DeepL Write

DeepL Write is the least ambitious tool in the AI writing category, and that is the point: it does not generate, it rewrites. You paste text you already drafted and it repairs spelling, grammar and punctuation, then offers alternatives for the sentence you would have recast three times anyway — clarity, register, word choice, tone. Language coverage is where it differs from the English-first assistants: DeepL's own Write page names English and German, while the Write Pro page adds French and Spanish, so check your language mix against that list rather than assuming it matches the translator. The free browser editor caps text length; the paid version lifts the cap, adds reusable style rules and carries DeepL's enterprise data terms, sold standalone or inside the higher tiers.

Its ceiling is scope. It will not restructure a document, hold a brand voice across a team, or write the paragraph for you; if you need a checker that follows you into every app you type in, that is a different category, so compare coverage instead of assuming parity. Where it is strong is the audience DeepL already has: organisations whose English or German is written by non-native speakers, and teams already using DeepL for translation who want the same data handling on the writing side. Two things to check before paying: whether your languages are in scope, and whether you actually need an editor that can also write.