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by Joe Dysart * Updated Feb. 6, 2023
Writers and others looking to harness AI-automated writing are in for a pleasant surprise: Many of these apps are easy on your wallet.
Currently, there are dozens upon dozens of AI-automated writing programs vying for your business — with more seemingly emerging every month.
Pricing for these tools starts as low as $19/month. And many others are available for under $75/month.
For a quick look at the Top Ten AI Writers for 2023, check-out this piece on RobotWritersAI.com.
Many AI computer scientists — along with early adopters — have been stunned at the ability of these new software programs to auto-generate emails, ad slogans, very short blog posts and similar copy.
In fact, their performance has been so head-turning, more than a few editors and writers worry that these and other AI writing tools will steadily gobble up writing jobs for years to come.
That fate appears even more certain given the emergence of ChatGPT late last year.
ChatGPT is a next generation autowriter whose enhanced writing prowess has turned the writing world on its ear and triggered a frenzy of interest across the world.
The reason: ChatGPT is simply much easier to use than other AI writing tools.
Essentially, if you know how to ask a chatbot a question, you can use ChatGPT.
Immediately.
And you can get stellar results, time after time.
Plus, ChatGPT represents a true upgrade in AI automated writing.
Compared to many other autowriters, ChatGPT is much better at grasping what you’re looking to write.
And it’s much better at staying-on-point — i.e., writing precisely what you’re looking for — for texts of 500 words or even longer.
That puts ChatGPT — which runs on the new autowriting software engine GPT-3.5 from company OpenAI — significantly ahead of many other AI writing software tools on the market.
AI Writers Based on Older Tech: Huffing and Puffing
The reason: Many of these AI autowriters — which use the older GPT-3 autowriting engine as their underlying software — tend to veer-off into generating overly general copy, and even nonsensical copy, if you want to auto-write text of more than 200 words-or-so on any given topic.
Plus, even when generating shorter copy, these older-generation tools are still not perfect.
In such cases, you’ll find you’ll still probably need to step-in as a writing editor and rework the auto-generated text by hand to ensure it’s exactly what you want.
Not surprisingly, these close-but-no-cigar limitations associated with older generation tools have prompted more than a few editors and writers to throw-up their hands and say, “Forget it — I’ll simply do the writing myself.”
That’s understandable.
But for countless other users who have no writing skills whatsoever, ‘close-enough’ writing still rang-the-bell.
Those — and other less picky– users began embracing these tools two years ago to reel-out reams and reams of short copy that otherwise would not have been created without the help of automation.
And they’ve also found ways during the past two years to auto-generate much longer articles by repeatedly prompting AI writers to spit-out related insights on various facets of the same, focused subject — a few paragraphs at a time.
Often, these auto-generated, long-form articles can easily run 1,000 words or longer.
Meanwhile, many of the makers of the autowriters have also gone to great lengths during the past two years to distinguish their tools with specialty features in the AI writing marketplace.
Anyword, for example, specializes in auto-generating marketing copy designed to ensure that any marketing message you auto-create is optimized for the gender, age, shopping preferences and other demographics you’re looking to attract.
And HelloScribe is designed to auto-generate copy written in the style of your favorite newspaper or magazine.
Still other tools, like AISEO, Scalenut and WordLift specialize in auto-generating SEO copy — or copy optimized to rank high in search engine returns for certain keywords and keyphrases.
And AI writer Article Forge attempts to elevate automation to a virtual art form — not only auto-generating copy for you, but also offering you the ability to auto-publish that copy directly to your WordPress blog.
Over at Rytr, AI specialists have created software with the ability to render automated copy in 18 ‘tones’ — and have established a reputation for their autowriter as a tool for relatively high-quality writing.
And Frase.io’s makers have designed their software to auto-generate articles that mimic other, similar articles already on the Web, which currently rank high in search engine returns.
Smartwriter takes another interesting approach, specializing in hyper-personalizing your emails — as well as your posts to LinkedIn, Instagram and similar digital properties.
And Power Listing is designed to do only one thing exceedingly well: auto-generate product listings for Amazon.
Again, many of these tools have upgraded to using the GPT-3.5 autowriting engine or similar — or are considering an upgrade.
So theoretically, tools that have upgraded can offer writing performance similar to ChatGPT.
Plus, they offer specialization –and all the other custom editing tools they’ve developed — that help set them apart in the ever-more-crowding marketplace of AI writers.
A Look Under the Hood: How AI Writers Work
The reason why so many AI writers on the market today can or will be able to compete with ChatGPT is that most share a common denominator: GPT-3.
In a phrase, most of these AI writers began as software interfaces to the GPT-3 autowriting engine.
They licensed access to GPT-3.
