FREE AI BETA READER PREVIEW
AI Beta Reader: see how a new reader meets your opening
A free online beta reader preview for your novel: paste up to 5,000 words, privately, and see what a fresh reader understands, expects, questions and where they may hesitate.
An AI beta reader is not a human beta reader, and this preview does not pretend to be. It gives you a fast outside read of your opening: what lands, what a reader expects next and where attention starts to drift.
It is feedback only: it describes what it sees and never rewrites your voice. No card required.
Once you have your link: paste or upload up to 5,000 words. This is one extract reaction, not a whole-book beta read.
How this works
Tell us where to send it
Enter your email address. No card or account is needed.
Add an extract
Paste or upload up to 5,000 words through your private link.
See a reader reaction
Find what a fresh reader understands, expects and where attention drifts.
Clearly labelled example
Illustrative reader reaction
ILLUSTRATIVE: not output from a recorded run, a customer testimonial or a whole-book beta read.
- I understand why Mara came home, but not yet why she stayed
- I expect the locked room to matter
- My attention drifts during the second paragraph of backstory
You'll get back, in plain English:
- what your opening appears to be about to somebody who wasn't there when you wrote it
- who it reads as being for
- the strongest thing in it, named - so you stop cutting the wrong bits
- the exact place a reader starts to drift, and why
- three revision priorities, in order, and the one to start with
A free first step. A supercharged whole-book workspace.
The free preview is a lite taster of Your Book Pro: it shows one reader's reaction to an extract. The full Beta Reader considers your whole manuscript through several distinct reader perspectives.
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.
Your writing and AI
I'll say that plainly, because it's the first thing every writer asks and most tools answer it in a footnote.
Your Book Pro does not save the original extract; your result is saved at a private link for 30 days. AI providers process the text needed for feedback and may retain operational records. We do not publish your writing or use it in our marketing, and we say no to AI training whenever the provider gives us that option.
And the snapshot doesn't rewrite you. It tells you what's landing and what isn't. What you do about it is your job, and it should be.
Read our Privacy Notice for details.
Why I built this
I'm Tom Collins. I built Your Book Pro after watching too many people carry a book around for thirty years without ever starting it.
Not one of them was short of material. What they were short of was somebody sitting beside them asking the right question at the right moment - which is what a good editor does, and what almost nobody can afford at the beginning.
So I built the beginning. It's free, because the beginning is where people give up.
Questions
- Is this a real edit?
- No, and I won't pretend otherwise. It's a fast, AI-assisted read of your opening - the kind of first reaction you'd get from a sharp reader, not a full editorial assessment or a proofread. It's genuinely useful and it's genuinely not a human edit.
- Will it try to change my voice?
- It doesn't rewrite anything. It describes what it sees. Every decision after that is yours.
- Why only 5,000 words?
- Because your opening decides whether anybody reads the rest, and because a free tool that reads 90,000 words would either be slow, expensive or lying. Five thousand words is enough to see what a book is doing.
- What if it says something I don't like?
- Then read it twice and decide. Feedback you agree with immediately usually wasn't worth much. Feedback you resist is worth sitting with for a day.
AI Beta Reader: see how a new reader meets your opening
A free online beta reader preview for your novel: paste up to 5,000 words, privately, and see what a fresh reader understands, expects, questions and where they may hesitate.