Draftery vs Grammarly: Which Is Better for Email?

Draftery is an AI email assistant for Gmail that learns how you communicate with each individual recipient. Instead of applying a single writing style to every email, Draftery studies the nuances of your conversations -- how you write to clients versus colleagues, the tone you use with your manager compared to a vendor, the level of formality that fits each relationship.

The result is complete email drafts that sound authentically like you wrote them, tailored to the person on the other end. Every time you edit, accept, or reject a draft, Draftery refines its understanding of your voice for that specific conversation. The more you use it, the better it gets at capturing the subtle differences in how you communicate across relationships.

Draftery is priced at $19.99 per month with a flat rate that includes approximately 300 drafts. There is no tiered pricing or feature gating -- every subscriber gets the full experience. A 7-day free trial with no credit card required lets you experience per-recipient voice matching before committing. Draftery's focus is intentionally narrow: it generates complete email drafts in your voice. It does not check grammar, detect tone, or work outside of email.

Grammarly is a writing assistant used by over 30 million people worldwide. It works across virtually every platform where you type: Gmail, Outlook, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Slack, social media, web browsers, and mobile keyboards. Grammarly analyzes your text in real time and suggests corrections for grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity, and tone.

The free tier covers basic grammar and spelling corrections -- catching typos, fixing subject-verb agreement, and flagging common errors. Grammarly Premium at $30 per month adds advanced features: tone detection, clarity improvements, vocabulary suggestions, plagiarism checking, and full-sentence rewrites. The Premium experience transforms Grammarly from a spell checker into a comprehensive writing coach.

Grammarly's AI features have expanded significantly. It now includes generative AI capabilities that can help draft, rewrite, and brainstorm content. However, Grammarly's approach to AI drafting is assistance-oriented -- it helps you write rather than writing for you. You start with your own text or a prompt, and Grammarly refines it. This is different from Draftery's approach, which generates a complete draft based on conversation context and your per-recipient communication style.

Grammarly works as a browser extension, desktop app, mobile keyboard, and native integration with major writing platforms. This ubiquity is one of its strongest selling points -- install it once and it works everywhere you write.

Source: Pricing and feature details are based on publicly available information from <a href="https://www.grammarly.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">grammarly.com</a>.

The most important thing to understand about this comparison is that Draftery and Grammarly are not really competing products. They solve different problems in the email workflow, and recognizing this distinction will save you time deciding which one you need.

Grammarly's core job is to improve writing you have already done. You write an email, and Grammarly checks it for errors, suggests clearer phrasing, detects whether the tone matches your intent, and helps you polish the text before sending. Grammarly makes you a better writer by catching mistakes and offering improvements. It assumes you are doing the writing -- it just helps you do it better.

Draftery's core job is to write the email for you. You receive a message that needs a reply, and Draftery generates a complete draft based on the conversation context, your writing history with that specific person, and the tone you typically use with them. Draftery replaces the blank page problem entirely -- instead of staring at a cursor wondering how to start, you review a draft that already sounds like you.

The practical difference shows up most clearly in your daily workflow. With Grammarly, you still compose every email from scratch, but you catch more errors and write more clearly. With Draftery, you skip the composition step entirely for most emails and spend your time reviewing and refining drafts that already sound right.

For many professionals, the real bottleneck is not catching grammar errors -- it is the time and mental energy required to compose emails from scratch, especially when writing to different audiences throughout the day. That is the problem Draftery was built to solve.

• Grammarly: You write the email, Grammarly corrects and polishes it. Works everywhere you type -- email, docs, chat, social media
• Draftery: Draftery writes the email for you in your voice, adapted to the specific recipient. Works specifically in Gmail for email drafting
• Grammarly's value: Fewer errors, clearer writing, better tone control across all your written communication
• Draftery's value: Complete email drafts that sound like you, with per-recipient voice matching that adapts to each relationship
• The key question: Is your bottleneck writing quality (Grammarly) or writing time (Draftery)?

