What Type of Feedback Does Virtual Beta Reader Provide?
When you run Virtual Beta Reader, we analyze your text and provide you with a reader’s perspective on your whole story.
We analyze your writing as a beta reader would and provide detailed insights to help you strengthen your manuscript, boost reader engagement, and stay true to your voice.
Virtual Beta Reader explores key elements of your story across four categories:
- General Impressions: understand how your story lands overall—genre and audience fit, character presence, and the emotional journey your reader experiences chapter by chapter.
- Reading Experience: see which characters readers connect with (or don’t), what moments might grab them—or lose them—and where they might be tempted to put the book down.
- Reader Insights: discover what stands out, what feels fresh or cliché, and get suggestions for edits or ideas worth exploring further.
- Marketing Ideas: get helpful input on potential titles, comparable books, and character comps—perfect for when you’re preparing to share your story with the world.
Check out this sample report from The Wizard of Oz to see how Virtual Beta Reader can help shape your manuscript.
The response Virtual Beta Reader gives may not always be exactly what a human developmental editor or beta reader would give. Just like our Chapter Critique and Manuscript Analysis, Virtual Beta Reader is not designed to be a replacement for a human developmental editor or beta reader.
You can find out more about the differences between our Chapter Critique, Manuscript Analysis, and Virtual Beta Reader in our Chapter Critique vs Manuscript Analysis vs Virtual Beta Reader article.
Your writing is sacred. That’s why we never use your text to train any AI or other algorithms. Learn more.