Your Book Pro vs AutoCrit
There is real overlap: both tools give AI editorial feedback on fiction, and both now reach beyond sentence level. AutoCrit is a fiction self-editing suite - benchmarked prose reports, Story Analyzer+ for story, world, characters, beats and structure, AI alpha and beta reader impressions, grammar checking and EPUB/PDF formatting. Your Book Pro is the wider editorial process - planning, structural feedback, a simulated beta read, editing, proofreading, a cover and a print-ready file, with dictation and upload from anywhere. Choose by the task that is missing, not by brand.
Side by side, honestly
AutoCrit features checked against its own site and help centre, 18 October 2026; official links are listed below. We have not tried to make this flattering - a comparison you cannot trust is worth nothing to either of us.
| AutoCrit | Your Book Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Fiction writers who want a measurable self-editing suite: benchmarked prose reports, story analysis and AI reader impressions. | Getting a book from idea or draft to finished, with the editorial work done properly |
| Price | Free and paid plans; see AutoCrit's official pricing page (linked below) for current figures | Plus: free to start with 1,000 non-expiring credits; credit packs are there when you need more |
| Approach to AI | AI editor / analysis | Editorial guidance and feedback. Your words stored as Exact Text and never overwritten. |
| Planning | Planning tools, noteboards and templates | Book Coach (free, no account) and Plan Feedback |
| Structural feedback | Story Analyzer+ covers story, world, characters, beats and structure | Detailed Editorial Feedback across the whole manuscript |
| Beta reading | AI alpha and beta reader impressions, with custom reader personas | Beta Reader - three reader types across the whole book |
| Proofreading | Grammar and spelling checker | Proofread, checked against your own style sheet |
| Formatting / export | EPUB and print PDF formatting | Clean manuscript export, with presets for the main formatting tools |
| Works with the other | Yes | Yes - upload from anywhere, export again, free forever |
A separate free preview: A free outside view of your own pages
Whatever you decide here, an outside read shows where your effort will count most. Send up to 5,000 words. You get back what the draft appears to be doing to somebody who wasn't there when you wrote it, the strongest thing in it named, the exact place a reader starts to drift, and three revision priorities in order.
It reads one extract, not the whole book. An AI-assisted read of your own pages. Not a human edit, not a line edit, and not a scored report.
What AutoCrit is genuinely good at
A measurable self-editing suite for fiction. AutoCrit compares your prose against genre corpora and reports on pacing, dialogue ratios, repeated words, filler and readability, with numbers attached. Story Analyzer+ goes further into story, world, characters, beats and structure, and its AI alpha and beta readers give reader-style impressions with custom personas and reread history. For a fiction writer who wants to see their manuscript measured, it is genuinely good at it.
Where the workflows differ
The overlap is real: both tools give AI editorial feedback, and both reach structure. The difference is the workflow around the feedback. AutoCrit is a self-editing suite you work through report by report. Your Book Pro runs the editorial process as a sequence - plan, structural read, beta read, edit, proofread, cover, print-ready file - on one manuscript, and it starts earlier: you can dictate a book or upload one written anywhere, and you pay per task with credits rather than by subscription.
The part people miss
Your Book Pro also covers the parts before and after the draft: planning, transcription for anyone who talks rather than types, a simulated beta read, legal risk screening, a cover, a blurb and a print-ready file.
How to use both
If you use both, run the structural pass first - here or in AutoCrit's Story Analyzer+ - because polishing prose that is about to be restructured is the classic way to pay twice. Then use AutoCrit for the sentence-level measurement pass.
Plus lets you upload a manuscript you wrote anywhere, run whichever tool you actually need, and export it again. That is what makes keeping both tools a real option rather than a polite fiction: your book does not have to move house to get edited. A plain export of your own words is free forever.
About Your Book Pro
Your Book Pro is a book-writing platform built in Britain. Start with an idea, notes, half a draft, a podcast, or a finished manuscript, and use our purpose-built AI tools for planning, feedback, editing, proofreading, cover designs, and to create print-ready files. Writing is totally free: you can type, upload or speak your book as much as you like, and use only the editing tools you need with Plus, or go unlimited with Pro.
Produce world-class drafts at the fraction of the cost of hiring a human editorial team.
Every account starts with 1,000 welcome credits, and a plain export of your own words is free.
Every account starts with 1,000 welcome credits that never expire, so a whole-book structural review - normally 900 credits for a 60,000-word book - costs nothing the first time. credit packs are there when you need more.
And the honest limits are on every tool page, not hidden: real beta readers in your actual audience tell you things no simulated reader can; a cover designer who knows your shelf will outsell a generated cover; a publishing solicitor is the answer when a book names living people. We would rather say so here.
Official sources
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Email me my free review linkQuestions people ask
- Is AutoCrit better than Your Book Pro?
- For what it does, AutoCrit is good at it, and the two now overlap: both give AI editorial feedback that reaches structure. The honest answer is to pick by the task that is missing - a measurable self-editing suite, or an end-to-end editorial process with dictation, pay-per-task credits and finished files.
- How much does AutoCrit cost?
- AutoCrit offers free and paid plans (checked 18 October 2026). For current prices, see AutoCrit's official pricing page, linked in the sources on this page.
- Should I run AutoCrit or the structural review first?
- The structural review, whichever tool runs it - here, or AutoCrit's Story Analyzer+. Sentence-level measurements are most useful on chapters that are staying, so settle the structure first, then do the prose pass.
- Does AutoCrit's analysis replace a beta read?
- AutoCrit now offers AI alpha and beta reader impressions with custom reader personas, so both tools simulate a reader's response. Neither is the same as real beta readers in your actual audience - a simulated read tells you how a reader might react, not how your readers did. The Beta Reader here gives three reader perspectives across the whole book; the free Snapshot is a read of your opening (up to 5,000 words), not a full beta read.
- Can I bring an AutoCrit-edited manuscript back here?
- Yes. Upload the revised file, run only the passes you still need, and export it again. A plain export of your own words is free.