Today, many of us do the bulk of our writing on our phones, while our PC usage is getting more and more restricted to work. You might sit down on your laptop to send an email to your boss, but you're probably typing a lot more text through the day in the form of text messages, social media updates, and even less formal emails.
And even though displays get bigger, typing on a touchscreen can often leave something to be desired. To speed up the process as much as possible, we all take shortcuts, so things like capitalisation and punctuation often take a back seat to sending a message quickly. Spellcheck can protect us not from misspelled words and messages like "c u 2nite", but errors of capitalisation, article usage, prepositions and the rest are unfortunately way too common, and not caught by spellcheck.
Enter Grammarly[1], which can look at complete sentences to analyse your usage, and suggest corrections where you might have made an error, and even offer improvements if it thinks you can rephrase something to make it sound better. The service has been available[2] on the desktop as add-ons for various applications and even as browser extensions for a while now, and it launched as a free Android keyboard[3] on Tuesday.
To find out how useful the Grammarly keyboard is, I installed it on Android[4] and took it for a spin - it's also available for free on iOS if you're an iPhone user. If, like me, you suffer from apostrophe blindness, where you will sprinkle those small signs about like salt on a meal - not because you don't understand the difference between its and it's, but purely out...