How do I remove Grammarly running in the background and Login item?

Grammarly for Mac and Safari both install in the Applications folder. The former also installs with a menu bar item that you click on and select Quit. That is the first step. If in Safari, then Settings > Extensions and uninstall Grammarly for Safari extension.

For Sonoma, visit System Settings > General > Login Items and slide the Grammarly indicator to the left. At the top of that panel is the list of open login items, but in the case of Grammarly, it won't be shown there (as is my case in Sonoma 14.5).

Now, move the respective Grammarly to the Trash and empty the Trash. You are not done yet… as appropriate, you want to remove the following content.

Other files: Grammarly for Mac

/Users/username/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.grammarly.projectllama.loginhelper.sfl3

/Users/username/Library/Application Support/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama

/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama.plist

/Users/username/Library/LaunchAgents/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama.cleanup.plist

/Users/username/Library/LaunchAgents/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama.Shepherd.plist

/Users/username/Library/Caches/SentryCrash/Grammarly Desktop

/Users/username/Library/Caches/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama

Other files: Grammarly for Safari Extension

/Users/username/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/Grammarly Safari Extension_D344CC5E-4E15-5601-9D8A-EA8BA90537B8.plist

/Users/username/Library/WebKit/com.grammarly.GRLlamaOnboarding

/Users/username/Library/WebKit/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama

/Users/username/Library/Application Scripts/W8F64X92K3.group.com.grammarly.safari.extension

/Users/username/Library/Application Scripts/com.grammarly.safari.extension.ext2

/Users/username/Library/Application Scripts/com.grammarly.safari.extension

/Users/username/Library/Application Scripts/com.grammarly.safari.extension.ext

/Users/username/Library/HTTPStorages/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama.binarycookies

/Users/username/Library/HTTPStorages/com.grammarly.GRLlamaOnboarding.binarycookies

/Users/username/Library/HTTPStorages/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama

/Users/username/Library/Group Containers/W8F64X92K3.group.com.grammarly.safari.extension

/Users/username/Library/Group Containers/W8F64X92K3.group.com.grammarly.safari.extension/Library/Preferences/W8F64X92K3.group.com.grammarly.safari.extension.plist
/Users/username/Library/Group Containers/W8F64X92K3.group.com.grammarly.safari.extension/Library/Application Scripts/W8F64X92K3.group.com.grammarly.safari.extension

/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.grammarly.safari.extension.ext2

/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.grammarly.safari.extension.ext2/Data/Library/Preferences/com.grammarly.safari.extension.preferences.plist

Indivine wrote:

Grammarly even after removing and restarting the machine several days ago it says "Background Grammarly updated" and also still shows in the Login Items (See screen print)

I have also gone in to the Library\LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents I cannot locate Grammarly.

What am I missing?

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Grammarly even after removing and restarting the machine

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