ProWritingAid vs Wordtune Comparison 2026
ProWritingAid reports on a whole manuscript at once, pacing, sticky sentences and repeated phrasing across a book rather than a paragraph, free for 500 words at a time and then $10 a month billed yearly. Wordtune works at the opposite scale: you give it one sentence you already wrote and it hands back alternatives, shorter, longer, more casual, more formal, free for a few rewrites a day and then $6.99 a month billed annually for Advanced. ProWritingAid zooms out to the whole draft; Wordtune zooms in to one sentence you are stuck on. Wordtune's three-day trial is also the shortest in this category, worth planning before starting it.
Style and grammar checks for long drafts
Rewrites a sentence into ten other sentences
At a glance
- Wordtune starts cheaper, at $6.99.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
ProWritingAid | Wordtune | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $10 | From $6.99 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | 3 days |
| API | Not stated |
ProWritingAid
Style and grammar checks for long drafts
ProWritingAid reports on a whole manuscript rather than a sentence, with checks for pacing, repeated phrasing, sticky sentences and dialogue tags that Grammarly does not attempt. The reports take a while to read and are worth it once. Free accounts are limited to 500 words at a time, which rules out the long-document work the tool is best at.
Wordtune
Rewrites a sentence into ten other sentences
Wordtune is narrower than the tools that write from a brief: you give it a sentence you already wrote and it hands back alternatives, shorter, longer, more casual, more formal. That makes it useful to people who can write and get stuck, rather than to people who want a draft produced. The free plan allows a few rewrites a day and the trial on the paid ones runs three days.
Our note
The three-day trial is the shortest in this category, so decide what you want to check before starting it. What this does better than the general assistants is rewrite a sentence you already care about, which is a real and narrow use.
Why people weigh these two
- Wordtune instead of ProWritingAid
- Wordtune works one sentence at a time, offering ten rewrites to pick from, rather than a report on pacing and repetition across a whole manuscript.
- ProWritingAid instead of Wordtune
- ProWritingAid checks style and grammar across a long draft rather than one sentence at a time, with a free tier and plans from $10, built for editing a whole piece.
Which one should you pick
Pick ProWritingAid for manuscript-wide structural feedback: pacing, dialogue tags and repeated phrasing across a whole book rather than one sentence at a time. Premium is $10 a month billed yearly, cheaper than Wordtune's Unlimited tier.
Pick Wordtune when a specific sentence you already care about is not landing right, especially useful for a non-native English speaker who wants it to read the way they meant. Advanced is $6.99 a month billed annually, but decide what you want to test before starting the three-day trial, since that window is short.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, ProWritingAid or Wordtune?
- Wordtune's Advanced plan is $6.99 a month billed annually, cheaper than ProWritingAid's $10 Premium plan, though Wordtune's Unlimited tier at $9.99 is closer to ProWritingAid's price.
- Does Wordtune report on a whole manuscript like ProWritingAid does?
- No, that is not what it does; Wordtune works one sentence at a time, returning alternatives rather than a structural report. ProWritingAid's manuscript-wide reports on pacing and repeated phrasing are a different scale of tool entirely.
- Which has the longer trial?
- ProWritingAid does not state a trial length since its free plan runs indefinitely at 500 words at a time. Wordtune's trial on paid plans is three days, the shortest in this category, so plan what to test before starting it.
- Is Wordtune useful for long-form fiction like ProWritingAid is?
- Not primarily; Wordtune is built for people who can write and stall on a specific sentence, not for structural feedback on a whole draft. ProWritingAid's checks for pacing and dialogue tags are specifically built for longer fiction work.
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