One of the most frequent buzzwords anyone must be so familiar with these days is ‘artificial intelligence’, a technology that is the cornerstone of a $184-billion global market and is fast heading towards a trillion.
With the advent of ChatGPT and other similar tools, much attention has turned towards the proliferation of AI writing tools.
To begin with, the ability to produce high-quality, engaging content is more than just an important skill for authors, writers, marketers, and the like. It is critical for anyone who wants to communicate effectively.
However, as professional writers often testify, creating high-quality content takes time and effort. Yet, it must be done.
Receiving help certainly goes a long way, and that’s where AI-powered writing tools come in. They come in different forms and assist in various responsibilities: content creation, outlining, refining, grammar-checking, editing, paraphrasing, summarizing, translating, and so on.
The AI writing assistant software market size is expected to be valued at over $6 billion in the next 6 years. This shows that AI writing tools are not stopping.
These creative tools have become a must-have in the arsenal of anyone who regularly creates content for an audience.
While they are not to be entirely trusted due to various issues that are beyond the scope of this article, they are great tools for kickstarting research into a subject or fine-tuning your work after writing. Ready to dive in?
1. Anyword
Anyword is an AI-powered writing platform specifically tailored for enterprise marketing and copywriting teams. As an intelligent assistant, it predicts how well your content will resonate with your audience and provides real-time suggestions to improve it.
To ensure consistency across all your content, you can train the AI model on your brand’s target audience and tone of voice to create unique content personas. Organizations with larger needs can also deploy their own private large language models with their data protected.
How to Use:
- Sign up for or log in to your Anyword account and create a new document.
- Decide the use case for your content: ad copy, email, blog post, landing page copy, etc.
- Provide some context for the content.
- Let Anyword’s AI writer work its magic.
2. Grammarly
Grammarly is a household name at this point. So, this is probably not new to you. However, if you think of Grammarly as just a grammar checker, then you couldn’t be more wrong. With a journey that began 15 years ago, Grammarly has evolved into a full-fledged intelligent writing assistant designed to enhance communication in all respects.
Perhaps its most notable feature is that Grammarly lives in all your apps and websites. So, whether you are writing an article in Google Docs or Microsoft Word, sending an email via Gmail or Outlook, or interacting with colleagues via Slack or Jira, you can communicate with confidence and clarity.
How to Use:
- Create a Grammarly account via the website or app.
- Install the browser extension for real-time checking on your favorite websites. You can also access the Grammarly Editor at the official website.
- Paste your text into the Editor or start typing directly.
- Grammarly will underline any issues (grammar, spelling, punctuation). Hover over the underlines to see suggestions, and click a suggestion to accept it.
- Advanced features like style improvement, clarity suggestions, and plagiarism detection come with a premium account.
3. Jasper
Jasper is a creative companion for enterprise teams. It combines multiple large language models, including its marketing-specific model to ensure high-quality output for writing marketing copy. As a team, you can teach Jasper new knowledge by uploading assets like FAQs, product details, and various kinds of reference materials.
In that way, you don’t have to enter the same information every time you need to generate a new copy. Plus, Jasper can create or repurpose content in tens of languages. So, this is a tool that accelerates content creation by adapting to your needs and goals.
How to Use:
- Create an account and choose a pricing plan (Jasper is entirely a paid service).
- After signing up, you’ll land on your dashboard. Create new content using the writing assistant.
- Upload files to your knowledge base to provide context.
- Jasper offers copywriting templates, a document editor, a plagiarism checker, and language translation features.
- Use the Jasper Everywhere Chrome extension for seamless writing.
4. QuillBot
Think of QuillBot as your fully stocked writing toolbox. It’s designed to help you craft captivating, error-free projects.
Some of its advanced writing tools are a paraphraser, for rephrasing content and improving fluency; grammar checker, to check for spelling and punctuation errors; plagiarism checker, for ensuring originality; summarizer, to condense lengthy text into concise summaries; and so on.
What more? All these tools are available in multiple languages and are designed to support your writing endeavors from start to finish.
How to Use:
- Open the QuillBot website and create a new project or rename the default “Untitled project.”
- Explore the Editor and Research + Tools space for various features.
- Refine and edit with the built-in Grammar Checker and Paraphraser tools.
- Export or copy your full text when satisfied.
5. Rytr
Rytr is an AI-powered writing assistant designed to help users generate content across various use cases. Whether you’re writing emails, blogs, Facebook ads, landing page copies, product descriptions, story plots, Instagram posts, SEO titles, YouTube descriptions, taglines, or headlines, Rytr has got you covered.
It boasts a user-friendly interface, making it accessible even for those new to AI writing tools. And you can create multiple custom tones to match different scenarios, projects, or clients. This feature ensures that the generated content aligns with your desired voice.
