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Overview of AI Tools for Essay Writing

Written by is*hosting team | Sep 19, 2023 10:00:00 AM

Today, writing academic papers can be greatly simplified with the help of artificial intelligence. Special tools not only generate drafts and find mistakes but also give you recommendations on how to improve your work. Essays created by AI still need a human eye and personalized editing. But you can start saving time now.

Features of AI tools for writing essay

AI essay writing tools come in various forms, offering revision or full generation capabilities. The result is the same: an improved essay that impresses everyone.

The right tool will help you brainstorm topics, outline key points, and plan the structure of your essay. In addition, some AI tools can research the chosen topic to make writing your paper easier.

Artificial intelligence models can be used to create a first draft of an essay based on the topic, outline, and other user data. Thesis and argument formation can be presented through prompts and questions to help formulate a thesis or argumentative position. AI can provide simulated expert feedback, commenting on strengths and weaknesses, issues that must be addressed, and aspects that require support or clarification.

It is important to check essays for grammar, spelling, syntax, style, punctuation, consistency, and other writing problems. Some tools offer suggestions for corrections.

The most universal AI tools for writing essays and other written works are research-based text generators that combine different variations of paragraphs and sentences and automatically correct errors after manual editing. However, it should be noted that a human should thoroughly check any essay created with the help of artificial intelligence for the relevance of data.

AI tools for research and essay creating

EssayBot

Description

EssayBot is an artificial intelligence writing assistant that helps you write academic essays and provides writing feedback. It will also check your essay for uniqueness and suggest corrections.

Features

EssayBot searches millions of websites and provides you with the most relevant information according to your search topic.

Type a phrase, and EssayBot's automatic tool will help you finish your sentence in several ways. EssayBot's grammar checker will catch any grammatical errors and correct them accordingly, and EssayBot's plagiarism checker will paraphrase your content to make sure it is unique.

EssayBot generates standard MLA and APA citations at the click of a button. The tool can suggest an outline or a draft essay based on a given topic.

Pros

  • Creates drafts to speed up the writing process
  • Checks for errors to improve writing quality
  • Compares drafts to track progress

Cons

  • Generated content may not be original
  • Feedback is limited to obvious errors
  • Dependence on precise outlines to create coherent designs
  • Lack of analytical approach

Cost

EssayBot is free.

Official Website: https://www.essaybot.com/

Textero AI

Description

Textero AI is a versatile assistant for writing perfect essays, helping you write your essays, and conducting research on the chosen topic.

Features

With Textero AI you can:

  1. Create unique essays to spark new ideas (Automatically find sources, format the text, and download it in .docx format with just a few clicks)
  2. Summarize academic research and large PDFs to extract the most important information
  3. Generate outlines with artificial intelligence
  4. Find sources that can be used for essays (the tool is powered by artificial intelligence and a database of scholarly materials)

It is stated that all content created by Textero.ai is unplagiarized, ensuring that the content you create is unique.

Pros

  • Saves time analyzing and summarizing large amounts of text
  • Provides useful feedback
  • Checks more than grammar and style
  • Suggests external content sources for new ideas

Cons

  • The resume may miss some important nuances
  • Limited free data sources
  • The quality of generated texts depends on the tool's learning mechanism

Cost

Textero AI's free plan allows you to generate up to 3000 words per month and use other tools. The paid plan ($16.99/month) offers more features and promises higher-quality work.

Official Website: https://www.textero.ai/

Dr. Essay

Description

Dr. Essay is an all-in-one artificial intelligence assistant that helps you write academic essays based on given topics. It also helps you find the right research and academic papers as sources.

Features

Dr. Essay's search engine and text recognition system are AI tools for in-depth topic research that can help you get relevant data.

The essay generation process is simple: You specify the topic keywords, word count, depth of research, and some other writing parameters, and then Dr. Essay generates a research paper for you.

Dr. Essay's thesaurus database allows you to automatically rewrite essays and articles by replacing words with synonyms. You can also improve your work by changing the order of sentences and adding a bibliography.

