--- title: "Page 4 | ProWritingAid Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra" description: "Page 4 - Is ProWritingAid the right Proofreading solution for you? Explore 497 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice." source_url: "https://www.capterra.com/p/170745/ProWritingAid/reviews/?page=4" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" publication_date: "2026-10-19" --- ProWritingAid 4.7 (497) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated October 19th, 2026 # Page 4 - Reviews of ProWritingAid ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 76-100 of 497 available reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Harrison D. Knowledge Management Specialist Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "A class act." September 26, 2024 4.0 Less frustrating than thinking about commas. Pros Swift and efficient way of working. It has enhanced my daily routine. Cons No proper MacOS MS Word inline support. The pop ups for suggestions or sparks tend to get in the way of the text. Switched from [Grammarly](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) Cumbersome way of working that didn't suit my style. Review Source Helgurd A. Head of Engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Buy it you not regrated! " August 2, 2024 5.0 I'm pleased to possess it. It's the only app where I haven't lost any money. It worth to buy it. Pros Your fingerprints hold a world of writing. Cons Old customers with lifetime subscriptions may not receive certain features when they update. Switched from [Grammarly](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) I found better in functions and less money. Review Source Content Creator Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Great Tool for Extremely Short Texts, Monumental Fail Otherwise " June 19, 2020 3.0 Sharing my two cents about ProWritingAid that I purchased a lifetime licence for: If you're reviewing texts about 300 - 400 words in length at maximum, you'll be happy with the tool. Otherwise, it's not worth the money. If you need a short-term solution, then by all means go for it but don't pay a buck for actually using the SW. I've been using the Word add-on for over three months now and if you want to use most of the tools on more than 800 words, the tool simply can't handle the 'load.' Usually, it breaks off after a minute or so and you can run the check again which normally doesn't help. You end up wasting a ton of your time and accomplish nothing at all. While the language advice and the correction improvements you get recommended are helpful, you're better off using Grammarly or another alternative if you're reviewing long chunks of text in one go and don't want to constantly copy-paste from Word to their interface and back which is a pain if you have to do that daily like myself. Pros Totally intuitive. If you know anything about how English, grammar and vocabulary alike, finding your way through the options and how they work will be a breeze. No learning curve. The tool as well as the report are perfectly self-explanatory. Easy-to-use online interface. Cons Useless add-on when dealing with texts of 800+ words. Constant copy-pasting to and from the online interface wasting your time. Switched from [Grammarly](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) I prefer to purchase software rather than rent it (i.e. renew subscriptions) but I rather pay for regular Grammarly subscriptions now that I know what ProWritingAid has to offer. I can always make more money but the time wasted hoping ProWritingAid would actually return any results when it did not is gone for good. Copy-pasting text from Word to their online interface is not a long-term solution if you're handling dozens of pages of text every day. Review Source Author Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Use ProWriting Aid" May 15, 2023 5.0 Pros This software enhances your writing and is a necessity no matter what you find yourself writing. The attachment for your browser is a game changer as well because it can help you on all facets of your writing without you having to open it and paste things in. This is a great product. The lifetime subscription helps save you money as well! Cons The thing I like the least is simply the monthly price as it is very expensive. I wish they had a cheaper monthly price. Switched from [Grammarly](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) The ease of use with ProWritingAid. It had better suggestions as well and was more consistent. I liked I could pick the "type" of writing I was using it for helping with the suggestions. Review Source Writer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Well worth the money." September 23, 2021 4.0 I really like it. I'm glad I found the program and I use it almost daily. Pros I like this software because it can handle large documents. I've used it to edit a complete novel. It gives me a great help to find misspelled words and troublesome sentences most of the time I don't easily recognize as being problems. In the end, it allows me to produce a polished document that is concise and direct, and readable. Cons Some bugs require some work to fix. I've found them on comments in Word for the Mac. They sometimes add comments to the text field, which is a problem. Also, I'd like a tense report. Some of us mix tenses in our writing which isn't a good thing. Switched from I wanted something more rigorous. Review Source Social Media Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Great product for big projects to day to day work" October 1, 2024 5.0 It does what it needs to do well, I don't ever need to think about it. Pros Pro Writing Aid is there exactly when I need it. It not only makes suggestions for big, obvious problems, but