Data·yze Readability Analyzer vs ProWritingAid

Data·yze Readability Analyzer is a free, ad-supported web app that estimates how readable text may be for a chosen audience. It reports Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease, Gunning Fog Index, Kincaid Grade Level, SMOG, Dale–Chall, and Fry Reading Graph metrics. Sentence analysis and clarity recommendations are available, while a paragraph view shows statistics and changes in readability through a document. You can enter text or upload a file, then save or download the input. A separate Website Readability Analyzer evaluates an individual webpage and average readability across a site. Its crawler is limited to 1,000 pages per user per day; pausing and resuming on another day can work around that cap. Data·yze says analyzed passages are not collected or stored, although passage length is retained for performance analysis. Uploaded files may be cached and automatically removed within seven days, possibly sooner. The maker cautions that scores are heuristic estimates, not writing-quality measures, and work best with plain text.

ProWritingAid provides grammar and style suggestions through browser extensions and a desktop editor. It works with Word, Google Docs, Scrivener, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, and browser extensions are available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. The free account handles 500 words at a time and includes two line-editing runs, ten rephrases, three Sparks, and three Creative Nudges per day. Premium and Premium Pro support documents of any length. Premium includes document sharing, real-time comments, and more than 25 writing analysis reports. Its plagiarism checker compares work against webpages, published works, and academic papers. The product supports English only, including general, British, US, Australian, and Canadian English. ProWritingAid says text entered into its editor is not kept on processing servers, is encrypted during processing, and is not used to train algorithms. The free plan is available; listed paid plans include Premium at $30 a month and Premium Pro at $36 a month, both billed monthly.