Top 15
AI Writing Assistants

Content at Scale’s AI writing assistant provides research-backed content that includes external links, tweets, and key takeaways. You can create content from keywords, existing blog content, YouTube videos, Podcast episodes, or custom audio files. Generate unique, custom content or rewrite any existing article, document, PDF, or PowerPoint deck.

Content at Scale claims that it is the only AI writing solution on the market that bypasses AI content detection.

Unlike many other AI writing assistants, Content at Scale consistently generates long-form content. Blog posts, for example, average more than 2,500 words, incorporating content recommendations from similar content that already ranks for target keywords.

Features

• WordPress, Shopify plugins
• Combines multiple AI engines, including OpenAI’s GPT-4
• Natural language process
• Semantic analysis algorithm
• Select tone of voice
• Works with URLs, YouTube videos, audio files
• Optimizes images, alt tags
• Content optimization scoring and SEO checklist
• Export to Google Docs
• Built-in AI detector, plagiarism detector
• Generates a table of contents for articles

Bottom Line

Content at Scale is great for writing comprehensive, long-form blog content that is optimized for SEO. However, it’s one of the most expensive options on the market. Content at Scale does not offer a free trial but does provide a 7-day trial for one article for $39.99.

Pricing

Content at Scale has four plans:

• Solo: $250 per month
• Starter: $500 per month
• Scaling: $1,000 per month
• Agency: $1,500 per month

Content at Scale also offers a managed service providing keyword research, system execution, editing, and optimizing 20 posts per month, including daily publishing schedules for your blog.

Jasper’s AI writing assistant enables you to write content 2-5 times faster and works for blog articles, product reviews, marketing emails, social media posts, and more. Formerly known as Jarvis, Jasper claims users can reduce the time it takes to create first drafts by 80% and increase content downloads by 40%.

Jasper’s powerful AI learns your brand voice, so you can create customized and consistent copy that matches your tone — whether that’s formal, bold, cheeky, or even pirate! Jasper can automatically scan your website to find the appropriate voice and apply style guides and brand identity.

Clients include Sports Illustrated, Anthropologie, and Morningstar.

Features

• 30+ languages
• Offers API to build into platforms
• Collaboration tools for team review
• Includes OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic, and Google AI models
• Optimizes for SEO
• Incorporates Grammarly
• Plagiarism checker
• SOC2 certification
• Enables voice commands
• Jasper Chat feature
• Art and image creation (additional fee)

Bottom Line

If you haven’t checked out Jasper before (or recently), it’s worth a look. Based on user feedback, Jasper removed content limits so that every tier now allows for unlimited words generated by AI. Jasper also offers a 7-day free trial at either the Creator or Teams plan so you can try it out risk-free.

Pricing

Jasper has three paid plans:

• Creator: Starting at $39 per month
• Teams: Starting at $99 per month
• Business: Custom pricing available upon request

You can choose to pay monthly and cancel at any time or pay up-front for an annual plan that offers a 20% discount.

Writesonic’s AI writing assistant has more than 100 powerful features to help you generate high-quality articles, blogs, landing pages, Google and Facebook ads, product descriptions, and more. Describe your topic and keywords and let Writesonic generate copy fast.

Writesonic incorporates Google Search capabilities so the AI provides up-to-date information on the content you’re writing about.

Writersonic offers two options within each tier: Premium and Superior. The Premium option uses GPT-3.5 while the Superior option uses GPT-4 and GPT-4 32K. You can use either option within each tier, but the Superior option counts more against your word count. For example, a Teams plan could be used to generate either 100,000 Premium words or 33,334 Superior quality words.

Features

• 25+ languages
• Publish to WordPress, Wix, Zapier, Shopify with one click
• Integrates with Surfer SEO and Semrush
• Enables voice commands
• Art and image creation (Photosonic)
• AI chat assistant
• Product name generator
• Text expander
• Article summarizer
• API access
• One-click article writer

Bottom Line

Writesonic is a powerful AI tool for generating short-form content, landing pages, product descriptions, and social media ads at scale. With Google and GPT 4.0 integration, it provides current data, unlike ChatGPT. However, it can be expensive if you need to generate a large amount of content due to word count limitations.