also smaller suggestions for readability. Beyond just making suggestions, it also explains why it thinks I should word things differently. Cons The in browser plugin can get in the way sometimes. Review Source editor Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Vaporware editing software that underperforms your word processor" September 22, 2022 1.0 The software gives the illusion of being helpful, but once you begin using it, you quickly realize that you spend more time dismissing its recommendations than finding bonafide mistakes and content improvements. The suggestions are far worse than what MS Word offers. I found this software constantly trying to take writing and turn it into something akin to an ESL student's language (unnatural, defunct of style, questionable grammar). This was true for college essays, legal documents, and interview notes. I would strongly recommend Grammarly over this or just stick with MS Word. This software is vaporware that does nothing to improve your writing, but it succeeds in slowing productivity quite well. Pros The UI is simple and clean. It installs easy. Cons The software "suggestions" often make the writing worse (if followed). Out of 10 "suggestions" maybe only 1 is a valid correction not already found by a built-in editor. Review Source Response from Orpheus Technology October 10, 2022 Hi Kyle, Thanks for your feedback. We're obviously concerned to hear of your experience. Could you reply to me (you should receive my email address from Capterra) and share some examples of the issues or suggestions that make the writing worse? I'd like to investigate and ensure we address any false positives. I'm very happy to jump on a call to go through the details, too. Thanks Tom Sarupa S. Owner Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "It's like having an English teacher correct your writing" November 12, 2021 5.0 It's easy to use, it isn't always correct for your style - but it makes you look at what you are writing with an editing perspective so it is a great step to add if you produce documents, blogs, research papers etc. Pros Seriously I love how ProWritingAid has helped improve my writing, you know commas in the right place and sentences not whole paragraphs (ahem!) Cons I can't really think of anything that I don't like... Review Source Publisher Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Simple and helpful editing software." October 16, 2024 5.0 Great! I am so happy that I have a good editing tool to help me make writing my manuscript so much easier. Pros Helpful suggestions.Grammar check. Phrase suggestions and progress reports to help keep me on track. Cons Easy to use.Helpful and easy to download and use. Switched from [Grammarly](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) so many more writing features than the competition. Review Source Strategy Manager Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "GREAT! Life saver" May 21, 2024 5.0 Pros It shows up on everything that I writing not just in WORD. Cons Great product no cons to share. I like that I can purchase a license vs using a subscription. Switched from [Grammarly](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) The option to purchase a license vs subscription Review Source E-commerce Fraud and Payments Management Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Great tool for writers " November 28, 2019 4.0 Overall, I find this tool very useful when having to deal with a big amount of text or having to write a lot for work on a daily basis. It does offer a huge amount of insights and information to help you improve your writing skills over time. Pros ProWritingAid is a very nice tool to make sure all your content is written properly. It is extremely easy to use and you can set it up in just a few minutes. To start checking a document, you can upload an existing one or create a new one from scratchIt corrects your mistakes and classifies them in grammar, style, and spelling. This allows you to understand where you should improve. I found it very useful in the cases we have to write long manuals. It gives you endless possibilities to get further information about words (dictionary definitions, quotes, etc), same with extensive explanations of why your sentence needs corrections. The dashboard is very complete, and you find all the information on stats about your most common mistakes, key suggestions for improvements, vocabulary, etc.  Cons As in my team, we usually do not write long documents and we use it mostly for emails and presentations, we have decided to use another alternative tool as we found it more suitable for our purpose. Something that offered a 'check on the go' At the time I tried it, they offered only the yearly subscription and the free trial was 14 days. It would be nice to have other subscription options that are more flexible Review Source Jordan R. Author Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "ProWritingAid has literally helped me to become a better writer" July 12, 2018 5.0 I plug every single piece of writing that I do into ProWritingAid, and as a full time writer that means I use it often! I am writing a book write now and after the first draft is done I plan to plug each chapter into the program so I will have a cleaner copy for my editor to go through. I hope this will make the final product a higher quality. I recommend prowritingaid often to friends and colleagues and I plan to keep using it for the foreseeable future. Pros I love the setup and functionality of the program and how easy it is to use. It's easy to load up a document and have it analyze several layers of content. I love that it can 1) Spit out a summary of your documents grade and show you why it received a certain grade for each layer of analysis 