Then they built user-friendly interfaces to interact with GPT-3 and make it easier for people to use GPT-3.
These GPT-3 based autowriters differ from ‘old school’ auto-text generators — first popularized in the previous decade — which rely on a strict data-tables-to-text auto-writing method, which is often used for auto-generating company reports.
One of the reasons GPT-3-driven text generators represented such a breakthrough is that GPT-3 quite simply possesses an in-depth knowledge of virtually all things.
Specifically: GPT-3’s creators — Open AI — programmed GPT-3 to ingest everything published on the Web, 2016 — 2019.
(With the release of GPT-3.5, that knowledge was extended to 2021.)
Plus, GPT-3 also ingested untold numbers of books sourced from numerous libraries.
Armed with this vast treasure trove of knowledge — as well as an intimate familiarity with the widely varying writing styles used in all that writing it ingested — GPT-3 is able to ‘guess’ at the kind of copy you’re looking to auto-generate simply by sampling just a few lines — or even a few words — of input from you.
For example: Using GPT-3’s English-to-French language preset, you can input, “Where is a good restaurant?” and instantly retrieve, courtesy of GPT-3: “Ou est un bon restaurant?”
Similarly, input words written in layman’s language to a GPT-3 legal language preset, and you’ll instantly retrieve the following, auto-generated conversion:
Your input: “The people I’m suing are my landlords.”
GPT-3’s auto-conversion into legalese: “The Defendants I’m suing are, in some manner, the owners and lessors of the real property where the Plaintiff resides.”
Rather amazing.
As you might imagine, GPT-3’s ability to correctly guess at the kind of auto-text you’re looking to generate is pretty much limited only by your imagination.
Essentially: Spend a bit of time with GPT-3, train it to auto-generate the precise kind of output you want, and you should be able to create a ‘set-it-and-forget-it’ preset that works at least most of the time it receives an input from you.
One caveat: The fact that GPT-3’s awe-inspiring automation is based on a supercomputer-assisted ‘best guess’ is also GPT-3’s Achilles Heel.
Specifically: GPT-3 sometimes guesses wrong — especially when it comes to auto-generating copy longer than 200 words.
At that length and longer, copy auto-generated by GPT-3 tends to veer-off into overly generalized statements — or even nonsensical writing.
Fortunately, the AI companies that began licensing GPT-3 in 2020 to create their own spin on AI writing have been able to significantly reduce the number of ‘bad guesses’ GPT-3 makes.
They’ve done that by figuring out the precise kinds of inputs GPT-3 needs to render the exact results you’re looking for — at least for results that are limited to a few sentences of auto-generated text.
And they’ve designed interfaces, like the two examples above — English-to-French translation and laymen-to-legalese translation — that help ensure GPT-3 auto-generates your desired copy.
As for the still elusive ability to automatically render on-topic text of say 1,000 words or more — with just the press of a button?
They’re working on it.
Specifically, thousands of minds have been experimenting with GPT-3 since its release in 2020, all fine-tuning how to trigger the auto-text engine to auto-generate exactly what you’re seeking.
And now that the next generation of the autowriting engine has been released — GPT-3.5 — it’s a safe bet that same kind of experimentation will continue.
It’s also a safe bet that ever-more precise interfaces running atop GPT-3.5 will continue to emerge in coming months and years.
Plus, given that a number of similar supercomputer-driven auto text engines are now competing directly with GPT-3.5– it’s even more of a safe bet that ever-more precise, versatile and inexpensive AI automated writing tools are in our future.
A Representative Sampling of AI Writing Software
As for the current state of AI writing software: Below is a representative sampling of AI automated writing tools currently on the market — more than 50 in all — along with links to in-depth reviews of each.
It’s important to note that many of these reviews were written before some of the toolmakers upgraded the underlying autowriting engine they use from GPT-3 to the newer GPT-3.5.
Even so, these reviews are still extremely valuable.
They offer users a birds-eye view into the varying features these toolmakers build into their interfaces as a way to distinguish themselves in the marketplace.
Here’s in in-depth look at how well they pull that off:
*In-Depth Guide: Frase: 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.”
*In-Depth Review: 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.
*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, which is a great read.
*In-Depth Guide: Article Forge: As with many AI writers on the market today, Article Forge does a decent job of auto-generating long-form articles for you — as long as you’re willing to do a bit of post-editing
That’s the take from reviewer Jacob Maslow, who offers an in-depth look at Article Forge after taking the AI writer for a test-drive.
Observes Maslow: “Article Forge isn’t perfect. Writing content has traditionally been a human affair.
“While article content output is possible with Article Forge, those articles aren’t going to appear humanly written right out-of-the-gate with no editing.
“However, that doesn’t mean Article Forge content is bad, and that there’s no benefit to using this AI writer if you want a decent article generator.
