How to Delete Your Grammarly Account (and Your Stored Documents)

To delete your Grammarly account, sign in on Grammarly’s website, open your account settings, and choose the option to delete your account, then confirm with your password. Cancel any paid plan first, and download any documents saved in your Grammarly account, because deletion removes them. If your account belongs to an employer’s or school’s Grammarly plan, an admin may control it, so you may need to leave the team or ask the admin to remove you.

Grammarly sits inside a lot of places: your browser, your keyboard, your desktop apps and sometimes your work email. Closing the account is only half of leaving properly. This guide covers the steps, the documents, and the extensions that keep running after you’ve gone.

Before you delete

1. Cancel a paid plan through whoever bills you. If you pay Grammarly directly, cancel in the subscription section of your account settings. If you subscribed through the App Store or Google Play, cancel there. Deleting the account may not stop a store subscription on its own.
2. Download the documents stored in your account. Grammarly’s editor can keep documents you’ve written or pasted into it. Open your document list and download or copy anything you want to keep. Deletion removes them and they can’t be restored.
3. Save your personal dictionary if you rely on it. Words you’ve taught Grammarly live in the account. If you’ll move to another tool, note them down.
4. Check which account type you have. An individual account you control, or a seat on a business, team or education plan that an admin manages. The steps differ, and the section below covers managed accounts.
5. Check how you sign in. If you use Google, Apple or Microsoft to sign in, make sure you can still get in that way, since you’ll need to be signed in to delete.

How to delete an individual Grammarly account

Grammarly updates its menus from time to time, so these steps are general. Its support site shows the current path.

1. Sign in to Grammarly on its website, in a browser rather than inside an extension.
2. Open your account settings.
3. Find the option to delete your account, usually at the bottom of the account page.
4. Grammarly may explain what you’ll lose and offer to downgrade to a free plan instead. If you want to leave, continue.
5. Enter your password or confirm through your sign-in provider, then confirm the deletion.

If you signed up with an email address you no longer have, contact Grammarly through its official support site and explain the situation. Don’t share your password with anyone offering to close accounts for you.

Remove the extensions and apps too

Deleting your account doesn’t uninstall Grammarly from your devices. It’s easy to forget one, and a leftover extension will keep prompting you to sign in.

• Browser extensions: remove Grammarly from each browser’s extensions or add-ons page, on every computer you’ve used.
• Desktop apps: uninstall the Grammarly desktop app for Windows or Mac through the normal uninstall process.
• Office add-ins: if you added Grammarly to Word or Outlook, remove the add-in inside those apps.
• Phone keyboard: if you installed the Grammarly keyboard, switch back to your default keyboard in your phone’s settings, then uninstall the app.

Business, team and education accounts

Many people use Grammarly through work or school without ever having signed up for a personal plan. In that case, the organization’s admin usually controls the account.

Situation	What usually works
You’re on an employer’s or school’s plan and want to leave	Ask the admin to remove you. Some plans also let a member leave the team from their own settings.
You’re leaving the job or finishing a course	The admin normally removes your seat. Documents created under the organization’s plan may be governed by its rules, so save personal work first if you’re allowed to.
You joined a team with your personal account	Leaving the team can return you to an individual account, which you can then delete yourself.
You are the admin	You manage members and the subscription from the admin panel. Closing an organization’s plan may involve the company’s billing contact and Grammarly’s business support.

If you’re unsure whether you’re on a managed plan, look at the account settings: a managed account usually names the organization and may hide or lock the delete option. That’s the signal to go to your admin or IT team, not to Grammarly directly.

What Grammarly may keep

Deleting the account removes your profile, stored documents and settings from your view. Like most software companies, Grammarly may keep some information for a period after deletion, for example billing records and data it must retain for legal or security reasons. Its privacy policy describes what it keeps and why.

If you live somewhere with privacy laws that give you access or erasure rights, you can make a formal request. Our guide to a data subject access request explains how, and the GDPR right to erasure covers the EU and UK position.

Writing tools raise the same questions as AI chatbots about where your text goes. Our guide to ChatGPT privacy explains how to think about pasting sensitive material into any AI tool.

Tidy up sign-in connections and shared devices

Two loose ends are easy to miss once the account itself is gone.

• Third-party sign-in: if you signed in to Grammarly with Google, Apple or Microsoft, that provider may still list Grammarly as a connected app. Open the security or connected apps section of that account and remove Grammarly’s access. Our guide to Google privacy settings shows where Google lists third-party connections.
• Shared or work computers: if you ever signed in to Grammarly on a shared family computer or a work laptop, remove the extension there too and sign out of the browser. A leftover extension on someone else’s machine can keep showing your name or suggestions tied to your old account until it’s removed.
• Browser-saved passwords: delete the saved Grammarly login from your browser or password manager, so you don’t accidentally sign up again with the same details.

None of this is essential for the deletion to work, but it closes the gaps that make an old account feel like it never quite went away.

A worked example

This scenario is illustrative, not a real client. Colm had a personal Grammarly Premium account for years and then joined a company that provided Grammarly through a business plan. He wanted to keep his work and personal writing separate.

1. He canceled his personal Premium plan in his account’s subscription settings.
2. He downloaded around a dozen personal documents from Grammarly’s editor, including cover letters and a short story draft.
3. He deleted his personal account, then removed the extension from his home laptop and switched his phone back to the default keyboard.
4. At work, he accepted the invitation to the company plan using his work email, so that account belonged to his employer from the start.

Common mistakes

• Deleting before downloading documents. Stored documents can’t be recovered once the account is gone.
• Forgetting a store subscription. Cancel through the App Store or Google Play if that’s where you pay.
• Leaving extensions behind. Check every browser, the desktop app, Office add-ins and your phone keyboard.
• Trying to delete a managed account yourself. Your admin controls it. Ask them.
• Using a work account for personal writing. When you leave the job, you may lose access to it.

If you’re closing old accounts as part of a wider cleanup, our guides to deleting a Canva account, a Zoom account and a Google account cover common next steps. If something you wrote has surfaced publicly under your name, our personal reputation management team can help.

Frequently asked questions

Does deleting Grammarly delete my documents?

Yes, documents stored in Grammarly’s editor are deleted with the account and can’t be restored. Download anything you want to keep before you delete.

Does deleting my Grammarly account cancel my subscription?

Cancel the plan first. If you pay through the App Store or Google Play, cancel there, because deleting the account may not stop a store subscription.

Why can't I delete my Grammarly account?

Your account may be managed by an employer or school. Managed accounts are controlled by an admin, who can remove you from the plan.

Does uninstalling the extension delete my account?

No. Removing the extension or app only takes Grammarly off that device. Your account and documents stay until you delete the account.