Editorial AI Suite
Proofreader, Chapter Review, Prose Analysis, Manuscript Review, and the AI Editor chat.
Exploring AI Editorial Review Features in Writing Desk
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0:00 Writing Desk's AI Editorial Review gives you fast, structured feedback on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
0:06 Along with the Research Assistant, Writing Desk uses AI for fast editorial feedback when you need it.
0:13 Select Analysis and click Editor.
0:19 Select Analyse, and the review panel analyses your prose across four editorial lenses, looking for strengths and areas for improvement.
0:29 Here, the protagonist is too passive. We need to think about how to make him more active.
0:35 Writing Desk doesn't rewrite your prose or tell you how to fix it. It highlights areas you might want to focus on.
0:43 You can ask follow-up questions in the chat to dig deeper into the feedback.
0:49 The core issue here is the protagonist spends most of the chapter reacting to external events.
0:56 It's important to recognise that Writing Desk's AI feedback will never replace human feedback.
1:02 But it's a good way to get quick editorial notes, so you can polish your writing as you go.
1:09 Download Writing Desk today to try the AI Editorial feature.
Stay Focused with Writing Desk's Research Assistant
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0:00 Writing Desk's Research Assistant helps you avoid distractions by providing quick, accurate research responses in the app.
0:07 Avoid rabbit holes with the Research Assistant. Click the small search icon, bottom left.
0:12 Ask anything and get a quick response based on your question in moments.
0:22 If you want more information, click Go Deeper.
0:26 Going deeper runs a full web search and pulls out a researched, sourced answer for your question.
0:32 Stay focused with Writing Desk's Research Assistant.
Four options from the Analysis menu: Proofreader for spelling and grammar, Editor for AI Chapter Review, Prose for client-side prose analysis, and Manuscript for full-novel review.
Proofreader handles spelling and grammar through LanguageTool, plus a Style tab covering filter words, weak intensifiers, adverb density, and repeated physical beats. Prose Analysis is a separate, fully local tool covering sentence-length variety, passive voice, telling versus showing, repeated openings, paragraph length, dialogue percentage, and reading ease, with no AI involved and no credit cost.
No, it's entirely local, pattern-based analysis. It's free and instant.
Developmental, covering structure, pacing, arcs, and scene purpose. Line Editor, covering repetition, crutch words, dialogue, and clarity. Beta Reader, covering emotional response, engagement, and confusion. And World Editor, covering lore consistency, worldbuilding, and magic logic.
No, all four run from a single combined request and a single credit charge.
A typical 4,000-word chapter costs 4 credits, and it scales from there with chapter length. See full pricing.
Yes. Results are cached per chapter and reused until you've edited the chapter significantly, so you're not charged again just to view the same analysis.
Enough that the previous review no longer reflects your current draft. Small tweaks won't trigger a new charge, but a meaningful rewrite of the chapter will.
A conversational chat with the AI about your current chapter, with context carried across the conversation as you go.
1 credit per message.
An AI research tool for background and worldbuilding questions. Your initial question is answered without a web search; it only searches the web when you explicitly choose to "go deeper."
A full-novel-level AI review that looks across your whole manuscript rather than one chapter at a time, surfacing feedback on things like character consistency, character motivation, and broader developmental notes on structure and pacing. As with all of Writing Desk's AI features, it's meant as fast, high-level guidance to sit alongside your own judgment, not a replacement for human feedback.
No. AI models can sometimes get things wrong. Use your own knowledge, judgment, and instincts alongside any AI editorial feedback. It's meant as fast, high-level guidance, not a replacement for human feedback.
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