ProWritingAid Reviews

ProWritingAid – The Editing Software

This tool produces content and write-ups of top-drawer qualities, all with fewer mistakes. The software identifies and eradicates common errors such as inconsistent terminology, contextual spelling errors, grammar mistakes, and poor writing style. Moreover, this great product also helps users optimize word choice and edit grammar and punctuation faster.

It is a great tool for writers looking for something light but powerful for their daily writing needs.

How can you use ProWritingAid?

As a result of the fact that ProWritingAid is an editing tool for writing, it needs to be available and ready to be used on the go at any time. Luckily, people can use the software in different ways. You can use it on your browser, and the tool can use it on almost any browser.

• If you will use your writing aid in this manner, then all you need to do is to:
• First, open the website and sign up to use the writing tool. If you have signed up before, you have to log in.
• Next, create or open a project file in ProWritingAid.
• If you picked “Create,” give your file a name and save it, and you are good to go.
• If you want to check external files from Microsoft Word for grammar errors and other writing issues instead, choose to open a project file.
• Correct anything you need to. ProWritingAid will guide you.

ProWritingAid can also be installed as a browser extension in web browsers on both Windows and Mac devices, such as Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and so on.

How to install the writing aid?

To install the ProWritingAid software as an extension to your browser, follow the following simple steps:

• First, download the Browser Extension that is right for your browser. The ProWritingAid website has simple but detailed instructions on installing the extensions for different browsers, including Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
• If you successfully installed the ProWritingAid browser extension, you should see a ProWritingAid icon on your browser’s toolbar. Click on it, sign in to your account and begin using ProWritingAid.
• Set up the browser extension by choosing the language you want to write in and your writing style.
• Turn off and on at any time.

Alternatively, you can use the tool through the desktop ProWritingAid app, although this is available only for Windows devices. Just download the installer and follow the instructions given.

ProWritingAid integrates with Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and, perhaps very uniquely, the popular book-writing software Scrivener. The writer assistant can also be used as a plagiarism checker. However, note that you need to upgrade to ProWritingAid Premium to enjoy most of the features the software provides, as the free version limits a user to checking only 500 words at a time.

ProWritingAid Detailed Features

ProWritingAid has some features which are great for any writer. Some of these features include:

ProWritingAid, at its most basic, is a grammar checker and style checker. This means that ProWritingAid provides grammar, spelling, and readability improvements, and it delivers them in real-time as you write. When you click the “Real-Time” button, it checks your document for any grammar, spelling, or style issues. It marks each issue by underlining grammar errors in blue, spelling mistakes in red, and style issues in yellow. When you click any underlined words or sentences, suggestions pop up, and you can choose to ignore or accept any one of them.

When you are done, click Save. ProWritingAid will publish the changes back to your document.

ProWritingAid essentially analyzes your writing whenever you run a document through it. These analyses are then presented in more than 20 different reports. Also, the tool has more writing reports than any other editing software. These reports highlight repetitiveness, over-dependence on adverbs, over-complicated sentence constructions, vague wording, sentence length variation, passive voice.  Every writer has unique strengths and weaknesses, so these reports help the writer see what he most needs to work on.

ProWritingAid integrates seamlessly with other third-party tools. This is great because many editing software makes the user copy and paste the document between the website and the word processor, which means you tend to lose the formatting you set. ProWritingAid prevents this by integrating other tools, including Microsoft Word, Open Office, Google Docs, Scrivener, and your browsers, enabling you to edit anywhere you write.

• For Microsoft Word, the software products have a Microsoft Word plugin that integrates directly into your word processor. However, only Word on Windows supports this integration.
• For Google Docs, ProWritingAid has a Google Docs plugin, too, just like Word. Again, this works with both Windows and Mac.

ProWritingAid integrates with a wide range of document formats, including Scrivener, Open Office, Markdown, HTML, Rich Text, and so on. In addition, the ProWritingAid desktop app opens, saves, and edits any document format without any formatting issues.

Browser extension integrations

For Browser extensions, ProWritingAid can integrate with a wide selection of browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, enabling you to edit whenever you write online.

ProWritingAid can also integrate with websites too such as Facebook, WordPress, and any other website. People can also integrate real-time grammar checking, spelling, style checking, and terminology management into your website. For example, suppose you use a Content Management System for your website. In that case, ProWritingAid has plugins that can integrate with a number of them, including Froala, ContentEditable, TinyMCE, TextArea, ProseMirror, Quill, WordPress, Redactor, CKEditor, and so on. People can also integrate it with Gmail. This is a great feature for anyone who is writing.