It features various kinds of templates with which you can get started, even if you are not entirely sure of what’s next in your writing process.
How to Use:
- Choose your preferred language from over 30 options.
- Shape the mood of your blog post by choosing from 20+ preset tones or customizing one.
- From the dropdown menu, select “Blog Idea and Outline Generator.”
- Provide a phrase, sentence, or keyword, and click “Ryte for me” to generate a comprehensive outline based on your idea.
- Instantly receive the AI-generated output and refine the outline until it perfectly captures your concept.
6. Scalenut
Scalenut is an AI content writing assistant specifically designed for SEO use cases. You can easily generate long-form articles within minutes. By simply inputting your target keywords and location, the cruise mode feature creates an SEO report easily.
You can then add context, choose a tone of voice, and select AI-generated titles. The result? An optimized article foundation ready for further development. In short, from keyword research to content optimization, Scalenut covers it all. Scalenut is a powerful tool for bloggers, marketers, and anyone seeking efficient content creation.
How to Use:
- Sign up on the website.
- Explore Scalenut’s features: keyword planner, article writer (cruisemode), content optimizer, traffic analyzer, etc.
7. Sudowrite
Finally, a writing tool that targets fiction writers. Sudowrite uses AI to expand upon plot points, suggest ways to continue stories and enhance descriptive writing. For instance, its autocomplete feature analyzes your writing style, characters, and plot arc.
It generates contextually relevant suggestions for the next 300 words, allowing you to continue your narrative seamlessly. If you’re stuck while writing a novel, simply paste your work into Sudowrite. The AI will generate several ways to move your story forward. As an author using to utilize AI for better storytelling, you can’t afford to miss out on this.
How to Use:
- Visit the Sudowrite website and sign up for an account.
- Explore the various available writing prompts to spark your creativity.
- You can either:
- Begin typing in a blank document and let Sudowrite automatically title it for you.
- Import your existing project as a .docx file and edit it using Sudowrite’s features.
- Use the first draft plugin to give suggestions to the AI and let it write or outline a story for you.
8. Type
Type is a full-featured intelligent assistant for writers that makes the writing process easy and seamless. As you write, Type’s AI analyzes your content and provides context-specific ideas. It evolves alongside your document, making writing more efficient.
Then you can transform existing content by hitting word minimums, simplifying jargon, and improving readability. You can also create custom rewrite shortcuts. The Type Chat feature also helps shape your ideas, expand passages, translate, and more. It sits beside your document, allowing seamless transitions between writing and chatting.
How to Use:
- Visit the Type website and create an account.
- Click “New Document” to start a fresh project. Alternatively, upload an existing document in .docx format.
- Use the “Generate Draft” feature to kickstart your writing. Type will provide context-specific suggestions as you write.
- Engage with Type Chat to brainstorm ideas for your content.
- When you’re stuck, ask Type for suggestions on what to write about next.
9. Writesonic
In simple terms, Writesonic is an advanced SEO toolkit for marketing teams. As a versatile platform, it combines AI-driven content generation with real-time data and SEO optimization to create factually accurate articles, blog posts, and other content.
Meanwhile, features like automated internal linking and brand voice customization enhance content quality. Via its SEO features, you can optimize your content effortlessly by checking on-page SEO, analyzing competitors, and discovering missing keywords.
You also create self-learning AI bots trained on your data to act as customer service agents and perform other tasks.
How to Use:
- Begin by signing up for an account on the Writesonic website.
- Take a moment to explore the dashboard and familiarize yourself with the available options.
- Choose the content type you want to generate (e.g., blog posts, Google ads, product descriptions).
- Input any relevant details or prompts and let Writesonic’s AI models work magic to create content for you.
- Customize the output to match your desired style, tone, and objectives.
10. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Meta AI, Copilot, etc.
Everyone is familiar with ChatGPT and, to some extent, other LLM chatbots such as Gemini, Claude, the recently released Meta AI, and the like.
Many of the writing tools reviewed above draw upon AI models used by these chatbots.
While these bots do not provide specific help for writing such as templates and the like, if you know how to craft the perfect prompts, you should be able to make them do whatever you want: generating, refining, and editing content, and even more.
How to Use:
- Visit the chatbot website you are interested in.
- Enter your prompt into the chatbot.
- Some chatbots allow you to upload documents. Do this while entering your prompt.
- Wait for the result to come out within seconds.
Capitalize on these AI Writing Tools to Lead With Authenticity
Using an AI-powered writing tool to fine-tune your content is a way to take charge of your responsibilities without losing authenticity.
At StartUp Growth Guide, we are all about helping business leaders lead with greater confidence and authenticity.
That’s why we have provided several resources through which you can learn how to scale up your business.
To learn more, read the blog regularly, and contact us anytime for questions or inquiries.
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