ABCcount Teams vs. QuillBot and Grammarly
A direct, specific look at Legal, Medical, Energy and Creative writing — not a claim that we're better at everything, just an honest account of these four modes specifically.
QuillBot
Has an Academic mode for scholarly writing, but no dedicated Legal mode — legal phrasing goes through the same general paraphraser as everything else, in QuillBot's dashboard.
Grammarly
No Legal mode. A contract clause goes through the same general-purpose rewrites (more formal, shorter, clearer) it offers for an email or a blog post.
ABCcount Teams
✓A dedicated Legal mode, calibrated specifically for defensible phrasing, formal structure, and risk-conscious tone — inline, the moment you highlight a contract or brief.
QuillBot
No dedicated Medical mode. Clinical notes would go through the same general-purpose paraphraser as any other text, with no medical-terminology calibration.
Grammarly
No Medical mode. A clinical note gets the same clarity and tone suggestions as any other document, with no clinical-terminology calibration.
ABCcount Teams
✓A dedicated Medical mode that converts casual clinical notes into accurate medical terminology and documentation tone — inline, not connected to any EHR system.
QuillBot
No dedicated Energy mode. Incident reports, drilling reports and filings go through Formal, or a Custom mode you describe yourself — general-purpose styles, not built around oil and gas documents.
Grammarly
No Energy mode. Drilling reports, AFEs and incident notes get the same general-purpose rewrites as everything else.
ABCcount Teams
✓A dedicated Energy mode for incident reports, drilling reports, AFEs and regulatory filings. Every measurement, date, API number and formation name stays exactly as written, and it states only what the note states — no added cause or fault.
QuillBot
One Creative mode, applied the same way regardless of genre — a fantasy scene and a piece of marketing copy get the same generic pass.
Grammarly
No genre modes. The same tone suggestions apply to a horror scene and a sales email.
ABCcount Teams
✓Five distinct genre modes — Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Literary — each calibrated to that genre's actual conventions, not one setting stretched across all of them.
Don’t take the adjectives on trust
Three real outputs, unedited. The highlighted part is what a general-purpose rewrite gets wrong.
What was written
Crew reported a sheen on the water near the platform leg around 1100 hrs. Volume unknown, appears minor. Possibly from the transfer hose but we have not confirmed. Notified USCG at 1215.
What Energy mode returned
Around 1100 hrs, the crew reported a sheen on the water near the platform leg. The volume is unknown, and it appears to be minor. It may have originated from the transfer hose, but this has not been confirmed. The USCG was notified at 1215.
Read the highlighted clause. "May have" and "has not been confirmed" are both still there, and the times are unchanged. A tool optimising for readability deletes the second clause as redundant and writes the first as fact — and hands you a document that says something you never said.
What was written
The party of the first part hereby agrees that it will not, under any circumstances whatsoever, be held liable for damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the performance or non-performance of its obligations hereunder, except in cases where such damages result from gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the said party.
What Legal mode returned
The party of the first part covenants that it shall not, under any circumstances whatsoever, be held liable for damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with its performance or non-performance of its obligations hereunder, unless such damages result from gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the said party.
"Agrees" became "covenants", "the performance" became "its performance", "except in cases where" became "unless". And the highlighted carve-out did not move a word. A rewrite that quietly dropped it would have inverted the clause — and read beautifully while doing it.
What was written
62M, chest pain x2 days, worse on exertion. BP 148/92, HR 88. Started lisinopril 10mg daily 3 weeks ago. ECG NAD. Probably musculoskeletal but want to rule out cardiac. Ref cardiology.
What Medical mode returned
A 62-year-old male presents with a two-day history of chest pain, worse on exertion. Blood pressure 148/92, heart rate 88. He was commenced on lisinopril 10 mg daily three weeks ago. ECG shows no abnormality. The presentation is likely musculoskeletal in origin; however, a cardiac cause has not been excluded. Referred to cardiology.
Every figure is unchanged — 62, two days, 148/92, 88, 10 mg, three weeks. And the highlighted sentence still says exactly what the shorthand said: likely, not confirmed, and cardiac not excluded. A rewrite that alters a dose is a clinical error wearing the clothes of a style choice.
What each mode protects
These are the rules each mode works to, in plain English. A general-purpose rewrite has none of them.
🛢️Energy
- ✓Every measurement, unit, depth, pressure, volume, rate, date, API number, well name, lease name and formation name stays exactly as written. Nothing is rounded, converted or abbreviated.
- ✓In an incident, safety or environmental report it states only what you wrote: no added cause, fault, speculation or conclusion, and an observation never becomes an admission.
- ✓Uses the industry’s own terms (spud, workover, completion interval, shut-in, AFE, working interest) only where your text already means them.
⚖️Legal
- ✓Precise legal terminology in place of loose everyday wording: agrees becomes covenants, stop becomes cease and desist.
- ✓Clears up ambiguous pronouns and loose conditions rather than smoothing over them.
- ✓An objective, formal, risk-conscious tone throughout.
🩺Medical
- ✓Every objective metric, symptom, dosage and timeline stays completely intact.
- ✓Standard clinical terminology and anatomical accuracy: high blood pressure becomes hypertension.
- ✓A strict, professional, non-judgmental clinical tone.
🔒Every mode
- ✓Direct speech stays direct: nothing inside quotation marks is turned into reported speech.
- ✓Names stay names. If your text says who acted, it is not swapped for a pronoun.
- ✓Words that carry logic (unless, because, although, rather than) are never traded for one another.
- ✓Proper nouns, compounds and unusual spellings are kept exactly as written.
Side by side
| QuillBot | Grammarly | ABCcount Teams | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal, Medical and Energy modes | None | None | ✓All three, built in |
| Creative genre modes | One Creative mode | None | ✓Five: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Literary |
| Page context | No awareness of surrounding page content | No awareness of surrounding page content | ✓Opt-in Context Hook — reads nearby text only when you turn it on |
| Trains AI on your writing | By default on individual accounts; you have to opt out | By default on individual accounts; you have to opt out | ✓Never, on any plan |
And on price
Billed monthly, Grammarly Pro is $30 per member, and it has no Legal, Medical or Energy mode at any price. ABCcount Teams is $17–20 a seat billed monthly, or $19.99 a month for one person on Pro, with Legal, Medical and Energy included alongside 14 other modes.
Competitor features and data policies as published on 29 September 2026; Grammarly's price re-checked 28 October 2026.
Worth knowing, if you're a student
Paraphrasing alone doesn't reliably get text past what plagiarism and AI-detection tools are built to catch, and it isn't meant to — which is part of why our own Academic mode is built around helping you learn scholarly writing conventions, not around producing text meant to get past a detector.
See these modes for yourself before deciding.