Wordtune Review: Is this the best AI writing assistant? (2023)

Wordtune is a revolutionary new AI writing assistant that allows you to get the most out of your writing. It is designed to help you improve your writing skills by giving you feedback on your writing style, grammar, and spelling. But is it really the best AI writing assistant for you in 2022?

In this review, we will take a look at what features Wordtune has to offer and how it can help you improve your writing. We will also compare Wordtune to other alternatives and competitors in the market.

What is Wordtune?

Wordtune is an AI writing assistants that provides you with feedback on your writing style, grammar, and spelling. Unlike other AI writing assistants, Wordtune is built with deep-AI  technology that allows it to understand the context of your writing and provide you with more accurate feedback. Wordtune was founded in 2018 by Yoav Shoham, Amnon Shashua, and Ori Goshen who run AI21 Labs.

Wordtune features

Wordtune offers a robust set of features that will help you write better. The Wordtune product team also seem to be constantly adding new features to help enhance the tool even more.

Here are some of the features that Wordtune offers:

Rewrite

Rewrite is the core feature of Wordtune which lets you easily explore alternative ways to rephrase a single word, a whole sentence or even an entire paragraph. It should be noted that Paragraph Rewrite is only available via a Premium subscriptions currently.  Rewrite works both in the Wordtune Editor and across the web through the browser extension.

Casual and Formal Tones

This Wordtune feature lets you choose between a more casual tone or something a little more formal sounding. If you are using the Wortune Editor, all you need to do is highlight a sentence and click either the casual or formal option at the top of the editor and your text will be prompted with a few recommendations. You can also use this feature through the browser extension.

Shorten and Expand

This Wordtune feature lets you either shorten or expand a selected sentence. It's useful if you've written too much and would like to  make your text more concise. You can also use this feature to expand upon a sentence if you have writer's block and need a little help.

Smart Synonyms

This Wordtune feature lets you highlight a word and provides you with a list of synonyms that better fit your sentence. Wordtune's sophisticated AI technology understands the context of the sentence, so it will only offer synonyms that sound natural in the context of that particular phrase.

Wordtune Spices

Wordtune Spices are a new set of AI writing tools introduced in 2023 to help enhance your writing. With Spices, you can ask the AI to expand on a sentence, give an example, provide statistics or give analogies. This gives you a lot more control over your content than other AI tools that simply generates all the content for you.

Recommendations and Corrections

When using the Wordtune editor, you will be shown a list of recommendations and grammar checks on the right-hand side of the editor as you write. We found this to be a really useful feature when writing long form content in the editor.

Translate

A neat feature we found when using Wordtune is the ability to rephrase a word of sentence in a foreign language. For example in the screenshot below, I have written hello in Mandarin and the Rewrite prompt has offered me a few suggestions in English. We found this to be a particularly helpful feature of non-native English speakers.

Wordtune Read

Wordtune Read is a new AI product launched by the team in early 2022, that allows users to summarize long documents or URLs to help you consume content faster.

Browser extensions

Wordtune also offers a number of browser extensions to help you with your writing across the web. Wordtune is currently available as a Chrome Extensions and as an Edge Add-on.

Wordtune for Microsoft Word

You can install the Wordtune add-in for Microsoft Office, Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Word. This allows you to use the power of the AI writing assistant directly in your Word document.

How do you use Wordtune?

Now that we've looked at some of the features of Wordtune, let's see how you can use it to improve your writing.

To get started, head over to the Wordtune website and sign up for a free account. Once you have registered, you will be able to access the Wordtune Editor. The Wordtune Editor is a web-based text editor that allows you to write and edit your documents directly in the browser.

The first thing you will see when you open the Wordtune Editor is the Rewrite prompt. The Rewrite prompt offers you suggestions on how to improve your writing. For example, if you have used a word or phrase that is not commonly used, the Rewrite prompt will suggest a more common alternative.

If you're happy with the suggestions, simply click on one of the suggestions and it will automatically update your text for you.

How much does Wordtune cost?

Wordtune has a Free and Premium pricing plan available. The Free plan includes 10 Rewrites per day which lets you explore new ways to rephrase your sentences. We found it a little limiting when writing long-form content, but it's still a great way to get started with the tool.