Pros

  • Quick drafting to speed up the writing of your paper
  • Essay checker to find mistakes
  • Basic features are free

Cons

  • Content produced may lack depth/originality
  • Limited ability to stylize essays

Cost

The free version of Dr. Essay allows up to 50 actions per day, but you won't be able to get a fully generated essay. The Basic ($18/month) and Pro ($40/month) plans offer more features.

Official Website: https://dressay.net/index.php

AI tools for writing essays

Essay Genius

Description

Essay Genius, an artificial intelligence tool, helps students write academic papers. It generates essay plans, prepares essay drafts, and provides writing feedback.

Features

The tool can create an outline based on prompts or topics and automatically write an essay based on the outline. Enter the essay topic, and the tool will generate a complete paper with improvement options.

Useful features include grammar, spelling, writing style checks, formatting citations, and references to the desired format. Essay Genius can simulate expert reviews.

In the web version of Essay Genius, you can view examples of essays created by artificial intelligence on numerous topics, including marketing, sociology, physics, music, astronomy, medicine, and more.

Pros

  • Takes care of mechanical tasks like outlining and drafting
  • Provides thorough feedback beyond grammar
  • AI-powered expert reviews simulate genuine human feedback
  • Assisting you in creating complete essays from introduction to conclusion

Cons

  • Limited ability to customize essays to meet individual requirements
  • Generated essays may lack originality or critical analysis
  • The quality of the essay depends on the relevance of the material to the topic and the AI's training

Cost

Essay Genius is available for free with basic features. To access additional generation and tools, a subscription of $14.99 per month or $12.00 per month if paying for a year is required.

Official Website: https://essaygenius.ai/

Writecream

Description

Writecream is an AI writing assistant that offers guidance on writing style, structure, clarity, and quality to help users enhance their writing skills.

Features

Writecream can generate personalized cold emails, LinkedIn posts, campaigns with backlinks, edit long reads, create ideas, drafts, texts on any topic, etc. The tool can also edit long-form content, generate ideas, and compose texts on any topic while supporting the ChatGenie chatbot in 75 languages.

Regarding SEO, the tool offers suggestions such as paraphrasing text, creating summaries, expanding or rewriting content, and generating titles and meta descriptions. Additionally, Writecream is useful for crafting content for marketing tactics such as Before-After-Bridge and Pain-Agitate-Solution. For instance, writing a 1,000+ word article takes less than half a minute with Writecream.

This versatile tool employs artificial intelligence to craft various formats, such as images, voice recordings, scripts, and video ideas.

Pros

  • Comprehensive writing assessment that includes multiple metrics beyond grammar.
  • Customizable feedback is provided based on interaction goals.
  • The tool assesses text clarity, formality, and persuasiveness for the intended audience.
  • The app is available for download on the App Store and Google Play.

Cons

  • Limited assistance is available for crafting essays and taking notes.
  • The trial version is limited in data entry capabilities.
  • No ability to directly edit or rewrite content.

Cost

A free version is available. There are also Unlimited plans for $29/month (this offer is limited), Standart for $49/month and Extended for $69/month.

Official Website: https://www.writecream.com/

Rytr

Description

Interview questions, profile descriptions, texts for advertising campaigns, metadata, reviews, articles, and letters can all be generated using Rutr's AI tool.

Features

This tool can generate any type of written content you need. Simply choose from over 30 text targets, language, and style options. Then, provide the AI with a text prompt, and it will generate the material for you.

Rutr employs scientific copywriting formulas such as AIDA and PAS. While editing the text generated, you can make it longer or shorter, make it better by using more difficult words, and check it for originality.

Rutr will keep all your work in one spot with shared access and provides Gmail, Outlook, Slack, WordPress, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. extensions.

Pros

  • Analyzing grammar, style, and readability of the text.
  • Track edits.
  • Fast text generation.
  • Cross-platform integration.

Cons

  • Limited formatting of output, such as quotes.
  • Suggestions are sometimes too general.
  • Frequent AI suggestions can interfere with work.

Cost

The Rutr tool is free to use, with slight limitations on the number of generations and other features. Paid plans are $9/month (or $90/year with two free months) and $29/month (or $290/year with two free months).

