ProWritingAid

ProWritingAid is an AI-powered writing and editing platform designed to help writers plan, draft, edit, and improve their work. It combines grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, readability, rewriting, and in-depth writing analysis tools with features specifically designed for storytellers and long-form writers.

The company says its story began in London in 2013, when founder Chris Banks was working on a novel based on his travels through South America. After struggling with creative writing despite having experience as a business writer, he developed ProWritingAid to help identify and improve weaknesses in his writing. The company remains independently owned and describes itself as a software company built by writers for writers.

Unlike basic grammar checkers, ProWritingAid provides 25+ writing reports that analyze areas such as readability, repetition, sentence structure, overused words, style, and other aspects of writing. Its Rephrase feature can rewrite sentences in different ways, including making them more formal, casual, concise, detailed, or fluent.

ProWritingAid has a particularly strong focus on creative writing and storytelling. Its Story Critique tools can provide feedback on chapters and longer manuscripts, while Story Canvas and other planning features help writers develop ideas before and during the writing process. Depending on the plan, writers can also use Sparks, Creative Nudges, Chapter Critique, Manuscript Analysis, Virtual Beta Reader, and other tools designed to support the complete writing process.

The platform is also suitable for business and professional writing. ProWritingAid can be used inside applications and websites such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Scrivener, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, WordPress, LinkedIn, and others. Its Business offering adds features such as centralized user management, team analytics, terminology management, and style-guide controls.

Privacy is another important part of ProWritingAid’s positioning. The company states that it does not use users’ writing to train AI or share their text for other purposes, and it emphasizes security and privacy for writers.

Pricing

ProWritingAid currently has Free, Premium, and Premium Pro plans.

• Free: $0. The free plan supports basic grammar, spelling, and punctuation checking, up to 500 words at a time, 10 Rephrases per day, Word Explorer & Thesaurus, document-type settings, and limited writing reports.
• Premium: $30/month when billed monthly, or $10/month billed annually at the regular annual rate. The current website is also displaying a promotional annual price of $7.50/month ($90/year). Premium includes unlimited word count, unlimited Rephrases, unlimited writing-report runs, advanced style improvements, custom style guides, customizable suggestions, and additional writing tools.
• Premium Pro: $36/month when billed monthly, or $12/month billed annually at the regular annual rate. The current promotional annual price displayed by the site is $9/month ($108/year). Premium Pro adds higher daily allowances for Sparks and Chapter Critique plus author-led workshops, writing sprints, group critique sessions, networking events, and access to the expert workshop library.
• Lifetime: Premium is listed at $399 and Premium Pro at $699 as one-time payments.
• Teams: Team pricing is available for organizations. The current business page lists Teams at $12/user/month, with annual billing shown as $720 for the displayed 5-user example. Enterprise plans are available for larger organizations.

Review

ProWritingAid is particularly strong for writers who need deeper editing and analysis rather than simple spelling and grammar correction. Its 25+ reports, Rephrase tools, readability analysis, style suggestions, custom style guides, and story-level feedback make it especially useful for authors, novelists, editors, students, and professional writers.

Its biggest strength is the breadth of its writing analysis. A user can receive feedback on sentence construction, repetition, readability, structure, style, and other aspects of a document rather than relying only on basic grammar corrections. The platform also integrates directly into many popular writing environments, reducing the need to constantly copy text into a separate editor.

The main limitation is language support. ProWritingAid is currently available only in English, although it supports General English, British English, US English, Australian English, and Canadian English.

The free version is useful for trying the platform, but its 500-word limit and daily usage restrictions make Premium more suitable for users working on longer documents or manuscripts. Premium Pro is primarily valuable to writers who want the additional creative-writing community, workshops, and higher AI-tool allowances.