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Pros
I like using Ginger, and I will continue to use it. It is a very helpful, simple and professional tool that improves my writing.
I like that it can be easily integrated into Microsoft word and chrome. Ginger has many helpful features, like paraphrasing and read back, which is very appreciated by non-native English speakers.
The best part of this software that it does improve your skills of writing and even help in speaking skills. I like the way of this software to help someone, like chrome extension.
When talking about the overall experience, Ginger is best for my work and for anyone who needs any kind of writing assistance. And, I appreciate their 24/7 customer support.
Cons
You have no customer support it stinks stinks awful.
Very bad experience once I am encountering a problem with the software. This is because there is no real person to help as customer support.
Only after few days someone responding via email with different version of changes and nothing works. This is a gross violation of quality control of any industry.
Avoid this company at all costs. This is another in a series of fraudulent internet firms.
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"Great Tool For Everyone"
Pros: Whether you are publishing content or sending an internal memo Ginger is a great tool and ad on extension that integrates with your existing programs. It is great in a pinch when you do not have the time to have something proofed by copy writers.
Cons: It glitches at times and erases what you've written.
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"Adding spice to copywriting"
Pros: Ginger is a good, cost effective grammar software add on that works with both Widows and Mac. It integrates into a number of programs and is also available for iPad. As a native U.K. English speaker it offers that as a spell check and grammar as well as US English
Cons: The pop up can be intrusive in some web apps. In particular it has caused issues in Miro, browser based, when trying to add text
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"Ginger stop working "
Overall: The company is not responsive to any user queries- See: [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]
Pros: It used to be a great product. It worked well with MS Word.
Cons: Ginger is taking people's money and its not working at all! Ginger stop working on MS Office - since Flash is required and is has been discontinued. It is also not working in Google Doc. They are now running a fraudulent operation. It used to be great and I was and will be a great fan - if it starts working again - At this stage they are sealing users' money!
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"A decent tool to improve your writing"
Overall: I have been using Ginger for many years to check, correct, and rephrase my writing to make my papers flawless.
Pros: Very simple and easy-to-use tool. Flexible. it works on PCs and mobile. I like that it can be easily integrated into Microsoft word and chrome. Ginger has many helpful features, like paraphrasing and read back, which is very appreciated by non-native English speakers.
Cons: I find it very annoying not to work with Google Docs. Also, the chrome extension does not work properly. It would be great if there is full offline proofreading. Other than that, I am very pleased with Ginger.
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"Highly Reliable Software for Grammar and Spell checks"
Overall: One of the best software to try that delivers high accuracy results. It helps you save your time and energy in fishing for the errors and rectifying the same.
Pros: Its ben three years now that I have been using Ginger Software and it has never let me down. As a writer I need to be quite particular about my grammar and spellings. Therefore, this software has everything to help me relieve for repetitive and the taxing process of checking for any grammatical or spelling errors, if any. Besides that it also provides various online drill sessions and tutorials to help one learn enhance his/her grammar.
Cons: The only thing that I do not like about Ginger is that it does not work in Google docs. Firstly you are supposed to write your text in the Ginger and then transfer the same from there to Google docs.
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"Good but not Superb"
Overall: Fair to Good, Replacement of sentence with some professional looking is excellent.
Pros: The way it makes the sentence looks professional
Cons: Poor Interface, No sync between devices.
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"Ginger Review "
Overall: good grammar checker and writing assistant. It is effective, easy to use, and available on multiple platforms. However, the paid plan is expensive and it can sometimes be inaccurate.
Pros: Ginger is a very effective grammar checker.Easy to use.Free plan.
Cons: Paid plan is expensive.sometimes identify errors that are not actually errors.
"A renowned and impressive grammar checker tool"
Overall: The functions of ginger are too much to look at it's negatives. It has so much helped me to write more like a pro.
Pros: It has plugins available for at least all major browsers. It has a great check accuracy, detects all major errors and grammatical blunders in your text. free version works fine too.
Cons: System app sometimes slows down my computer. I hope they resolve this for I still need to continue using ginger. I really have to bear with it to get the best of it's features.
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"Double and Triple Your Work with Ginger"
Overall: I am a multi tasker and in a desire to get stuff done quickly I miss simple typos that would make my work look sloppy, Giner has corrected that for me.
Pros: I like that I can be certain I have not missed any typos and correct in real time.
Cons: Sometimes when I have to copy and paste into Ginger Writer suggestions do not always show up. Sometimes Ginger will delete a word that is a mistake.
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"A helpful extension to avoid grammatical embarassment!"
Overall: This app do have simple set-up and intuitive in terms of identifying and correcting grammar errors in writing. As it offers not only error identification, spell checking but also rephrasing based on the context as well as easy click on the pronunciation. This could also translate text to other languages, another cool feature.
Pros: It suggests words and add-on as the tool identifies grammar errors. It has a built-in plagiarism checker too that is very important for publishers and writers. The tool can check on a context-specific writing and can also suggest a possible "rephrase". Another cool thing about this tool is that it already has a text reader which could help improve not only the writing skills but also the pronunciation - less time checking using a different tool/software.
Cons: It needs internet connection before using it. Pricing may be a bit costly for some writers and there are some other tools other than Ginger that can perform better.
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"Ginger Grammar Tool - Good but not the Best"
Overall: Before I tried other software, Ginger was great. But there are better, and less expensive, options for what I need.
Pros: It is simple to set up and use. No issues with these features.
Cons: Cost. Other software works a bit better for less money. Ginger doesn't seem to catch as many of my errors as other software. It leaves me with a false sense of being well written when it is not, sometimes.
