# Scribens review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Free grammar checker with explanations, in over 40 languages

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Scribens is a grammar and spelling checker that explains each mistake it finds. The free web version is ad-supported and capped per day, and Premium adds higher limits, paraphrasing in 20 tones and an ad-free site. It also offers a Chrome extension, Office and Google add-ins, and a mobile app.

- **Category:** Writing Tools
- **Made by:** Scribens
- **Website:** https://www.scribens.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you check long documents, as Free stops at 8,000 characters a day.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, Scribens has a free plan, and paid plans start at €4.99 per month on the 1-year term (€59.90 per year).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Grammar checking with explanations, dictionaries and 40 languages, limited to 8,000 characters per day and shown with ads.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Grammar and spelling checks with explanations, up to 8,000 characters per day, with ads. |
| Premium 1 month | €9.90 per month, billed monthly | Up to 5 million characters a month, 100,000 per check, unlimited paraphrasing and no ads. |
| Premium 3 months | €24.90 per 3 months (€8.30 a month) | Same Premium features. The page marks this term as 16% off the monthly rate. |
| Premium 1 year | €59.90 per year (€4.99 a month) | Same Premium features. The page marks this term as 50% off the monthly rate. |

Read from https://www.scribens.com/mobile-app/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Scribens before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **50% off the yearly term** (Annual discount): The mobile app page shows the 1-year Premium term at €59.90, marked 50% off the monthly rate, against €9.90 billed monthly. Source: https://www.scribens.com/mobile-app/

## Key features

- **Grammar and spelling checks:** Covers conjugation, agreement, prepositions, homonyms and punctuation, with an explanation attached to each mistake.
- **Rewriting and paraphrasing:** Rewrites text in 20 possible tones. Unlimited paraphrasing is a Premium feature.
- **Over 40 languages:** The checker works in more than 40 languages, including English, French and Spanish, with dictionaries for definitions and synonyms.
- **Extensions and add-ins:** A Chrome extension and add-ins for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Google Docs and Sheets, per the homepage.
- **Mobile app:** A keyboard on iOS and an accessibility-based overlay on Android offer correction, rephrasing and translation in other apps.

## Good for

- Writers who want each correction explained, not just applied
- Anyone checking text in languages other than English
- Light users who can live with a daily character cap and ads

## Worth knowing

- The free version is limited to 8,000 characters a day and shows ads.
- Prices were read in euros; no dollar price was displayed.
- Extensions are listed under Premium on the homepage comparison, so check what the free version includes.
- The homepage footer carries a 2020 copyright and the pricing sits on the mobile app page, not a dedicated pricing page.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Scribens checks grammar and spelling in 40-odd languages and explains each error it flags. The free version is capped at 8,000 characters a day and shows ads. Premium costs €4.99 a month on a one-year term but €9.90 if you pay monthly, and the pricing sits on the mobile app page.

- **Value for money: B.** €59.90 for a year, about €4.99 a month, which is in the cheapest quarter. The one-month price is €9.90.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free checking of up to 8,000 characters a day, with ads. One person can get through short documents on that.
- **Features: C.** Grammar, paraphrasing in tones, 40 languages, extensions and a mobile app. The listing notes extensions appear under Premium, so what Free includes is unclear.
- **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record, but it's paste-and-check on the web with nothing to set up.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, Chrome extension, Office and Google add-ins, plus iPhone and Android. No desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Scribens's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among writing tools

- Scribens's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 67 of the 100 other writing tools we grade, and level with 18.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 68 of 100) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at about $5.57 a month, against a middle price of $8.33 for the category: 13 of the 62 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/writing

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** Nothing Scribens does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 4 things listed below take a company. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 67 of the 100 other writing tools we grade. It costs $66.90 a year.

- You could not: Grammar checking as you type, wherever you type.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Gmail, Outlook and Microsoft Word among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Google Sheets, PowerPoint, Excel

**Tags:** Grammar & style, AI features

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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://www.scribens.com/mobile-app/
- https://www.scribens.com/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/scribens
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