Overview

Wordtune combines rewriting, proofreading, grammar and spelling correction, and text generation with Wordtune Read, which summarizes PDFs and online articles alongside relevant passages. Tone and length controls give writers ways to shape revisions, while the free plan offers a practical starting point. The two sides have distinct quotas: Read allows fewer monthly summaries than the writing plans, and it works only on desktop with English documents.

Key features

Writing assistance

The extension works across writing websites in Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Arc. Supported locations include Google Docs, Gmail, Slack, Facebook, Twitter, Web Outlook, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp Web, making it useful for people composing in several browser-based services. Its daily rewrite cap may be a constraint for heavy editors, though proofreading, grammar checks, and spelling corrections are unlimited on the free plan.

The extension can translate and rewrite Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi, Korean, Hebrew, Russian, German, French, and Portuguese text into English. That is a focused direction of language support, rather than a promise of rewriting English into those languages.

Wordtune Read

Read summarizes PDFs and online articles and places summaries beside relevant passages, a useful format for readers who want a digest without losing sight of the source text. Its free plan permits five new summaries per month, separate from the writing plan’s AI summarization allowance. Read is desktop-only and supports English documents, so it is a poor fit for mobile reading or multilingual document workflows. Uploaded text is processed on Wordtune servers and stored on Google Cloud servers in the United States. Wordtune says it does not sell user information to advertisers or data brokers; employees cannot access uploaded documents except for a select team of engineers handling account-related technical issues.

An API is also available for integrating Wordtune’s writing and reading capabilities into other apps, platforms, and products.

Pricing

Wordtune uses a freemium model, with a free plan, a 3-day trial, and paid plans from $6.99/mo billed annually. The plans page says subscriptions are not refundable. For help, Wordtune directs subscribers to its Help Center chatbot or help@wordtune.com.

Basic — 0.00 USD per free: 10 rewrites and AI suggestions per day, AI generations, three AI summarizations per month, and unlimited spelling corrections and grammar checks. It suits occasional writers who can live with modest rewrite and summary quotas.
Advanced — 6.99 USD per year (billed per month/ billed annually): 30 rewrites and AI suggestions per day, 15 AI summarizations per month, and unlimited AI recommendations, spelling corrections, and grammar checks. This is the step up for regular writers who need more daily revisions and monthly summaries, but it still caps rewrites and summaries.
Unlimited — 9.99 USD per year (billed per month/ billed annually): unlimited rewrites and AI suggestions, AI summarizations, spelling corrections, grammar checks, vocabulary enhancements, clarity improvements, and fluency increases, plus premium support. It is the clearest fit for frequent users who would otherwise run into the Advanced quotas.

Read has its own free limit of five new summaries per month, so upgrading a writing plan does not remove that separate constraint. The short trial and non-refundable subscriptions make it sensible to check the workflow and limits before committing.

Platforms

Wordtune is available as an extension, on iOS, and on the web. Read itself is desktop-only, despite the broader platform reach of Wordtune’s writing tools.

Who it's for

Wordtune is best for browser-based writers who want revisions, proofreading, and grammar help in the places they already compose, with article and PDF summaries as a useful extra. It is less compelling for people who need high-volume summaries on mobile, documents in languages other than English in Read, or more expansive multilingual rewriting than translating selected languages into English.

Pros and cons

Pros: The extension works across four browsers and a broad set of writing locations, reducing the need to move text into a separate editor.
Pros: Unlimited spelling and grammar checks on Basic make the free plan useful even when its 10 daily rewrites and three monthly AI summaries are not enough for more intensive work.
Pros: Read keeps summaries alongside relevant passages, and the API supports embedding both reading and writing capabilities in other products.
Cons: Read allows only five new summaries per month on its free plan, and its desktop-only, English-document restrictions rule out many mobile and multilingual reading needs.
Cons: Advanced still limits users to 30 daily rewrites and 15 monthly AI summaries; only Unlimited removes those writing quotas.
Cons: Read uploads are processed on Wordtune servers and stored in the United States, a consideration for users with sensitive documents.

Alternatives

For a broader shortlist of paraphrasing software, see AI Paraphrasing Tools.

RewritePal is worth considering for a free 10,000-character rewrite limit and a wider platform range that includes Android, desktop systems, and web.
Phrasit is a web-only option with a free plan capped at 150 words per run and 30 AI runs.
QuillBot offers a free paraphraser capped at 125 words, a 1,200-word summarizer, and two paraphrasing modes, making it a straightforward alternative for users whose needs fit those limits.
Paraphraser.io has Android, iOS, web, and API platforms; its Silver plan is 4.55 USD per month with a seven-day validity and set word, paraphrase, and plagiarism limits.
Rewriter AI may suit users seeking a defined monthly word allowance and API access: its Starter plan is 6.40 USD per month billed annually for 50,000 words per month.
Clever AI Humanizer is a free web option with no fixed monthly word allowance and up to 3,000 words per request, subject to service availability.
Sapling is another freemium option, with API, extension, self-hosted, web, and Windows platforms.
Prepostseo Paraphrasing Tool offers a web-based yearly plan at 5.25 USD per year, billed $63 annually, with 2,500 words per submission and all modes.

Verdict

Choose Wordtune if you want browser-based writing help that follows you across common writing sites, with Read summaries and an API as additional tools. Its free proofreading and grammar checks lower the barrier to trying it, but frequent summarization, mobile Read use, and non-English documents are better reasons to look elsewhere.

	ScholarForge Paraphraser	Wordtune
Free plan	No	Yes
Free trial	No	Yes
Paid from	—	$0.58/mo
Open source	No	No
Platforms	Web	extension, iOS, Web
Free plan	No	Yes
Tone controls	Yes	Yes
Paid from	—	6.99 /mo
Length controls	—	Yes
API access	—	Yes

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