Quillify vs. GrantWatch
How many hours did your last proposal take?
Grant writing software that also finds the funding and manages the award
Quillify is better for you if you want to know you qualify before you spend a week writing.
A listing tells you an opportunity exists. Quillify reads the actual announcement and tells you whether you qualify.
Free to start, no card. Checked October 21, 2026.
Customer results
Our customers have won $6.6M+ from funders including USDA Rural Business Development Grant, Oklahoma Department of Aerospace & Aeronautics, Texas Semiconductor Fund, OCAST Industry Innovation Initiative. Read the stories
Price, side by side
| Quillify | GrantWatch | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Permanent. Browsing and keyword search, no card. | Basic search filters |
| Entry | $0, plans from $99/month | $22/week, or $249/year |
| Top published | $750/month | $249/year |
Our plans and pricing. Every GrantWatch plan, checked October 12, 2026.
| Tool | Price per month and jobs at that price | Jobs it does |
|---|---|---|
| Quillify | $0 for 2, $1 for 3, $99 for 4 | Finds grants, Contracts and lenders, Writes proposals, Manages the award |
| GrantWatch | $21 for 2 | Finds grants, Writes proposals |
Find it, write it, manage it: three steps
Find: all the money
Grants, government contracts, and community lenders in one search, with the funders who accept applications flagged.
Write: the whole proposal
Lil’ Q drafts from documents you already have, checks every requirement, and grades the draft before you send it.
Manage: the award
After you win, your award letter becomes a calendar of every report and deadline, and Quillify drafts the reports when they come due.
What you get with Quillify that GrantWatch does not offer
Eligibility before you commit
Ask “Am I qualified?” and Quillify reads the actual announcement to tell you. You skip the week spent on something you were never eligible for.
Funders you have not reached yet
Quillify flags the 20,000+ of its 129,000+ funders that accept applications. Name your peers and it shows the funders backing them that have not backed you yet, across 2,000,000+ organizations in the IRS registry.
Contracts and lenders
Quillify adds 11,000+ open government contract opportunities and 480+ community lenders. For a small business, a contract is often the larger and more winnable opportunity.
Requirements, revision, and grading
Quillify builds a compliance checklist of what your team must produce and revises your draft in place from plain-language requests. It grades the draft against the announcement before you send it.
Open the rest for the detail.
$300,000 from about four hours of editing
Quillify wrote Grantvest’s application to the OCAST Industry Innovation Initiative, a competitive state program. About four hours of human editing went in before it was filed. It won $300,000. The full story
Switching is three steps
- 1. Start free. Search what you qualify for. No card, no call.
- 2. Upload what you already have. Past proposals, budgets, and reports become the documents Quillify writes from.
- 3. Keep GrantWatch while you try it. Nothing has to move on day one.
Still weighing it up? The wider set of alternatives to GrantWatch, and the whole category in one table.
See what you qualify for today.
Browsing and keyword search are free, and there is no card required.