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The best AI writing tools, honestly ranked.

From general assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to specialised copywriters, editors and long-form drafting tools — sorted by rating, with the trade-offs we'd want a friend to tell us.

Use general-purpose models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) for thinking and drafting. Use dedicated tools (Jasper, Sudowrite, Lex) when you need workflow, brand voice or a specific format.

The picks

53 tools
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Writing & Text

Taskade

AI workspace for outlines, tasks and chat

4.9(2,160)
Freemiumoutlinescollaboration
S
Writing & Text

Speechki

Audiobook creation with AI voices

4.9(1,971)
Freemiumaudiobookvoice
C
Writing & Text

Copilot

Microsoft's everywhere AI companion

4.9(1,679)
Freemiumchatbot
H
Writing & Text

Hemingway Editor

Make your writing bold and clear

4.8(1,167)
Freemiumeditingclarity
M
Writing & Text

Mistral Le Chat

Fast European assistant from Mistral

4.8(828)
Freemiumchatbot
H
Writing & Text

Hypotenuse AI

Ecommerce product descriptions at scale

4.8(509)
Paidecommercecopywriting
H
Writing & Text

HuggingChat

Open-model chat from Hugging Face

4.8(278)
Freeopen-sourcechatbot
P
Writing & Text

Plot

AI plotting for novelists

4.7(2,062)
Freemiumnovelplot
A
Writing & Text

Ayoa

Mind maps and tasks with AI

4.7(1,887)
Freemiummind mapbrainstorm
M
Writing & Text

Mem 0

Persistent memory for any LLM app

4.6(1,802)
Freemiummemoryapi
C
Writing & Text

ChatGPT

Conversational assistant for any task

4.6(1,732)
Freemiumchatbotwriting
R
Writing & Text

Regie.ai

AI sequences for sales teams

4.6(1,565)
Paidsales
N
Writing & Text

NovelCrafter

Story bible plus AI for novelists

4.6(1,246)
Paidfictionnovel
D
Writing & Text

DeepSeek

Open reasoning models punching above their weight

4.6(487)
Freeopen-sourcereasoning
C
Writing & Text

Claude

Anthropic's thoughtful AI for long-form reasoning

4.6(227)
Freemiumchatbotwriting
Q
Writing & Text

Qwen Chat

Alibaba's open multilingual chat model

4.6(40)
Freeopen-sourcemultilingual
C
Writing & Text

Cohere Coral

Enterprise grounded chat assistant

4.6(20)
Paidenterpriserag
F
Writing & Text

Frase

AI SEO research and content briefs

4.5(2,080)
Paidseobriefs
G
Writing & Text

Gemini

Google's multimodal AI across the workspace

4.5(442)
Freemiumchatbotmultimodal
D
Writing & Text

DeepL Write

Native-quality rewriting and translation

4.5(250)
Freemiumtranslationrewriting
M
Writing & Text

MarketMuse

AI content strategy and briefs

4.4(2,155)
Paidseostrategy
L
Writing & Text

Lex

A word processor with AI built in

4.4(1,986)
Freemiumwritingeditor
S
Writing & Text

Surfer SEO

Optimise content for search rankings

4.4(1,567)
Paidseo
S
Writing & Text

ShortlyAI

Distraction-free long-form AI writing

4.4(784)
Paidlong-form
S
Writing & Text

Smartwriter

Personalised cold outreach with AI

4.4(553)
Paidsalesoutreach
R
Writing & Text

Reka Chat

Multimodal frontier assistant

4.4(162)
Freemiumchatbotmultimodal
A
Writing & Text

Anyword

Predictive copywriting for marketers

4.3(1,921)
Paidcopywritingmarketing
R
Writing & Text

Rytr

Affordable AI copywriter

4.3(882)
Freemiumcopywriting
L
Writing & Text

Lavender

AI sales email coach

4.3(794)
Paidsalesemail
P
Writing & Text

Poe

Chat with every major model in one app

4.3(619)
Freemiumchatbotmulti-model
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Writing & Text

Inflection Pi

Empathetic personal AI

4.2(1,965)
Freechatbotpersonal
P
Writing & Text

Perplexity

Answer engine with cited sources

4.2(1,511)
Freemiumsearchresearch
C
Writing & Text

Character.AI

Chat with custom AI characters

4.2(804)
Freemiumroleplaycharacters
S
Writing & Text

Sudowrite

AI writing partner for fiction and novels

4.2(607)
Paidfictionnovel
Y
Writing & Text

You.com

Multi-model AI search and chat

4.1(2,147)
Freemiumsearch
Q
Writing & Text

QuillBot

Paraphrase, summarise and cite

4.1(2,067)
Freemiumparaphrasesummarise
C
Writing & Text

Copy.ai

Go-to-market copy and workflows

4.1(1,048)
Freemiumcopywritingmarketing
A
Writing & Text

Anara

AI research workspace for papers and PDFs

4.1(456)
Freemiumresearchpdfs
M
Writing & Text

Meta AI

Llama-powered assistant across Meta apps

4.0(1,586)
Freechatbot
S
Writing & Text

Storywriter

AI screenplay and storyboard tool

4.0(585)
Freemiumscreenplaystory
N
Writing & Text

Notion AI

AI woven into your workspace

4.0(582)
Paidnoteswriting
J
Writing & Text

Jasper

Marketing copy at scale

4.0(112)
Paidcopywritingmarketing
W
Writing & Text

Wordtune

AI rewriting that keeps your voice

3.9(2,279)
Freemiumrewriting
S
Writing & Text

Smodin

Multilingual writing, rewriter and detector

3.9(2,021)
Freemiummultilingualrewriting
P
Writing & Text

ProWritingAid

Deep style and grammar editor for authors

3.9(314)
Freemiumeditinggrammar
K
Writing & Text

Kimi

Long-context assistant from Moonshot AI

3.8(2,267)
Freemiumlong-context
L
Writing & Text

Lateral

AI literature research and notes

3.8(1,992)
Freemiumresearchnotes
T
Writing & Text

Tome

AI storytelling and deck builder

3.8(534)
Freemiumpresentationsdocs
G
Writing & Text

Grammarly

AI grammar, tone and rewriting

3.7(1,801)
Freemiumgrammarediting
W
Writing & Text

Writesonic

SEO-first AI writer and chatbot

3.6(2,364)
Freemiumseocopywriting
G
Writing & Text

Grok

xAI's witty assistant with real-time X context

3.6(2,322)
Freemiumchatbotrealtime
M
Writing & Text

Magai

All your AIs and chats in one workspace

3.6(1,086)
Paidchatbotmulti-model
R
Writing & Text

Rephrase.ai

Turn text into AI avatar video pitches

3.6(543)
Paidvideoavatars

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