How to Turn Off Grammarly in Your Browser, Word and Desktop App

How do I turn off Grammarly on one website?

To turn off Grammarly on one website, go to that site, click the Grammarly icon in your browser's toolbar and turn off the Allow extension to check text on option for it. Grammarly's support page gives exactly these two steps. The extension keeps working on every other site, and the setting stays until you turn it back on.

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   Step 1: Open the site

   Go to the website where you want Grammarly to stop checking your text.

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   Step 2: Open the extension menu

   Click the Grammarly icon in your browser's toolbar.

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   Step 3: Turn off checking for this site

   Turn off the option that begins Allow extension to check text on, followed by the site's name.

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For a single text box, hover over the Grammarly button in the lower-right corner of the field and click the power button, then choose until the next visit or forever. As of November 2026 Grammarly notes that if you activated Superhuman Go, you will see a Superhuman logo or tab instead of the Grammarly one.

How do I turn off the Grammarly browser extension everywhere?

To turn off the Grammarly extension on all websites, open a new browser tab, click the Grammarly icon in the toolbar and turn off Check text with browser extension. To switch the extension off at the browser level instead, right-click the icon, select Manage Extension and turn off the toggle next to Grammarly.

Grammarly gives the Manage Extension route for Chrome and Firefox. In Safari it is Safari > Preferences > Extensions, then uncheck the Enabled box. In Edge, open the Extensions panel, select Grammarly for Microsoft Edge and switch it to Off.

How do I turn off Grammarly for Windows or Mac in one app?

To turn off the desktop app in one program, place your cursor in a text field in that program, then on Windows right-click the floating Grammarly widget or the Grammarly tab, or on a Mac click the Grammarly icon in the menu bar. Choose Turn off Grammarly or Turn off Grammarly for 1 hour.

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   Step 4: Click into the app

   Place your cursor in a text field in the app or on the website where you want Grammarly off.

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   Step 5: Open Grammarly's menu

   On Windows, right-click the floating Grammarly widget or the Grammarly tab. On a Mac, click the Grammarly icon in the menu bar.

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   Step 6: Choose how long

   Select Turn off Grammarly to block it there, or Turn off Grammarly for 1 hour for a short break.

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   Step 7: Undo it later

   Go to Settings > Block list in the Grammarly app to see blocked apps and websites and remove any of them.

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To close the desktop app altogether, click the Grammarly button in the system tray on Windows, or in the menu bar on a Mac, and select Quit.

How do I turn off Grammarly in Word?

In Word, Grammarly now comes from the desktop app, so you turn it off the same way: click into the Word document, open Grammarly's menu and choose Turn off Grammarly. As of November 2026 Grammarly says it is retiring the separate Grammarly for Microsoft Office add-in, and the Word add-in for Mac is already discontinued.

Grammarly recommends Grammarly for Windows in its place, which it says works with Microsoft Office 2016 and newer, and Grammarly for Mac for Word on a Mac. Its notice says the old add-in no longer receives updates or technical support. Word has its own assistant too, covered in how to turn off Copilot in Windows 11.

How do I turn off Grammarly in Google Docs?

Grammarly reaches Google Docs through the browser extension, so use the per-site switch: open a document, click the Grammarly icon in the browser toolbar and turn off the Allow extension to check text on option for that site. Quitting the desktop app alone may not be enough, for the reason below.

Grammarly's extension guide notes that if you also use Grammarly for Windows and Mac, the browser extension is turned off by default but remains active in Google Docs. Google's own assistant is a separate switch, described in how to turn off Gemini in Gmail and Docs.

How do I turn off only Grammarly's generative AI features?

To turn off only the generative AI features, open Grammarly for Windows or Mac and go to Settings > Customization > Generative AI, or open the browser extension's dropdown menu and choose Generative AI. Grammarly says any user can also turn generative AI off on the Feature customization page in account settings.

If a class or workplace rule on AI help is the reason, also read how AI writing detectors work.

What does a school or team account control?

On a school or team plan, an admin can make some of these choices for you. Grammarly's admin pages describe a Feature access page where admins turn the AI assistant, strategic suggestions and paragraph-level rewrites on or off for the whole organisation or for selected groups. Members cannot switch on what an admin has switched off.

Grammarly tells school and business users to check their Features tab or ask their account admin, and the desktop app's Block list can show entries marked Blocked by admin. More guides like this are in the how-to hub, and the wider privacy question is covered in AI tools and laptop privacy.