If you need more Rewrites, you can upgrade to the Premium plan. The Premium plan costs $9.99 USD per month or $119.88 per year and includes the following features:

• Unlimited access to the Rewrite feature
• Unlimited access to Casual and Formal Tone feature
• Unlimited access to the Shorten and Expand feature
• Access to the Paragraph Rewrite feature
• Premium support

Wordtune also has an enterprise plan for larger teams which requires you to contact them for pricing.

Wordtune alternatives and competitors

The AI writing assistant and grammar checking industry is still in its early stages with a number of startups trying to solve the same problem.

While Wordtune is one of the more popular AI writing assistants available, there are a number of alternatives that you might want to consider, including:

Grammarly v Wordtune

Grammarly is an established AI writing assistant which has been around since 2009. It is one of the more popular AI writing assistants available and offers a similar set of features to Wordtune. Both Grammarly and Wordtune offer a real-time grammar checking as you type, suggestions on how to improve your writing and a browser extension.

One key difference between the two is that Grammarly offers a plagiarism checking feature that Wordtune does not. Another key difference is Grammarly has apps that work across your desktop, browser, iPhone and even iPad. Wordtune currently does not have a desktop or mobile app.

Grammarly also has a generous Free and Premium pricing plan available, with the Premium plan starting from $12 USD per month.

ProWritingAid v Wordtune

ProWritingAid is another AI writing assistant that offers a similar set of features to Wordtune. Both ProWritingAid and Wordtune offer real-time grammar checking, suggestions on how to improve your writing, a browser extension and integration with Microsoft Word.

ProWritingAid also has a plagiarism checking feature that Wordtune does not. In addition, ProWritingAid offers a number of features that Wordtune does not, including a style editor, a Google Docs integration, a desktop app, and a writing analytics report.

ProWritingAid has a Free and Premium pricing plan available, with the Premium plan costing $20 USD per month or $120 USD per year or a lifetime plan for a one-off fee of $399 USD.

ProWritingAid also offers a Premium Plus plan which includes 60 plagiarism checks per year on top of the Premium features. This plan costs $24 USD per month or $130 USD per year or a lifetime plan for a one-off fee of $499 USD.

Hemingway Editor v Wordtune

Hemingway Editor is an AI writing assistant that focuses on helping you to write more concisely. Both Hemingway Editor and Wordtune offer real-time grammar checking and suggestions on how to improve your writing.

Hemingway Editor also has a number of features that Wordtune does not, including a readability score, text highlighting to show where you can improve your writing and a word count goal.

Hemingway Editor has a Free online version which is really good value. They also offer a desktop version of the app which costs $19.99 USD to download and use.

Quillbot vs Wordtune

Quillbot is an AI writing assistant that offers a similar set of features to Wordtune. Like Wordtune, Quillbot offers a real-time grammar checker, suggestions on how to improve your writing, a browser extension and a Microsoft Word add-on.

A few key differences between the two is that Quillbot offers a plagiarism checker and a citation generator which is not offered yet by Wordtune.

Quillbot has a Free plan with limited features and also a Premium pricing plan which starts at $19.95 USD per month.

Jasper vs Wortune

Jasper is an AI writing assistant that is often compared to Wordtune. In our opinion, Wordtune is a tool that aims to help you write correctly without making any grammatical errors, whereas Jasper is more focused on assisting with copywriting for various sorts of content, including blogs, advertisements, product descriptions and more. Nevertheless, the two tools have some overlapping features such as rephrasing and grammar checks (Jasper has an integration with Grammarly).

Jasper has a generous 10,000 word free trial available if you'd like to try it out. Otherwise, you can learn more by reading our Jasper review which goes into more details.

Rytr vs Wordtune

Rytr is another AI writing assistant that some people compare to Wordtune. Like Jasper, Rytr is more of a tool that helps with copywriting for things like blogs, ads and a lot more. Nevertheless, Rytr does have some overlapping features with Wordtune such as a browser extension which allows you use the tool across the web.

Rytr has a decent free plan available if you'd like to trial the tool. Otherwise, you can learn more by reading our Rytr review which goes into more detail about the tool.

Our verdict

Overall, we think Wordtune is a great tool for anyone wanting to improve their writing skills and avoid making grammatical errors. The well-designed browser extension and integration with Microsoft Word makes it really easy to use, and we love the real-time suggestions features.

The only downside is that some of the features offered by other AI writing assistants, such as plagiarism checking and citation generation, are not yet available on Wordtune. However, we think that these features will be added in time.

Finally, we think the pricing for Wordtune Premium at $9.99 USD per month is reasonable considering the value you get from the tool.