Grammarly Desktop
Grammarly Desktop is a Mac writing assistant that helps improve grammar, spelling, clarity, and tone across supported apps and websites.
What is Grammarly Desktop?
Grammarly Desktop is a native Mac writing assistant for people who want help improving everyday writing in desktop apps and on the web. It is designed for students, professionals, and teams who write emails, documents, messages, and other text throughout the day. The app provides real-time suggestions for grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity, and tone while you work. It also supports drafting and rewriting workflows with built-in AI writing tools, making it useful for polishing short messages as well as longer documents. On Mac, users commonly install it so Grammarly can work beyond a single browser tab and assist across supported apps and writing surfaces. Grammarly Desktop is published by Grammarly, Inc.
Key features
- Check grammar, spelling, and punctuation as you type
- Improve clarity, tone, and word choice with live suggestions
- Draft, rewrite, and refine text with built-in AI writing tools
- Work across supported desktop apps, websites, and text fields on Mac
- Help format citations in supported styles for academic writing
- Support professional and team writing workflows with shared guidance features
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Grammarly Desktop is legitimate writing software, but it may request accessibility and related permissions so it can offer suggestions where you type on your Mac. Those permissions are consistent with its purpose, because the app needs access to text input in supported apps and websites to provide writing assistance. Since the app can process text you enter, avoid using it for highly sensitive material unless its privacy and data-handling approach fits your needs. If you did not install it yourself, confirm that the app came from Grammarly and that the bundle ID is com.grammarly.ProjectLlama before keeping it.
Recommendation: Keep Grammarly Desktop if you actively use Grammarly on your Mac for writing help across apps. If you no longer use the service, you can remove the app and revoke any related permissions in macOS Privacy & Security settings. If it was installed unexpectedly, check the app’s origin and sign-in account before continuing to use it.
Common paths
/Applications/Grammarly Desktop.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama.plist
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