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AI sidebar for everything you do in the browser.
Find answers quickly from any document.
Adds LLM-powered writing help to Overleaf for drafting and polishing academic papers.
Adds AI suggestions and summaries to any website without switching to a separate app.
A 25,000-prompt library plus a booster tool that rewrites your prompts for sharper ChatGPT results.
Summarizes long Gmail threads and drafts context-aware replies from inside your inbox.
A right-click popup for AI chat, image generation, and text writing in Chrome.
A one-click AI sidebar for quick tasks while browsing, in eight languages.
Adds AI-drafted suggestions and buttons to Gmail via the OpenAI Assistants API.
Highlight and interact with web content via AI.
Highlight any text on a page and get an instant AI-written summary.
Summarizes any website and lets you chat with its content for more detail.
Flags harsh tone in what you're about to post before you hit send.
JimmyGPT is an AI assistant that helps with writing tasks. Limited access.
Improves grammar, translates and summarizes text via a right-click ChatGPT menu.
Free browser-based PDF tools, but limited for server-side tasks.
Rehumanize AI text instantly.
Summarizes any webpage and lets you ask it direct questions about the content.
Identifies untrusted beauty sites.
Explains any highlighted sentence using ChatGPT, with adjustable depth and format.
AI-powered email writer for Google Workspace.
GistReader simplifies reading and saves time, but is not for those seeking a complex RSS reader.
GetBot integrates multiple AI models for writing and more.
Best for DnD enthusiasts, not casual gamers
Suggests plot twists and characters as you write, then lets you share the story with a community.
Format plain text quickly into polished documents, but not all templates support images.
Save time by writing, expanding and engaging with AI snippets.
Summarizes articles in real time and lets you tag results by topic for later.
A Chrome sidepane that answers questions, drafts emails and summarizes articles using GPT-4.
Chat with FilePower AI and get answers directly from your PDFs. Free trial available.
Grades essays quickly, but lacks nuanced feedback.
Writes emails and replies in your own voice from just a short prompt.
Turns your browsing data into a data source you can own and earn from via DePIN Chain.
A free web-based AI content generator accessible only through the browser, with no companion app.
Capture ideas instantly, refine them later.
Brings Microsoft Copilot's sidebar assistant to Chrome for drafting, research and summaries.
Autocompletes ChatGPT prompts in real time and lets you save your favorite templates.
Right-click any selected text to generate, paraphrase, proofread or answer questions with ChatGPT in two clicks.
Adds ChatGPT to the browser with voice input and sentiment analysis for more responsive replies.
Rewrites text in a tone and complexity level you choose, while keeping the original meaning intact.
Store and organize notes online.
Loads ChatGPT in the browser and tailors advice to whatever website you're currently viewing.
Rewrites and translates text for SEO or tone, adapting style to fit different audiences.
Gives Amazon sellers ready-made ChatGPT prompts to optimize listings and boost conversion rates.
Chats across PDFs, Word docs, websites and even YouTube videos, all inside one conversation.
Create personalized books with real photos and memories.
Capitol AI turns data into decision-grade outputs.
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Terms to know
AI writing tools cover content generation, emails, stories, essays, summaries, rewriting and translation. Copy.ai and Gemini draft articles and marketing copy from a short brief, QuillBot, Wordtune and ParagraphAI reword sentences and fix grammar and tone, and summarisers turn long reports and articles into key points. Translation tools such as Manga Translator move text between languages, and story and essay writers help with outlines and structure. Marketers, students and authors use them to write faster. Before choosing, check facts in every draft, read the AI rules of your school or publisher, and avoid pasting confidential documents into web tools that may store them.
A rewriter takes a passage and produces a new version with different wording, such as QuillBot does. A writing assistant checks your draft as you write and suggests fixes for grammar, clarity and tone. The first changes text wholesale, the second guides your own edits.
For understanding the gist, usually yes. For contracts, legal notices or anything published under your name, have a fluent speaker check the result, since idioms, names and technical terms are where machine translation most often goes wrong.
No. Detectors give probabilities, and they can flag human writing or miss edited AI text. If you need to show authorship, keep drafts and notes, and treat a detector score as a hint rather than proof.