Free Online Book and Manuscript Editor
ProWritingAid can help you take your book from first draft to publish-ready.
Why choose ProWritingAid?
In-depth analysis & actionable feedback
Tailored analytical tools assess every aspect of your writing in seconds and teach you how to improve.
Works with your favorite writing app
ProWritingAid works wherever you do, fitting neatly into any writing app like Word, Google Docs, or Scrivener.
Your writing is safe with ProWritingAid
Your writing is sacred, so we use bank-level security to keep it safe and never use your text to train our algorithms.
Your bestseller is just an edit away
Join over 3 million users improving their writing.
I am continually impressed with the positive input this program offers me every time I sit down to write. My skills have improved immensely since I bought it and heartily recommend it to anyone who wants to have more confidence in their own writing.
Ginger Wakem
I’ve tried every free and paid writing/editing/grammar extension out there and this by far is the best one my team and I have found. It’s fast, accurate and really helps improve your writing beyond simple grammar suggestions.
Joel Widmer
ProWritingAid has been a resource in my writer toolkit for many years. The program helps me to craft and clarify my stories for a better reader experience. Your editor will thank you for making their job easier.
Siera London
Key benefits of our book and manuscript editor
Improve your chances of publication with our real-time suggestions for grammar, spelling, and style.
Power up your prose
In book and manuscript editing, it’s easy to miss little details. Use our unnecessary adverbs checks, cliché alerts, and flags for odd dialogue tags to refine the details of your story and take your writing to the next level.
Keep your readers hooked
Master “show, don’t tell” with suggestions that make your story jump off the page. With sensory reports and pacing improvements you can spot opportunities to pull readers into your story.
Learn from your favorite authors
Choose your favorite author to use as a benchmark, whether it’s Margaret Atwood, Nora Roberts, or Stephen King. Find out how your writing compares in areas like sentence length and adverb usage.
Works in all your favorite writing apps
Access all ProWritingAid's features directly in your writing app of choice.
Book and Manuscript Editor FAQs
Does ProWritingAid help with all stages of book and manuscript editing?
Book and manuscript editing involves several stages. Most writers start with developmental editing, which involves looking at structure, logical flow, and narrative. Next comes line editing, which involves looking at sentence structure, word choice, and other writing elements. Finally, you’ll need proofreading, which involves catching typos and formatting mistakes.
ProWritingAid can help you with all of these steps, with comprehensive reports that look at both big-picture and line-level improvements.
Can I track my editing progress as I go?
The hardest part of editing is always knowing where to begin.
It’s important to know what you are doing well and where you could improve. A good book editing software points you toward the key changes that will have the biggest impact on your writing, while also acknowledging your wins.
ProWritingAid’s goals show how you score against real-world targets for the key editing elements for your document type. Your scores change as you edit so you can monitor your progress in real time.
What software integrations does ProWritingAid offer?
ProWritingAid offers many different integrations so you can edit your book or manuscript where you’re most comfortable!
ProWritingAid works in all major writing apps, like MS Word, Google Docs, Scrivener, Atticus, Apple Notes and more. To access ProWritingAid in a computer-based writing app, you must install Desktop Everywhere. If you’re writing online, we offer browser extensions (Google Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge). Click here to learn more.
What is the maximum word count ProWritingAid can check?
Although ProWritingAid does not have a maximum word count, it works best when looking at fewer than 10,000 words at a time. The complex nature of our many high-powered reports requires that the tool maintains contact with our servers to function. You can break up your book by chapter to get under that word count and to avoid becoming overwhelmed with suggestions.
Ensuring your chapters are less than 10,000 words will help ProWritingAid work faster and more efficiently.
Does ProWritingAid have a plagiarism checker?
Yes! ProWritingAid’s plagiarism checker will check your work against over a billion web-pages, published works, and academic papers, so you can be sure of its originality. Find out more about pricing for plagiarism checks here.
Does my ProWritingAid paid license work on this page?
This page is for demonstration only, so it doesn’t recognize Premium or Premium Pro licenses, and limits usage of the tool here. To access this feature, as well as other features available with your paid license, please log in and use the Web Editor or any of our integrations.