In my experience, WRITER is mostly likely the most incompetent forms of AI writing I have experienced.Full disclosure: I inherited WRITER from my predecessor. Since I've come on board, I have tried to see it's value and use it effectively. What I've experienced is mistreatment, incompetence, and a product that is worse than some of the free AI tools out in the marketplace. I've done multiple comparisons using the same prompts, and, in my opinion, the quality received from WRITER is not what it should be for the price. In my opinion, save your money and use one of the free tools out there.
I use Writer as a freelance editor for a marketing agency. It works alongside the free version of Grammarly in my company's CMS.
Pros
Inclusive language
Punctuation suggestions
AI Rewriting
Grammar and formatting
Cons
The correction highlights don't always underline perfectly. Minor issue.
Writer can miss some obvious grammar issues that Grammarly also misses (periods, extra spaces)
Writer lacks English variants.
Likelihood to Recommend
Writer is the ultimate partner to Grammarly's free version. It catches all the commas and semi-colons that Grammarly won't. It also has the best use of inclusive language suggestions I have seen.
Writer's AI suggestions are good, too. It provides plenty of options for tone, voice, and complexity of writing. Overall, Writer's Chrome extension integrates well with most text fields on the internet. It isn't perfect with my company's CMS, but that's something unique to their formatting—Writer's underlines actually go through the text.
I use Writer primarily for content creation, particularly for social media, email, and website marketing copy. On a daily basis, I'm asking Writer to draft social post copy to promote our very technical blog articles. Monthly and quarterly, I ask Writer to draft compelling newsletter copy for our brands. I'm now beginning to use Writer to draft new website copy for a slew of landing pages.
Pros
Writer applies our writing style to copy I'm working on in browser tabs, ensuring I stay true to our voice.
Writer is able to quickly skim full blogs via a single link to use them as source material for drafting marketing copy I need.
Writer is my own business version of ChatGPT that keeps our sessions secure within the business.
Cons
I'd love if the Writer extension for Chrome could use the web page I'm on as a source for whatever drafting I need done in the sidebar.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Writer is perfect for marketing professionals who need to draft copy about dense topics and subject matter, such as within tech and product companies. It bridges the gap of knowledge between marketer and engineer and saves the former countless minutes to bring what the latter develops to the marketplace.
What I love about Writer is beyond its basic spell and grammar check. The fact that is can make suggestions and rephase your content for you within seconds has really improved my writing. It's as though you have a mentor working along side you. The customizable style guides make sure that every guide written is consistent. The new Voice tool also helps me create new articles a lot faster. All my second guessing has been eliminated with Writer.
Pros
Detect plagiarism
Keeps articles consistent
Provided suggestions that work faster than my brain, but comes from my voice
Cons
Navigation could be simplified
Likelihood to Recommend
Writer helps me create my guides and training documents, so they are easy to read and easy to write.
Writer is a valuable tool for a solo marketer - brainstorming and getting the ball rolling are often the most difficult and time-consuming tasks, so I use Writer to get the ball rolling.
Plus, the grammar and tone features help to ensure I am keeping the brand voice and standards consistent.
Pros
Blog outlining.
Rephasing content for social media
Brainstorming
Cons
I'd like to see an expanded prompt library.
It would be good to have a variety of prebuilt voices.
Maybe some videos/lessons on how to improve your prompts.
Likelihood to Recommend
Writer is well suited to slim marketing teams like mine, where brainstorming and early content generation can be a little slow to get off the ground. The brainstorming is particularly useful when you have nobody to bounce ideas off.
I haven't been able to test Writer's team functions, so I can’t say if it would be less useful for teams - but I certainly see the benefit for solo marketers.
Writer helps us expedite our content creation efforts - I love the ability to automatically outline pages and to lean on the tool's AI recommendations when I'm struggling with writer's block. Our team also leverages the tool's recap builder for our video and podcast content - it makes summarizing and repurposing audio and video media a breeze.
Pros
Copywriting outlines
Audio and video summaries
AI copywriting suggestions
Cons
SEO analysis and suggestions
Likelihood to Recommend
Writer is a great tool for expediting content creation or for repurposing existing audio/video content. It's reasonably priced and can help with a variety of copywriting formats and mediums.
I use Writer to help with blog post and occasional customer one-sheet content. Writer helps me save time by summarizing information from important events and meetings, which our team can then more easily turn into these marketing materials.
Pros
Summarizes events
Breaks down recordings into key topics
Helps with first drafts of blogs
Cons
It would be great if Writer also offered transcripts
It would be great if Writer offered the ability to prompt off of transcripts
In my opinion, Writer does not do a great job with its case study or press release features. The prompts for those could be improved.
Likelihood to Recommend
As mentioned, I do not think Writer's case study abilities are very good. The product it turns around is bland and mostly unusable, unless the user basically puts every possible piece of information in/does most of the writing themself. Using Writer's events recap feature for certain kinds of blog post writing has been extremely beneficial for us.
Writer is the best tools when it comes to language or tone of the whole team. You can chose and monitor the words how they are being used by your team in organization. If any document is being written by your team, it automatically corrects the spelling mistakes and give the reader feel like entire document is written by a single person.
Pros
Automated correction
Words auto complete
Writing Style
Cons
Support for more languages
Integration support with more browser
Open office tool support
Likelihood to Recommend
Writer is a complete AI based tool with the data security as it doesn't store any user data. It is the best tool for those content writers or their team where multiple associates are working on same project and writing the document. It analyses the contents and organise it like it was written by a single person.
I have to write a lot of FAQs for my field force and Writer helps me write them fast and without mistakes. Forget writer's block, we all face situations when we face a difficulty writing proper grammar. Spelling is another time killer when you are typing. You have to go back to each mistake, select and correct the mistake. With Writer, I can do all these from my side panel and instantly. So I am confident even when sending my writing to my management, as I know Writer has my back.
Pros
It has a clean interface and is easy to read.
Chrome integration makes my life easier. My organization doesn't allow external software
It counts words as well so I don't have to use another doc manager like MSWord to count words when I am in a tight spot
It checks as you write so you will know your mistakes instantly
Cons
The suggestion tool seemed a little slow. I don't think it's my internet as I saw it both from my home and office.
Web text boxes created some trouble for me as I couldn't correct my mistakes from the prompt. I had to use the side panel
Writer should take note of Grammarly. I really liked it when Grammarly tells me whether my writing tone is optimistic, or formal
Likelihood to Recommend
Writer is well suited when you are writing in a word processor or Google Docs. It also has its own word processor in case you need it. Writer also says it helps with AI-driven writing. It offers suggestions when it finds something. Either I write really well or the AI is lazy. It offered very few suggestions to me. I think if you fill in a lot of web forms you might face a little discomfort as the prompt doesn't work and you have to make the correction from the side panel.