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Writing Assistance & Style

Tools that work on text someone has already written: grammar, style, readability and rewriting, inside the apps the writing happens in. Every tool below is measured against the same criteria, in the same order. Tools that produce the draft in the first place sit under AI Writing instead.

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  • Readable

    Price $8 / month

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    Readability scoring and text analysis for documents, emails, URLs and whole websites.

    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
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  • Grammarly

    AI features

    Price Free tier; Pro from $12 / user / month

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    AI writing assistant for grammar, clarity and tone across apps, with generative drafting on top.

    Strengths

    • Free tier is genuinely useful for everyday writing
    • Works across apps and browsers through extensions
    • Brand tones and style guides keep a consistent voice

    Limitations

    • Generative AI is capped by monthly prompt limits
    • Enterprise pricing is custom, not published
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  • PerfectIt

    Price From $115 / user / year

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    Consistency and house-style checker for Word and PowerPoint, built for editors and professional writing teams.

    Strengths

    • Catches consistency errors a grammar checker does not look for, such as hyphenation, acronym definitions and table numbering
    • Ships with style sheets for the EU, UN, WHO and US government publishing
    • Windows edition works fully offline and keeps documents on the machine
    • Never rewrites text, so every change stays an editorial decision

    Limitations

    • Works inside Word and PowerPoint, not in the browser or mail clients
    • Checks English only
    • Mac users rely on the cloud version
    • The Chicago Manual of Style sheet requires a separate CMOS Online subscription
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  • Duden-Mentor

    AI features

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    German spelling, grammar and style checker from the Duden dictionary publisher, with a Word add-in and browser extensions.

    Strengths

    • Checks against the Duden, the reference for German spelling
    • Handles German, Austrian and Swiss spelling conventions
    • Checks up to 100,000 characters at once on Premium and 200,000 on Premium Plus
    • Company licences come with licence management and invoice payment

    Limitations

    • Checks German text only
    • The Word add-in and browser extensions need a paid plan
    • The Word add-in reads .docx files only, not .doc or .odt
    • Every check needs an internet connection
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  • AutoCrit

    AI features

    Price Free tier

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    Online manuscript editor that scores a book draft against genre benchmarks for pacing, dialogue and word choice.

    Strengths

    • Benchmarks a manuscript against genre-specific editing guidance
    • Line editing reports run without generative AI
    • Vendor states manuscripts are not used to train AI
    • Planning, drafting and ePub or PDF export in the same tool

    Limitations

    • Built for books, not for emails or business documents
    • Most reports need the Pro membership
    • No Word, Google Docs or browser add-in described
    • Supported languages are not stated
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  • Trinka

    AI features

    Price Free

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    Grammar and language checker for academic and technical writing, with consistency, citation and publication-readiness checks.

    Strengths

    • Built for formal academic and technical writing rather than everyday messages
    • Flags references from retracted or unverified sources
    • Proofreads Word and LaTeX files without breaking their formatting
    • A Confidential Data plan stores nothing and includes an offline checker

    Limitations

    • Grammar checking covers English and Spanish only
    • The free plan is capped at 5,000 words of writing help a month
    • Style guides and the Windows app need a paid plan
    • The Word add-in for Mac is a Lite version
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  • BriefCatch

    AI features

    Price $60 / seat / month

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    Legal writing editor for briefs, motions and memos, with citation checks, inside Word and in a web app.

    Strengths

    • Rules drawn from legal documents and judicial opinions rather than general prose
    • Citation substance check with a verdict per citation and a PDF report
    • Works in Word and in a browser, with Google Drive and OneDrive
    • SOC 2 Type II certification on every plan

    Limitations

    • Outlook add-in only from the five-seat Pro plan
    • RealityCheck spends AI credits, which are capped per seat and month
    • No monthly billing, every published plan is billed annually
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  • Writefull

    AI features

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    Academic language feedback and paraphrasing inside Word and Overleaf, from Digital Science.

    Strengths

    • Feedback comes from models trained on published research papers
    • Works directly in the LaTeX source on Overleaf
    • Generates LaTeX tables, equations and commands from a prompt or an image
    • Texts are not stored or used for model training

    Limitations

    • Built for academic writing, not business or marketing text
    • Writefull Revise is limited to institutions and publishers
    • Some features send text to third-party APIs
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  • Sapling

    AI featuresMCP-ready

    Price Free; Pro $25 / month

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    Grammar checking, snippets and autocomplete inside help desks and CRMs, also sold to developers as an API.

    Strengths

    • Works inside help desks, CRMs and messaging tools, with more than 70 integration guides
    • Self-hosted deployment for HIPAA and PCI requirements
    • Usage-based API with Python and JavaScript SDKs
    • Shared snippets and autocomplete for repetitive replies

    Limitations

    • Languages other than English are reserved for the Enterprise plan
    • Team features start at 10 seats
    • The free tier limits AI detector checks to 2,000 characters
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  • Antidote

    AI features

    Price From CA$59.95 / year

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    English and French corrector with built-in dictionaries and grammar guides, working inside the apps you already write in.

