How to Cancel Your Grammarly Subscription

How to Cancel Grammarly on Web

If you subscribed through Grammarly's website (the most common method), follow these steps:

1. Go to grammarly.com and sign in to your account.
2. Click your profile icon in the top-right corner, then select Account.
3. Navigate to the Subscription tab on the left sidebar.
4. Click Cancel Subscription at the bottom of the page.
5. Grammarly will show a few retention offers — click through them until you confirm the cancellation.
6. You'll receive a confirmation email. Your Premium features remain active until the current billing cycle ends.

The whole process takes about two minutes. Grammarly does not make it as obvious as it could be — you may need to scroll down to find the cancellation link, and the retention screens can feel pushy. Stay the course and you'll get there.

How to Cancel Grammarly on iOS

If you subscribed through the App Store on your iPhone or iPad, Grammarly can't cancel it for you. You need to manage it through Apple:

1. Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap your name at the top to open Apple ID settings.
3. Tap Subscriptions.
4. Find Grammarly in the list and tap it.
5. Tap Cancel Subscription and confirm.

If Grammarly doesn't appear in your Apple subscriptions, you likely signed up through the website instead. In that case, follow the web cancellation steps above.

What Happens After You Cancel

Cancelling doesn't delete your account or your data. Here's what to expect:

• You keep access until the end of your billing period — if you paid for a year, you'll have Premium until that year is up.
• Your account reverts to the free tier — basic grammar and spelling checks continue to work, but advanced suggestions, rewrites, and plagiarism detection are locked.
• Your documents stay saved — anything in My Grammarly (the online editor) remains accessible.
• No refund by default — Grammarly's policy doesn't offer prorated refunds, though you can contact support to ask.

Why People Cancel Grammarly

Grammarly is a good product, but there are legitimate reasons people move on:

• Price — at $144/year ($12/month billed annually), it's one of the most expensive writing tools on the market. That adds up fast, especially if you only use it occasionally. Read our full breakdown of whether Grammarly Premium is worth the cost.
• Privacy concerns — Grammarly processes and stores your text on its servers. For anyone working with sensitive or confidential material, that's a real issue.
• Limited Mac app support — Grammarly works well in browsers, but its Mac desktop integration is hit-or-miss. It doesn't work in Slack, Discord, VS Code, Apple Notes, iMessage, or most native macOS apps.
• No system-wide coverage — because Grammarly relies on app-specific integrations, it can only check your writing in the apps it supports. If you work across many tools, large chunks of your writing go unchecked.
• Aggressive upselling — the free tier constantly nudges you toward Premium with locked suggestions, making the experience feel incomplete by design.

A Cheaper Alternative: FlowWrite

If you're cancelling Grammarly because of the price or the limited Mac support, FlowWrite is worth a look.

FlowWrite is a lightweight menu bar app for macOS that corrects your grammar in every app — not just browsers. It uses macOS Accessibility APIs to work system-wide: Slack, VS Code, Discord, Notes, iMessage, Terminal, and anything else with a text field. Select your text, press Tab, and it's corrected in place.

Why people switch from Grammarly to FlowWrite

• $7.99/month — almost half the cost of Grammarly Premium, with no annual commitment required.
• Works in every Mac app — not just browsers and a handful of supported integrations.
• No data storage — your text is sent for correction and immediately discarded. Nothing is stored or used for training.
• No account needed — download, install, and start using it. No sign-up, no email verification.
• Cancel anytime — no annual lock-in, no hoops to jump through.

The trade-off is that FlowWrite is macOS-only. If you need cross-platform support, it's not the right fit. But if your Mac is your primary machine, it covers far more of your actual writing workflow than Grammarly does. For a full comparison of options, see our guide to Grammarly alternatives for Mac.