Best AI tools for writing and research

Long drafts and careful rewrites.

Anthropic chat app for long documents, rewrites, and hard questions.

General writing and questions in one chat.

OpenAI chat app for questions, drafts, and agent-style tasks.

Answers that come with links.

Answers questions from the web and shows the sources it used. The Mac app can also run Computer on the machine.

Writing and research next to Google docs and mail.

Google chat app for writing, research, and work tied to a Google account.

Questions about a stack of sources you provide.

Ask questions about sources you upload. Answers point back to those sources.

Finding papers for a literature review.

Finds and screens academic papers for a literature review.

Fiction, not emails.

Fiction writing app for scenes, story beats, and rewrites.

Cleaning a draft you already wrote.

Checks grammar, tone, and clarity in the browser and in your docs.

Writing inside the wiki your team already uses.

Workspace for notes and docs, with AI help inside the pages you already keep.

Writing in ChatGPT Work on a Plus, Pro, Enterprise, or Edu plan.

OpenAI model for computer use, visual reasoning, and writing. Available in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API as gpt-6.1-terra.