Hemingway: This is a browser-based app that helps make your writing more concise. It scans text and detects sentences that are either too complex or too long, and breaks them up into smaller ones. It also highlights the overuse of adjectives in your work, and points out where you have relied on clichés to explain a certain point.
Written Kitten: Set a word target for yourself and when you reach it, you'll get a new picture of a cute kitty as motivation.
Cliche Finder: Clichés offer very little in terms of new information for the reader. With Cliché Finder, simply paste their work into the box and click the “Find Clichés” button to see where you may be using these phrases.
Readability Test Tool: Another editing tool. Simply upload your work and wait for the app to analyze its readability. Afterward, the piece is then assigned a rating, based on its algorithms. If the readability indicator bar is green, that means the text is easily readable. If it’s red, it means to text is too difficult to read and could use simplification.
ProWriting Aid: An important goal of editing, apart from fixing grammar and spelling errors, is to improve the readability of one’s work. This powerful tool will enable you to eliminate or fix the most common errors, such as the use of passive voice and overuse of certain words. It also makes note of wordiness, repetitiveness, clichés, vague phrasing and overly complex sentences.
Cold Turkey Distraction Blocker: Many of you do your writing on computers, and that means the Internet is available, where there are plenty of distracting websites to be visited. Cold Turkey is a tool that prevents you from accessing distracting webpages, so they can focus their attention on work. The best feature about Cold Turkey is that it’s almost impossible to shut down, even for those who are tech-savvy, making it easier to ensure you stay focused.
Visual Thesaurus: This is an interactive tool that uses visual maps to get its users to learn new words.
Wisemapping: With this free tool you’ll be able to help yourself plot out stories and develop your thoughts more completely.
AskOxford: Better Writing: A very useful reference for classic errors and helpful hints with a terrible site navigation.
write rhymes: As you write, hold the alt key and click on a word to find a rhyme for it.