History
Grammarly was founded by Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko, and Dmytro Lider, the creators of My Dropbox, an app that checks essays for plagiarism. Grammarly was initially designed as an educational app to help university students improve their English skills. It was later offered to the end customers who use English in everyday life. In early 2018, a security researcher at Google discovered a vulnerability in Grammarly's browser extension beta version, which exposed authentification tokens to websites and potentially allowed them to access the users' documents and other data. In a few hours, the company released a hotfix and reported that it found no evidence of compromised user data. Later in December, Grammarly launched a bug bounty program on HackerOne, offering a 100,000 reward to the first white hat hacker to access a specific document on the company's server. Being a company with Ukrainian roots, Grammarly effectively cut all business relations with users in Russia and Belarus in response to theReception
Reviewers have praised Grammarly for its ease of use and helpful suggestions, considering it useful despite its relatively high price and lack of offline functionality. Josh Steimle of Forbes lauded it in 2013, saying that "It's an online that quickly and easily makes your writing better and makes you sound like a pro, or at least helps you avoid looking like a fool." However, some users have criticized Grammarly for incorrect suggestions, ignorance of tone and context, and reduction of writers' freedom of expression.See also
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