2) Shows you how can improve the style of your writing and where you need to check again 3) Analyze your grammar and show you what you might need to correct I plug every single piece of sales copy I write into the program and it has helped me to pump out some great finished content. Cons At times I have lost data when the program has crashed or my computer has shut down unexpectedly. It doesn't auto save as I am used to from using google docs, and you need to be careful not to close out of the document until you either save it or copy and paste the content into its final destination. This is only a minor issue that boils down to user error mostly, but I would love an auto save feature to be added in. Review Source Ron Elius S. Freelance B2B Copywriter for the Food & Beverage Companies Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "The Powerful and most Detailed Grammar Checker ever" September 24, 2018 5.0 Super Satisfied! Pros I'm super satisfied with this Hyper-detailed Grammar Checker. Not only it gives you great report on your Writing but also it analyzes your voice and it will give you honest feedback (Which you need and you must Accept no matter how hard it is :) ) ProwritingAid is my tool of choice when it comes to analyzing your Social Media posts, Blog posts, Reports, Whitepapers and many more B2B Information. Cons The only drawback for their Free Version is you can only check 500 words but does this Cons stop you to upgrade your Plan? No! If you really need to analyze your whole 2k+ to 5k+ Posts or Report, it's a no-brainer to Upgrade your Plan. This tool will make your writing life better. Review Source Edwyn A. IT/MKT Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Really valuable app for non-English speakers // A life saver for typos" June 18, 2021 5.0 I use it daily, I really love it, it has helped me to easily detect some typos and mistakes when writing. I highly recommend this app! Pros I'm not a native English speaker, so this app has been of immense help for me to express my ideas better and fix typos before publishing, and not only that but it also gives you some suggestions to deliver a more powerful communication! It is extremely easy to use, just install it, start typing and once you get an error or the app makes you a suggestion, you will immediately know what to do next in a very intuitive way! Cons The only con I have found so far is that once you make a correction, you can't undo to what it was before, let's say you were prompted by a suggestion (not a grammar mistake), and you go with the suggestion but suddenly you prefer it to restore your text as it was before the suggested change, there's currently no way to do this unless you're writing in the Full ProWritingAid editor view, or in case the text editor where you're writing has the undo/redo functionality. Review Source Author Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Very Glad I Found It" August 5, 2024 5.0 I am very much enjoying this tool and do not see myself not using it in the future. Pros It works with the apps I use for writing and so far all the prompts have been useful so far. It is much more useful than the basic word processor spell and grammar checker. Cons The plug in seems to slow my cloud based tools slightly (there is a very slight but noticeable delay when writing online) but this is not enough to take me out of what I am doing. Review Source Sanjay Singh P. Digital Markeitng Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "This tool is a boon for those who are not native speakers of English." May 19, 2022 5.0 As I am not a native speaker of English, so frequently I do grammatical errors and this tool is always a savior for me. Pros The best part is this too give suggestion to improve your sentence which generally no other tool is doing. Cons Many times it gives unnecessary suggestions to improve. Review Source Author, Publisher Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "ProWritingAid is great!" November 5, 2024 4.0 It has been great. I like I can use it in Atticus and other apps. Pros Easy to use. Accurate and helpful. Good feedback is provided. Cons Still has some problems like effect and affect. Doesn't fully support company and product names and flags them as errors. Review Source Author Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "It's good but not my first choice." June 7, 2024 4.0 It's alright. The price point doesn't make it worth my while. The AI suggestions are alright. The system could use some tweaking to bring in more accuracy with the content being analyzed. Pros I love the ease of use. ProWritingAid is very easy to use. Cons When I submitted my manuscript to my proofreader, I was annoyed to hear my document was riddled with grammar mistakes. I spent hours using this software to proofread and it didn't really do what I had hoped...which is to catch grammar mistakes. Review Source Owner Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Accelerate your time to Edit with precision and accuracy" May 31, 2021 5.0 In addition to customizing software for clients, we also have to write copy- this has to be professionally done based on the client's specifications, and the turnaround time can be brutal. After a few too many problems with Grammarly, we decided to trial ProWritingAid. The depth of the reports, the speed of using the software, and the integrations sold it from that point. Pros ProWritingAid integrates easily with our workflow and software in order to speed up the editing process and introduce diversity in the copy, pointing out weaknesses that other software misses. The report that it produces of the writing is excellent, covering areas that were not in our standards. Cons In our business, we have to use many custom terms and company names. You