ProWritingAid

ProWritingAid is a grammar checker and style editor made for people who write long: novelists, non-fiction authors, students with dissertations and bloggers with long-form posts. Where most AI writing tools stop at fixing mistakes, it runs more than 25 in-depth reports on your writing, from pacing and overused words to dialogue tags and sentence length, and adds AI story feedback on top.

This ProWritingAid review covers what it does, pricing in the US and India (including the lifetime plan), what the free version includes, and how it compares with Grammarly.

What ProWritingAid does

• Grammar, spelling and punctuation checks, plus a Word Explorer and thesaurus.
• 25+ writing analysis reports: style, readability, sticky sentences, overused words, echoes, pacing, clichés and redundancies, dialogue tags, sensory detail and more.
• AI Rephrases and Sparks: rewrite sentences or get suggestions to expand a passage.
• Story tools: Story Canvas and Outline Crafter for planning, Chapter Critique for instant feedback on a chapter, and Creative Nudges while you write.
• Story Credits (paid add-on): Manuscript Analysis, Plot Analysis, Character Analysis, Virtual Beta Reader and Marketability Analysis for a whole book.
• Author comparison: compare your writing style with published authors.

ProWritingAid pricing (2026): US and India

ProWritingAid offers monthly, yearly and one-time lifetime plans. In the US, Premium costs $10 a month billed yearly ($120), $30 billed monthly or $399 for life, and Premium Pro costs $12 a month billed yearly ($144), $36 monthly or $699 for life. In India, prices are shown in rupees:

• Free: $0 / ₹0. Suggestions on 500 words at a time, 2 runs per line-editing report a day, 10 Rephrases a day, 3 Creative Nudges and 3 Sparks a day.
• Premium: ₹550 a month billed yearly (₹6,600), ₹1,650 billed monthly, or ₹21,945 one-time for life. Unlimited reports and Rephrases on documents of any length, 1 Chapter Critique a day, custom style guide and dictionary, and up to 40% off Story Credits.
• Premium Pro: ₹660 a month billed yearly (₹7,920), ₹1,980 billed monthly, or ₹38,445 for life. Adds 30 Chapter Critiques a day, more Sparks and Nudges, live workshops, cowriting sprints and up to 65% off Story Credits.

Yearly and lifetime plans have a 3-day money-back guarantee; monthly plans are not refundable. University and college students get 25% off yearly plans through Student Beans, and K-12 schools can use it free through ProWritingAid for Education. Plagiarism checks cost extra. See the official pricing page for current prices.

Is ProWritingAid free?

Yes. The free plan checks grammar and runs the reports, but only on 500 words at a time and twice per report each day. That is fine for a blog post or an essay section; for a full manuscript you will want Premium.

Where ProWritingAid works

It works in its own web and desktop editor, in Microsoft Word and Google Docs, through Chrome, Edge and Firefox extensions on any web page (including Wattpad and Atticus), and through its Desktop Everywhere apps for Windows and Mac, which also cover Scrivener and Vellum. It checks English only: US, UK, Australian, Canadian and general English.

Privacy

The company says it never stores text entered into its editor for analysis: text is encrypted, sent for processing and not kept on its servers. Documents you save to your account are only accessible to you.

ProWritingAid vs Grammarly

Grammarly is faster and more polished for everyday emails and short documents, with tone tools and wider app coverage. ProWritingAid is the better choice for long-form and fiction writing, thanks to its deep reports, manuscript tools and a lifetime plan. For fiction drafting with AI, also see Sudowrite. Compare: ProWritingAid vs Grammarly vs Sudowrite.

ProWritingAid review verdict: who it is for

It suits novelists and non-fiction authors, students working on long assignments, and bloggers who want to tighten long posts. If you write fiction, the Chapter Critique and Story Credits tools make it far more than a grammar checker. See more AI tools for authors and AI writing tools.

Visit the official website to try it free.