Readable
Readability scoring and text analysis for documents, emails, URLs and whole websites.
- Starting price
- $8 / month
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial on every plan
- Output
- Readability grade level, a Readable A-E rating and a reach figure, plus highlighted style issues
Overview
Readable is an online readability checker from Added Bytes that measures how easy a text is to understand. It is aimed at writers, marketers, educators and organisations such as governments, insurers and healthcare companies that publish for the general public. It runs as a web app that scores pasted text, uploaded files, emails, single URLs and entire websites. It is sold as a monthly or annual subscription, with a 7-day free trial on every plan.
Our take
Pick Readable when the question is whether the public can follow a text, and when you need that answer across a whole website rather than one draft at a time. If you want corrections while you type in Word or the browser, Grammarly or LanguageTool are the better fit, and Hemingway Editor is the lighter choice for polishing a single piece. Teams that have ruled out AI tools for compliance reasons have a concrete reason to choose it over those.
Key Facts
| Category | |
|---|---|
| Starting price | $8 / month ContentPro, one user and one website, billed monthly; annual billing is also offered |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial on every plan |
| Output | Readability grade level, a Readable A-E rating and a reach figure, plus highlighted style issues |
| API | Readable API on AgencyPro, 50,000 requests per month included |
| Languages | English, localised for the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland |
| Hosting | Cloud web app |
Screenshots
Placeholders. They are replaced as soon as the vendor sends material, and both open the same short form.
Features
- What it works on
- Pasted text; Word, PDF, ODF and Markdown files; spreadsheets; emails; single URLs and entire websites
- Checks covered
- Readability on 17 algorithms including Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG and Coleman-Liau, plus spelling and grammar, passive voice, adverbs, clichés, buzzwords, hedge words, profanity, gendered language and keyword density
- Style guide and tone
- A custom dictionary for brand terms, adjustable sentence and word length thresholds, a UK or US English setting, and formality analysis for tone
- Scores and reports
- Grade level from established formulas, a proprietary Readable A-E rating, a reach figure for the share of readers who can understand the text, sentiment, and branded reports
- AI rewriting
- No, the vendor states Readable uses no AI or LLMs in any layer of its services; it highlights passages to edit and leaves the rewriting to the writer
- Languages
- English, localised for the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland
- Where it runs
- Web app in the browser, website scoring for whole sites, and an API for adding scores to other software
- Privacy and data handling
- Uploaded content belongs to the customer and can be deleted once scoring is complete; the vendor states no content is shared with any AI or LLM system, and additional data retention controls are available
- Teams and sharing
- ContentPro covers one user, CommercePro three and AgencyPro five, with further users and websites added for a monthly fee; alerts and branded reports are included in the feature list
- API
- Readable API with 50,000 requests per month on AgencyPro, further usage billed at $1 per 5,000 requests
Integrations
- Dropbox
- Slack
Deployment and Support
- Deployment
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- Cloud (SaaS)
- Browser-based
- Support
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- Email helpdesk
- Onboarding
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- Documentation and knowledge base
- Company size
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- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
Suitability
| Industry | Freelancers | Small and mid-sized | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agencies | Stated as a fit | Stated as a fit | Not stated |
| Architecture & Engineering | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Consulting | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Media & Creative | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Technology | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
The table combines the industries the vendor addresses with the company sizes the tool is aimed at. An empty cell means the combination is not stated, not that it is ruled out.
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Scores entire websites and URLs, not only a pasted draft
- Reports grade level from many established formulas side by side
- Uses no AI and shares no content with AI systems
- Pay as you go with no minimum term and no cancellation fee
Limitations
- Checks English only
- API access needs the AgencyPro plan
- Flags problems but does not suggest rewrites
- Payment by credit card only
Pricing
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ContentPro
$8 / month
One user and one website, billed monthly; annual billing is also offered.
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CommercePro
$48 / month
Three users and three websites, billed monthly; $24 / month when billed annually at $288.
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AgencyPro
$138 / month
Five users and the Readable API with 50,000 requests a month, billed monthly; $69 / month when billed annually at $828.
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