Web App
A grammar checker and style editor built for long-form writers, with a free plan.
Rating
4.4 / 5
Pricing
Freemium
Difficulty
Intermediate
Works on
Web, macOS, Windows
Built with love by Shushant Lakhyani. Building bestproductivityresources.com
ProWritingAid checks grammar, spelling and punctuation and goes further with style and line-editing reports for fiction and long-form writing. The free plan includes the grammar checks plus two line-editing reports a day on up to 500 words, and ten AI rephrases a day. It works on the web, as a desktop editor, in Microsoft Word and in Google Docs. Premium plans lift the limits and are also sold as a one-time lifetime licence.
Novelists, bloggers and students working on long documents.
People who only write short emails and messages.
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