“It’s not perfect, but if you need more articles and SEO content for less time and money, Article Forge still has a lot to offer.”
*In-Depth Guide: NeuralText: Copywriters looking for auto-content writing, search engine optimization and keyword clustering in one tool will want to check-out NeuralText.
Essentially: This guide to NeuralText promises a comprehensive look at every feature NeuralText offers.
It’s a very slick presentation, in that you can click on more than a dozen links to home-in on the specific feature(s) of NeuralText that most interest you — say NeuralText’s SEO features, or how it compares with other AI writers.
Saas Reviews’ final verdict: NeuralText offers a wide variety of features, but it is master of none.
*In-Depth Guide: CopyBlocks.AI: Romio Roxx offers a detailed, step-by-step look this AI writer in this piece.
One of its specialties: Auto-generating marketing copy.
Some may find Roxx’s prose a bit salesy.
But Roxx does still offer an extremely detailed close-up on the tool and its strengths.
*In-Depth Guide: Copy.AI: Robots.net recommends auto-writer CopyAI for marketers and others looking to auto-generate short, pithy copy.
Observes Robots.net: “It takes a lot of creativity and skill to generate compelling long-form and short-form content.
“Most big companies hire a copywriter to do these things for them.
“However, copywriters usually charge a higher fee, as they require both salaries and benefits.
“Thankfully, Copy.AI exists — and it goes for much cheaper than your average copywriter.”
Oh, goodie?
*In-Depth Guide: Simplified: Writecream.com offers a mixed view of AI writer/content creator Simplified in this guide.
The product differs from most AI writers by also offering graphic creation tools for the AI writing it auto-generates.
Also innovative: Simplified incorporates Grammarly – one of the most popular writing assistants for spelling, grammar and writing style suggestions – as part of its automation mix.
But Writercream.com notes some features of Simplified can be difficult to locate.
And the content generated can be lacking.
*In-Depth Guide: WriterX: Entry level AI writing tools continue to multiply like rabbits.
One of the latest of the liter is WriterX.
Price is one of its attractive features: For $9/month, you can auto-generate up to 20,000 words with the tool.
This post offers the company’s detailed pitch on its auto-writer.
*In-Depth Guide: Resume.io: If you’re looking for a little AI help putting together your resume, you may want to check-out this pitch from Resume.io.
The tool allows you to build a resume without leaving your Web browser.
Plus, you can use Resume.io’s AI to auto-summarize your resume for use as a cover letter – or a condensed version of your resume.
*In-Depth Guide: CopyAim: AI writer CopyAim offers an in-depth pitch on how its tech works in this post.
Like most AI writers, CopyAim specializes in auto-producing short bursts of copy – rather than long-form articles.
One interesting feature: All the resulting copy can be exported to a .CSV file if you prefer.
CopyAim offers unlimited AI writing at $29/month – a relatively low price.
So it’s worth checking out to see if it delivers for your needs.
*In-Depth Guide: Text Wizard: Reviewer Phillip Stemann says his experience with AI writer Text Wizard was hit-and-miss.
Some outputs worked fine for him – others, not so much.
Even so, Stemann offers a detailed look at how Text Wizard works in this post – available in both text and video formats.
*In-Depth Guide: AutoWriterPro: Tech Trends Zone offers its pitch on AutoWriterPro in this 12-minute video.
It’s a handy guide/test-drive, in that it shows — via numerous examples — the kinds of text the software generates using specific, text inputs.
The video is valuable to newcomers to AI writing, who will get an idea of how the tech works in real-time — and what they can expect from AutoWriterPro.
And old hands at AI writing can save time with this video to evaluate how AutoWriterPro stacks-up against their favorite AI writer — or AI writers.
One interesting feature of AutoWriterPro: It offers users the ability to auto-generate spoken word audio from any text it generates.
*In-Depth Guide: HeyFridayAI.com: Reviewer Jamie Freya Knott says autowriter HeyFridayAI is a cheaper, viable alternative to one of the industry leaders in AI writing – Jasper.
Observes Knott: “There are many competitors to the wildly popular Jasper software in recent times.
“But I believe HeyFriday I serves as the best option — specifically for those new to utilizing AI writing software.
“HeyFriday is offering a premium tier with ‘Unlimited Words.’
“And even the $20 value is pretty amazing at 200,000 words-a-month being offered.
“The value at the Power ($60) dollar tier (enabling you to auto-generate an unlimited number of words) is unmatched even among other AI software on the market.”
*In-Depth Guide: Power Listing: MyAmazonGuy gives Power Listing – an AI writer specifically designed to auto-create product description listings on Amazon – an ‘okay’ in this 22-minute video on YouTube.
