If your job involves words, you'll spend time in these categories. They overlap, so here is what each one is for and how to pick.
Writing Assistants
Writing Assistants is the general category. Tools here help you draft, rewrite, expand and polish text across many situations. Start here if you aren't sure what you need. Good for emails, reports, documents and anything that doesn't fit a narrower category.
Copywriting
Copywriting is persuasive writing: ads, product descriptions, landing pages and sales messages. These tools often include templates for specific formats and may offer tone controls. Pick one when the goal is to sell or convince.
Blog Writing
Blog Writing tools handle long-form articles: outlines, drafts, section expansion and sometimes SEO suggestions. They can produce a lot of text fast, which is exactly why you should plan to edit hard. Unedited AI articles read generic and may repeat errors.
Story Writing
Story Writing covers fiction, screenplays and other creative work: brainstorming plots, developing characters, drafting scenes. Tools differ a lot in how much control they give you over style and continuity across a long piece.
Grammar Checking
Grammar Checking is for proofreading: spelling, punctuation, grammar and style. They check what you wrote instead of writing it for you. Many work as a browser extension or inside your editor.
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing tools rewrite existing text in different words, often with a tone setting such as formal or simple. Useful for clarity and variety. Don't use them to disguise copied material, since that is plagiarism and tools to detect it exist. See AI Detection.
Text Summarization
Text Summarization condenses articles, documents and videos into short summaries. Check any summary you rely on against the source, as summaries can drop an important caveat or get a detail wrong.
Related categories
- Email Assistants and Email Marketing for messages and campaigns.
- Translation for moving text between languages.
- AI Detection for checking whether text looks machine-written, or copied.
- SEO Tools for search optimization.
How to choose
| You need to | Look in |
|---|---|
| Draft or rework everyday text | Writing Assistants |
| Sell something with words | Copywriting |
| Produce a long article | Blog Writing |
| Write fiction or scripts | Story Writing |
| Fix mistakes in text you wrote | Grammar Checking |
| Reword a passage | Paraphrasing |
| Shorten something long | Text Summarization |
Some categories may have few tools at the moment. If one is thin, check the next one down the list, or use the search. More on browsing in How to find the right AI tool.
