ProWritingAid
Craft, polish, and elevate your writing.
Description
ProWritingAid serves as a comprehensive toolkit designed primarily for storytellers and writers seeking to enhance their work. It functions as an AI-powered writing assistant, utilized by millions to refine manuscripts, articles, and other texts. The platform delivers detailed analysis and practical feedback, assessing various facets of writing to guide users toward improvement. It emphasizes clarity, style, and reader engagement, helping to strengthen sentences by incorporating sensory details, removing weak phrasing, and correcting common errors.
A key aspect of ProWritingAid is its integration capability, allowing users to access its features within their preferred writing applications, such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and Scrivener. The tool offers specialized feedback mechanisms like Chapter Critique for single chapters and Manuscript Analysis for entire documents, providing insights typically gained from beta readers or developmental editors. It also includes features like 'show, don't tell' suggestions, sensory reports, and pacing analysis to help writers captivate their audience. User privacy and data security are prioritized, employing robust security measures and ensuring user text is never used for AI training.
Key Features
- Grammar Checker: Corrects grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.
- Style Improvements: Offers suggestions to eliminate weak words, enhance sentence structure, and improve readability.
- Paraphrasing & Rephrasing Tool (Rephrase): Rewrites sentences to adjust formality, length, fluency, or add sensory details.
- Writing Reports (25+): Provides detailed analysis on aspects like readability, structure, overused words, sensory details, and pacing.
- Chapter Critique: Delivers AI-driven feedback on a single chapter's story elements.
- Manuscript Analysis: Provides in-depth, actionable feedback on an entire manuscript.
- Virtual Beta Reader: Offers insights into a reader's potential experience with the story.
- Sparks: AI tool to help rewrite, enhance, summarize, expand, or continue writing.
- Integrations: Works seamlessly with Word, Google Docs, Scrivener, web browsers, and offers desktop apps.
- Security & Privacy: Employs bank-level security and guarantees user text is not used for AI training.
- Customization: Allows custom style guides, terminology management, and personalized suggestions.
Use Cases
- Editing and polishing manuscript drafts for authors.
- Improving the clarity and style of blog posts and articles.
- Refining academic papers and business reports.
- Getting structural and pacing feedback on creative writing.
- Overcoming writer's block and generating new ideas.
- Ensuring consistent terminology and style in professional documents.
- Learning writing techniques through detailed feedback and reports.
Frequently Asked Questions
How secure is my work with ProWritingAid?
Your work is secure using bank-level encryption. ProWritingAid processes your text for analysis but never stores it or uses it for AI training. Only you have access to your documents.
Can I cancel my subscription?
Yes, you can cancel your subscription at any time through your account settings. Your access will continue until the end of the current billing period.
What is the benefit of paid vs Free plans?
Paid plans (Premium/Premium Pro) offer unlimited word count checks and rephrases, access to advanced features like Sparks and Chapter Critique, premium style suggestions, over 25 writing reports, customization options, and discounts on Manuscript Analysis Credits. The Free plan has a 500-word limit per check and daily usage limits on reports, rephrases, and Sparks.
What languages does ProWritingAid support?
Currently, ProWritingAid only supports English, including variations like General, British, US, Australian, and Canadian English.
What is the difference between Chapter Critique, Manuscript Analysis, and Virtual Beta Reader?
Chapter Critique provides instant AI feedback on a single chapter or short story. Manuscript Analysis offers in-depth, prioritized feedback on your entire manuscript. Virtual Beta Reader simulates a reader's perspective on the whole story, highlighting engagement and potential slow points.
