ChatGPT
OpenAI
General-purpose AI assistant for writing, analysis, images and conversation.
- Chat with text and voice
- File and image uploads for analysis
- Web search with linked sources
Best AI Writing tools
AI writing tools help you draft emails, essays, reports and marketing copy, fix grammar, and rewrite text in a different tone. The best ones are assistants rather than replacements: you supply the facts and judgement, they speed up the drafting.
8 tools in this category, listed alphabetically. Inclusion is editorial and not paid unless marked “Sponsored”.
Claude
Anthropic
AI assistant known for long documents, careful writing and coding help.
- Analysis of long PDFs and documents
- Projects for organising files and instructions
- Artifacts for documents, code and interactive pages
Google Gemini
Google's AI assistant, connected to Search, Gmail, Docs and Android.
- Chat with text, voice and images
- Integration with Gmail, Docs, Drive and other Google apps
- Deep Research reports
Grammarly
Grammarly
Writing assistant for grammar, clarity and tone across your apps.
- Real-time grammar and spelling checks
- Clarity and tone suggestions
- Generative AI rewriting and drafting
Jasper
Jasper AI
AI content platform for marketing teams.
- Brand voice and style guide
- Marketing templates and workflows
- Campaign content generation
PaidFree trial
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft
Microsoft's AI assistant across Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365.
- Chat with web-sourced answers
- Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook (eligible plans)
- Meeting summaries in Teams (business plans)
Notion AI
Notion Labs
AI built into Notion's notes, docs and wikis.
- Writing and editing inside pages
- Q&A across your workspace
- Database autofill
QuillBot
QuillBot (Learneo)
Paraphrasing, grammar checking and summarising for students and writers.
- Paraphraser with multiple modes
- Grammar checker
- Summariser
Guides for ai writing
How to Use ChatGPT: A Practical Beginner's Guide
Set up ChatGPT, write prompts that get useful answers, work with files and images, and avoid the most common mistakes.
4 min read
How to Use Claude AI: Projects, Documents and Better Results
A step-by-step guide to Claude: getting started, analysing long documents, using Projects and artifacts, and writing effective prompts.
3 min read
How to Write Better AI Prompts: A Simple Framework
A practical framework for writing prompts that work in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other assistants, with before-and-after examples.
2 min read