Lingently vs QuillBot
One rewrites your text in many styles. The other fixes your English and helps you learn from it. Here's how they compare on an Android phone.
Pick QuillBot if you mainly want to paraphrase, translate or rewrite text. Pick Lingently if you mainly want your English corrected, with a short reason for each fix, and to learn from your mistakes. Both work across apps on Android. QuillBot has an AI keyboard and a floating widget, with a free grammar check and two free paraphrase modes. Lingently is a floating character that checks your message when you tap it, keeps your own keyboard, and turns your fixes into daily practice.
Feature by feature
Checked on 18 October 2026, on QuillBot's Google Play listing. QuillBot's prices vary by region and it often runs offers. Tell us if something is out of date.
| QuillBot | Lingently | |
|---|---|---|
| How it works on Android | AI keyboard, or a floating widget over other apps | Floating character (you keep your keyboard) |
| Grammar check | Yes, free | Yes, free (5 checks a day) |
| Paraphrasing | 2 modes free, 10+ on Premium | Tone rewrites on Pro: more formal, friendlier, shorter |
| Explains each fix | Not stated on its listing | Yes, one line per fix |
| Practice from your own mistakes | No | Yes: daily practice, word bank, patterns |
| Other tools | Translator (40+ languages), AI detector, AI chat, image generation | Learning tools |
| Paid plan | Premium; in-app prices from $19.95 to $99.95 on Google Play | Pro, $47.99 a year or $6.99 a month |
Where QuillBot is better
- Paraphrasing. It's what QuillBot is known for: many rewrite modes, from formal to simpler wording. Lingently's rewrites are for tone only.
- More tools in one app. A translator for 40+ languages, an AI detector, a chat assistant and image generation.
- A keyboard option. If you want the check inside the keyboard itself, QuillBot offers one. Lingently is never a keyboard.
- The web. One Premium subscription works on Android and on the web, which helps for essays on a laptop.
Where Lingently is better
- Correction you can learn from. Each fix is struck through and corrected, with one line on why: "I am agree" → "I agree": "agree" is a verb, so you don't need "am".
- It teaches. Your fixes become a few minutes of daily practice from your own sentences, plus a word bank and a view of the mistakes that keep coming back.
- You keep your keyboard. Nothing to switch. You tap the character when you want a check, and only the field you're typing in is read. Never password fields or SMS.
- It costs less. Pro is $47.99 a year. QuillBot's Premium goes up to $99.95 in its Play listing.
- Five languages checked. English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese.
Which should you use?
- You're a student rewriting essays, or you need a translator: QuillBot.
- You write messages and emails in English as a second language, on your phone, and want fewer mistakes over time: Lingently.
- You want both: they can live on the same phone. Use QuillBot for paraphrasing and Lingently for the check before you send.
Comparing more apps? See the best grammar apps for Android or Lingently vs Grammarly. For tone, see the tone checker.
Questions
Does QuillBot work on Android?
Yes. QuillBot's Play listing describes an AI keyboard and a floating widget that works across apps, plus an editor inside the app.
Is QuillBot free?
There is a free version. Its Play listing says it includes a grammar check, 2 paraphrase modes, the translator and the AI detector. Premium unlocks more modes and removes limits.
Is Lingently a paraphrasing tool?
Not mainly. Lingently corrects your English and explains each fix. On Pro it can also rewrite a message to be more formal, friendlier or shorter.
Can I use QuillBot and Lingently together?
Yes. If you use QuillBot's keyboard, Lingently still works on top of it, because Lingently is not a keyboard.
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