Besides growing ever-more-accomplished at helping people auto-write short and long-form text, many of today’s top ten AI writers for 2023 are a real bargain.
Entry level plans for AI writers, for example, start at as little as $19/month.
And plans offering users the ability to auto-generate unlimited numbers of words each month start as low as $29/month.
Besides a bit of cash, the only other thing you might need to venture into this marketplace is a reality check.
Essentially: Despite some claims that AI writers are one-button-wonders capable of auto-generating riveting blog posts and articles with the flick of an index finger, AI writers are in fact collaboration tools.
Sure, AI writers will automate writing for you.
But you’ll need to put in a little effort to make that happen.
In practice, that means the short emails, social media posts, ads for Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like that you auto-generate with AI writers will most likely need a bit of polishing before you’re ready to publish them.
Plus, when you attempt to auto-generate a longer blog post of say 500 words or more, you’ll find that the auto-generated first draft you get from an AI writer will generally need significant editing before you’re satisfied with the result.
Even so, AI writing tools are still — without a doubt — a godsend for people who are looking for a machine to provide them with most of what they’re trying to communicate in short text.
And they’re also perfect for people looking to create a working draft for what they’d like to express in 500 — 1,000 words or more.
Even better: AI writing tools are also extremely helpful for users willing to work patiently with AI — by pushing the auto-generate button over and over again — to:
~Auto-generate some truly witty one-liners for their piece
~Dream-up ideas they may have never considered for their copy
~Quickly transform a list of features — that say, describe a house for sale — into serviceable prose
~Auto-generate the perfect outline for a longer post
~Auto-imagine, in a general way, the various paths a longer piece might follow
As for claims by some AI writers that for just a small, monthly fee, you’ll be able to auto-generate posts of 500, 1,000 — or even 1,500 words — with a mouse-click or two: Alas, the devil is in the details.
Yes, technically speaking, it is possible to instantly — or almost instantly — auto-generate a series of sentences for a long-form piece with an AI writer.
And all those sentences will have all the capitals and all the periods in just the right place.
But when you take a close look at the resulting text, you’ll find — virtually without fail — that the work produced is pedestrian, extremely general, absolutely devoid of new insight and only slightly more interesting than watching paint dry.
Bottom line: As long as you shop for an AI writer with the understanding that AI is a collaboration tool, you’ll be extremely pleased to find what the market has to offer.
Below are the Top Ten AI Writing Tools for 2023 that are currently on the market.
They’ve achieved that status by appearing in the top ten position on at least one of four, top Web sites that specialize in rating software: G2Crowd, Capeterra, Software Advice and GetApp.
Each of those sites arrive at their top ten ratings based on reviews of the AI tools by actual users.
Moreover, each of the tools below inspired at least 100 reviewers to place them in the top ten on one or more of the rating sites above.
Limit your search for an AI writer to these top ten tools below (presented in no particular order), and there’s a good chance you’ll be able to surface something that’s a perfect fit:
*In-Depth Guide: Copy.AI: Marketing Island offers a handy walk-through of popular AI writer Copy.AI in this 10-minute YouTube video.
Like many AI writers. Copy.AI offers users scores of templates for specific kinds of copy they’d like to auto-generate — including social media posts, Google descriptions and blog posts.
A pioneer in the genre, Copy.AI also offers a formidable library of training videos.
*In-Depth Guide: Frase.io: Reviewer Jerry Low offers an extremely balanced look at the Frase.io autowriter – one of the more popular tools on the market today.
Low’s review puts Frase.io through its paces and offers numerous, word-by-word examples of the kind of output you can expect.
He also offers a rundown on his take on Frase.io’s pros and cons.
Low’s verdict: “Frase.io can be dangerous for the uninitiated.
“I can’t see it replacing a professional writer in any current capacity.
“However, it can be helpful in some sense for content creation.
“After all, it goes beyond the standard content and can move into marketing speak.”
*WriteSonic: In-Depth Guide: Marketing Island offers a step-by-step, upbeat walk-through on AI writer Writesonic in this 8-minute video.
The tool is successfully used to auto-generate an okay-sounding, 800+ word article in just minutes.
Plus, Writesonic is also used to auto-generate a piece of marketing copy in the commonly used AIDA format (Attention, Interest, Desire and Action), also in just a few minutes.
Bottom line: A pro writer would probably be loathe to sign his/her name to the copy generated in this review.
The reason: Although it reads well enough, it sounds extremely derivative.
But in terms of generating a quick draft that can be easily massaged and polished — not bad.
*In-Depth Guide: Peppertype: Digital Scholar is mostly upbeat on AI writer Peppertype in this review — but it does have a few reservations.
Peppertype is able to create top quality content in moments, offers an easy-to-use dashboard and sports 40+ writing format templates, according to Digital Scholar.
Another interesting feature: Peppertype enables users to build a library of writing featuring their favorite writing style — which Peppertype then emulates.
But Digital Scholar also yellow-flags the software for lacking an editor for long-form articles and posts. And its tone-of-voice options are limited.
