AutoCrit

AutoCrit is a web-based self-editing platform built specifically for fiction writers. It analyzes your manuscript against an algorithm trained on millions of published books and lets you compare your writing style against 100+ selected authors in your genre — an approach no general-purpose grammar checker offers.

What You Get

• Fiction analysis engine: Scans for pacing problems, overused words, dialogue tag issues, adverb density, passive voice, and repetition — all tuned for fiction rather than business writing.
• Genre comparison scoring: Benchmark your dialogue ratio, sentence variety, and pacing against authors you choose from a list of bestselling fiction writers. See how your chapter pacing maps against your genre's typical arc.
• Story Analyzer: Plan and track characters, plot threads, and foreshadowing within the platform before or during drafting.
• Backwards Blueprint: Reverse-outline your completed manuscript to reveal structural gaps or pacing inconsistencies.
• 30+ interactive editing tools: Each report is interactive — flag issues and address them inline, with explanations of why each element matters in fiction.

Who It's For

• Fiction writers doing self-editing rounds: AutoCrit catches the patterns that human eyes miss after reading your own manuscript a dozen times — repeated sentence openers, dialogue tags creeping in, overused filler words.
• Genre fiction authors: The genre comparison feature is most useful for romance, thriller, mystery, and fantasy writers who want to calibrate their prose style against what's selling in their category.
• Writers before sending to an editor: Using AutoCrit before submitting to a copy editor can reduce the editor's workload — and potentially the editing cost — by resolving surface-level issues in advance.

Pricing: The free plan offers basic spell-check and grammar features. AutoCrit Pro costs $30/month or $180/year ($15/month on annual billing). A lifetime plan is occasionally offered as a special promotion. The Pro plan includes all analysis tools, genre comparisons, the Story Analyzer, and access to a private member community with online workshops.

Strengths

• Fiction-specific benchmarking: The comparison scoring against published authors in your genre is a genuinely unique feature. It provides context that "you have 5% adverb density" lacks.
• Comprehensive fiction toolset: Pacing analysis, dialogue evaluation, and repetition detection in one place replaces running multiple tools.
• Free tier available: The free plan lets you evaluate the interface and some basic features before committing.

Limitations

• Not a developmental editor: AutoCrit doesn't evaluate plot structure, character arcs, or whether your story makes sense. It's a style and prose-level tool only.
• No grammar depth of ProWritingAid: For pure grammar and style correction, ProWritingAid or Grammarly offer more granular explanations. AutoCrit's strength is fiction-specific pattern analysis.
• Results require interpretation: The algorithm flags issues but doesn't always explain whether they're problems in your specific context. A flagged "passive voice sentence" may be intentional.
• Subscription cost for full access: At $30/month, the Pro plan is expensive if you only edit one manuscript per year. The annual plan at $15/month makes more sense for active writers.

Alternatives

ProWritingAid ($10/month or $99/year) covers more grammar and style categories and includes some genre-specific reports, though it's less fiction-focused. Fictionary addresses a different problem entirely — story structure rather than prose style — and is often used alongside AutoCrit for a complete self-editing workflow.