Grammarly built its reputation as a tool for checking spelling, grammar, and writing in English. The company is now expanding these features to support five more languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian.
The company will now suggest paragraph-level rewrites for tone, style, and flow for these new languages. Users writing in any of these five languages, as well as English, will also be able to translate text in-line across 19 different languages. This multilingual writing feature is available for all free and paid users.
“Our customers have been asking for multilingual support, and we’re meeting them where they are, not just in the 500,000 apps and websites where Grammarly already works, but also in the languages that they think, learn, and communicate in daily,” said Ailian Gan, Director of Product Management at Grammarly.
Grammarly reported 40 million daily active users in May, and this new addition is aimed at increasing that number. The company piloted the multilingual tools with one million people and saw positive results, though it did not share specific usage numbers.
Grammarly has been on a launch spree recently. Last month, it introduced new AI features and a redesigned document user experience, powered by Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The company plans to bring multilingual support to its AI features as well.