Official Website: https://rytr.me/

Jasper

Description

Jasper is an artificial intelligence writing assistant created by Anthropic. Jasper is ready to go whether you're writing social media posts, emails, blog articles, personalized letters, or need recommendations on improving your writing.

Features

Jasper generates outlines based on prompts, helps you plan essays, checks grammar, and style, and suggests improvements. The tool provides feedback and visually explains suggested corrections.

Jasper's AI engine starts by learning the best models, including OpenAI's GPT-4, Anthropic, and Google. Then, it adds search data, information about your product, and optimization tools such as SEO and grammar tracker.

You can customize the AI tool based on your data. Jasper learns from your catalogs and company facts, scans your website, and tracks brand positioning as it generates new text. Upload scientific articles websites with useful data, and create essays with scientific support.

Pros

  • Natural conversation makes it simple to receive assistance.
  • Feedback encompasses more than just repairing mistakes.
  • The tool learns from user engagement.
  • Users may adapt the model to their specific needs.

Cons

  • The tool's abilities differ based on the training examples.
  • Cannot produce complete essays independently.
  • Limited editing abilities are available in comparison to tools like Grammarly.

Cost

Jasper offers a 7-day trial. After the trial, there are two paid plans available: Teams ($125 per month) and Creator ($49 per month).

Official Website: https://www.jasper.ai/

ShortlyAI

Description

ShortlyAI is an AI text-writing tool that uses GPT-3 to produce high-quality texts. The software is trained on various texts, enabling it to generate top-notch content.

Features

Shortly AI analyzes text for readability, flow, style, and structure, checks for best practices, and identifies areas for improvement. The tool will provide you with suggestions on how to revise your writing.

To create written work, simply write an introductory sentence and click on the "Write for me" button. You can also give the tool more detailed instructions using slash commands.

The output generated by Shortly AI is entirely unique and passes all standard plagiarism checks.

Pros

  • Provides helpful feedback with detailed analysis of the text.
  • Evaluates not only grammar but also clarity.
  • Includes interactive learning through documents.
  • Easy-to-use interface.

Cons

  • Limited editing and basic word-processing functions are available.
  • The trial version has restrictions on data entry.

Cost

A yearly membership costs $65 per month and can be canceled anytime. A monthly membership costs $79 per month.

Official Website: https://www.shortlyai.com/

AI tools to review and improve essays

Grammarly

Description

Grammarly is a well-known tool for enhancing text quality via artificial intelligence. It examines text for grammar, plagiarism, spelling, and punctuation inconsistencies related to style and context.

Features

Automatic spell checks, punctuation, grammar, and style checks improve detecting mechanical errors. Contextual vocabulary and suggestions for selecting vocabulary levels contribute to more accurate and varied word usage.

Analyzing the tone and "personality" of the text makes the writing more emotionally colored and memorable. Reviewing and editing comments facilitate the editing process.

Finally, Grammarly's features are easily accessible from almost anywhere through integration with Google Docs, MS Office, browsers, email, and others.

Pros

  • Very good at finding mistakes.
  • Provides clear explanations of mistakes.
  • Helpful feedback on the tone and style.
  • Works well with many apps and web browsers.
  • Many people use it, so the tool can gather lots of data for analysis and training.

Cons

  • Occasionally over-corrects writing style.
  • Contextual errors may occur.
  • Limited feedback on structure and argumentation.

Cost

Free browser extension and mobile app provide a simple proofreading. The premium personalized plan costs $30 per month. If you opt for an annual subscription, you will be charged $12 per month; if you choose quarterly payments, you will be charged $20 per month. There is also an option for businesses to subscribe to a $15 per month per user plan.

Official Website: https://www.grammarly.com/

Quill Bot

Description

Quill Bot is a writing tool developed by Anthropic. It's designed to assist you in writing papers or any other text and provides a paraphraser, grammar checker, plagiarism checker, co-writer, summarizer, and translator.

Features

Quill Bot assesses grammar, style, originality, and organization at both the sentence and paragraph levels and can make edits based on pre-set parameters. This tool can rephrase a text into a more formal, academic, and creative style.

The software generates outlines and plans from your documents and condenses or extends your text. The citation generator feature (which extracts information from web pages, articles, books, etc.) is perfect for essays.

