a lot of features that will make the writing experience easier for the authors who use it.
The exchange of information is often what accelerates (0r resolves) a story’s conflict. Using dialogue to convey character traits, foreshadow future events and reveal new information is a powerful tool.
Dialogue can also be used to accentuate the mood of the scene. The tone may be light and friendly, or it can become tense or angry. In addition, a character’s speech can be influenced by their parents, upbringing and schooling, as well as their socioeconomic status, race, gender and sexual orientation.
Adding consistent quirks to the way your characters speak will help them become more memorable to readers. Avoiding the overuse of dialogue tags (such as “he said” or “she yelled”) is important. Using descriptive verbs will also be helpful.
4. Sentences
Even the best writers make a few grammatical mistakes, and these mistakes can diminish clarity, tarnish credibility, and confuse readers. Grammarly provides an excellent large-scale online spelling and grammar checker. It can suggest synonyms, help with phrase structure and punctuation, identify ambiguous phrases, and flag repeated words. It can also highlight sentences that need a clearer explanation and offer suggestions for sentence rewriting.
However, it doesn’t have a full-featured plagiarism checking tool like ProWritingAid or a word count feature for writing projects. It’s also more expensive than ProWritingAid.