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Love AutoCrit? Add Your Book Pro around it.

Published 1 September 2026 by Your Book Pro

The short answer

AutoCrit is a fiction self-editing suite: benchmarked prose reports, Story Analyzer+ for story, world, characters, beats and structure, AI reader impressions, grammar checking and EPUB/PDF formatting. Your Book Pro runs the wider editorial process - plan, editorial read, beta read, edit, proofread and finished files - on one manuscript, with dictation and pay-per-task credits. The overlap is real; choose by the task that is missing.

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A fiction manuscript with highlighted repetition and pacing notes

Definitions, plainly

AutoCrit is an online fiction editing platform that scores a manuscript against genre and published-author benchmarks across pacing, dialogue, repetition, filler words, showing versus telling and word choice, with story analysis, AI reader impressions and formatting tools alongside.

Your Book Pro is an author-controlled book development platform: you dictate, write or upload your manuscript, and it gives book-level guidance - a chapter plan, editorial feedback, beta-reader style reports, proofreading in US or UK English, and print-ready output - without writing the book for you.

What AutoCrit is best at

AutoCrit's strength is that it is specific and measurable: alongside reader-style impressions, it puts numbers on what is happening in your prose.

Benchmarked fiction diagnostics: your pacing, dialogue ratio and repetition compared with published books in your genre.
Fast, concrete flags - filler words, adverb load, clichés, sentence variation - that turn vague critique into a to-do list.
A usable free tier, with paid plans for the full suite.
A fiction-first design, so nothing in the interface assumes you are writing a business report.

What Your Book Pro adds

AutoCrit's suite now reaches structure too, so the difference is the workflow around the feedback, not the depth of it.

A chapter spine and plan: what each chapter is for, and where the story stalls or repeats itself structurally.
Editorial feedback on premise, structure, character arc, pacing across the whole book and the material a reader still needs.
Beta-reader reports across the whole book: where attention drops, and the questions the manuscript leaves unanswered.
Genre-aware guidance for memoir, non-fiction, leadership, children's books, poetry, scripts, textbooks and travel writing, each assessed on its own terms.
Dictation and recorded-source work, proofreading with a US or UK profile, and print-ready output including physical copies.

Who should use which

AutoCrit on its own is enough if

You are deep in line revision on a novel and want measurable genre benchmarks.
You already have a structural edit you trust and only need prose diagnostics.
You prefer one fiction-focused subscription suite for a single novel.

Use both if

Your AutoCrit scores are good and the story still is not landing.
You want the editorial work to run as one sequence on one manuscript, rather than report by report.
You want to start from spoken material: dictate chapters or work from recordings and notes.
You would rather pay per task with credits than hold another subscription.
You want preparation, print-ready files and physical copies in the same place as the editing.

A practical AutoCrit + Your Book Pro workflow

1. Structure first, in whichever tool you choose
Settle the shape of the book before polishing sentences: AutoCrit's Story Analyzer+ or Your Book Pro's chapter plan and editorial feedback both work. In Your Book Pro, upload your draft and fix the structure first.
2. Line diagnostics in AutoCrit
Once chapters are settled, take the exported text into AutoCrit and work the pacing, dialogue and repetition reports.
3. Beta-reader check
Bring the revised text back and run a beta-reader report to see whether the changes actually improved the reading experience.
4. Proofread and produce
Run the US or UK proofreading profile, then generate the reading PDF, printer-ready files and, if you want them, physical copies.

Honest note on interoperability: This is a manuscript-file handoff, not a native integration. Your Book Pro imports .docx, .doc, .rtf, .pdf, .txt and .md files up to 15 MB. It exports a complete PDF, printer-ready print files, Markdown or plain text, a styled Word .docx on Pro, and native Scrivener projects - so if you want to carry on in your other tool afterwards you take the Word file straight back into it.

Price comparison

AutoCrit compared with Your Book Pro on price and reported scale
	AutoCrit	Your Book Pro
Free tier	Yes	Yes - Plus is free
Paid	Free and paid plans; see AutoCrit's official pricing page	Plus free; Pro billed yearly (see /pricing)
Reported scale	Not publicly disclosed	Not published

AutoCrit has free and paid plans (checked 18 October 2026); see its official pricing page for current figures.

Frequently asked questions

Does Your Book Pro benchmark against published books?

It uses published work as a craft reference - what a technique achieves and why - rather than scoring you against a corpus. It will not tell you to write like a named author, and it never reproduces copyrighted text.

Is there an AutoCrit integration?

No. You move a manuscript file between the two tools. Your Book Pro imports .docx, .doc, .rtf, .pdf, .txt and .md, and exports PDF, print files, a styled Word .docx on Pro, Markdown, plain text and Scrivener projects.

Which should I run first?

Whichever tool you use, do structure first: here, or in AutoCrit's Story Analyzer+. Structure changes can delete whole chapters, and there is no point optimising the adverb count of a scene you are about to cut.

Does Your Book Pro work for non-fiction?

Yes. Genre-aware assessment covers memoir, non-fiction, leadership, children's books, graphic novels, poetry, scripts, textbooks and travel writing.

Sources

Vendor prices and user figures are as published by each company at the time of writing and may have changed since.