ProWritingAid
The quick answer
Should you try ProWritingAid?
Try it if: Checking the wording, spelling, and readability of a short English draft you have already written.
Skip it if: Writing an entire message from scratch or editing confidential work material in a cloud document.
Free-plan reality: Yes — account required for the Web Editor; reports check the first 500 words, with two runs of each line-editing report per day; 10 Rephrases and 3 Sparks per day under the current official plan.
Before you paste or upload: Web Editor documents are stored encrypted in ProWritingAid’s cloud. The company says it does not use writing to train its AI models; use fictional or sanitized text for sensitive work.
Open the official ProWritingAid siteThe quick answer
Use ProWritingAid when you already have a short English draft and want to make it clearer before sending it. Paste a non-sensitive email into its Web Editor, check the marked words and the Style or Grammar report, then decide which suggestions to keep. It is an editor, not a substitute for checking your own dates, names, and commitments.
The Web Editor needs an account. ProWritingAid’s current Free plan checks only the first 500 words per report and allows two runs of each line-editing report per day. It also lists 10 Rephrases and 3 Sparks per day. If your draft is longer or you want repeated passes, those limits matter.
A short email test
We used a fictional neighborhood book-swap email. The draft asked volunteers to reply by Friday and said the room and date were not confirmed. We deliberately wrote we can chose a time to test the spelling check. The signed-in Web Editor saved the short draft privately and showed inline issue markers. We ran Writing Style Check: it found one readability enhancement, showed 1 left today after that run, and said suggestions were limited to the first 500 words. The suggested edit removed the unnecessary that from let you know that we are planning; the Friday reply request and the unconfirmed room and date remained. That one edit was accepted.
The Style report left the deliberate chose error. Our test browser could not activate the Web Editor’s embedded Grammar report, so we checked the same fictional sentence in ProWritingAid’s separate, public Free Grammar Checker demo. That demo showed one suggestion: choose for chose. This verifies the demo’s spelling result, not the signed-in Grammar report or its remaining quota. No email was sent.
In a separate signed-out Rephrase demo, we entered two fictional sentences. The Standard alternatives reworded the first sentence, but did not include the second sentence saying the room and date were unconfirmed. The demo appears to work on the selected sentence; do not use a sentence-level rewrite as though it checked the whole message. Read the full original alongside any replacement before copying it.
How to try it safely
- Write a rough email first, using placeholders instead of private names or client details.
- Open the Web Editor and paste no more than 500 words for your first check. Choose Edit → Reports → Style or Grammar for the issue you want to fix.
- Read each suggestion in the context of the whole email. Run Grammar separately if you want a spelling check. Keep the correct date, place, reply deadline, and any uncertainty exactly as intended.
- Copy your final wording back into your own mail app and review it once more before sending. ProWritingAid did not send the email in our test.
Free limits and privacy
The current Free plan allows two runs per line-editing report per day, not two total editing actions. It lists 10 daily Rephrases and 3 daily Sparks. The tested Style report displayed one remaining run and the first-500-words limit after one run. We did not test exports, long documents, the browser extension, or every report, so do not assume those work the same way on Free.
ProWritingAid says analysis text is generally removed from its servers after suggestions are generated, but documents created in the Web Editor are stored encrypted in its cloud. It says it does not use your writing to train its AI models and describes limited service-provider and legal exceptions. That is not a reason to paste passwords, private customer records, or unreleased work into a test document. Use a fictional or sanitized sample first.
Useful next steps
- See the H5W Grammarly review if you want an everyday writing assistant that works as you type.
- See the H5W QuillBot review if your main task is rephrasing one sentence or paragraph.
- Learn what information not to share with AI before pasting a work document.
Official information checked
- ProWritingAid plans and current Free limits
- Free, Premium, and Premium Pro differences
- Getting started with the Web Editor
- Free Grammar Checker demo
- ProWritingAid data-safety explanation
H5W is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by ProWritingAid.
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