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April 11, 2026 · View on GitHub

Awesome Writing Tools 💕 Awesome

A curated list of awesome resources for improving written communication.
  • Alex.js: Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing. Whether your own or someone else’s writing, Alex helps you find gender favoring, polarizing, race related, religion inconsiderate, or another unequal phrasing.
  • Atomic AI / Atomic Reach: Real time, custom and predictive recommendations to create well written content with your audience in mind every time.
  • The Chicago Manual of Style: The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format.
  • Chisel Editor: An AI-powered tool for writing books and stories.
  • CiteMe: AI-powered academic citation generator that searches 8+ databases and formats references in 40+ styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, ABNT, etc.). Includes browser extensions and Word/Google Docs integrations.
  • Cliche Finder: Finds and highlights cliches in your writing.
  • Contributor Covenant: A code of conduct pledge, to respect and appreciate contributors and participants in open source projects.
  • Danger: Formalizes pull request ettiquette.
  • Grammarly: Grammarly makes sure everything you type is clear and mistake-free. It even checks for plagiarism.
  • The Hemingway Editor: Hemingway helps you write with power and clarity by highlighting adverbs, passive voice, and dull, complicated words. Cut the dead weight from your writing.
  • Inkwell: A lightweight Markdown editor built with Rust and Tauri. Split view, live preview, 4 themes, focus mode, typewriter mode, and version history. No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry.
  • JigSaw: A technology incubator focused on countering extremism and removing censorship online.
  • Kindling: A free, open-source novel writing app that bridges outlining and drafting. Your outline's scene beats become expandable prompts inside a focused drafting space. Built with Rust and Tauri.
  • LanguageCheck: Analyses scientific papers written in LaTeX, offline or on overleaf. Analysis reports with suggestions for improvements include a list of common mistakes/ambiguities, tense consistency, a vs. an, spell check and paragraph topic sentences.
  • Markdownlint: A tool to check markdown files and flag style issues.
  • Perspective API: An API that uses machine learning models to score the perceived impact of comments before they are sent. There is a demo nearer to the bottom of the page which can be used to try out the API.
  • ProWritingAid: ProWritingAid suggests edits for repetitiveness, vague wording, sentence length variation, over-dependence on adverbs, passive voice, over-complicated sentence constructions, spelling, and grammar.
  • Readable.io: Readable.io analyzes the readability of text and suggests ways to improve it.
  • Taskade: Taskade is a real-time collaborative editor for creating bullet lists, outlines, and task lists.
  • toprank: Open-source Claude Code plugin that includes an E-E-A-T focused content writer for SEO, keyword research with intent classification, and meta tag optimization. Pulls real Google Search Console data to drive recommendations, and pushes content changes directly to WordPress, Strapi, Contentful, or Ghost.
  • Weallbehave: Weallbehave is a command-line tool for automatically generating and updating the CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md for your projects.
  • Write Good: Write Good is a tool for improving language that can be run again code in a shell or within text editors via test editor plugins.

This list was started by Jason Farmer along with Jeff Wainwright to share tools that might make writing a bit more friendly. Any insights or suggestions are very much appreciated.

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