# Writer's Toolbelt > A curated directory of AI tools for fiction and nonfiction writers: drafting, editing, plotting, research, blurbs, audiobooks, and covers. Canonical site: https://writerstoolbelt.com. Listings live as JSON in the repository under content/tools. The first category is the primary shelf. Pricing models are free, freemium, subscription, one-time, and usage-based. Summaries are editorial and name a limitation. The person who keeps this directory also builds ProseEngine. It is listed on the same terms as every other tool. Tools are alphabetical. There is no paid ranking. ## Tools - [Adobe Firefly](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/adobe-firefly): Audiobooks and covers. Freemium. Authors already in Photoshop who want generative fills and a more legible commercial story. Official site: https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.html - [Anyword](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/anyword): Marketing and blurbs. Subscription. Testing blurb and ad variants when you will still choose with a human ear. Official site: https://www.anyword.com - [AutoCrit](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/autocrit): Editing. Subscription. Novelists who want genre-aware notes on a complete draft, not a chatbot that continues the scene. Official site: https://www.autocrit.com - [Canva Magic Studio](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/canva-magic-studio): Audiobooks and covers. Freemium. Authors who need a workable cover, social graphics, and a blurb draft without hiring a designer yet. Official site: https://www.canva.com/canva-ai/ - [ChatGPT](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/chatgpt): Drafting. Freemium. Writers who want one flexible assistant and will bring their own outline, pages, and skepticism. Official site: https://chatgpt.com - [Claude](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/claude): Drafting. Freemium. Drafting and revision when you want a careful reader more than a plot machine. Official site: https://claude.ai - [Consensus](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/consensus): Research. Freemium. Nonfiction writers checking whether a popular claim survives contact with research papers. Official site: https://consensus.app - [Copy.ai](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/copy-ai): Marketing and blurbs. Freemium. Promotional drafts, with the caveat that the company is no longer building for hobbyist writers first. Official site: https://www.copy.ai - [DeepL Write](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/deepl-write): Editing. Freemium. Nonfiction clarity, and writers moving between languages who want phrasing help rather than a story engine. Official site: https://www.deepl.com/write - [Descript](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/descript): Audiobooks and covers. Freemium. Authors who record their own audiobook or podcast and want to edit sound the way they edit a document. Official site: https://www.descript.com - [ElevenLabs](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/elevenlabs): Audiobooks and covers. Freemium. Audiobook prototypes and performance-quality narration, after you have read the commercial terms. Official site: https://elevenlabs.io - [Elicit](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/elicit): Research. Freemium. Serious nonfiction, and research-heavy fiction that needs papers rather than the first Google result. Official site: https://elicit.com - [Fictionary](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/fictionary): Editing. Subscription. Novelists who want structure feedback while outlining and revising, with an optional human class on the side. Official site: https://fictionary.co - [Gemini](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/gemini): Drafting. Freemium. Writers already working in Google's tools who want a second model without a new app. Official site: https://gemini.google.com - [Grammarly](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/grammarly): Editing. Freemium. Nonfiction, student writing, and business prose where clarity matters more than voice. Official site: https://www.grammarly.com - [HyperWrite](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/hyperwrite): Drafting. Freemium. Short-form drafts and quick rewrites, especially outside a dedicated writing app. Official site: https://www.hyperwriteai.com - [Ideogram](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/ideogram): Audiobooks and covers. Freemium. Cover and promo concepts that include a title, knowing you will still reset the type. Official site: https://ideogram.ai - [Jasper](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/jasper): Marketing and blurbs. Subscription. Authors and small publishers who run ongoing campaigns, not writers drafting chapters. Official site: https://www.jasper.ai - [Jenni](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/jenni): Research. Freemium. Nonfiction writers and researchers who need cited drafts grounded in their own sources. Official site: