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AI for writing

Chat assistants, editors and translators that draft, rewrite and polish text.

Drafting, rewriting, translating and proofreading text. Chat assistants and writing tools are listed here; code assistants, image or video generators and pure note apps are not.

DeepL

DeepL

Verified

Status not recorded

Text and document translation through apps and separately purchased API plans; language features, Write entitlements and data terms depend on the selected service and plan.

4.8/ 5
Freemium
TranslationWritingLocalization

ChatGPT

OpenAI

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Status not recorded

OpenAI's hosted assistant for conversation, source-based research and reviewable file work; features and allowances depend on the plan and account.

4.7/ 5
Freemium
ChatFilesResearch

Claude

Anthropic

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Status not recorded

Anthropic's hosted assistant for files, drafting, editable artifacts and connected tools; model access and usage limits vary by plan.

4.7/ 5
Freemium
ChatDocumentsTools

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

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Status not recorded

DeepSeek's hosted chat and separately metered developer API; service terms, model versions and public model licenses must be checked separately.

4.7/ 5
Pay-as-you-go
ChatAPIHosted service

DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek

Verified

Status not recorded

Original 2024 DeepSeek-V3 Base/Chat weights and code: vendor-documented MoE architecture, MIT code and a separate model license; current hosted V3 access is unconfirmed.

4.7/ 5
Free
LLMOpen weightsMoE

GPT-5

OpenAI

Verified

Active

OpenAI's original GPT-5 API reasoning model with configurable effort, text/image input and text output. The gpt-5-2025-08-07 snapshot is deprecated with API removal scheduled for December 11, 2026.

4.7/ 5
Pay-as-you-go
Reasoning APILegacy snapshotOpenAI

Grammarly

Grammarly

Verified

Status not recorded

Writing assistance for grammar, spelling, tone and AI drafting, with plan and account-specific controls.

4.6/ 5
Freemium
WritingEditingAI drafting

Novelcrafter

Novelcrafter

Verified

Status not recorded

A fiction-writing workspace with scene planning, a linked story Codex and plan-dependent AI through your own model connection.

4.6/ 5
Paid
Fiction writingStory planningSeparate AI billing

o3-mini

OpenAI

Verified

Active

OpenAI's deprecated text reasoning API model; o3-mini and its 2025-01-31 snapshot are scheduled to shut down on 2026-10-23.

4.6/ 5
Pay-as-you-go
Reasoning APIDeprecationOpenAI

Paperpal

Cactus Communications

Verified

Status not recorded

Academic writing assistance for language revision, source-aware drafting and research citations, with plan-specific checks and allowances.

4.6/ 5
Freemium
Academic writingCitation reviewPlan allowances

Qwen

Alibaba Cloud

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Status not recorded

Alibaba's hosted Qwen Chat assistant; the chat application, Model Studio API and downloadable Qwen models have separate access, pricing and licensing conditions.

4.6/ 5
Free
Hosted chatQwenAlibaba

Qwen 3

Alibaba

Verified

Status not recorded

Alibaba's original 2025 Qwen3 open-weight family with thinking/non-thinking modes; distinct from Qwen Chat and later Qwen generations.

4.6/ 5
Free
Qwen3 original familyApache-2.0 weightsSelf-hosted LLM

Gemini

Google

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Status not recorded

Google's Gemini Apps assistant for conversations, supported media, research and connected tools; personal plans, Workspace and developer services have different conditions.

4.5/ 5
Freemium
Gemini AppsHosted assistantAccount-specific terms

Grok

SpaceXAI LLC (SpaceXSI)

Verified

Status not recorded

A hosted assistant for conversation, web and public-X search, file analysis and creative tasks; account and subscription paths have different limits.

4.5/ 5
Freemium
Hosted assistantSearchAccount controls

Kimi

Moonshot AI

Verified

Status not recorded

Moonshot AI's hosted assistant for cited web search, document and spreadsheet tasks, and configurable conversation memory.

4.5/ 5
Freemium
Hosted assistantDocumentsSearch

LanguageTool

LanguageTooler

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Status not recorded

An open-source-rooted grammar and style checker covering 30+ languages — the multilingual alternative to Grammarly, with rules-based precision plus AI rephrasing.

4.5/ 5
Freemium
GrammarMultilingualOpen source

Llama 4

Meta

Verified

Status not recorded

Meta's Scout and Maverick multimodal weight releases for text/image input and text/code output, under the Llama 4 Community License.

4.5/ 5
Free
Multimodal weightsLlama 4Self-hosting

Mistral Large

Mistral AI

Verified

Status not recorded

Mistral AI's versioned Large model line, with API access and release-specific weight availability, licenses and data controls.

