ProWritingAid vs Trinka

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.

Trinka is an AI grammar correction and language enhancement assistant for academic and technical writing. It checks grammar, suggests paraphrases, reviews consistency and can proofread uploaded MS Word documents for download. Other tools include AI-assisted writing, citation features, plagiarism checks and a journal finder. Trinka Cloud checks English and Spanish grammar and detects the language automatically. Its browser plugin supports writing in Google Docs, Authorea, Evernote and Medium; listed platform options also include web, API, desktop and self-hosted access. Institution plans list LMS and SSO integrations such as Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and D2L. The free Basic plan does not expire, but monthly usage limits apply. Premium costs $20 a month, billed monthly, and includes up to 120 proofread files per year and 25 AI writing requests per month. Confidential Data costs $300 a year with annual billing. Trinka says user data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Its Trust Center says paid-plan data is not used to train AI models and Confidential Data Plan data is deleted after processing.