Grammarly, renowned for its AI writing assistant, is making strides by introducing support for languages beyond English after 15 years. The brand has declared the launch of beta support for five major languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. This marks a pivotal move toward evolving into a truly multilingual service.
Previously, Grammarly operated solely in English, offering users the ability to toggle between various English dialects such as UK, US, Canadian, and Indian English. With this latest update, users of Grammarly on Windows, Mac, or the Chrome extension can commence typing in any of the new languages, and the system will automatically recognise it. Subsequently, Grammarly will deliver immediate spelling and grammar checks, along with recommendations for enhancing tone, clarity, and flow.
Among the significant updates is the availability of paragraph-level rewrites in the newly supported languages, a feature that has been essential in Grammarly’s English toolkit. Additionally, the platform has introduced in-line translation across all six primary languages, enabling users to transform their text into 19 other languages without exiting the application.
This rollout is accessible to both free and premium users, although the free version does have some feature restrictions. Grammarly has shared that it trialed these capabilities with over one million users prior to launch, reporting overwhelmingly positive feedback.
Grammarly’s Director of Product Management, Ailian Gan, expressed that customers had been requesting multilingual support, and the company is responding to their needs— not just within the 500,000 applications and websites where Grammarly currently operates but also in the languages that users think, learn and communicate in daily.
This expansion is part of Grammarly’s strategy to diversify beyond its primary English-speaking user base. Earlier this year, the company reported a user base of 40 million active daily users, and the introduction of support for five of the most commonly spoken languages worldwide is anticipated to substantially elevate that figure.
Looking to the future, Grammarly states that this update is merely the beginning. The company plans to introduce more sophisticated clarity and style suggestions in these newly supported languages throughout the upcoming year, progressively aligning them with its well-established English services.