For Sudowrite users
If Sudowrite 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 | Sudowrite | Your Book Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Where do I write? | Yes, and it generates prose | You can, but you don't have to |
| Is my plan any good? | Story planning, not critique | 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? | No | 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 Sudowrite does well
Sudowrite is unapologetically a generative co-writer for fiction, and for brainstorming, breaking through a stuck scene or generating options to react to, it does what it says.
The gap
The generated words are the tool's, not yours — which matters for disclosure at publication, for competitions with AI rules, and for any book where the voice is the point.
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
If you use Sudowrite for ideation, the tools here are the opposite half: your words are stored as Exact Text and never overwritten, Light Edit removes filler without changing your wording, and the AI Footprint Checker shows you where your own voice is strongest across the finished manuscript.
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 Sudowrite
This is the one page where the first run is not editorial.
First, the AI Footprint Checker. It reports how much of the manuscript is recognisably your own writing. No human service does this job, so there is no freelance price to compare it to — and no one else is going to tell you the answer before a publisher, a competition or a reader does. If you have drafted with generation, you want that number in your own hands first.
Second, Detailed Editorial Feedback on the whole book. Generated prose tends to fail in a particular way: it is fluent everywhere and load-bearing nowhere, and that is a structural read's job to find. £1,500–£4,800 with a developmental editor.
Third, Beta Reader, because the specific risk is a book that reads acceptably line by line and leaves nobody with anything.
Nothing here writes for you. Your words are stored as Exact Text, every suggestion waits for you to accept it, and the automatic clean-up pass is held to a length check — if it drifts too far from what you actually wrote, the edit is thrown away and you keep yours.
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 Sudowrite?
- 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 Sudowrite cost?
- $10 / $22 / $44 per month, 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 AI Footprint Checker, before anything else. It is the only question on this list that gets harder to answer the longer you leave it.
- 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.