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ProWritingAid
✓ verifiedFreemium
Grammar and style editor for novelists wanting in-depth manuscript, plot and character feedback beyond basic proofreading.
1.5M visits/mo
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Paperpal
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI academic writing assistant for researchers and students, with grammar, paraphrasing, citations and plagiarism/AI checks.
1.5M visits/mo16K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/month (500 word limit, 2 report runs/day, 10 rephrases/day)
Premium: $30/month (unlimited word count/reports/rephrases, chapter critique)
Premium Pro: $36/month (50 Sparks/day, 3 chapter critiques/day, live workshops)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Interactive story creation
- ✦AI-powered choices
- ✦Monetization opportunities for writers
- ✦Community collaboration
- ✦Text-based metaverse
- ✦Grammar, spelling and style checking
- ✦Manuscript, plot and character analysis for fiction
- ✦Chapter critique and virtual beta-reader feedback
- ✦Rephrasing and AI writing prompts ('Sparks')
- ✦25+ writing analysis reports (pacing, sensory detail, repetition, etc.)
- ✦Integrations with Word, Google Docs and Scrivener
- ✦academic grammar checker
- ✦AI writing and paraphrasing
- ✦research search and citation across 250M+ articles
- ✦chat with PDFs
- ✦plagiarism checker
- ✦AI content detector
- ✦submission-readiness checks
- ✦plugins for Word, Docs and Overleaf
Use cases
- →Collaboratively writing a fantasy novel
- →Creating a choose-your-own-adventure game
- →Developing interactive marketing campaigns
- →Building a community around shared storytelling
- →Novelists getting story-level feedback beyond grammar checks
- →Writers polishing manuscripts before submission or publishing
- →Editing directly inside existing writing apps
- →Comparing prose style against published authors
- →writing and polishing research manuscripts
- →checking grammar and academic tone
- →generating citations
- →summarizing papers
- →preparing journal submissions
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