Grammarly works everywhere, which is both its greatest strength and a limitation in the email context. Because Grammarly is designed for universal writing assistance -- emails, documents, social posts, chat messages -- it does not specialize in the specific dynamics of email communication. It treats an email the same way it treats a blog post or a Slack message: check for errors, suggest improvements, detect tone.

Draftery works only in email, and that narrow focus is its advantage. By concentrating entirely on email, Draftery understands things that a universal writing assistant does not: conversation threading, recipient relationship history, the difference between a first email and a tenth reply, and the subtle ways you adjust your communication for different people.

Per-recipient voice matching is the clearest example of this specialization advantage. Grammarly can detect the overall tone of text you have written (formal, friendly, assertive), but it does not learn how you communicate with specific individuals. It cannot distinguish between the casual tone you use with a close colleague and the professional tone you use with a new client. Draftery builds a separate voice profile for every person you email and generates drafts that match each relationship.

The trade-off is scope. Grammarly improves everything you write, not just email. If you write reports, proposals, blog posts, social media content, and client presentations, Grammarly helps with all of it. Draftery helps only with email. For professionals whose primary writing output is email -- and who spend most of their writing time in their inbox -- Draftery's focused approach delivers more value. For professionals who write extensively across many platforms, Grammarly's breadth matters.

The pricing comparison between Draftery and Grammarly depends on which tier of Grammarly you consider. Grammarly Free covers basic grammar and spelling at no cost. Grammarly Premium costs $30 per month for advanced features including tone detection, clarity improvements, and AI assistance. Grammarly Business adds team features at $25 per member per month (billed annually).

Draftery costs $19.99 per month with a flat rate. There are no tiers -- every subscriber gets the full experience including per-recipient voice matching and approximately 300 drafts.

If you compare Draftery ($19.99) to Grammarly Premium ($30), Draftery is actually cheaper. But this comparison is somewhat misleading because they do different things. A fairer framing is: what is the total cost of your email writing workflow?

If you use Grammarly Free for error checking and Draftery for AI drafting, your total cost is $19.99 per month. You get complete email drafts in your voice plus basic grammar checking on everything else you write. This is arguably the best value combination for email-focused professionals.

If you use Grammarly Premium without Draftery, you pay $30 per month for comprehensive writing assistance everywhere -- but you still compose every email from scratch. Grammarly helps you write better but does not write for you.

If you use both Grammarly Premium and Draftery, your total cost is $49.99 per month. This gives you the full experience: AI-generated email drafts with per-recipient voice matching, plus comprehensive grammar and tone checking across all your writing. This is the premium option for professionals who want both tools working together.

Both tools offer ways to try before committing. Grammarly has a permanently free tier. Draftery offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required.

Being fair about this comparison means acknowledging Grammarly's substantial advantages. Grammarly is a more established, more versatile product with capabilities that Draftery does not offer.

Grammar and spelling checking is Grammarly's foundation and it does it exceptionally well. Real-time corrections for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax mean fewer embarrassing errors in everything you write. Draftery does not check grammar -- if a Draftery draft has an error (rare but possible), you would need Grammarly or your own proofreading to catch it.

Tone detection helps you understand how your writing will be perceived before you send it. Grammarly shows whether your email sounds formal, friendly, assertive, or tentative, and lets you adjust if the tone does not match your intent. This is particularly useful for sensitive communications. Draftery matches your existing tone patterns but does not give you an explicit tone readout.

Universal coverage means Grammarly works everywhere you write. Email is just one of its use cases. If you also write reports, proposals, social media posts, Slack messages, or documentation, Grammarly improves all of it. Draftery is email-only by design.

The free tier makes Grammarly accessible to everyone. Basic grammar and spelling checking costs nothing. This is a major advantage for budget-conscious professionals or those who want to try before paying. Draftery's free trial is 7 days, after which you need a subscription.

