Grammarly is a very good grammar checker. It was built for people who can already get roughly the right words onto the page. If you're dyslexic, that's usually the hard part.
Here's the honest comparison, from the people who built the other one.
Free tier, or £6.99/month
Free tier, or from £10/month
If your spelling is close enough that Grammarly can guess what you meant, Grammarly is fine. If you type "nolij", "peaple" or "seperete" and Grammarly shrugs — or "corrects" it to the wrong word entirely — that's the gap we built DyslexiaWrite to fill.
| Feature | DyslexiaWrite | Grammarly |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Dyslexic writers | General business writing |
| Phonetic spelling correction ("nolij" → knowledge) Grammarly is built on standard spellcheck dictionaries, which need your spelling to be close to the target word | ✓ | — |
| Homophone help (their/there, form/from) DyslexiaWrite shows the meaning of each option, not just a flag | ✓ | Partial |
| AI document decoding (explain any document in plain English) | ✓ | — |
| Read-aloud with word-level highlighting | ✓ | — |
| Voice dictation Grammarly has no built-in dictation outside its desktop app | ✓ | Limited |
| Tone and style suggestions This is Grammarly's core strength | Basic | Excellent |
| Native Word / Outlook add-in DyslexiaWrite is a Chrome extension and web editor today — no desktop Office add-in | — | ✓ |
| Chrome extension (Gmail, Docs, Slack, web) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access to Work fundable | ✓ | Not typically |
| School / college site licence | ✓ | Enterprise plan only |
Grammarly comparison is against the Free and Pro (individual) tiers as of November 2026. Pricing changes — check grammarly.com for the current rate before you buy.
Tone, concision, style rewrites, plagiarism checking, and native add-ins for Word and Outlook. If you're polishing a 40-page report for a client on your desktop, Grammarly earns its keep. We're not trying to beat it at that and we don't pretend to.
Getting the sentence out in the first place. DyslexiaWrite recognises spellings that aren't close to the target word, shows you the difference between homophones in plain English, and reads your work back so you catch the errors your eyes skip over. That's a different job.
Yes, and plenty of our users do. DyslexiaWrite to get the words down, Grammarly to tidy them up. They don't conflict.
Access to Work grants can cover assistive writing software in full. We'll send you a quote and spec sheet formatted for the application.
See how Access to Work funding works →Site licences start at £300/year for up to 30 students, with a teacher dashboard and staff onboarding included.
See school and college pricing →It helps with grammar, not with spelling that's phonetically distant from the target word — which is the most common dyslexic spelling pattern.
No. Plenty of our users run both side by side.
Yes — the free tier has no time limit and no card required. It has daily usage limits; upgrading to Pro removes them.
Grammarly pricing changes — verify the current rate at grammarly.com before you buy.
| Plan | DyslexiaWrite | Grammarly |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes — daily limits, no time limit | Yes — basic grammar and spelling |
| Individual / monthly | £6.99/month | ~£25/month (billed monthly) |
| Individual / annual | ~£84/year | £120/year (£10/month, billed annually) |
| Access to Work licence | £120/year — typically 100% DWP-funded | Not a dedicated Access to Work product |
| School site licence (30 students) | £300/year | Enterprise — contact for pricing |
No card needed. Works via the Chrome extension and web editor in under two minutes.