Edyt Web, readability checks, and four free writing tools

Until recently, trying Edyt meant downloading an app, approving a permission, and learning a shortcut. That is a lot to ask of someone who only wants to see what it does to one paragraph.

So there is now a version that asks for nothing first.

Edyt Web

Edyt Web is an editor that runs in a browser tab, at edyt.app/edytor. Paste something in, or write there, and you get the same actions as the desktop app: Rewrite, Proofread, Alternatives, Explain, Translate, and Prompts.

You don't need an account. Select some text and a small pill appears with the actions on it. The bar at the bottom of the editor lists every action and ready-made prompt.

Nothing replaces your words without asking. A rewrite is shown in your text first, and you accept it, try again, or discard it and keep what you wrote.

Without an account there is a daily limit on AI actions. A free account raises it and lets you save your own prompts. Your draft is saved in your browser, on your device.

Edyt Web is not a replacement for Edyt Desktop. The desktop app works inside the app you are already typing in, and that is still the reason Edyt exists. Edyt Web is for the times you can't install anything, or you want to see how Edyt behaves before you do.

Readability checks

Edyt now marks the parts of your writing that are hard to read, while you type. There is no button to press.

It looks for five things:

• Very hard sentences, over 30 words
• Hard sentences, over 20 words
• Adverbs
• Passive voice
• Phrases that have a simpler alternative

Each one gets its own color. A line under your text counts them and shows a reading level and a reading time.

Take this sentence:

The feedback that we received from the first group of testers, who tried it over the weekend and wrote down everything that confused them along the way, was mostly positive, although a few people found the wording of the final screen confusing.

That is 42 words, so it gets the red underline. Split it in two and the red goes away:

The first testers tried it over the weekend and wrote down everything that confused them. Most of the feedback was positive, but a few people found the final screen confusing.

Simpler words are the quickest to deal with. "Utilize" gets a Fix button that swaps in "use".

These are things to look at again, not rules. Passive voice is sometimes the right choice, and you can hide any kind of highlight you don't want to see.

The highlights are worked out in your browser. Your text is not sent anywhere for them, and they don't count against any limit.

One limit worth knowing: sentence length works in any language, but adverbs, passive voice and simpler words are checked in English only.

The same checks are in the Proofread panel in Edyt Desktop.

Four free tools

Some people search for one specific job, so the same editor is also available opened on that job:

• Sentence checker for grammar, spelling and punctuation
• Sentence rewriter for a clean rewrite, or a few versions to pick from
• Readability checker for the highlights above
• Passive voice checker for the passive phrases only

None of them needs an account. The AI actions share the same daily limit as Edyt Web.

The Prompt Library is open

The Library is the set of ready-made prompts that come with Edyt, like Friendlier, Shorter, Politely Decline and TL;DR. You can now browse it at edyt.app/prompts without signing in.

A few of them are already pinned to the pill in Edyt Web, under the built-in actions, so they run in one click.

Choosing your own pins, changing a Library prompt, or writing your own needs a free account, because it has to be saved somewhere. Once you are signed in, your prompts are the same in Edyt Web and Edyt Desktop.

Try it

Paste the last thing you wrote into Edyt Web and look at what gets underlined. That is the fastest way to see what it does.