Pricing

Writesonic has three plans:

• Free Trial: $0 per month
• Unlimited: $16 per month (subject to fair use policies)
• Business: Starting at $12.67 per month
• Enterprise: Custom pricing available upon request

Writer.com’s AI writing assistant uses a language learning model (LLM) that’s built for business, adds relevant information, and tailors outputs to match your brand. Writer.com claims to be the only generative AI writing platform that fact-checks output for accuracy.

You can train Writer.com on your brand, voice, style guide, key terms, and core messages to ensure that AI-generated content mirrors your style. You can also integrate Writer.com into your workflow and tech stack using APIs, integration, and extension already built for more than 100 third-party applications.

Clients include Spotify, Deloitte, Intuit, Cisco, Squarespace, and Accenture. Writer.com excels at industries like healthcare and financial services.

Features

• Option to own, host, or customize
• Compliant with SOC 2 Type II, PCIDS, HIPAA, GDPR, Privacy Shield
• Custom templates
• Brand governance
• Data fine-tuning
• Include Knowledge Graph to link to your company data
• Extensions include Chrome, Google Docs, Word, Outlook, Figma, Contentful
• Allows for custom applications and workflows
• Generates meta descriptions, summaries, and social posts
• Rates content based on readability and grade level
• Co-editing capability

Bottom Line

Writer.com positions itself clearly as a writing assistant and not a replacement for writers. It helps writers maintain brand consistency and offers suggesting for writing improvements as you write. You can customize based on the rules you set. Plugins work across other platform such as Google Docs, Chrome, and Microsoft 365, giving you style guide accuracy across platforms.

Pricing

Writer.com offer two plans:

• Teams: Starting at $18 per month per user
• Enterprise: Custom pricing available upon request

Writer.com offers a 14-free trial with no credit card requires. There is an additional discount available on Team and Enterprise plans for non-profits and educational institutions.

Built on the GPT-3 language model, Copy.ai’s writing assistant is easy to use and lets you create multiple content types starting with pre-built templates. Copy.ai claims it cuts writing times by 80%, generating SEO-optimized content.

It excels at writing sales content and provides a broad range of tones, from professional, friendly, relaxed, bold, adventurous, witty, sassy, persuasive, and luxury — providing options for copywriters to customize styles for posts and ad copy. One nice feature is the Freestyle tool which lets you generate multiple outputs from a single prompt.

Clients include Microsoft, eBay, Nestle, and Ogilvy.

Features

• 90+ copywriting tools
• 29+ languages
• Multiple tones and voices
• Supports PAS (Problem, Agitation, Solution) and AIDA (Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action) frameworks
• Paragraph rewriter
• Idea, keyword, and outline generators
• Slogan generator
• First-draft wizard
• Citation finder
• Grammar and plagiarism checker

Bottom Line

While Copy.ai may not be your best solution for long-form content, it works extremely well for short-form content generation and sales copy — think production descriptions, social posts and captions, landing pages, and copy for eCommerce sites. It also works well for brainstorming ideas and rewriting existing content.

Like all Generative AI content generators, you need to fact-check carefully.

Pricing

Copy.ai  has three plans:

• Free: $0 per month
• Pro: Starting at $36 per month
• Enterprise: Custom pricing available upon request

Anyword goes beyond AI content generation to connect your website, social, email, and ad channels. Anyword combines past performance with a proprietary data set of marketing assets to generate a 30% lift in results. The Anyword platform analyzes all of the copy you’ve previously published to extract brand rules, voice, tone, and messaging. You can also add custom formulas to refine your output.

Custom-scoring AI models identify your best-performing content to generate data-driven content that is optimized for your audiences and channels.

Anyword’s clients include Amazon, Alibaba, NBC, Outbrain, and Payoneer.

Features

• 85+ templates
• Meta description generator
• Customer generators for different social media platforms
• Paraphrasing tool
• Text summarizer
• Predictive performance scores
• Keyword library for common promotions
• Custom keywords
• Connects and analyzes current marketing channels
• Creates social posts from URLs with hashtags

Bottom Line

Anyword offers a unique opportunity to optimize copy based on real-life performance. The predictive performance model helps optimize ad copy, social media, blog posts, landing pages, product descriptions, emails, SMS messages, and company bios with a focus on conversions.

Anyword also features a one-click performance boost to analyze and improve existing content.