This is an extremely helpful guide, offering easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions on how to use the AI tool.
One interesting feature of Power Listing: The tool enables you to grab descriptions of similar products already listed on Amazon, which can be reworked by the AI to help you create your own product description.
*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.
The reason: It reads well enough, although 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 — 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 — as well as limited tone-of-voice options.
Plus, it also takes some time to become a power user of Peppertype.
*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 toolsets 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 with RobotWritersAI.com’s in-depth guide:
“Writing With AI — Learn the Basics in One Day,” by Joe Dysart.
*In-Depth Guide: Creaitor AI: LearnWire gives this AI writer a thumbs-up for being able to auto-generate high-quality writing.
On the downside, LearnWire wishes Creaitor AI had a more efficient interface that would cut down on the need to cut-and-paste so much.
Creaitor AI currently costs $59/month to auto-generate an unlimited number of words.
*In-Depth Guide: Smartwriter.ai: Josh Pocock offers a 38-minute overview of this AI autowriter, which specializes in spitting-out personalized emails for marketing and outreach.
The use cases the tool is designed to excel at include:
~Outreaches on LinkedIn
~Personalized email icebreakers
~Personalized Instagram comments
~Personalized requests for links from other Web sites to your own
Smartwriter.ai also comes with a Chrome extension.
*In-Depth Guide: WriteCream: LearnWire offers a step-by-step, 13-minute video guide on how to create a basic blog post with AI writer WriteCream.
Like many current-generation AI writers, WriteCream is adept at auto-generating short, cookie-cutter, generalized blog posts on common concepts.
LearnWire’s verdict: WriteCream is a perfectly acceptable tool for cranking-out generalized blog posts.
*In-Depth Review: Anyword: Ecommerce Platform offers glowing review of Anyword in this piece.
In a phrase, Anyword is designed to take your marketing message and auto-generate a more polished version of it.
Observes Joe Warnimont, a writer for 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.”
This is an unusual approach for an AI writing program — and one of many Anyword uses to ensure the tool optimizes marketing messages.
*In-Depth Guide: HelloScribe: HelloScribe offers a bold claim about its AI-writing generator: It can render text in more than 5,000 editorial styles.
That includes writing in the style of The New York Times, the Associated Press and the Harvard Business Review.
The package is specifically designed for press relations agencies and others looking to pitch news outlets with copy that captures their imaginations — and tastes.
This in-depth look at HelloScribe — albeit written by the company that sells the software — offers a detailed overview at how the package works.
Key features of the package:
~HelloScribe ingested millions of high-quality news articles to ‘learn’ how to write news with style
~The package is designed to offer original, editing ready, plagiarism-free drafts
~HelloScribe emphasizes that the articles produced should be seen as drafts for polishing — not as finished articles
~HelloScribe can be trained to write in your own writing style — if you have a number of writing clips to you name online
~HelloScribe comes with a built-in research companion that enables a user to research relevant facts and add article citations
~HelloScribe generates five kinds of writing: Headlines, articles, summaries, brainstorming pieces — and article pitches that can be sent to editors
Bottom line: HelloScribe is an interesting new tool that lasers-in on attempting to produce one form of writing very well — news content — rather than attempting to create every format of writing imaginable.
At the very least, it’s well worth monitoring in coming months and years.
*In-Depth Review: Article Forge: MyWPLife offers a deep dive into the workings of AI-article generator Article Forge in this piece.
The AI tool runs on the GPT-3 auto-text generator, a supercomputer-based system that is good for generating short text — but not so accomplished at generating longer-form articles.
Essentially, AI tools using the GPT-3 auto-text generator at this point tend to render longer-form articles exhibiting questionable logic, incongruent phrasing and occasional errors-of-fact.
Translation: Ensure Article Forge generates the article lengths you’re looking for before parting with any cash.
Nevertheless, the tool is a ‘must monitor.’
The reason? Article Forge it is capable of publishing AI-generated text directly to a WordPress blog.
That will be a powerful combination as Article Forge hopefully evolves and is able to automatically publish longer, reliable blog posts at will.
*In-Depth Review: Jarvis (now Jasper): Reviewer Jake Pfohl offers an extremely positive review on Jarvis in this piece — one of a number of auto-writers that use GPT-3 as their writing engine.
Like many GPT-3 based writers, Jarvis can auto-generate copy in seconds using scores of specific-use templates the software provides.
Observes Pfohl: “Overall, Jarvis.ai — formerly Conversion.ai — has taken the crown as the best AI copywriting tool on the market right now.
“(Jarvis) offers over 50+ content templates for you to choose from, which makes it the perfect solution for any blogger or business owner that needs help with writing SEO-friendly blog posts, social media copywriting, ad campaigns, email subject lines, and more.”