ProWritingAid’s Word Explorer contains everything, including a dictionary, reverse dictionary, thesaurus, a collocation dictionary, contextually related words, alliteration dictionary, rhymes, cliché dictionary, and even example usages from poetry, prose, and songs. This means that every kind of writer, including creative writers, can find words for any situation. This makes ProWritingAid unique among the many writing tools out there.

ProWritingAid allows users, whether individuals, companies, or organizations, to create their unique style guides and specific dictionaries. This ensures that you and your team are consistent in whatever writing you do, as automated rules and suggestions pop up to help users stay on track with the unique guide they prepared.

ProWritingAid Cost

Let’s see how much money you are going to pay for this writing assistant tool. The tool plans come in three different price tiers.

ProWritingAid Free can be more accurately described as a demo version due to how extremely limited it is. A lot of features are not available for the free version, but there are still a few features you can enjoy:

• Edit 500 words at a time
• 9 Writing Reports
• Summary Report of Key Issues

Moreover, the free version is only available as an online editing tool. Therefore, a free user cannot access the desktop version.

The ProWritingAid Premium package unlocks practically all the features of this writing tool, including the integrations and so on. For the value on offer, ProWritingAid Premium is surprisingly low-priced. The ProWritingAid Premium plans can be monthly or yearly.

• $20 is the monthly Premium plan
• $79 annually is the annual Premium plan (that works out to $6.60/month)
• $399 for the Premium lifetime access. The lifetime access is a one-time payment, and it covers all future updates to the ProWritingAid software.

Note that the ProWritingAid Premium package does not give a user access to the plagiarism checker. That feature comes with the third plan.

However, if you are a ProWritingAid Premium package user, you could purchase some plagiarism checks.

• Ten plagiarism checks for $10
• 100 plagiarism checks for $40
• 500 plagiarism checks for $120
• 1000 plagiarism checks for $200

However, if you use plagiarism checks a lot, it is best to do the third plan, which we will discuss below.

The major draw of this package is the plagiarism checker. This package also has monthly or yearly plans, which are not more expensive than the ProWritingAid Premium. The prices are:

• $24 is for a monthly Premium Plus plan
• $89 is for an annual Premium Plus plan
• $499 is for lifetime access to a Premium Plus plan (this is a one-time payment)

For bulk orders of ProWritingAid by colleges, organizations, or companies, they provide a 10% discount on any package.

Moreover, ProWritingAid has a 14-day money-back guarantee enabling users to ask for a refund within two weeks if they are dissatisfied with the tool.

Alternatives to ProWritingAid 

Of course, a writer can use many other writing tools and alternatives to help in his writing instead of ProWritingAid. Some of them include:

These are all good alternatives, but the major competitor to ProWritingAid is the grand-daddy of all writing tools, Grammarly. So how does this writing aid stack up?

ProWritingAid vs. Grammarly

Grammarly is the most popular writing tool out there, and it is not hard to see why. It is the gold standard in terms of writing tools. However, ProWritingAid is a worthy competitor and even beats out Grammarly in one or two places.

Price Packages

Grammarly has the better free version as you can do a lot more with it than ProWritingAid Free. However, when it comes to premium versions, ProWritingAid is far more affordable (about half the price of Grammarly Premium).

Analysis

For writers who need in-depth analysis of their writing and who want to learn specifically where they can improve their writing, ProWritingAid is the better choice because it has more data and reporting.

Interface

Grammarly edges out ProWritingAid in this aspect as it has a simple, fast, and sleek interface. In addition, its reporting is less intrusive and has all the data needed to make writing better, which is an advantage over ProWritingAid’s intrusive overload of data.

User Friendliness

Grammarly is also more user-friendly, having an elegant and highly functional interface and layout, making it easier to navigate. We conclude that Grammarly is still slightly better for general writing, but ProWritingAid deserves its accolades also. For fiction writers, ProWritingAid is far more useful and better.

ProWritingAid Review Conclusion

As far as writing tools and grammar checkers go, ProWritingAid is amazing. It is an outstanding writing tool and a superb grammar checker. The product has exceptional value, especially considering how powerful the software is in its own right. Like all technological tools, the writing assistant may not get all the nuances that a writer may seek to infuse into his work. However, it flags everything: every basic grammar and spelling issue, every time you use passive voice, adverb use, and dialogue tags.

This means that while using it, you will spend more time than is necessary clicking Ignore on some of their very nitpicky suggestions, which can get annoying after a while. However, the point is, you can ignore the suggestions, and more often than not, the suggestions the tool gives will be welcomed and appreciated. The bottom line of our review? ProWritingAid is a superb writing tool, and we recommend it to anyone who wants it.