Pricing

Anyword has three paid plans:

• Starter: Starting at $39 per month
• Teams: Starting at $49 per month
• Custom: Custom pricing available upon request

Anyword also has a free seven-day trial. Like several other AI writing assistants, Anyword previously offered different tiers of credit. In May 2023, Anyword switched to unlimited word generation for all tiers.

Scalenut bills itself as an all-in-one content marketing app, including a one-click content plan, blog idea generation, AI-powered topic clusters, and cluster-boosting integrations. Scalenut helps uncover insights and semantic key terms by conducting competitive analysis and social listening tactics.

A fully-automated guided workflow helps writers create optimized content that appeals to both audiences and search engines. You can also get real-time feedback on anticipated content performance using SEO scores and competitive benchmarking.

Scalenut counts clients including Adobe, Nvidea, WPP, Zogo, and Microsoft.

Features

• 40+ AI copywriting templates for product descriptions, website copy, copywriting, and email
• Robust natural language processing algorithm
• Advances keyword planners create blog ideas and topic clusters
• Analyzes keyword volume, relevancy, and cost per click (CPC)
• Social listening tools
• Built-in content grader
• Automated content brief builder
• Data-driven outlines
• Keyword density optimization
• Featured snipper suggestions
• Chrome extension

Bottom Line

Scalenut excels at creating content plans that go beyond just writing copy, generating content plans, topic clusters, and blog posts based on data-driven insights. Scalenut provides in-depth research, including ranking keywords and competitor web content. However, it currently only supports GPT-3 models.

Pricing

Scalenut has three plans:

• Essential: $20 per month (billed annually)
• Growth: $40 per month (billed annually)
• Essential: $75 per month (billed annually)**Additional seats @ $49 per user/ month

Rytr’s AI writing assistant works in four easy steps. Select your language, pick your tone, choose your use cases, and add in some keywords, phrases, or titles. That’s it. Click and you’ll get your AI-generated copy in seconds.

Besides generating AI content, you can also use Rytr to improve the content you write, automatically fixing, shortening, rewording, or expanding on your ideas. Rytr also comes with an integrated keywords generator to help find the highest-performing keywords and an integrated SERP analyzer.

Features

• 40+ use cases
• 30+ languages
• 20+ tones
• AI image generator
• Keyword extractor from existing text
• Fiction content generator
• Built-in plagiarism checker
• Chrome extension
• Team collaboration tools

Bottom Line

Rytr works best for short-form content and content outlines but struggles with longer-form content. It also has a more limited toolset than some of its competitors. For example, it does not have a built-in grammar checker. While it does integrate Copyscape into the workflow, the plagiarism checker can only check 1,600 characters at a time. There is also a limit on the number of characters you can check each month.

Pricing

Rytr has three plans:

• Free: $0 per month
• Saver: Starting at $9 per month
• Unlimited: Starting at $29 per month

Pepper Content’s marketing platform was designed to bring content, data, and SEO writing teams together. Now, Pepper Content’s AI writing tool leverages the ease of ChatGPT with the power of Pepper’s content marketing expertise to enhance workflows. Combing data from multiple sources, Pepper AI creates highly-contextualized outputs.

Pepper AI not only creates content, but it also provides topic suggestions and evaluates expected traffic based on competitor data and AI suggestions. The AI writing platform integrates efficiently with the company’s content marketing platform (CMP).

Pepper Content’s clients include Google, P&G, Unilever, Yale, and McKinsey & Company.

Features

• 45+ languages
• Single-click prompts and templates
• Traffic estimator
• Intelligent text editor (Pepper Docs)
• SEO writing assistant
• One-click WordPress publishing
• Automate audits for word count, readability, plagiarism
• Keyword research
• Content research reports
• SEO writing assistant
• SEO content refres

Bottom Line

Pepper AI is built on top of Chat GPT, designed as a chat-like interface but also integrated content market data and analysis to specific niches. Templates and custom-built prompts make it easy to generate highly detailed content without having to spend significant time crafting the perfect prompt. For example, you can choose whether you prefer content designed to increase site traffic, improve SEO rankings, or generate leads.

Pepper AI is built into the Pepper Content CMP, so it’s pricier than other solutions on the market because you get a full-blown content marketing platform in addition to AI writing.

Pricing

Pepper Content has two plans:

• Premium: Starting at $399 per month
• Enterprise: Custom pricing

Pepper AI also has a seven-day free trial offer available.

