Tools for authors
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The short answer
ProWritingAid fixes sentences. Your Book Pro fixes books. Run ProWritingAid for grammar, style, repetition and readability reports; run Your Book Pro when the question is whether the chapters are in the right order, whether the argument lands, and whether anything important is missing.
Keep the tool you like. Add Your Book Pro when you want book-level AI guidance.
Definitions, plainly
ProWritingAid is a grammar, style and manuscript-analysis tool with more than 20 reports covering readability, pacing, repetition, sticky sentences and dialogue tags, used inside its own editor or as an add-in for Word, Docs, Scrivener and browsers.
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 ProWritingAid is best at
For sentence-level craft, ProWritingAid is hard to beat, and its reports teach you something rather than just correcting you.
- Deep line-level analysis: grammar, style, echoes, sticky sentences, sentence-length variation, pacing and readability, with explanations of why each flag matters.
- It lives where you already write - Word, Google Docs, Scrivener and browser add-ins - so you do not have to change tools to use it.
- Genuine scale and maturity: ProWritingAid reports more than 4 million storytellers using it.
- Predictable pricing: Premium at $120/year and Premium Pro at $144/year, with Story Credits for the AI features on top.
What Your Book Pro adds
A manuscript can pass every ProWritingAid report and still be a book nobody can finish reading. Structure is a different problem.
- A chapter spine: what each chapter is for, what it delivers, and where two chapters are doing the same job.
- Editorial feedback on the manuscript as a book - premise, structure, pacing across chapters, tone consistency, and material the reader needs but never gets.
- Beta-reader style reports with the unanswered questions a first reader would be left holding.
- Genre-aware guidance: a memoir, a leadership book, a poetry collection and a screenplay are assessed on their own terms, including preserved lineation for poetry and script formatting.
- Proofreading with a US or UK profile and an author dictionary that learns your invented names, so you stop dismissing the same false positives.
- Production: complete reading PDF, printer-ready files, cover and blurb help, and physical copies.
Who should use which
ProWritingAid on its own is enough if
- Your structure is settled and you are polishing prose.
- You want in-place suggestions inside Word, Docs or Scrivener while you type.
- You are working on articles, essays or business writing rather than a book.
Use both if
- Your sentences are clean but readers still say the book drags.
- You are not sure the chapters are in the right order.
- You want an editorial assessment before paying for a human developmental edit.
- You need print-ready files at the end, which ProWritingAid does not produce.
A practical ProWritingAid + Your Book Pro workflow
1. Structure first, sentences second
Import your draft into Your Book Pro and run editorial feedback before you polish. There is no point perfecting the prose of a chapter you are going to cut.
2. Restructure with the Editing Suite
Reorder chapters, merge duplicated ones, and record what each chapter is for. Chapter notes are carried through reorders rather than lost.
3. Export and run ProWritingAid
Take the Markdown or plain-text export, or paste chapter by chapter, and run your usual ProWritingAid reports on the settled draft.
4. Proofread and produce
Bring the polished text back in, run the US or UK proofreading profile with your author dictionary, then generate your PDF and print files.
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
| ProWritingAid | Your Book Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free plan available; Premium $120/year | Basic free |
| Top tier | Premium Pro $144/year, plus Story Credits for AI features | Pro $12.50/mo, billed annually (about $150/year) |
| Reported scale | 4 million+ storytellers, per ProWritingAid | Not published |
Prices are the vendors' published figures at the time of writing and change without notice.
Frequently asked questions
Is Your Book Pro a ProWritingAid replacement?
No. ProWritingAid is a better line editor than any book-level tool needs to be, and it works inside the apps you already use. Your Book Pro answers a different question: does this work as a book?
Do the two tools conflict?
Only if you run them in the wrong order. Settle structure in Your Book Pro first, then polish sentences in ProWritingAid, then proofread. Polishing before restructuring wastes the work.
Does Your Book Pro check grammar too?
It proofreads with a US or UK English profile and learns your author dictionary, but its focus is the book, not a 20-report line analysis.
Will AI write my book?
No. Your Book Pro is author-controlled: it plans, questions, assesses and suggests, and you approve every change. It is not a ghostwriter.
Sources
Vendor prices and user figures are as published by each company at the time of writing and may have changed since.