Outlook and multi-platform support means Grammarly works with virtually any email client or platform. The browser extension, desktop app, and mobile keyboard cover every environment. Draftery currently supports Gmail only.

Brand voice guidelines in Grammarly Business let teams maintain consistent communication standards. For organizations with specific style guides, this team-level feature ensures everyone writes according to the same rules.

Draftery is the right choice for professionals whose main email challenge is not writing quality but writing volume. If you spend hours each day composing replies from scratch -- adjusting tone for each recipient, crafting the right opening, finding the right level of formality -- Draftery eliminates most of that work by generating complete drafts that already sound like you.

The professionals who benefit most from Draftery over Grammarly tend to be those who are already good writers. They do not make many grammar errors. Their emails are already well-structured. But they send a lot of email to diverse audiences, and the time spent composing each one adds up. Draftery gives them back that time without sacrificing the personal touch.

Here is who benefits most from choosing Draftery.

• High-volume emailers who send 20 or more emails per day to different audiences -- clients, colleagues, executives, partners -- and need each email to match the relationship
• Professionals who are already good writers but want to spend less time composing emails from scratch
• Gmail users who want complete AI-generated drafts with per-recipient voice matching, not just grammar corrections
• Anyone whose main email bottleneck is composition time rather than writing quality -- they know what to say but spend too long writing it
• Relationship-driven communicators -- consultants, account managers, founders -- whose reputation depends on personal, authentic emails that vary by recipient
• Professionals who want their AI to learn and improve with every edit, building a deeper understanding of their voice for each specific contact

One of the most practical outcomes of this comparison is recognizing that Draftery and Grammarly can work together. Because they solve different problems, combining them gives you the best of both: complete AI-generated email drafts with per-recipient voice matching (Draftery) plus grammar checking and writing improvement across all your other writing (Grammarly).

A typical workflow with both tools might look like this: Draftery generates a complete draft for your email reply, tuned to the specific recipient. Before sending, Grammarly's browser extension automatically checks the draft for any grammar or clarity issues. You review, make any final tweaks, and send. The combination means you rarely start from a blank page, and what you send is polished.

The cost of running both depends on your Grammarly plan. Using Grammarly Free with Draftery costs $19.99 per month total -- you get AI-generated email drafts plus basic grammar checking on everything else. Using Grammarly Premium with Draftery costs $49.99 per month total but gives you the full suite: AI email drafts, advanced grammar checking, tone detection, and clarity improvements across all platforms.

For many professionals, the Grammarly Free plus Draftery combination hits the sweet spot. You get the most impactful feature from each tool -- per-recipient voice matching from Draftery and grammar checking from Grammarly -- at a reasonable price point. Grammarly Premium's advanced features (tone detection, full-sentence rewrites, vocabulary suggestions) are genuinely useful but not essential if your primary writing challenge is email composition rather than writing quality.

Draftery and Grammarly are complementary tools, not competitors. Grammarly makes you a better writer across everything you type. Draftery writes your emails for you in your voice, adapted to each recipient. The choice between them -- or the decision to use both -- depends on where your biggest productivity challenge lies.

If your main challenge is writing quality -- catching errors, improving clarity, controlling tone -- Grammarly is the more impactful tool. It works everywhere, has a free tier, and its Premium plan at $30 per month is comprehensive. You still compose every email yourself, but every email you send is more polished and professional.

If your main challenge is writing time -- you send dozens of emails daily to different people and each one needs to sound authentically like you -- Draftery is the more impactful tool. At $19.99 per month, it generates complete drafts with per-recipient voice matching, eliminating the blank page problem and saving you hours each week.

If both challenges resonate, use both. Grammarly Free plus Draftery costs $19.99 per month and gives you AI-generated email drafts plus grammar checking everywhere. It is a practical, affordable combination that addresses both writing quality and writing time.

Grammarly offers a free tier, so you can start using it immediately. Draftery offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required. Try whichever tool addresses your bigger pain point first, and add the other when you are ready.