Known for being the automated online grammarian and spell-checker, Grammarly recently entered the AI content writing business. Grammarly Go adds generative AI to its platform, to help you create content on the fly. While using Grammarly, you can click on the green lightbulb icon to ideate, rewrite, or generate polished copy in seconds.

Grammarly Go makes it easy to refresh content, change the tone to make it more professional (or less formal), and generate additional ideas based on existing content. Grammarly users get a monthly allowance of prompts to help writers, including suggestions to improve content for greater effectiveness.

Grammarly clients include Caterpillar, Zoom, Databricks, and Atlassian.

Features

• Grammar checker
• Plagiarism checker
• Content scoring
• AI prompts
• Chrome extension, apps for desktop, mobile, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Microsoft 365
• Add on for Slack and email integration
• Real-time content analysis
• Built-in thesaurus
• Identifies content gaps

Bottom Line

If you’re already a Grammarly user, testing Grammarly Go is easy as it’s already added to the platform in most countries. It’s best used as an add-on tool to help improve your writing, but not as a stand-alone AI content generator for blog posts or articles.

Where Grammarly excels is in changing tones. It can take basic human or AI-generated content and easily change the tone. It also accounts for different dialects like American, British, Canadian, or Australian English.

Pricing

Grammarly offers three plans:

• Free: $0 per month (not available in all countries)
• Premium: Starting at $12 per month
• Business: Starting at $15 per user, per month

Grammarly offers a volume discount for annual plans of 10 or more users along with discounts for educational institutions.

Surfer SEO is a tool designed to help develop SEO-optimized content based on analysis of high-ranking content. Using target keywords and content, Surfer SEO analyzes the first page of search results to uncover common themes, keywords, popular phrases, backlinks, and questions. It then provides a checklist for everything, including keyword density, headers, and important terms.

As you write, it provides a real-time score to help you compare to competitive content available.

Surfer AI is available as an add-on to research, write, and optimize content, using GPT-4 (32k version) and other Generative AI models along with a proprietary algorithm

Features

• Sentiment analysis
• AI outline generator
• Keyword research
• Analyzes 500 web signals for SEO
• SEO optimized checklist
• Chrome extensions
• Relevant link suggestions
• Multiple tones of voice
• Anti-AI detection
• SEO audits for content

Bottom Line

Surfer SEO is an excellent platform to generate briefs, outlines, and research for writing SEO-optimized content. It provides a wealth of tools to analyze high-performing content so that you can make sure your content hits the high notes.

Surfer AI’s content writing assistant, however, is only available as an add-on and can be quite expensive. One credit is $29 and will generate one 1,000-word article.

Pricing

Surfer SEO has four pricing plans:

• Essential: $69 per month (billed annually)
• Advanced: $149 per month (billed annually)
• Max: $249 per month (billed annually)
• Enterprise: Custom pricing

Designed for eCommerce platforms, Copysmith’s AI content platform integrates with platforms including:

• Amazon
• BigCommerce
• Magneto
• Salsify
• Shopify
• WooCommerce
• Zapier

API integrations are also available for custom or homegrown solutions. Copysmith is a great solution for eCommerce sellers to launch cohesive campaigns. You can create new product descriptions, landing page copy, meta tags, social media captions, Facebook and Google ads, and blog posts at the same time. Just picked your desired template, add some product information, and get started.

Clients include Target, Marshalls, HOM Furniture, and VIGO.

Features

• 50+ languages
• 35 ready-made templates
• Chrome extension
• Plagiarism checker
• AI image generator
• Integrations with Google Ads for A/B testing
• Integrates with Google Docs, Microsoft Word
• Content rewriter
• Content enhancer
• SEO optimizer
• Product catalog management

Bottom Line

Copysmith can accelerate the creation of product descriptions and marketing content, working efficiently especially when generating bulk content catalogs. Copysmith combines Chat GPT-3 with proprietary machine learning to craft what it calls “raw materials,” suggesting, shaping, and refining content, but suggests users make the finishing touches to polish and present the best content to customers.

Pricing

Copysmith offers three plans:

• Starter: Starting at $228 per year
• Pro Annual: Starting at $490 per year
• Enterprise: Custom pricing available upon request

Starter and Pro plans offer a free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Notion is designed as a connected workspace to manage your documents, wikis, projects, and content pages. Notion AI enables users to generate AI content within the Notion platform. The AI writing assistant generates summaries, key takeaways, and meeting notes with the next steps and action items.

