Insights: AI Writing Assistants
On May 9, 2025
AI-based writing assistants have become an increasingly popular tool for students, professionals, researchers, and content writers. This popularity is ensuring more tools and solutions are being developed and brought to market, and it can often be hard to identify the best option for one’s needs. In this market insights post, we will discuss the efficacy of some of the available options, sharing some of the feedback and insights produced by our editorial team following their evaluation of a range of AI-powered copyediting products (including Grammarly, Trinka, and AuthorPilot).
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Grammarly
Grammarly is one of the most well-known AI-assisted writing tools, designed for everyday communication. It offers real-time grammar and spell checks, tone suggestions, clarity improvements, sentence restructuring, and even a plagiarism checker (in the premium version).
Key Features:
- Grammar, spelling, and punctuation checker
- Clarity and tone suggestions
- Vocabulary enhancements
- Plagiarism checker (Premium)
- Integration with email, browsers, Microsoft Word, and Google Docs.
Advantages of the Grammarly tool include:
- User-friendly interface
- Works across platforms and devices
- Offers real-time suggestions
- Helpful tone and clarity analysis.
Disadvantages of the Grammarly tool include:
- Some suggested alterations to wording and sentence structure change the overall meaning of the statement
- Free version has limited functionality
- Plagiarism checker is only available with the premium subscription
- Supports only English, no options for other languages.
Trinka AI
Trinka AI is an online grammar checker and language correction AI tool for academic, technical, and formal writing. It is specifically designed for researchers, scholars, and professionals in the fields of medicine, science, and engineering.
Key Features:
- Grammar and spell checks
- Proofread File
- Consistency checks
- Paraphrasing
- Integration with Microsoft Word, accessible via any browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc., and Cloud API for publishers.
Advantages of the Trinka AI tool include:
- Tailored for academic and technical writing
- Offers subject-specific grammar and style suggestions
- Helps improve consistency in language, terminology, and citations.
Disadvantages of the Trinka AI tool include:
- Free version has limited access to key features
- Tends to alter or change the original meaning of the content
- Does not support Google Docs or browser extension (emails, social media, etc.)
- Plagiarism checker is only available with the premium
- Supports only English, no options for other languages.
AuthorPilot by Integra
AuthorPilot is an AI and NLP-based manuscript assessment and automated language editing solution. This tool is designed to assist editorial desks in screening manuscripts before peer review, helping streamline the process and enhance efficiency. It aligns well with editorial workflows and is ideal for those preparing manuscripts for journal publication or undergoing the peer-review process.
Key Features:
- Checks for language assessment and editing
- Tracks edit for ease of use for authors and also preserves the original meaning of the manuscript
- Works both in Word and HTML editor
- Automates language quality assessments and technical evaluations, reducing manual editorial efforts.
Advantages of the AuthorPilot tool include:
- Built to meet editorial and publication standards
- Supports scientific and technical documents
- Good for authors submitting to journals or publishers
- Does comprehensive editing before the peer review and final acceptance.
Disadvantages of the AuthorPilot tool include:
- Might need adjustments with existing editorial systems and workflows.
- Supports only English; no options for other languages
While Grammarly and Trinka AI offer free versions, features like plagiarism checks and advanced editing are unlocked with a premium subscription. Choosing the right tool depends on your writing objectives. For example, if you are an author, especially a non-native speaker, then Integra will help improve the efficiency of your manuscript by providing language assessment and technical evaluation. If you are a research professional or scholar or academic editor, then Grammarly or Trinka AI can help tweak minor grammatical errors.