PerfectIt

PerfectIt

Intelligent Editing
ProWritingAid

ProWritingAid

Orpheus Technology
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About

If you're working on contracts, proposals, reports, technical documents, articles and books, PerfectIt saves time on copy-editing, so that authors can pay more attention to what matters most: the words and their meaning. By helping to eliminate typos, it saves money on re-writes and changes, especially after documents have gone to press. It increases the chance that proposals will be accepted and articles will be published. It can enforce the preferences of your house style and ensure that your business is presented the way you want it to be. Abbreviations help to save space. But they can also be confusing or distracting; and when readers don’t understand them, they can get in the way of your message. PerfectIt brings clarity by linking every abbreviation to its definition. It can automatically generate a Table of Abbreviations and it can check every abbreviation in your text to make sure it’s defined on first use.

About

Companies using ProWritingAid produce higher quality content, comms, reports, bids and other documents with fewer mistakes, faster. ProWritingAid eliminates common error types, inconsistent terminology, contextual spelling errors, grammar mistakes, and poor writing style. A wide range of integration options, including API and on-premise solutions, supports all sizes of organization, including those with high-level security and privacy requirements.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Style Checker app for students, writers and teachers

Audience

Companies or teams of 25 to 25,000 that are producing large amounts of written content and communications.

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$70/year, per user
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$79.00/year/user
Costs structured to meet client requirements.
Discounts available for enterprise and multi-user licensing.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.5 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 4.5 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It's an add-in in Word - no security issues and really fast and easy to use - you just click 'launch' from the ribbon inside the document and then 'run PerfectIt' each time. I run it several times when I'm working on proposals. It saves me hours checking long documents for minor errors. Literally, hours. And it gives me confidence that the document I submit has had a through quality control check. The 14-day free trial is actually free - no credit card details required It's just really clever - runs 27 checks across the whole document and points out inconsistencies. Eg if you have capitalized a heading on one page and not on another or if you have used US spelling here and UK spelling there. It can even eliminate double spaces after periods and remind you to define acronyms. It can be customized for House Style - eg preferred spellings. It's cheap - it's only $70 per year, and with my APMP discount I get 30% off.

Cons

  • I wish there was an option to pay monthly rather than annually but I appreciate that PerfectIt don't take credit card details and automatic renewals because I'm the type of person who always forgets to cancel!

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It's actually helped me to become a better writer. There are so many reports and different features, all of which provide excellent information. It's fairly intuitive and has helpful pop-up suggestions displayed in your text. You can customize the analysis by genre and even compare your writing to a well-known author. Lots of charts and graphs to provide overviews. Has great ability to focus in on the worst errors. Many of the features go far beyond simple spelling and grammar checks: Style suggestions, duplications, clichés, overused phrases, too many to name here, but as I said, it made me a better writer by far.
  • I use the browser based free version of ProWritingAid for every piece of material I write. It's decent on finding grammatical errors with punctuation, etc. It's especially wonderful for picking up on typos and mistakenly typed words that our eyes tend to skip over, for example: typing "form" when you meant "from." It goes a step beyond grammar and can flag issues like passive voice, which is helpful if you have a difficult time seeing it in your own writing. I find PWAs cloud version works much better than Grammarly, which I could not get to work properly on my computer.

Cons

  • A bit slow loading large documents. I would like better control over sections written in regional or other dialects. I wish there were an easy way to download and print the many reports available. If there is, I haven't found it. The overall summary report can be downloaded/printed, but there are so many others. I would like the changes I make within the uploaded document to be tracked in Word's change tracker. Like any AI product, it will make wrong choices, but doesn't change anything automatically, so you can easily ignore an incorrect suggestion.
  • A percentage of the suggestions are incorrect--I'd guess perhaps 20%--so you need a fairly good foundation in grammar to know when to ignore PWA's suggestions. Or you can at least flag the change to ask your editor. I don't think the full program is worth the price, but it might be if you find it on sale.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Intelligent Editing
Founded: 2009
United Kingdom
intelligentediting.com

Company Information

Orpheus Technology
Founded: 2011
United Kingdom
prowritingaid.com

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Categories

Categories

Proofreading Features

Contextual Speller
Dictionary / Thesaurus
Grammar Check
Plagiarism Detection
Punctuation Check
Reporting & Statistics
Spell Check
Style Check
Text Editor

Proofreading Features

Contextual Speller
Dictionary / Thesaurus
Grammar Check
Plagiarism Detection
Punctuation Check
Reporting & Statistics
Spell Check
Style Check
Text Editor

Integrations

Microsoft Word
Final Draft
Google Chrome
Google Docs
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Outlook
Mozilla Firefox
NovelPad
PTC Windchill
Safari
Scrivener
Wattpad
WordPress

Integrations

Microsoft Word
Final Draft
Google Chrome
Google Docs
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Outlook
Mozilla Firefox
NovelPad
PTC Windchill
Safari
Scrivener
Wattpad
WordPress
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