You can also use Notion AI to generate content, shorten or lengthen copy, rewrite technical jargon, or edit for voice and tone. Notion AI does a good job of brainstorming content ideas, developing content outlines, and social media posts but it can also be used for blog posts and other content items.

Features

• Grammar and spell-check
• Translates copy into Japanese, Spanish, and 10 other languages
• Text summarizer
• Blog post generator
• Meeting agenda action plans
• Press release generator
• Job description generator
• Creates charts and tables from data
• Central hub for productivity tools
• File storage within the Notion app

Bottom Line

Notion is designed to organize your workflow to enhance productivity. Its AI tools are really an add-on and have limitations. While AI content generation works seamlessly within the Notion platform, it does not integrate with other systems which means you’ll need to cut and paste if you want to use content elsewhere.

Notion excels at database, task, calendar management, and creating wikis or internal sites for companies.

Pricing

Notion has four plans:

• Free: $0 per month
• Plus: Starting at $8 per month
• Business: Starting at $15 per month
• Enterprise: Custom pricing available upon request

Plus, Business, and Enterprise plans include unlimited synced databases and custom API integrations. All tiers include a public API and connections to Slack and Zapier for automated workflows.

Unlike most of its competitors, Frase’s AI content generation platform does not use GPT-3 or GPT-4, but instead relied on its own proprietary AI model. The company claims this allows them more flexibility, custom features, and competitive pricing.

Frase analyzes top ranking search results to help create competitive content. Fopr example, start typing in Frase and it will open up an SERP overview, show you the most relevant content available online and how your content stacks up. It also incorporates People Also Ask, Quora, and Reddit topics.

Frase client’s include Coursera, Markle, Digitas, PTC, and Career Karma.

Features

• Automated content briefs
• Outline builder
• Content scoring
• Document sharing without adding seats
• Team project folders
• Integration with Google Search console data
• Custom templates
• Paragraph rewrite
• Paraphrasing tool
• Slogan generator
• Meta tag generator
• Chrome extension
• Integrates with Google Docs, WordPress

Bottom Line

Frase is a strong platform for content research, topic ideation, and outline generation. It’s not as solid when it comes to AI content generation compared to some of its competitors. Where it shines is in reverse-engineering other high-performing content to help you uncover what’s working elsewhere online.

It also automatically generates relevant FAQs to help give your content an additional SEO boost.

Pricing

Frase has three paid plans:

• Solo: Starting at $12.66 per month
• Basic: Starting at $38.25 per month
• Teams: Starting at $97.75 per month

The Pro Add-on allows you to generate an unlimited number of words along with other premium features for an additional $35 per month. Additional features include keyword search volume along with SERP, domain authority, and backlink data.

The Team subscription includes 3 seats with each additional seat priced at $25 per month.

Paragraph AI works as an app and keyboard extension to help improve your writing and generate text, email, ad copy, social media posts, essays, and more. Where it excels is at taking a few sentences and generating complete paragraphs to expand content and quickly creating responses to texts and emails.

Built by engineers from MIT, Meta, and OpenAI, Paragraph AI claims that the content generated by its AI engine is 99.9% plagiarism free. However, it does not include a plagiarism checker. It includes a sliding scale to set grammar usage and tone from informal to formal, friendly to assertive, and pessimistic to optimistic.

Clients include Harvard, Uber, Oracle, Samsung, Pepsi, and Re/MAX.

Features

• GPT AI app for desktop, iOS, and Android
• Variable tones
• SEO-friendly copy
• Grammar checker
• Writing improvement feature
• Auto email and text analyzer
• Secure, encrypted servers
• Resume generator
• Translation feature

Bottom Line

Paragraph AI is a good solution for text and email, especially for mobile users, but is not as robust for long-form content as other Generative AI solutions. Built on GPT-3, Paragraph AI can help improve writing and generate more complete paragraphs based on user input. It automatically analyzes text messages and emails, and offers suggested replies. The Professional and Team options will also interpret text to detect n the underlying tones to help you respond in kind.

Pricing

Paragraph AI  has four plans:

• Student: Starting at $9.99 per month
• Professional: Starting at $12.49 per month
• Team: Custom pricing

Paragraph AI also offers a limited free trial plan.