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"Improvement for the future "
Overall: Good I appreciate customer service. The staff contact immediately and try to fix the issue.
Pros: Reading of the text. I listen to the writing draft while editing. Rephrase provides me subtitute and suitable syntax
Cons: payment process. the update process is so annoying. I updated in 2018 despite I received many messages for an update. And, I could not update although I paid the amount. In the advertisement of ginger, I observe several functions however when I used the software all functions don't run properly.
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"I use ginger daily to improve my efficiency "
Pros: Ginger always saves me while writing mail, it has very good AI based suggestions option that suggest me the best word and correct all the mistake on my sentences.
Cons: I do not have to say anything that i least like about ginger.
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"Spice Up Your Writing"
Overall: Ginger has accuracy many grammar checking tools are lacking. It is simple to use, a bit pricey, but it seems that all alike software keeps the price up. But overall, a very positive experience.
Pros: I tried a number of grammer checkers and I still get surprised how (in)accurate some are. Well, Ginger is one of the most accurate. If only the price was more affordable.
Cons: I noticed that I too much rely on grammar chekers, so if your spelling is deteriorating like mine they should be to blame. :) But more seriously, they need to integrate wit Google Docs soon, that is a huge turnoff for many people.
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"My experience with Ginger"
Pros: Ginger is good tool of you use for its mobile application. I've used it and the best part of Using ginger is it shows marked color for suggestions so that you'll know what is issue.
Cons: There is nothing that i least like but you need to improve desktop user experience at least with Chrome
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"Efficient but slow"
Overall: Ginger isn't terrible, but there are better editing software programs out there for a comparable price that also catch more errors. I believe there is a
Pros: Ginger Sofware goes through line by line, showing that line at the top of screen, which helped me to see any additional errors that the software does not catch.
Cons: The line by line read is a blessing and a curse. After a year, I switched to another editing program because Ginger was so time-consuming. I also found that too many suggestions didn't make sense, and after consulting with my editor, she agreed I had it correct and Ginger was wrong.
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"Review for ginger"
Pros: I like this software as it ease my writing skills and improve communication, by making my text more readable and user-friendly for the audience. I had been using it for enhancing my text for lectures and classes and it's such as bloss
Cons: No cons as such but price could be little improved. That is it should be little cheaper.
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"Ginger review"
Overall: For someone for whom English is not their mother tongue, Ginger is of great help.
Pros: This software is quite reliable in operation
Cons: What bothered me the most were the limitations in running the free version.
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"Worst Customer Support"
Overall: Software is excellent but support is horrible. Now it's a pain in my head.
Pros: The Software is really good. That motivated me in purchasing monthly plan. When I found the my subscription is auto renewed after my purchase(whi
Cons: Software usage motivated me in purchasing monthly plan. When I found that my subscription is auto renewed after my purchase(there is no info shared in the purchase page). I don't like their approach so I decided to cancel. Then I found out, only way to contact them is via email. I created cancellation request and it's been 2-3 days with no updates. (the SLA termed is 24 hours to get back to the request) And the worst of all is, as a card holder and user I don't have access to cancel my subscription or remove my card. I don't want to end up paying because of poor customer support. Hope the team would see this and act of my request.
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"Ginger good app"
Overall: I'm not native speaker so it is must for my work.
Pros: Great for my work, for some reason i have more trust they dont steal my data, then gramerly. Great customer support
Cons: It is less useful in tech space, it cannot realy rephrase a sentence. Not dealing well with line breaks.
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"Make Your Proofreading Easy With Ginger"
Overall: When talking about the overall experience, Ginger is best for my work and for anyone who needs any kind of writing assistance. And, I appreciate their 24/7 customer support. The team contacts instantaneously and try to solve the issue as soon as they can.
Pros: The best thing about this software is the availability of its plugins for all the major browsing places. I use this tool for proofreading the emails that I am going to send. I'm an article writer and I need to pay a lot of attention and focus on grammar and this software assists me in avoiding different errors.
Cons: I don't know what the reason is, but sometimes the mistakes do not appear even after pasting the text on Ginger. Also, I feel that it's premium version is a bit expensive. Sometimes, the program hangs without any reason and all the editing is lost.
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"Ginger"
Overall: I'm able to have a second set of eyes (Ginger) review my email, memo, or documents before they are submitted.
Pros: I started using Ginger because I wanted someone of something to double check my grammar in email and documents. Out of convenience I installed Ginger plug-in to Outlook, the app, as well as using it via the browser. Overall, it works just fine and with use you will develop a difference writing style.
Cons: Once in a while, Ginger's suggestion is not in the right context. You just have to ignore it. Of the various ways to run ginger, I like the plug-in to Outlook.
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"Ginger is Awesome for Students"
Overall: I first saw Ginger on a student's iPad and it totally transformed his ability to edit and revise his work independently. It offers more than Google Docs spell-checker and, by offering phrasing suggestions, surpasses Grammarly's free software features.
Pros: I love that Ginger offers phrasing suggestions for your sentences and goes beyond basic spell-check functions. The synonyms offering is another great feature - this software offers so much more than Grammarly.
Cons: It doesn't automatically appear in word processing apps. Copy/pasting the content is one extra step and can easily be overlooked for students needing to edit their writing.
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"Easy to use and useful"
Pros: -User-friendly -Easy to learn and use for beginners -It has an extension in chrome -Powerful in finding grammatical errors
Cons: -The only thing that I can say is that It is not compatible with Google docs.
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"A tool that provides useful features to improve the writing process. "
Pros: A very easy to use and friendly interface. It suggests the use of words which facilitates and speeds up the writing process.
Cons: In comparison to similar tools it's cost is a little high. After installing it my computer turned too slow.
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