Integration with Google Workspace (docs, slides, forms) provides more flexibility for your work. The tool can be used on the web version and in Microsoft Word. The desktop application for macOS is under development.

The toolkit is available in various languages.

Pros

  • Detailed feedback is provided not only on grammar and spelling but also on important aspects such as text quality, comprehensibility, and impact
  • The service can adapt to the unique needs and styles of each writer
  • The tool offers an integrated learning experience using Google tools

Cons

  • A Google account is required to use
  • Limited functionality without a paid subscription
  • Commercial use is prohibited without business plans

Cost

A free version with limited features is available. You can upgrade to a premium account for $9.95 per month ($4.17 per month if you subscribe for one year, $6.66 per month if you subscribe for six months). All plans come with a 3-day money-back guarantee.

Official Website: https://quillbot.com/

Text Metrics

Description

Text Metrics is an artificial intelligence writing assistant that analyzes text to get the right metrics for readability level, language complexity, and other style attributes.

Features

This AI tool evaluates readability using various formulas (Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG, etc.) as well as text attributes such as word/sentence length, passive voice. Identifies complex phrases, abstract words, and suggests corrections.

Text Metrics categorizes text into levels of linguistic complexity, making it easier to understand parts of the text. Overall, text analysis regarding your brand, SEO guidelines, and tone of voice is available.

The tool integrates with Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Chrome, and Edge.

Pros

  • Provides objective metrics for assessing the level of writing
  • It helps ensure that the text is appropriate for the intended audience
  • Useful for creating accessibility and editorial style guides
  • Simple interface for analysis

Cons

  • Only structure is analyzed, not grammar or content
  • Limited suggestions
  • It only works through a browser

Cost

You'll get a free trial for seven days. The Pro version costs $5 per month per user.

Official Website: https://www.textmetrics.com/

DeepL + DeepL Write

Description

DeepL is a tool for translating text and documents, and DeepL Write is an AI-powered writing assistant. The DeepL translator can handle 31 languages, while DeepL Write supports both American and British English as well as German.

Features

The tool uses translation technology powered by neural networks with innovations in artificial intelligence.

Although DeepL Translator has numerous glossaries and accurate translations, DeepL Write will examine your writing for grammar, style, and punctuation mistakes. The program provides numerous options for sentence structure and different text styles for rephrasing ( simple, business, academic, technical).

DeepL is available as a web version and an app on Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. It also has a Chrome extension.

Additionally, you can utilize the DeepL API to develop your own solutions.

Pros

  • DeepL is one of the most precise translation tools on the market.
  • DeepL Write offers excellent writing guidance.
  • User-friendly interfaces.
  • It can translate complete documents and web pages.

Cons

  • A paid membership is needed to access all features.
  • DeepL Write has language restrictions and may simplify translations for easier comprehension.

Cost

The services can be used for free. Paid subscriptions: Starter $7.49/month, Advanced $24.99/month and Ultimate $49.99/month.

Official Website: https://www.deepl.com/translator и https://www.deepl.com/write

Instoried

Description

Instoried can assist with the final editing and enhancement of your essay or other text. This tool provides recommendations on correcting mistakes and a thorough analysis of the text.

Features

With Instoried, you can analyze written content such as emails, blogs, advertising copy, social media posts, website copy, etc. You can edit and analyze up to 1,000 words.

This tool suggests different words and phrases to enhance the text's quality and readability.

Instoried analyzes characters, narrative structures, and provides ideas and hints. It integrates with Google Docs, too.

Pros

  • This tool is made to help improve writing skills
  • It checks documents thoroughly and suggests corrections and improvements

Cons

  • Limited usefulness for non-fiction styles
  • AI suggestions may not match the author's preferences
  • Basic models are not adapted to individual styles

Cost

The tool is being updated, so the price isn't available on the official website. You can sign up for the waiting list.

Official Website: https://instoried.com/

AI tools for essay Comparison

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EssayBot

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Textero AI

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Dr. Essay

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Essay Genius

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Writecream

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Rytr

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Jasper

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ShortlyAI

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Grammarly

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Quill Bot

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Text Metrics

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DeepL + DeepL Write

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Instoried

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