Alternatives to ProWritingAid
A grammar checker and style editor with planning and critique tools aimed at fiction writers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ProWritingAid
A grammar checker and style editor with planning and critique tools aimed at fiction writers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ProWritingAid.
Grammarly
An AI writing assistant that checks grammar and spelling and suggests rewrites and tone changes.
Grammarly checks grammar, spelling and tone as you type across many apps and sites. It lacks fiction planning and critique tools and processes text on its servers.
Sudowrite
A web-based AI writing partner built for novelists and fiction writers.
Sudowrite is built for novelists too, but it focuses on AI drafting, description and brainstorming with its Muse fiction model rather than style and line-editing feedback.
Hemingway Editor
Writing editor that highlights complex sentences and other issues to make text clearer and bolder.
Hemingway Editor highlights hard-to-read sentences in a web editor, with grammar checks and tone adjustment only in the paid Plus tier, and no fiction planning tools.
QuillBot
An AI writing tool for paraphrasing, grammar checking, summarizing and generating citations.
QuillBot adds paraphrasing, summarizing and a citation generator, with Windows, Android and iOS apps. It is aimed at students and professionals rather than fiction manuscripts.
Wordtune
An AI writing assistant that suggests rewrites, adjusts tone and proofreads English text.
Wordtune focuses on sentence rewrites, tone switching and proofreading for English text and has a free plan. It offers no story planning or manuscript critique tools.
Paperpal
An AI academic writing tool with grammar checks, citations, paraphrasing and journal submission checks.
Paperpal provides language editing tuned for academic writing with citations and submission checks, so it suits research manuscripts rather than fiction.
Also worth comparing
These listings name ProWritingAid as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
LanguageTool
Grammar, spelling and style checker for more than thirty languages.
ProWritingAid is a closed-source web grammar and style editor geared to fiction, adding story planning and critique tools, with no self-hosting and the full feature set paid.
Vale
Check prose against configurable writing rules.
ProWritingAid gives style and line-editing feedback aimed at fiction writers through Word, a desktop editor and browser, but is closed source with a paid full feature set.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Lex
A minimalist online word processor with built-in AI feedback, rewriting and live collaboration.
Jenni AI
An AI writing assistant for academic essays and research papers, with source library and citations.
HyperWrite
An AI writing assistant with a document editor and Chrome extension for autocomplete, rewriting and research.
Rytr
An AI writing assistant with over 40 templates for drafting, rewriting and improving text.
