For ProWritingAid users
If ProWritingAid works for you, keep it. This is not a page asking you to switch. It is about the gap between finishing a draft and publishing one — the structural read, the beta read, the editing sequence, the proofread, the cover — and how to fill it without moving your manuscript anywhere permanently.
What sits where
Not a scorecard. A map of which tool answers which question, so you can tell what you are missing rather than which is 'better'.
| The question | ProWritingAid | Your Book Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Where do I write? | No — it checks what you wrote elsewhere | You can, but you don't have to |
| Is my plan any good? | No | Plan Feedback, and the Book Coach free with no account |
| Does the book work? | No | Detailed Editorial Feedback across the whole manuscript |
| How will readers react? | No | Beta Reader — three reader types, whole book |
| Is it consistent and clean? | Yes — this is what it is for | Proofread and Book Dictionary, checked against your own conventions |
| Could this get me sued? | No | Safety Screening — flags exposure so you know what to take to a solicitor |
| Cover and blurb? | No | Generate a Cover and Back-Cover Blurb |
| Can I keep using both? | Yes | Yes — upload from anywhere, export again, free forever |
A separate free preview: A free outside view of your own pages
A separate editorial preview of one extract; it does not read the whole book or do the specialist job this page describes. 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.
A separate editorial preview of one extract; it does not read the whole book or do the specialist job this page describes. An AI-assisted read of your own pages. Not a human edit, not a line edit, and not a scored report.
What ProWritingAid does well
ProWritingAid is the most thorough sentence-level analysis available — twenty-odd reports on style, pacing, echoes, sticky sentences and readability, with genuinely useful explanations of why each flag matters.
The gap
It works on sentences. A manuscript with a structural fault will score well on every report and still be abandoned by readers at chapter nine, because the problem was never at sentence level.
That gap is where £2,500–£6,000 normally goes: a developmental edit at £1,500–£4,800, a copy-edit at £800–£1,600, a proofread at £400–£800, a cover at £250–£800. It is also the reason a great many finished drafts never become books.
How to add the missing half without moving house
Keep ProWritingAid for the prose pass. Run the structural review here first, so you are not polishing chapters that are about to be cut.
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.
Where to start, coming from ProWritingAid
ProWritingAid is the best sentence-level analysis available, and the order matters more here than on any other page: polishing prose that is about to be cut is the purest form of wasted work.
First, Detailed Editorial Feedback across the whole book — the pass that tells you which chapters survive. £1,500–£4,800 with a developmental editor, or £400–£900 for a written report alone.
Second, Beta Reader. Every ProWritingAid report can come back clean on a manuscript readers abandon at chapter nine, because none of those twenty reports is reading the book as a book.
Third, back to ProWritingAid for the prose pass, on the chapters that made it — which is what it is for and what it is good at.
You do not need a second line editor. You need the read that happens before line editing is worth paying for at all.
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. A whole-book structural review costs 600 of them, so the first one is free. credit packs are there when you need more.
And the limits are stated on every tool page: real beta readers tell you whether they would have bought it; a designer who knows your shelf will outsell a generated cover; a solicitor is the answer when a book names living people.
Upload a manuscript written anywhere
Run a whole-book review
Email me my free review linkQuestions people ask
- Do I have to stop using ProWritingAid?
- No. Upload a manuscript, run the passes it needs, export it again and carry on where you were. The export is free forever.
- How much does ProWritingAid cost?
- Premium $10/mo annual; Premium Pro $12/mo annual, as published in September 2026. Prices move — check before deciding.
- Will my formatting survive the round trip?
- Heading hierarchy and chapter order are preserved, and import diagnostics show you what was found before anything is processed. Complex layout is best applied at the end, in your formatting tool.
- What should I run first?
- The whole-book structural review — then go back to ProWritingAid. Sentences are the last thing to fix, and it already does those better than anything else here.
- Is this cheaper than hiring an editor?
- Substantially — and it is not a replacement for one on every book. The honest use is to fix what you can here first, which makes a human editor's quote smaller if you still want one.