https://jenni.ai/ - [LanguageTool](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/languagetool): Editing. Freemium. Writers working in more than one language who want grammar help without a generative rewrite of the page. Official site: https://languagetool.org - [Leonardo.Ai](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/leonardo-ai): Audiobooks and covers. Freemium. Cover concepts and interior art when you want controls, not only a prompt box. Official site: https://leonardo.ai - [LivingWriter](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/livingwriter): Drafting. Freemium. Authors who want planning boards, a manuscript, and optional AI in one app, including screenwriters. Official site: https://livingwriter.com/ - [Loreon](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/loreon): Drafting. Usage-based. Series and long-form fiction writers whose continuity problem is bigger than a chat window. Official site: https://loreon.ink/ - [Marlowe](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/marlowe): Editing. Usage-based. Fiction writers who want a fast developmental read and do not want the tool to touch the prose. Official site: https://authors.ai/marlowe/ - [Midjourney](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/midjourney): Audiobooks and covers. Subscription. Cover exploration and character art before a designer builds the actual jacket. Official site: https://www.midjourney.com - [Murf](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/murf): Audiobooks and covers. Subscription. Trailers, course audio, and controlled narration when you want a studio instead of a clone of your voice. Official site: https://murf.ai - [NotebookLM](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/notebooklm): Research. Free. Nonfiction writers sitting on a stack of sources they do not want a model to wander away from. Official site: https://notebooklm.google.com - [Notion AI](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/notion-ai): Research. Subscription. Nonfiction writers and planners whose research already lives in Notion. Official site: https://www.notion.com/product/ai - [NovelAI](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/novelai): Drafting. Subscription. Fiction writers who care about a dedicated story model and persistent lore more than a guided editorial workflow. Official site: https://novelai.net - [Novelcrafter](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/novelcrafter): Drafting. Subscription. Series authors who want a codex and the freedom to pick the model, including one running on their own machine. Official site: https://www.novelcrafter.com - [Perplexity](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/perplexity): Research. Freemium. Early research and fact-finding when you want links, not a polished paragraph to paste into the book. Official site: https://www.perplexity.ai - [ProseEngine](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/proseengine): Drafting. Freemium. Fiction writers who want continuity checks and rewrite tools on their own manuscript, not a general-purpose chatbot. Official site: https://proseengine.app - [ProWritingAid](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/prowritingaid): Editing. Subscription. Authors who want a book-length style report after the story is down, fiction or nonfiction. Official site: https://prowritingaid.com - [QuillBot](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/quillbot): Editing. Freemium. Restating your own sentences, or summarizing source notes you are about to rewrite in your voice. Official site: https://quillbot.com - [Rytr](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/rytr): Marketing and blurbs. Freemium. Authors who need a handful of promotional variants and do not want an enterprise marketing suite. Official site: https://rytr.me - [Scite](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/scite): Research. Freemium. Nonfiction that depends on knowing whether a cited paper is still standing. Official site: https://scite.ai - [Speechify](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/speechify): Audiobooks and covers. Freemium. Hearing your own manuscript, and straightforward narration that does not need a directed performance. Official site: https://speechify.com - [Squibler](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/squibler): Drafting. Subscription. Writers who want a structured project and a fast first pass they are willing to throw away in revision. Official site: https://www.squibler.io - [Storysnap](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/storysnap): Plotting and worldbuilding. Usage-based. Writers who already think in Plottr and want a first-pass story bible pulled out of a finished draft. Official site: https://storysnap.ai - [Sudowrite](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/sudowrite): Drafting. Subscription. Novelists who want fiction-specific drafting tools inside the manuscript, with usage included in the subscription. Official site: https://sudowrite.com - [Type.ai](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/type-ai): Drafting. Freemium. Writers who want model help inside a manuscript editor and do not need a full worldbuilding database. Official site: https://type.ai - [Wordtune](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/wordtune): Editing. Freemium. Line-level rephrasing in nonfiction, email, and articles. Official site: https://www.wordtune.com - [Writesonic](https://writerstoolbelt.com/tools/writesonic): Marketing and blurbs. Freemium. Authors who also publish a blog and want a search-shaped first draft they will edit hard. Official site: https://writesonic.com ## Categories - [Drafting](https://writerstoolbelt.com/categories/drafting): Tools that help you produce prose: scene generators, manuscript editors with a model in the margin, and general assistants writers actually draft in. None of them owe you a finished book. - [Editing](https://writerstoolbelt.com/categories/editing): Grammar, style, repetition, and story-level notes. These earn their place once there is a manuscript to argue with. A checker that flattens voice is still a checker. - [Plotting and worldbuilding](https://writerstoolbelt.com/categories/plotting-worldbuilding): Outlines, codexes, lorebooks, and structure reports. Some of these write. Some only read the manuscript and hand back a map. Plottr itself is not here: that app deliberately ships without AI. Storysnap, from the same team, is. - [Marketing and blurbs](https://writerstoolbelt.com/categories/marketing-blurbs): Back-cover copy, ads, newsletters, and launch pages. Useful for the words that sell the book. A poor place to write the book. - [Research](https://writerstoolbelt.com/categories/research): Cited answers, paper finders, and notebooks that stay inside documents you upload. For nonfiction, and for novelists who refuse to invent a fact and hope. - [Audiobooks and covers](https://writerstoolbelt.com/categories/audiobooks-covers): Narration, voiceover, and image tools for covers and promo art. Treat the output as a draft for the ears and eyes, and read the commercial terms before you publish it. ## Comparisons - [ChatGPT vs Claude](https://writerstoolbelt.com/compare/chatgpt-vs-claude): ChatGPT is the broader workbench: brainstorming, blurbs, quick research, and whatever tool the current plan includes. Claude is the one many writers paste a chapter into when they want a steadier revision. Use either, and bring the pages. Do not expect either to remember a 90,000-word book you have not shown it. - [ElevenLabs vs Speechify](https://writerstoolbelt.com/compare/elevenlabs-vs-speechify): Use Speechify to hear your draft, catch clunky sentences, and narrate something short. Use ElevenLabs when the audio is the product — a prototype audiobook, a trailer, a cloned reading voice — and only after you have read what the plan allows you to sell. - [Grammarly vs ProWritingAid](https://writerstoolbelt.com/compare/grammarly-vs-prowritingaid): Use Grammarly for essays, email, queries, and nonfiction where a clean, conventional sentence is the goal. Use ProWritingAid when the unit of work is a book and you want repeats, pacing, and style across the whole file. Fiction writers who leave Grammarly on for dialogue often regret the voice it prefers. - [Jasper vs Rytr](https://writerstoolbelt.com/compare/jasper-vs-rytr): Rytr is enough for an author producing a handful of blurbs, posts, and emails. Jasper earns its fee when marketing is a weekly job and more than one person has to sound like the same brand. Neither should draft the novel. - [LivingWriter vs Novelcrafter](https://writerstoolbelt.com/compare/livingwriter-vs-novelcrafter): Choose LivingWriter if you want boards, a manuscript, screenplay formatting, and a little AI without an API account. Choose Novelcrafter if a series codex and the right to swap models, including a local one, matter more than bundled requests. Neither is a guided fiction co-writer in the Sudowrite sense. If you want named story buttons and the model included, look there instead. - [Sudowrite vs NovelAI](https://writerstoolbelt.com/compare/sudowrite-vs-novelai): Pick Sudowrite for a guided novel workflow with a story bible and rewrite tools. Pick NovelAI if the model's voice, a lorebook, and fewer content refusals matter more than an editorial interface. If you need line-editing reports, neither is ProWritingAid. - [Sudowrite vs Novelcrafter](https://writerstoolbelt.com/compare/sudowrite-vs-novelcrafter): Choose Sudowrite if you want fiction tools and model use bundled, and you would rather not manage API keys. Choose Novelcrafter if a series codex and the right to swap models — including a local one — matter more than a guided set of buttons. Plenty of writers keep both, which is a clue that neither is the whole job. ## Optional - [Submit a tool](https://writerstoolbelt.com/submit): Suggestion form. It opens an email and stores nothing. - [Featured listing](https://writerstoolbelt.com/sponsor): Placeholder sponsorship rates. Nothing is for sale. - [Newsletter](https://writerstoolbelt.com/newsletter): Placeholder signup. No list is connected.