Scribens
by Scribens
What Scribens is
Scribens is a writing assistant available through the web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It lists browser, desktop, and mobile apps, plus a browser extension, so users can choose an access method for their device. The service provides style suggestions and tone detection and supports 30 languages. A free plan is available. Premium plans add mobile and desktop Premium features, remove advertising, and provide improved correction. Premium monthly costs €9.90 per month. The three-month option is €24.90 per month, billed at €8.30 per month, while the annual option costs €59.90 per year, billed at €4.99 per month. The pricing note lists paid access from €4.99/user/mo on an annual term. Scribens is made by a company headquartered in Montpellier, France, and offers a broad mix of browser and app-based access.
Who it suits
Scribens suits people who want writing assistance across browsers, computers, and mobile devices. It may fit users seeking style and tone guidance in any of its 30 supported languages.
What it does well
- Free plan available
- Supports 30 languages
- Style suggestions and tone detection
- Web, desktop, and mobile access
- Browser extension listed
What to know first
- Premium monthly plan costs €9.90
- Premium is needed for improved correction
- Premium removes advertising rather than the free plan
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Premium monthly | billed monthly · Mobile and desktop Premium features · No advertising · Improved correction | €9.90 a month |
| Premium annual | 4.99 € / month; annual subscription · Mobile and desktop Premium features · No advertising · Improved correction | €59.90 |
| Premium 3 months | €24.90 every 3 months (€8.30/month shown) · premium corrections · 200,000 characters per text · no ads | €24.90 a month |
| Premium 1 year | annually (€4.99/month shown) · premium corrections · 200,000 characters per text · no ads | €59.90 a year |
| Premium 1 month | monthly · premium corrections · 200,000 characters per text · no ads | €9.90 a month |
As scribens.fr lists them, read 20 Sept 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Scribens offers writing assistance across major desktop and mobile platforms, with style and tone tools in 30 languages. The free plan provides entry access, while Premium adds stated app features, removes advertising, and improves correction.
Facts from Scribens's own pages
- API
- The API embeds a correction button in a website text area and provides automatic checking, style functions, English correction and a 100,000-character checking limit. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- API audience
- The API terms restrict use to professional customers and require an account before installation. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- API restriction
- The API may only be used as an accessory to a different website and cannot power a competing primary grammar-checking service. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- API trial and billing
- API accounts receive 50,000 free characters; afterward, prepaid lots provide 10 million characters each and unused lots are non-refundable. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- App privacy disclosure
- Google Play says the app shares no data with third parties, may collect personal information, encrypts data in transit and supports deletion requests. · play.google.com, 15 Oct 2026
- App update
- Google Play lists 22 June 2026 as the Android app's update date. · play.google.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Browser extension
- Yes · scribens.fr, 20 Sept 2026
- Cancellation limitation
- Subscriptions with automatic renewal end at the current term after renewal is disabled, and the terms state that paid amounts are not refunded. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- Pappers lists zero employees in its 2026 data. · pappers.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Desktop app
- Yes · scribens.fr, 20 Sept 2026
- Developer documentation
- Installation instructions are available after login under the account area and differ for three types of text areas; no public SDK is described. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Exercises
- The product includes more than 600 exercise series for spelling practice. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- Pappers records the company creation date as 24 August 2018. · pappers.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Free correction limits
- Free advanced correction covers the first 6,000 characters, while standard checking remains unlimited; rewriting and style tools have separate limits. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yes · scribens.fr, 20 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- The registered headquarters is 650 Avenue du Pirée, 34000 Montpellier, France. · pappers.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Official integrations include Microsoft Word, Outlook, Google Docs and Sheets, Chrome, Firefox, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The service says it can correct text in more than 40 languages. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Languages supported
- 30 · scribens.fr, 20 Sept 2026
- Legal company
- SCRIBENS is an active French EURL (SIREN 841 985 633) registered in Montpellier with €100 capital. · pappers.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Scribens is proprietary: its terms grant limited personal use, prohibit copying or reverse engineering, and state that code, resources and documentation are deposited with France's APP. · scribens.fr, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Android failures
- Google Play reviews reported results failing to display and the app becoming unusable for English checking. · play.google.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: cookie consent
- A September 2026 Trustpilot reviewer criticized the large number of cookie choices and lack of a single refuse-all control. · fr.trustpilot.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: extension controls
- Firefox reviewers complained that the icon appears on every new website, settings require sign-in, and there is no click-only activation option. · addons.mozilla.org, 15 Oct 2026
Where Scribens stands on Freedom251
- Grammar checkers#8 of 88