Use Grammarly with Overleaf
How to use Grammarly with Overleaf
If your Overleaf editor displays a three-way toggle between Source, Source (legacy) and Rich Text mode, please note that Grammarly is incompatible with the Source (legacy) mode:
Grammarly provides extensions for several browsers and we refer readers to Grammarly’s support pages for further information. You need to register for a Grammarly account after installing your preferred browser extension, shown here pinned to Chrome’s toolbar:
For present purposes, we assume you opted for the free Grammarly plan which offers a subset of Grammarly’s features.
You may wish to switch off Overleaf’s built-in spell check via the project’s Menu, to avoid potential conflicts with Grammarly’s suggestions:
The Grammarly extension will always check the file that’s currently open in the editor, and it will present itself at the bottom of the document:
The screenshot above shows the Grammarly icon indicating 5 suggestions for this text, an extract of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale copied from Project Gutenberg.
Performance issues
The Grammarly extension slows the Overleaf editor, sometimes causing noticeable delays when typing or scrolling—particularly on large documents. Similar delays may also occur when using “go to location”, searching or using the file tree. If you experience any of these issues whilst editing your project, we recommend temporarily disabling Grammarly and only re-enabling it when you want its suggestions and corrections.
How to temporarily disable Grammarly
- Open an Overleaf project in your browser and make sure it is the currently active browser tab.
- Select the Grammarly icon (
) located on your browser toolbar.
- Make sure the overleaf.com domain is displayed in Grammarly’s menu.
- Set the toggle switch to Off to disable Grammarly on overleaf.com
These steps are summarised in the following graphic:
Known limitations
In addition to the potential performance issues described above, our testing also highlighted the following points:
- The Grammarly icon is located towards the bottom of the text, so it might be necessary to scroll down to the end of the file to see the icon.
- Grammarly is unaware of LaTeX markup, occasionally resulting in erroneous suggestions and words not being spell-checked. For example, the text just after an opening brace
{
is not checked by Grammarly: - Last but not least, in some situations, the error count reported by the Grammarly extension might be underestimated, particularly for large documents.
Premium Grammarly users have access to a “snippets” feature which, by default, is triggered using the backslash (\) character (as its shortcut). This feature could conflict with Overleaf’s autocomplete for LaTeX commands but, fortunately, the snippets shortcut character can be changed or disabled using advice from Grammarly support.
Overleaf guides
- Creating a document in Overleaf
- Uploading a project
- Copying a project
- Creating a project from a template
- Using the Overleaf project menu
- Including images in Overleaf
- Exporting your work from Overleaf
- Working offline in Overleaf
- Using Track Changes in Overleaf
- Using bibliographies in Overleaf
- Sharing your work with others
- Using the History feature
- Debugging Compilation timeout errors
- How-to guides
- Guide to Overleaf’s premium features
LaTeX Basics
- Creating your first LaTeX document
- Choosing a LaTeX Compiler
- Paragraphs and new lines
- Bold, italics and underlining
- Lists
- Errors
Mathematics
- Mathematical expressions
- Subscripts and superscripts
- Brackets and Parentheses
- Matrices
- Fractions and Binomials
- Aligning equations
- Operators
- Spacing in math mode
- Integrals, sums and limits
- Display style in math mode
- List of Greek letters and math symbols
- Mathematical fonts
- Using the Symbol Palette in Overleaf
Figures and tables
- Inserting Images
- Tables
- Positioning Images and Tables
- Lists of Tables and Figures
- Drawing Diagrams Directly in LaTeX
- TikZ package
References and Citations
- Bibliography management with bibtex
- Bibliography management with natbib
- Bibliography management with biblatex
- Bibtex bibliography styles
- Natbib bibliography styles
- Natbib citation styles
- Biblatex bibliography styles
- Biblatex citation styles
Languages
- Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using polyglossia and fontspec
- Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using babel and fontspec
- International language support
- Quotations and quotation marks
- Arabic
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
Document structure
- Sections and chapters
- Table of contents
- Cross referencing sections, equations and floats
- Indices
- Glossaries
- Nomenclatures
- Management in a large project
- Multi-file LaTeX projects
- Hyperlinks
Formatting
- Lengths in LaTeX
- Headers and footers
- Page numbering
- Paragraph formatting
- Line breaks and blank spaces
- Text alignment
- Page size and margins
- Single sided and double sided documents
- Multiple columns
- Counters
- Code listing
- Code Highlighting with minted
- Using colours in LaTeX
- Footnotes
- Margin notes
Fonts
Presentations
Commands
Field specific
- Theorems and proofs
- Chemistry formulae
- Feynman diagrams
- Molecular orbital diagrams
- Chess notation
- Knitting patterns
- CircuiTikz package
- Pgfplots package
- Typesetting exams in LaTeX
- Knitr
- Attribute Value Matrices
Class files
- Understanding packages and class files
- List of packages and class files
- Writing your own package
- Writing your own class