This review is a good place to click if you want a detailed breakdown on virtually every facet of Jarvis, including its various pricing offerings.
Do yourself a favor, though, and also read another in-depth review of Jarvis, when it was marketed under the name Conversion.ai.
This review, written by an author with a masters degree, is also positive.
But it also offers more detail on the software’s shortcomings.
Other ‘quick study’ reviews on Jarvis are available on software review sites G2 Crowd and Capterra.
*In-Depth Look: Rytr: This company-written piece offers an extremely thorough look at Rytr, an auto-writer that uses GPT-3 as its writing engine.
Despite being written by the maker, the detailed examination is mercifully devoid of hype and offers a comprehensive guide of what you can expect from Rytr.
Like similar software, Rytr’s software sits atop GPT-3, customizing how GPT-3 auto-generates writing for its users.
And like similar software, Rytr is designed to auto-generate ads for social media, blog posts, Web copy, emails, job descriptions and the like.
Interestingly, the solution offers some features not available with some other GPT-3 writers, including:
~A choice of writing 18 tones for your copy, including convincing, awestruck and inspirational
~A tool to add just a few words following an auto-generated sentence that you like
~A plagiarism checker, to ensure the copy Rytr auto-generates does not violate copyright laws
~A detailed gameplan for writing long-form blog posts and articles
*In-Depth Review: Frase.io: Jon Wright, a digital marketer with 20+ years experience, offers an upbeat review of AI-generated writing software Frase.io in this piece.
Observes Wright: “I’m a heavy user of Frase.io and several other AI-powered content optimization tools.”
The software is perfect for bloggers and other article writers who are looking to auto-generate writing by simply punching a keyword phrase or phrases (up to three) into Frase.io, according to Wright.
Once triggered by that input, Wright notes the software “will go off and fetch the top 20 Web sites that rank in Google for that term.
“It will then show you lots of different things about those top 20 articles — for example, average word count, the average number of images, the headings used in each article, the key topics mentioned across all the articles etc.
“The whole idea here is that Frase is saying, ‘Here are the top 20 results for your chosen search term.
“So this is what Google considers to be the best articles on the topic.”
Once armed with this frame-of-reference, Frase.io can auto-generate an article for you on the topic.
Or, Frase.io can monitor your own writing of an article or blog post on the topic — advising you on phrasing and similar features so your article or blog post mirrors the patterns found in similar articles that rank highest on Google.
Observes Wright: “It is a great way to create SEO optimized content, because in effect, it is showing you all the keywords to use, LSI (latent semantic indexing) words, synonyms, what sort of length it needs to be, etc.”
Bottom line: This is an extremely in-depth review and Wright pulls-no-punches when extolling the benefits of Frase.io — or focusing a microscope on its shortcomings.
One caveat: Wright does implore readers — via a clickable link — to give Frase.io a try at the close of his review.
Frase.io starts at $44.99/month.
*In-Depth Review: Copy.ai: Entrepreneur Dave Kerpen is all-in on auto-text writer Copy.ai.
Observes Kerpen: “I found the A.I.-powered tool turns concepts into conversational and relatable text.
“The (Copy.ai) site can optimize messages — including product descriptions, blogs, social media posts, landing pages, and everything else — with text.”
Flesh-and-blood competitors may grimace as writing becomes increasingly automated by robots.
But looking ahead, it appears as if many may soon be competing neck-and-neck with their silicon-based alternatives, according to Kerpen.
Observes Kerpen: “The future of copywriting is here.”
*In-Depth Review: Nichess AI Writer: Software reviewer Phillip Stemann swears by Nichess, an AI-generated writing tool he considers the best for marketers.
Observes Stemann: “It’s the tool that has given me the best results.”
Stenmann offers a detailed walk-through of Nichess in this 16-minute video.
That includes up-close looks at how Nichess auto-generates text for different formats, including Instagram captions, blog posts, social media posts and newsletters.
As for Stenmann’s wish-list for Nichess’ next upgrade: ” I would personally like to see a WordPress plugin.
“A WordPress plugin really helps me generate content both faster and more efficient because I stay within the same environment when it is that I create content.
“You could basically automate your entire newsletter flow with a tool like Nichesss — if you had an integration to your newsletter tool.”
*In-Depth Review: Kafkai: Review site MakeMoneyBro.com makes no bones about its thumbs-down review on auto-text generator Kafkai.
Observes MakeMoneyBro.com: Kafkai “promises so much yet delivers so little.
“Never in a million years would I recommend this service in its current state.”
KafKai’s Achilles Heel: The auto-text generator markets itself as a creator of long-form articles averaging 500-900 words.
