Grammarly

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with Grammarly, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

Often fails to apply corrections or messes up formatting when clicked2025-07-14
Keyboard replacement performs poorly across programs and nags with unwanted features2025-07-01
Cancelling yearly subscription requires contacting support instead of cancelling directly2024-12-18
Constant intrusive popups interrupt the writing process2024-05-11
Indicator hides the text being written and can't be moved; dismissed problems keep reappearing2023-11-02
Grammarly is very hard to uninstall, like a virus2022-02-25
Many automatic corrections are wrong, so blind application fails2022-02-01
Spent a long time trying to stop unwanted corrections2022-01-14
Suggestions are wrong so often they distract from writing2021-01-19
Account deletion is hidden and styled to steer users away from deleting2020-06-24
Must copy and paste text into the app and back out again2019-03-10
Its hover icon sits bottom-right, making textarea resizing nearly impossible2018-02-06
Makes Chrome so slow that typed characters appear with a delay2018-02-06
Must copy and paste text into Grammarly's editor, breaking the writing workflow2017-08-29