Getting started With ProWritingAid

What Is ProWritingAid?

ProWritingAid is a suite of tools for writers that will help you craft, polish, and elevate your writing. ProWritingAid features 25+ writing reports that will allow you to check your writing for sticky sentences, repeated words and phrases, readability, structure issues, and much more.

The features in ProWritingAid focus on the tools that storytellers value most. It gives you instant access to 25+ writing reports that spot sticky sentences, repetition, structure issues, and more.

How to create a ProWritingAid account

You can sign up to ProWritingAid for free.

To create an account, you can use your email address or your Google or Facebook accounts.

Find out more about how to activate your account.

Our integrations

ProWritingAid is compatible with many of your favorite writing apps. You can edit your texts directly in our Web Editor, or add ProWritingAid to your computer and internet browser to access all features directly in Word, Google Docs, Scrivener, and more.

Once you create your ProWritingAid account, you can edit using our:

Web Editor: Use ProWritingAid on your browser and access your documents from anywhere. Our Web Editor is compatible with the most common text file and markdown types.
Desktop Everywhere: Get editing suggestions and advanced analysis in your favorite writing apps installed on your computer.
Chrome extension: Access ProWritingAid in the Google Chrome browser.
Firefox extension: Access ProWritingAid in the Firefox browser.
Edge extension: Access ProWritingAid in the Microsoft Edge browser.

Watch the video below to find out how to get started with our Web Editor:

You need an internet connection to use all ProWritingAid apps and integrations.

Running reports

Our 25+ writing reports provide you with a comprehensive analysis of your writing with statistics and insights. You’ll find dozens of video tutorials that will show you how to use the different reports, available on our YouTube channel.

You can run our writing reports from all our integrations. In our Web Editor, you can access the reports from the Reports bar. In all other integrations, you can access the reports by clicking the ProWritingAid icon and then clicking the Reports icon.

When you run a report, you will see several suggestion categories that ProWritingAid has highlighted in your document. Each category has a different color highlight, so you can distinguish them easily in your manuscript.

Find out more about what each underline color means.

When you click the drop-down arrow next to each category, you can see each individual suggestion listed to give you an overview of your writing. This pane helps you find areas to revise and jump straight to them in your document.

You don’t need to respond to every suggestion. We understand that not all the suggestions will be right for the context or style of your writing.

If you decide you want to focus on one particular category in your editing session, you can hover over the other categories to open its menu. Click on the eye icon to hide the underlines for that category. To reveal those underlines, just click on the eye again. We have highlighted this icon in red in the image below.

Suggestion boxes

When you hover over a highlighted word or sentence in your text, a suggestion box will appear with potential improvements. We have shown an example of this in the image below.

Click on the blue i icon to see more resources related to the suggestion, if you’d like to learn more.

If you like a suggestion, click on it, and ProWritingAid will apply it to the underlined word or phrase.

If you decide you like the word or phrase as it is, you can either leave it underlined, or click Ignore to remove the underline. This underline will still reappear the next time you run the report.

If you feel that a certain type of suggestion is getting in the way, or isn’t relevant to your writing, you can click on Disable Rule. You can re-enable some rules from your settings, but to re-enable other rules, you will need to contact our Support team.

Disabling a rule will only disable it for the exact word pattern. For example, if you disable a specific adverb rule, ProWritingAid will still underline other adverbs.

To move through suggestions quickly, use the arrows to the right of the suggestion boxes. These allow you to accept or ignore a suggestion, or to disable a rule, and then move automatically to the next suggestion.

Upgrading to Premium or Premium Pro

You can use ProWritingAid for free. With a free account, you can access all of our writing reports in our Web Editor, but you’ll only be able to edit 500 words at a time.

If you want to edit longer documents, upgrade your account to Premium or Premium Pro.

ProWritingAid Premium and Premium Pro will allow you to edit your entire document with no word limit.

You can purchase ProWritingAid Premium and Premium Pro as a monthly, yearly, or lifetime subscription. Yearly and lifetime subscriptions are covered by our three-day money back guarantee.

Premium and Premium Pro subscriptions offer all the features available to Free accounts, plus unlimited word count, unlimited rephrases, advanced style improvements (including custom style guides), snippets, customizable suggestions, terminology management, author comparisons, citations, and collaborations. Premium Pro subscriptions offer more rewriting and style improvements options, with 50 Sparks and 3 Critiques per day.

Find out more about the differences between Free, Premium, and Premium Pro.

You can upgrade your subscription at any time in your account.

All of our integrations are included in Premium and Premium Pro plans. You can download any of our apps to multiple Windows and Mac computers. However, our licenses are personal. If anyone else wants to use the software, they will need to purchase their own license.

Personalizing your ProWritingAid account

My Account

In My Account, you can manage your account.

In this page, you can:

Check what license you have, upgrade your plan, and update your payment method.
Change your username, email address, and password.
Enter your company name and address (if applicable).
Manage your email notification preferences.
Purchase Story Credits and Plagiarism Check credits.
Delete your account.

Billing

In your Billing page, you can see your purchase history and update your payment methods.

Dictionary

You can add any words to your dictionary that you use frequently in your work that ProWritingAid doesn’t recognize as a valid word. In your Personal Dictionary, you can add and remove terms.

Settings

In Settings, Premium and Premium Pro users can customize their application settings:

Combo Reports: select the reports that will appear in your Combo Report.
Overused Words: add words or combinations of words that you’d like ProWritingAid to check for in the Overused Words report.
Style Guides: set your preferred style guides. We’ll highlight nonconforming text and suggest improvements.
Dialogue Settings: set ProWritingAid to not underline grammar mistakes and other style issues if you want your dialogue to be more realistic.
Repeats Settings: adjust the settings of the Echoes Report, such as the maximum character distance between highlighted repeats, minimum phrase word length, and minimum phrase occurrences.
Comparison Settings: set an author whose work you can compare to yours when you run the Summary Report.
Company and Product Names: add your company name and product names to check for consistency in your documents.

Style Guides

You can set your preferred style guides in the Style Guides settings. We’ll highlight nonconforming text and suggest improvements in your text. Look for the Style Guide label in the pop-up for these highlights.

ProWritingAid is more than just an editing assistant: we’re here to help you bring your story to life. Unlock your story’s full potential with our in-depth writing reports, actionable feedback, and more.