✍️ Writing
Drafting, editing, and tightening. Chat assistants plus focused editors.
Claude
Anthropic's assistant. Strong long-form writing and editing.
Natural voice, follows style guides, handles long docs well.
BEST FOR: LONG-FORM DRAFTSFree plan · paid tiers
ChatGPT
The generalist. Writing, research, files, images, all in one.
Widest feature set, and it's usually what people already have open.
BEST FOR: EVERYDAY EVERYTHINGFree plan · paid tiers
Grok
xAI's assistant with live X context.
Good when the piece depends on what people are saying right now.
BEST FOR: TIMELY, X-AWARE POSTSFree plan · paid tiers
Grammarly
Grammar, tone, and rewrite help in every app.
Lives where you already type: email, docs, browser.
BEST FOR: POLISHING ANYTHINGFree plan · paid tiers
Hemingway Editor
Highlights dense sentences so you cut them.
Makes copy punchier. A simple, single-purpose tool.
BEST FOR: CLARITY EDITSFree web editor · paid app
New in writing this week
Wally by Willow: A new Scribe agent inside the Willow voice-dictation app. Talk or type to draft an email, Slack message, or prompt, then keep refining it in the same conversation. Highlight text in any app to get a rewrite. It learns your style from your edits, even the ones you make after pasting. source ↗
qwen3-4b-deslop: A free 4B open model fine-tuned on a MacBook Air to drop the usual AI writing tics: em dashes, "it's not X, it's Y," lists of three. It's a 2.5 GB download and runs locally with one Ollama command, no system prompt needed. The maker says the voice comes out plain to the point of flat, and it still invents names and places. source ↗
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