What’s the difference between Sparks and Rephrase?
Both our Rephrase and Sparks ProWritingAid features offer on-demand suggestions for writers.
Whether you’re searching for the perfect wording or fine-tuning a paragraph, you can use either of these features to receive instant suggestions on how to improve your writing. Which one you should use depends on what type of rewriting you need and how much text you want to edit.
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Rephrase | Sparks |
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| What it does | Provides a variety of suggestions for rewriting your sentences | Helps to spark ideas on how to edit and enhance your writing |
| Type of feedback it provides |
Rephrase provides seven rewriting styles to match your needs: • Standard: This takes what you’ve written and shows you different ways to phrase it • Fluency: Rephrases your text to make it sound fluent by using the more precise words a native speaker would choose • Formal: Makes your writing more sophisticated for professional and academic documents • Informal: Adapts your word choice and sentence structure to make your writing sound more informal and casual • Sensory: Adds sensory details to make your descriptions more engaging • Shorten: Takes long sentences and makes them shorter and clearer • Lengthen: Takes a short sentence and expands it with more relevant details |
• Edit: improve clarity, fluency, or structure ◦ Readability: This takes what you’ve written and shows you different ways to improve the clarity and readability ◦ Fluency: Makes your writing more fluent ◦ Transitions: Suggests edits to improve the structure and use of transitional phrases ◦ Sensory: Adds sensory details to make your descriptions more engaging ◦ Make 1st person: Adapts your writing to be in the 1st person ◦ Make 3rd person: Adapts your writing to be in the 3rd person ◦ Past tense: This takes what you have written and adds the past tense ◦ Present tense: This takes what you have written and adds the present tense |
| Recommended word count | Ideal for individual sentences | Designed to run on paragraphs or multiple sentences. It can be used on up to 2,500 characters at a time |
| Is it included in your plan? |
Not included in our Free plan Included in all paid plans. Both Premium and Premium Pro users get unlimited Rephrases |
Not included in our Free plan Included in all paid plans Premium users get 5 Sparks per day, and Premium Pro users get 50 Sparks per day |
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