Alternatives to AutoCrit
An online platform for planning, writing and editing fiction with manuscript analysis and feedback. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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AutoCrit
An online platform for planning, writing and editing fiction with manuscript analysis and feedback.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as AutoCrit.
ProWritingAid
A grammar checker and style editor with planning and critique tools aimed at fiction writers.
ProWritingAid also targets fiction editing with style feedback, planning and critique tools, and it adds a browser extension, a desktop editor and Microsoft Word support.
Marlowe
An AI manuscript analysis service that reads a novel draft and produces developmental feedback reports.
Marlowe focuses only on developmental feedback reports for a novel draft, covering structure, pacing and character arcs, and states that uploads are not used for model training.
Sudowrite
A web-based AI writing partner built for novelists and fiction writers.
Sudowrite shifts from manuscript analysis to AI drafting and brainstorming, using its fiction-trained Muse model and a chat assistant that edits the draft directly.
Novelcrafter
A browser-based novel-writing workspace with a story wiki called the Codex and optional AI drafting.
Novelcrafter centres on planning and drafting with a Codex story wiki and AI models of your choice, and it is paid after a 21-day trial instead of freemium.
Type
An AI-assisted document editor for writing books, screenplays and other long-form stories.
Type offers an AI-assisted editor for books and screenplays with offline mode, version history and exports to DOCX, PDF and narrated audio, rather than manuscript scoring.
Squibler
A web-based AI writing tool for drafting books, novels and screenplays from an idea.
Squibler generates full book and screenplay drafts from an idea, with outline and character generation, so the focus moves from analysing a manuscript to producing one.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Hemingway Editor
Writing editor that highlights complex sentences and other issues to make text clearer and bolder.
Grammarly
An AI writing assistant that checks grammar and spelling and suggests rewrites and tone changes.
NovelAI
An online service for AI-assisted story writing and anime-style image generation.
Readable
An online readability checker that scores text with many readability formulas and highlights passages to fix.