Plus, it also takes some time to become a power user of Peppertype, according to Digital Scholar.
*In-Depth Guide: Rytr: Jessica Hall offers an extremely thorough look at Rytr in this guide — currently one of the most popular AI writers on the market.
Hall’s take: “Ultimately, our verdict is that Rytr is a powerful and versatile writing assistant, with some caveats. It has a wide variety of tricks up its sleeve, but it isn’t ready for what we’ll call load-bearing composition.
“We found that the app is most useful when the writer already has a sense of narrative and all their facts straight.
“If the user can very clearly and carefully specify what they want, the writing process can be fast and smooth.”
Bottom line: Hall truly puts Rytr through its paces with this guide — the review is a great read.
*In-Depth Guide: Scalenut: LearnWire offers an in-depth look at Scalenut in this 34-minute video — one of the most popular AI writers on the market today.
LearnWire’s verdict: Scalenut offers one of the largest tool-sets available in AI writing — while still being fairly easy and intuitive to use.
Put another way: Two thumbs up.
Given that this video assumes you have an intermediate knowledge of how AI writers work, you may want to acquaint yourself with AI writing first by checking-out RobotWritersAI.com’s in-depth guide:
“Writing With AI — Learn the Basics in One Day,” by Joe Dysart.
*In-Depth Guide: Jasper: Easily one of the best ways to get a full appreciation of what Jasper can do is to watch a video overview of the tool by ‘Corrie Who Writes,’ a certified Jasper expert.
With Corrie’s video “How to Write an SEO Blog Post,” Corrie invites you to look over her shoulder as she patiently and efficiently uses Jasper to put together a long-form post specifically designed to rank high in search engine returns.
One of the video’s greatest benefits: Corrie’s willingness to show you, line-by-line, how she uses her own creative process as a writer to create a high-scoring post with the tool.
A professional writer, Corrie has a true gift for producing extremely engaging, insightful and easy-to-understand how-to Jasper videos, which pull-back-the-curtain on how to truly master the AI writer.
In a phrase, watching one of Corrie’s videos is like sitting next to a whip-smart friend who can clearly, thoughtfully – and patiently – show you step-by-step how to get to the next level with the autowriter.
Corrie’s bottom-line take on Jasper: It’s her AI writer of choice.
*In-Depth Guide: Anyword: Ecommerce Platform offers a mostly glowing review of Anyword in this piece.
In a phrase, the AI writing software is designed to auto-generate a more polished version of the marketing message you submit to it.
Observes Ecommerce Platform: “As an example, you may write-out a bit of copy for a Facebook ad selling smartwatch wristband replacements.
“You send the original text through Anyword, which then spits out an improved version that’s made to boost conversions through that ad.
“As a bonus, Anyword provides an evaluation of the result by predicting its performance based on the marketing channel, original copy, and whatever Anyword came up with.
“You’ll see an overall performance score, as well as several other metrics — like who the ad copy is best targeted towards — using elements like gender, age, and shopping preferences to help hone your targeting choices.”
That’s an unusual feature for an AI writing program — and one of many added to ensure the tool is specially designed to optimize marketing messages.
*In-Depth Guide: Simplified: This is an extremely helpful 36-minute, video guide to the Simplified marketer’s tool put that’s together by the software maker.
While the company’s look here is of course uncritical, it nevertheless does offer a detailed walk-through of what is currently one of the most popular and highly rated AI writing tools on the market today.
Simplified differs from many other autowriters in that its AI-generated writing is part of a larger suite of marketing tools that make-up the content creation suite.
In addition to AI-generated writing, the solution also offers tools for graphic design, video editing and social media publishing.
Simplified’s AI-generated writing module works in much the same way as Jasper and other market leaders.
For example: You can put together long-form, auto-generated copy with the tool as long as you’re willing to do a fair amount of tweaking.
And you can use also use Simplified to generate short-form text – including marketing text – with ease.
In fact, Simplified’s auto-generation of a product description for a straw hat in this video – using just a few words for input – was scary good.
Bottom line: Simplified is a very smart solution, in that it offers a combination of tools that marketers often use together – in a very user-friendly interface.
*In-Depth Guide: SEMRush: While SEMRush is primarily a tool for search engine optimization, it’s increasingly popping-up on lists of top AI writers.
The reason: SEMRush includes a module — dubbed SEO Writing Assistant — that can analyze the SEO strength of any copy you’ve created — and then offer suggestions to you for improving the SEO on your copy.
This 4-minute video offers a focused look at the app.
Specifically, SEO Writing Assistant will offer you alternatives for improving the readability of your text, its originality, tone of voice — and of course, its overall SEO efficacy.
Plus, SEO Writing Assistant can also do some rephrasing for you.
Bottom line: Overall, SEMRush’s Writing Assistant tool can do some rudimentary AI writing.
But you’ll want to look elsewhere if you’re looking for a more robust solution that offers dozens of templates for myriad writing formats including blogs, emails, social media posts and the like.
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.