Grammarly, the Ukrainian service for proofreading English-language writing, will be natively integrated into the keyboard on Samsung mobile devices, with no installation required, the startup announced on Oct. 26.
Grammarly writing suggestions will be available via the One UI 4.0 software update, which will be released in November. Initially, the feature will be available to owners of Samsung S21 series smartphones, with more phones to be added in the coming months.
All users will have access to the service’s free online features, as well as a 90-day trial of Grammarly Premium.
“We’re thrilled to bring the power of Grammarly’s writing assistance to even more folks through our partnership with Samsung,” the company said in a statement.
Grammarly uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to proofread any text user inputs. This can be anything from a Facebook message to an email to a text in Google Docs.
Besides correcting any grammar, spelling and punctuation errors, the program also provides suggestions on context-specific language, clarity, engagement and delivery.
The tool also has a tone detector. Its algorithms help people identify how a message is likely to sound to someone reading it so the senders can adjust their message accordingly. It can say, for example, if an email is written in a friendly or a formal manner.
The basic spelling and punctuation checker is free. More sophisticated services that check for genre-specific writing, tone and consistency, as well as detect plagiarism, start at $12 a month, billed annually.
Grammarly was founded in 2009 by three Ukrainians, Maksym Lytvyn, Oleksii Shevchenko and Dmytro Lider.
Since then, the tech startup has become a “unicorn” in tech industry parlance, meaning it’s valued at over $1 billion. It has become the second Ukrainian startup to join this exclusive club after programming platform Gitlab.
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The company has offices in Kyiv, San Francisco, New York and Vancouver.