    Strengths

    • Corrector, dictionaries and 578 guide articles on grammar, style and punctuation in one package
    • Connects to more than 90 applications, from Word and Outlook to InDesign and Visual Studio Code
    • AI reformulation runs on Druide's own model, and submitted texts are neither stored nor used for training
    • Mobile app works offline

    Limitations

    • Covers English and French only
    • Subscriptions are priced in Canadian dollars and renew every year
    • AI reformulation needs a subscription and is capped at 100,000 words a day
    • Organization pricing is available only on a quote
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  • ProWritingAid

    AI features

    Price Free tier; Premium from $10 / month

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    Writing toolkit for authors: grammar, 25+ style reports and story critique, with AI that assists rather than drafts.

    Strengths

    • More than 25 reports go well past grammar into structure, pacing and overused words
    • Story-level critique covers chapters, plot, characters and marketability
    • Edits in place in Microsoft Word, Scrivener, Vellum, Google Docs and the browser
    • Lifetime licence available as a one-time payment
    • Vendor states it never uses your writing to train its algorithms

    Limitations

    • Free plan is capped at 500 words per document
    • Built for authors and prose rather than marketing content at volume
    • AI features are deliberately assistive and will not draft for you
    • Manuscript-wide analyses are metered separately through Story Credits
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  • Markup AI

    AI featuresMCP-ready

    Price $249 / month

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    Content governance platform, formerly Acrolinx, that checks text against a company's own voice, terminology and style rules.

    Strengths

    • Checks against a company's own voice, terminology and style rules rather than a generic standard
    • One flat price per plan with unlimited users
    • Reaches AI-generated drafts through MCP and the API, not only text typed in an editor
    • Free 30-day trial

    Limitations

    • Paid plans start at $249 a month, priced for teams rather than individuals
    • Acrolinx-grade style standards and most authoring-tool integrations need Enterprise
    • SSO and SCIM are Enterprise only
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  • Ginger

    AI features

    Price Free tier; Premium from $3 / month

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    One-click English grammar and spelling correction with AI rephrasing and translation, across browser, desktop and mobile.

    Strengths

    • One-click correction fixes every mistake in a sentence at once
    • Runs in the browser, on Windows and macOS, on iOS and Android and in Microsoft Office
    • Translation into 40+ languages included with Premium
    • Multi-year plans bring the monthly cost down to a few dollars

    Limitations

    • Grammar checking covers English only
    • The limits of the free version are not spelled out
    • Advertised prices depend on a running promotion
    • The company dictionary and custom interface are reserved for deployments of 2,000 or more users
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  • Hemingway Editor

    AI features

    Price From $8.33 / month

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    Readability editor that grades a draft and highlights hard sentences, adverbs and passive voice, with paid AI rewrites.

    Strengths

    • The readability highlights are free to use in the browser with no account
    • Rewrites act on the sentences the editor has already flagged, so the edit follows the diagnosis
    • A one-time $19.99 desktop app for Mac and Windows works offline and exports to Markdown, HTML, Word and PDF

    Limitations

    • AI sentence fixes are metered per month, at 5,000 or 10,000 depending on plan
    • No templates, no stored brand voice and nothing that drafts from a prompt
    • Plus is sold on annual billing
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  • LanguageTool

    AI features

    Price Free tier

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    Multilingual grammar, punctuation and style checker with AI paraphrasing, working inside the browser, office and mail apps you already use.

    Strengths

    • More than 30 languages and dialects in one checker
    • Add-ons for browsers, Google Docs, Word, Apple Pages, LibreOffice, four mail clients and desktop apps
    • Proofreading HTTP API served from Germany, with no storage of submitted text
    • Source code published, so the checker can be run on your own server

    Limitations

    • The free tier caps the length of a single text field
    • The extra Premium checks cover seven languages, not all thirty
    • No editor of its own; the checker lives in add-ons and plugins
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  • Linguix

    AI features

    Price Free tier

    Not rated yet

    Browser-based grammar and style checker in seven languages, with shared style guides for teams.

    Strengths

    • Business seats cost $5 per member per month billed annually
    • Shared style guides and text shortcuts for teams
    • Team reports with per-member errors and readability
    • Developer API with a free tier of 1 million characters a month

    Limitations

    • Checks seven languages in the extension
    • No desktop Word add-in or desktop app described
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  • Scribens

    AI features

    Price Free tier

    Not rated yet

    Free grammar and spelling checker in more than 40 languages that explains every correction.

    Strengths

    • Explains every correction with the grammar rule behind it
    • Corrects more than 40 languages, also on the free edition
    • Runs in Word, Outlook, Google Docs, LibreOffice, browsers and phone keyboards
    • Vendor states submitted text is not stored on its servers

    Limitations

    • Free edition shows adverts and is capped at 8,000 characters a day
    • Premium prices are not shown on the public website
    • No shared style guide or team terminology described
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