The problem: Long-form articles so far have been tough to pull-off for auto-text generators powered by predictive analytics language engines like GPT-3.
Adds MakeMoneyBro.com: “Kafkai frankly generates pretty much junk content.”
*In-Depth Guide: Outranking: Beng Keat offers an extremely in-depth guide to Outranking in this piece.
Outranking is AI writing software focused on auto-generating copy that scores high in the search engines.
Observes Keat: “Organic search is the holy grail of any content marketer’s heart.
“The key to higher rankings is more research, better writing, and more optimization.”
Outranking delivers on that goal, according to Keat.
Interesting features of the software include:
~The ability to pinpoint the exact type of content you need on your Web site or other digital property to bring in your desired audience
~The ability to know how Web sites competing with yours are faring with their content
~The ability to distill user intent behind popular Google search queries
For critical reviews of Outranking, check-out these pages on G2Crowd and Capterra.
*In-Depth Guide: Zyro: Web site builders looking for an all-in-one tool may want to check-out Zyro — Web site authoring software that also features AI-driven content generation.
Interestingly, the tool auto-generates text and content based on industry — such as specialized writing styles for music and entertainment, fashion and apparel or health and living.
And one click of a button generates the content you need.
Plus, Zyro is also designed to auto-generate copy that scores high in search engine returns.
For critical reviews of Zyro check out these pages on G2Crowd
and Capterra.
*In-Depth Review: ShortlyAI: SEO info site Yo Motherboard reports the ShortlyAI auto-writer is plenty adept at generating sentences and paragraphs that are well written and organic-sounding.
But unfortunately, the site’s reviewer mostly uncovered disappointments in the software, including:
~ShortlyAI sometimes generates content that is factually incorrect
~The tool sometimes generates content that comes off as gibberish
~ShortlyAI seems to sometimes ‘borrow’ content from Wikipedia without attribution
-The tool’s AI sometimes misunderstands what you want it to generate
Probably most telling about the software was a review ShortlyAI was asked to write about itself — which is included in its entirety on Yo Motherboard.
Essentially: ShortlyAI completely misinterpreted what was requested and instead wrote a highly generalized, 500-word piece about artificial intelligence.
*In-Depth Review: CrawlQ AI: Saas Revu offers a detailed walkthrough on how CrawlIQ can auto-generate copy for marketers and other users in this 31-minute video.
Like many AI auto-writers, CrawlIQ comes equipped with a number of templates that can be used to auto-create ads for various social media networks, video scripts, headlines, emails, landing pages, product pitches and the like.
But the software differs from many competitors in that it prompts you to respond to a number of questions about the kind of copy you’re looking to create.
The goal here: To auto-generate copy for you that is much more custom-tailored to your needs.
The premise behind the approach makes sense: A person who asks you 20 questions about the kind of ad you want is generally going to produce a more customized creation than someone who asks you two-or-three questions and runs with that superficial understanding.
CrawlIQ can also summarize the text found at any Web address.
And it has the ability to tweak that summary with words to engender that summary with a different emotional tone, a higher or lower reading level and/or similar tweaks.
Other CrawlIQ features include article outlining, search engine optimization and market research on competitors.
CrawlIQ starts at a one-time, basic use price of $79.
*In-Depth Review: Copysmith: One of a plethora of new auto-text generators on the market, Copysmith snagged a four-of-five star rating in a review on TechRadar.
TechRadar likes Copysmith for its:
~user-friendly interface
~ability to auto-generate copy in seconds
~customer service
But TechRadar was less impressed with the realization that copy generated by Copysmith often had to be tweaked.
It also disliked Copysmith’s limitations on the number of times it will rewrite the same blog post.
Like many auto-text generators, Copysmith offers users a number of templates they can leverage to auto-create ads for social media networks, landing pages, captions, blog posts and more.
Observes Liam Barker, a writer for TechRadar: “The process of trying out templates is straightforward — even if you have no marketing/copywriting experience.
“You simply select the templates that you want to use, then type keywords and short descriptions about your service, product, or brand into the fields provided.
“After that, the AI technology speedily generates the corresponding copy.”
Copysmith starts at $19/month.
*In-Depth AI Writing Tool Review: Quillbot: MyWPLife offers an in-depth look at AI writing assistant Quillbot in this review.
The tool is designed to ingest a piece of writing and rephrase the content by changing its sentence structure and replacing numerous words with synonyms.
Quillbot also summarizes documents and checks grammar.
The tool has a free trial version, as well as a number of billing options, including $4.95/month.
MyWPLife also offers a related review, featuring its take on the five best alternatives to QuillBot.
*In-Depth Review: Snazzy AI: Auto content generator Snazzy AI has snared a four-out-of-five stars review from TechRadarPro writer Kieron Allen.