4.5/ 5
Pay-as-you-go
Model lineVersioned APIDeployment choices

ProWritingAid

ProWritingAid

Verified

Status not recorded

The long-form writing report: style, pacing, repeats and grammar across a novel or a thesis — Grammarly's denser cousin for people who will not ship a first draft.

4.5/ 5
Freemium
WritingEditingLong-form

QuillBot

Learneo

Verified

Status not recorded

A writing suite built around the web's most popular AI paraphraser, adding grammar checking, summarization, plagiarism detection, translation and citation tools used heavily by students and professionals.

4.5/ 5
Freemium
ParaphrasingWritingStudents

Doubao

ByteDance

Verified

Status not recorded

A hosted AI assistant for text, voice, image and file conversations, with free access and separately governed paid memberships and creative credits.

4.4/ 5
Freemium
Personal assistantMultimodalHosted service

Jasper

Jasper

Verified

Status not recorded

The marketing AI platform: brand voice, campaign briefs and long-form copy for teams that outgrew a chatbot and need on-brand drafts at campaign speed.

4.4/ 5
Paid
MarketingCopywritingBrand

Jenni

Jenni AI

Verified

Status not recorded

An AI writing assistant for academics: autocomplete trained to scholarly register, in-line citations from a 2-billion-source library, paraphrasing and an AI-detection-aware writing flow for essays, theses and journals.

4.4/ 5
Freemium
Academic writingCitationsStudents

Merlin

Merlin AI

Verified

Status not recorded

A browser extension and web assistant for multi-model chat, page/video/document summaries, drafting and translation, with plan-dependent query allowances.

4.4/ 5
Freemium
Browser extensionSummariesHosted models

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft

Verified

Status not recorded

Microsoft's hosted assistant for chat, files and task-oriented work. Personal Microsoft accounts, Microsoft 365 plans and organizational Entra accounts have different entitlements and data rules.

4.4/ 5
Freemium
AssistantMicrosoft accountsDocument work

Mistral Vibe (formerly Le Chat)

Mistral AI

Verified

Status not recorded

Mistral's Vibe combines the former Le Chat assistant with work and coding agents; connectors, private deployments and usage rights depend on the plan and contract.

4.4/ 5
Freemium
AssistantWork agentsCoding

Monica

Butterfly Effect

Verified

Status not recorded

A hosted assistant for chat, page/PDF summaries, writing and translation across browser, desktop and mobile; model access, credits and regional account conditions need separate checks.

4.4/ 5
Freemium
Browser assistantWritingSummaries

Papago

Naver

Verified

Status not recorded

Naver's translation service, tuned for Asian languages: Korean, Japanese and Chinese quality that rivals or beats Western engines on idiomatic text, plus image, handwriting and conversation translation.

4.4/ 5
Freemium
TranslationAsian languagesMobile

Pi

Inflection AI

Verified

Status not recorded

Inflection's personal conversational assistant with voice, reminders and editable cross-chat memories; current pricing and account entitlements remain unconfirmed.

4.4/ 5
Freemium
ConversationPersonal assistantMemory

ChatLLM

Abacus.AI

Verified

Status not recorded

Abacus.AI's hosted multi-model assistant for chat, document/media work and connected agents; per-user subscriptions share a credit system with separately metered features.

4.3/ 5
Paid
Hosted assistantMulti-modelCredits

Poe

Quora

Verified

Status not recorded

Quora's hosted platform for discovering third-party AI bots and creating or sharing bots and apps, with plan- and bot-specific points.

4.3/ 5
Freemium
Multi-modelBotsPoints

StepFun

StepFun

Verified

Status not recorded

StepFun supplies hosted model APIs for dialogue and audio, alongside separately licensed open releases such as Step3.5 Flash.

4.3/ 5
Paid
Model APIsOpen releasesAudio

Baichuan AI

Baichuan AI

Verified

Status not recorded

Baichuan's model and hosted-service offering includes documented text/question-answering APIs and separately licensed medical-model releases such as M3-235B.

4.2/ 5
Paid
ModelsHosted APIMedical research

HuggingChat

Hugging Face

Verified

Status not recorded

A free, open-source chat interface from Hugging Face that runs community models like Llama and Mistral, with switchable assistants.

4.2/ 5
Free
ChatOpen sourceFree

Meta AI

Meta

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Status not recorded

Meta's free AI assistant powered by its Llama models, built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and the web for chat, image generation and search.

4.2/ 5
Free
ChatLlamaSocial

360 ZhiNao

360 Security Technology

Verified

Status not recorded

The security company's brain: search-native chat and enterprise agents from 360.

4/ 5
Free
ChatbotSearchChinese AI

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