can put these into your dictionary, but it is a more manual process than it should be. We were used to being able to import lists of common terms, but there was not an obvious way to do the same, and research into this did not prove fruitful in changing that. Switched from [Grammarly](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) Lost work and glitches in the software coupled with less than stellar support. Review Source Freelancer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "ProWritingAid" July 10, 2022 5.0 It is a subscription-based application that works online to check spell and plagiarism. It is best to use for the proofreader, blog poster, and content writer to attract the readers to their content. Pros It is a subscription-based application that works perfectly for me. It checks the plagiarism It supports both Windows and mac Cons It only works in online applications. Sometimes network issues may concern your proofreading Switched from [Sapling](https://www.capterra.com/p/205030/Sapling/) It seems better functionality than ProWritingAid Review Source none Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "My Writing Partner" July 18, 2024 5.0 I've used ProWritingAid for two years and have written two novels using it as my writing partner. Pros ProWritingAid is invaluable in my writing. Not only does it identify normal grammar issues, and voice issues, but also provides AI assistance and suggestions to make my writing better Cons I don't have any issues with ProWritingAid. It's been a great tool Switched from [Grammarly](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) didn't have the functionality ProWritingAid has Review Source Manuel J. R. Entreprenuer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Is perfect and far superior to contenders" September 6, 2022 5.0 Prowritingaid assists me with making texts that are impeccably composed without spelling botches for the composing tasks I accomplish for my clients. Pros I like that it assists make my composition with going over better. I'm not the most ideal author and ProWritingAid is superior to gram... in convenience and the data it gives. Cons Missed an excessive number of errors - It generally proposes basic things that should be amended. The AI isn't savvy enough, yet, to see it's an end and not a deficient sentence. It enables you to overlook the standard, yet will it miss a genuine mistake then? Switched from [Grammarly](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) Grammarly Businness helps me with making texts that are perfectly made without spelling bungles for the creating errands I achieve for my clients. Review Source K H. Writer Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Wish I had it sooner...but there are some glaring issues." November 15, 2021 3.0 All that being said, I still feel the plugin is worth it and plan to get the lifetime subscription as soon as my trial is over. Until PRA can sort out its glaring issues above, I have a workaround where I copy the text before saving it — just in case I run into the same issue. However, I can't do anything about the quotation problem; that's on PRA. Pros This has improved my manuscript significantly—it works right alongside my Grammarly plugin. Cons Three major issues: 1: When editing a manuscript, if you make any changes at all to any dialogue, ProWritingAid thinks you don't have closing quotation marks. So, you have to delete the quotations and re-do them. Every.single.time. 2. Using ProWritingAid with Fictionary is great, unless you spend three hours editing and polishing the most important scenes in your entire book (over 2,000 words worth), and when you exit the ProWritingAid plugin, and get an error message from Fictionary saying you've been signed out because of inactivity (despite being active for three hours). All of that work — GONE. Nothing saved. This is an issue with the plugin speaking to the site. 3. When I reached out to customer support, I still have not heard back yet (over 48 hours ago). Review Source Author Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Necessary Tool" September 13, 2023 5.0 I've written three books, numerous articles, and too many emails with the help of ProWritingAid Pros The completeness of the software really guides the writer. Cons So many features can be confusing for the early user. Review Source Floriana F. Artist Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "The Best Writing Aid " August 14, 2020 5.0 While I am very keen at spotting other people's writing errors, I cannot spot my own unless it is too late, I either printed a document, published a blog or sent an email. It is embarrassing having the reader focused on spelling or grammatical errors, rather than getting your point across in communication. ProWritingAid prevents these mishaps with its add-ons for essential applications like Chrome or Google Docs. Pros One may think a professional writer with a degree in English would not need any piece of software to help with correcting and editing documents... Which would be true, unless that writer is not an absent-minded individual like myself. And here is where ProWritingAid really comes in handy. This wonderful tool keeps my writing in check with suggestions on spelling, grammar and style. I like it not taking over my documents and changing them without my input, like a spellchecker would normally do. ProWritingAid lets me choose and be in control. Cons No add-ons for MS Word alternatives like WPS Office or Open Office. Switched from I found ProWritingAid more intuitive, flexible, using fewer resources on my computer, and overall more fit for my creative writing style. Last but not the least, the price for the software is unbeatable. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.