Manage application controls

Included in: Grammarly Enterprise plans
Managed by: Admins

Grammarly is committed to strong data privacy principles for all users. You can specify additional restrictions for your team on what content or data Grammarly can access.

The application controls feature allows Enterprise admins to specify which desktop applications Grammarly will not run on. If an application is added to the blocklist, your team members will not be able to use Grammarly on that specific desktop application.

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To configure application controls, follow these steps:

1. Go to your Home page, open the Organization tab → Enterprise Security → Domains and apps.
2. To add an application to the blocklist, click Add to block list at the top of the page.
3. In the window that appears next, choose the Application option and specify the exact filename for a Mac or Windows application you’d like Grammarly to be blocked from accessing in the Filename field. To block Grammarly in an application on both operating systems, you need to add each application filename to the blocklist separately.
4. Specify on which level this control will be applied:
   • If you want to restrict Grammarly usage in the specified application for every member in your organization, select Entire organization.
   • If you want to restrict Grammarly usage in the application only for specific member groups, select Specific groups and choose which groups this setting should be applied to. Optionally, you can select Make this an admin controlled group if you also want to limit the ability to delete a specified group or remove members from that group only to admins. You can learn more in this article: How to organize members into groups
5. Click Save.

Once you save these settings, Grammarly will not run in the applications you specify.

Note: This feature is implemented for Grammarly for Windows and Grammarly for Mac only.

You can always remove applications from the blocklist on the Domains and apps page by clicking on the trash bin icon next to the application you’d like to remove from the list.

Naming conventions for applications control

When adding an application to the blocklist, make sure to use the correct syntax for the application name, which varies between Windows and macOS operating systems.

For applications that run on Windows, use the executable name (this is usually something like “application_name.exe”) to specify the application you want to block Grammarly from running. For applications that run on macOS, use the application’s unique bundle identifier (bundle ID).

osascript -e 'id of app "Application Name"'

Important: If your organization uses both Windows and Mac computers and you wish to block the same application on both operating systems, you need to add the application name with the appropriate syntax for each operating system separately. To do so, enter an application name and click Save. Then, click Add to blocklist again and add another application name.