Allen describes Snazzy AI as “one of the best content marketing tools, a next-gen platform that uses artificial intelligence to develop high-end copy in minutes.”
Allen adds: “There is a wide range of templates included on the Snazzy AI platform, including options for email outreach, pitching, product descriptions, idea generation for blogs, landing pages, headers and descriptions, features, unique selling points, Google and Facebook ads, and taglines.
“Each template automatically creates text depending on the default information you enter during the on-boarding process.”
This is a great piece to check-out if you want an under-the-hood look at Snazzy AI’s key features.
*In-Depth Review: Content Villain: AI writing expert Phillip Stemann offers a detailed look at Content Villain in this 17-minute video.
The online platform is one of a slew of new writing services looking to help marketers and others quickly auto-generate copy, slogans, headlines, ads and other content.
Observes Stemann: Content Villain “has more than 50 different tools that you can use to generate content.”
Like many AI writing tools, Content Villain has a problem generating highly polished, long-form content.
One unusual feature: The company will also create a custom AI-generated writing tool for a premium-level subscriber.
*In-Depth Review: AI Writer: MakeMoneyBro offers a detailed look at one of the first auto-text writers ever to hit the market — AI writer.
First released in 2015 — long before the emergence of GPT-3 — the Web-based service is designed for the specific task of auto-generating long-form text.
MakeMoneyBro’s take on AI Writer’s ability to deliver on that promise: The tool offers ‘decent’ — if somewhat unstructured — writing.
The review offers a few examples of the kinds of texts AI Writer can generate — although each article is about 200 words long.
For many, 200-word articles are not considered ‘long form.’
Observes MakeMoneyBro: “There are no complex forms to fill in here — just a simple process of entering your keyword related title and letting the app do its thing.
“It’s actually amazing what they could come up with, bearing in mind how little input I had to give.”
MakeMoneyBro’s bottom line on AI Writer: “The current state of AI is not the best for longer-form content, and this is a platform that focuses on it almost exclusively.
“Don’t get me wrong, it’s decent.
“But it’s just too much hassle for me to edit, frankly.
“At that point, I might as well write the content myself.
“Having said that, I might consider it as a content re-writer, as it seemed to give better results than a typical article spinner — even those that claim to use AI.
*In-Depth Guide: Smartwriter: In yet another spin on the growing specialization of auto-text writers, Smartwriter is designed to hyper-personalize your emails — as well as your posts to LinkedIn, Instagram and similar digital properties.
Observes Patryk Miszczak, a writer who put Smartwriter through its paces: “For me, it’s one of the best cold email outreach software that I’ve ever used.
“However, it’s not the best solution if you want to create long-form content.”
The AI tool’s personalization works by analyzing data discovered about the company you’re emailing it finds on Google reviews, LinkedIn, Instagram, news sites and other digital properties — and then incorporating that data into your message.
From this auto-mined data, Smartwriter is designed to auto-write:
~Personalized email icebreakers
~Personalized LinkedIn messages
~Personalized Google Review Icebreakers
~Personalized Instagram Comments
In addition, Smartwriter also offers standard tools for blog writing.
Bottom line: This is a great guide for prospective users looking for a step-by-step walkthrough on how Smartwriter auto-builds these highly personalized communications.
*In-Depth Review: WordHero: Reviewer Phillip Stemann put this auto-writer through its paces and found that the output was ‘decent’ — although the tool’s design could be confusing.
Adds Stemann: “WordHero is still a platform in development and the fact that the Longform editor is an add-on is a bit of a letdown for me.
“Overall, I will give WordHero three stars.
“Their design is a bit outdated. And the output is not as great — like we see it with Nichesss and Peppertype.”
You can check-out Stemann’s review in both video and written transcript form.
*In-Depth Guide: WordLift: Automated SEO for Writers: While the marketing pitch for some automation is little more than “We do magic — enter credit card information here,” WordLift offers a deep dive into how its automated SEO solution for writers works.
Click here for a series of videos that feature a detailed breakdown on how WordLift uses automation to ensure articles are optimized to appear high-up in search engine returns.
Plus, you can find more detail on the thinking behind WordLift by checking-out “AI Text Generation for SEO: A practical example,” by Andrea Volpini, WordLift’s CEO
Essentially: WordLift is targeting writers who are looking to get the most from SEO using automation.
*In-Depth Guide: SEO Content Machine: One of a number of AI writers that promise automated writing optimized for the search engines, this tool gets a mostly thumbs-down response from KasaReviews.
Observes KasaReviews: “Unfortunately, SEO Content Machine has the same issue like other article generator tools.
“The article generated doesn’t have natural flow and it often skips from topic to topic.
“Text is unrelated to topic, so you often need to edit — a lot.
