ChatGPT
The everyday AI assistant most people try first, good at drafting, explaining and making images.
Free · Plus $20/mo
By profession
Writers use AI to beat the blank page, test different openings, tighten prose, check grammar, summarize research and translate work for new readers. The goal is a sharper draft that still sounds like you.
We suggest prioritizing control over tone and style, respect for your rights over your text, and tools that suggest edits rather than rewriting everything at once.
We picked 13 tools across writing assistant, copywriting, summarizer and translation — 12 of them free to start.
The everyday AI assistant most people try first, good at drafting, explaining and making images.
Free · Plus $20/mo
A writing helper that quietly fixes your mistakes and nudges your tone wherever you type.
Free · Pro $12/mo
A calm, careful AI assistant that shines on long documents, nuanced writing and code.
Free · Pro $20/mo
An AI helper built into your Notion pages that writes, finds answers and tidies up your notes.
Free · Plus $10/mo
A marketing writer that learns your brand voice and keeps every campaign sounding like you.
From $49/mo
Build repeatable workflows that churn out sales emails, ad copy and outreach without starting from scratch.
Free plan · Pro $36/mo
Write search-friendly articles and see how your brand shows up in AI chatbot answers.
Free trial · from $16/mo
A handy all-in-one spot to reword, shorten and tidy up text without bouncing between apps.
Free · Premium $9.95/mo
Google's free research notebook that answers questions only from the sources you give it.
Free
Live transcripts and tidy summaries of your meetings, so you can listen instead of scribbling.
Free · Pro $16.99/mo
Skip the hour-long video and get the main points of any YouTube clip in a quick summary.
Free · from $4.99/mo
Translations that read like a person wrote them, not like they came out of a machine.
Free · Pro $8.74/mo
Duolingo's premium tier adds AI conversations and explanations of where you went wrong.
Free · Max $29.99/mo
We’d start with ChatGPT — the everyday ai assistant most people try first, good at drafting, explaining and making images, Grammarly — a writing helper that quietly fixes your mistakes and nudges your tone wherever you type and Claude — a calm, careful ai assistant that shines on long documents, nuanced writing and code.
Plenty — ChatGPT, Grammarly, Claude and Notion AI all have free plans.