Type.ai
AI word processor for long-form creative writing that keeps your manuscript, story notes and AI chat in one editor, aimed at novelists, screenwriters and storytellers.
Evaluation
What to know
Editorial notes based on the vendor's own documentation and public pricing, plus hands-on testing where a score or review is shown above. They describe fit for a job, not absolute quality.
Best for
- Novelists and screenwriters drafting long manuscripts
- Writers who want AI suggestions grounded in their own story notes
- Authors who want narrated versions of drafts
Not ideal for
- Marketing teams producing short-form copy at scale
- Academics needing citation management
- Writers who want no AI in their editor
Key features
- Integrated editor and AI chat working on the same draft
- Saved story details for characters, settings and scenes
- Custom style rules to preserve your voice
- DOCX/PDF export, share links and AI narration
- Offline mode, version history and rich formatting
Pros
- Removes copy-paste between editor and chatbot
- Writing and organizing are free; only AI features use credits
- 30-day money-back guarantee on the first paid subscription
Cons
- Free-plan credits are a fixed pool that never refreshes
- Less suited to real-time co-editing than mainstream docs tools
- Credit cost varies with request size, so usage is hard to predict
ToolifyNav verdict
Type.ai is for writers who have discovered that chat assistants handle paragraphs well and books poorly. Keeping the manuscript, story notes and the AI in one place, and letting style rules shape the output, addresses continuity problems that general tools struggle with. The word-processing basics, from offline mode to version history and clean exports, are solid enough that the AI never feels bolted on. Collaborative teams and short-form marketers have better options, but novelists and screenwriters looking for an AI-aware drafting environment will find it thoughtfully built.
About
About Type.ai
Type.ai, styled simply Type, is a document editor designed around long creative projects rather than short marketing copy. Its pitch is that writers should not have to copy and paste between a word processor and a chatbot: the draft and the AI assistant live side by side, and the assistant works with the document you are actually writing.
To make suggestions specific, Type lets you save details about characters, settings and scenes so the AI can draw on them across chapters. Custom writing rules capture the quirks of your style so generated or revised passages match your voice instead of a generic one. The AI can generate, revise and review text, and paid plans include access to supported premium models through one credit allowance. When a draft is ready, you can export to DOCX or PDF, share a view-only link, or pick a voice and produce a narrated audio track.
Underneath the AI is a full modern word processor with offline mode, version history, keyboard shortcuts for the whole app, and rich formatting that includes images, tables, code and math blocks. Type states that it never trains AI models on user documents. The company says more than 300,000 writers use it and positions it as an alternative to general chat assistants for books, novels and screenplays. Manual writing, organizing, importing and exporting never consume credits.
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