“For me, SCM still needs a lot of work. The software just can’t replace (a) human and create 100% human readable content.
“Between content generator tools and spin rewriters, I would rather choose (a) spin rewriter.”
SCM is one of a number of AI-generated writing programs that also promise SEO optimized copy.
Others include :
~Jasper (formerly Jarvis)
*In-Depth Review: Closers Copy: The Tech Reviewer has mixed feelings on this auto-writer.
Essentially, the review servIce found the solution often auto-generates unreliable content, lacks grammar and plagiarism tools and sports a user interface that could use simplification.
Interestingly, Closers Copy is one of the few AI auto-writers on the market today that does not use the supercomputer-driven GPT-3 as its writing engine.
Bottom line: “There are plenty of other great (and frankly better) AI copywriting tool options out there,” according to The Tech Reviewer.
*WriterZen — AI Writer for Automated SEO: Writer Zen is one of a number of new auto-writing tools that also promise to ensure the copy it generates is optimized for the search engines.
Towards that end, WriterZen offers a number of tools specifically focused on getting the best possible SEO for your copy.
Overall, reviewer Harish Gupta is upbeat on WriterZen — although he has reservations about the tool’s ability to generate optimal content.
Observes Gupta: “The content creation tool is decent: However, it may not be up to the mark if you compare it with well-known content creators.”
Other AI writing services promising SEO-friendly copy include SEO Content writer, AISEO, Jarvis and Frase.io.
*In-Depth Guide: Predis.ai — Auto-Writing for Social Media: While marketers and others have been using software to auto-schedule posts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media, Predis.ai goes a step further.
It also helps auto-generate the content you’re looking to post.
Overall, reviewer Phillip Stemann gives the tool three stars.
Observes Stemann: “Starting with the pros, you get automatic content generation, you get the competitor analysis, and you get extensive post editing.”
As for the cons: Predis.ai only integrates with a few social media networks so far, Stemann says. The software should also offer more templates and more data substantiating why the hashtags it recommends make sense for a specific post.
Stenmann’s review is available as a video — or written transcript.
*In-Depth Guide: Localio.io: This 13-minute video offers a detailed, uncritical look at AI-powered copywriter Localio.io.
The tool’s specialty is localization: It’s designed to quickly auto-generate copy for Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn and other digital properties in more than 120 languages.
*Menterprise: In-Depth Guide: SEO Affiliate Domination offers an in-depth video guide to this AI writing tool.
Essentially, Menterprise is designed to auto-generate Google-friendly articles, blog posts, emails, Facebook ads and similar copy.
Generally speaking, auto-writers like Menterprise can only generate a paragraph or two at a time on any given topic with any reliability.
*Contentbot: In-Depth Guide: AI auto-writer Contentbot gets a ‘Not Quite Ready for Prime Time’ evaluation in this look-see from MakeMoneyBro.com.
The problem, according to MakeMoneyBro: “I found that the text generated — especially from their non-GTP-3 options — can be sorely lacking at times, leading me to have to regenerate content much more than on other services.”
*In-Depth Guide: Ink and the Long Form Article: The company behind Ink offers a tour of its AI writer in this 15-minute YouTube video.
Included are tips and tricks on how to generate a long-form article with Ink by working on — and refining — short sections of the article, a-piece-at-a-time, until you’ve generated a substantial article or blog post.
One of Ink’s interesting tools: The ability to auto-rewrite a sentence so that it’s more casual, more formal, more simple-to-read — and similar options.
Ink also helps optimize articles so they appear higher-up in search engine returns.
*In-Depth Guide: Wrytly: Yash Singh offers a walkthrough of AI writer Wrytly in this 11-minute video.
The auto-AI writer operates like most auto-writers based on predictive analytics, enabling you to auto-generate short slogans, ad copy, blog posts, articles and similar text with varying success.
Singh’s take: Wrytly’s interface is simple and easy to use and “the output quality is pretty good.”
On the downside: Wrytly sometimes delivers unwanted copy, along with the copy you’re looking for.
That sometimes requires you to re-jigger the tool multiple times to auto-generate copy closer to what you really want, according to Singh.
*In-Depth Guide: Hyperwrite: Mike Kaput, a senior consultant at PR 20/20, a marketing agency, is all-in on AI writer HyperWrite.
Observes Kaput of the tool: “Artificial intelligence wrote an entire blog post for me — seriously, all of it.
“I gave AI a topic, and the machine did the rest.
“The result was a 100% factual, 100% original blog post that totaled about 650 words.”
“AI tools that generate language are nothing new.
“But the technology appears to have advanced to an unprecedented level.
“We might not be far away from machines writing in-depth long-form content.”
Click here for a detailed, step-by-step look at how HyperWrite works.
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