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Free writing tools
Small, fast tools for people who write. Every one of them is free with nothing above it — no upgrade, no trial, no account. The ones that read your text do it in your browser and make no network request at all.
Passive Voice Checker
Highlights every passive construction in your draft, with three confidence tiers and an explanation of each — and no claim that any of them is a mistake.
Adverb Checker
Finds every adverb, separates out the ones sitting on dialogue tags, and skips the several hundred words that only look like adverbs.
Reading Time Calculator
How long a text takes to read, from a word count, a page count, or pasted text — with the words-per-minute assumption printed on the page and the study behind it cited.
Words to Pages Calculator
Turns a word count into a page count for a given font, size and spacing, with the assumptions printed rather than hidden.
Word Count Guide
How long a novel, novella, short story or chapter typically runs, by format and by genre, with every range attributed to a named source.
Writing Prompt Generator
400 original prompts across 14 categories, written for this tool rather than scraped from a list. Tap for a new one.
Dream Interpreter
Finds the recognized dream symbols in what you describe and shows hand-written interpretations. Not an AI — it will tell you when it recognizes nothing.
Dream Dictionary
Over a hundred dream symbols, each with common interpretations, variations and honest caveats about what dream research does and does not support.
Why these are free, and why there is no tier above them
Because we are not selling a writing tool. WritersLock is an app that locks your distracting apps until you have written today's entry, and the thing it is competing with is not a grammar checker — it is an open feed. A person who came here to check a draft has already done the hard part, and the most useful thing we can do is answer the question they asked and get out of the way.
That has a practical consequence worth stating: the tools on this page that analyze your writing do it entirely in your browser. There is no upload, no account, and no copy of your text anywhere. You can verify that in your browser's Network tab, which is not a sentence most of the alternatives could write.
Teachers, writing centers and anyone who wants to reprint something: there is a free, plainly licensed printable at When to keep the passive: a one-page guide, and a whole set of printable sheets — including a word count chart — on the free printables page. Every one is a PDF in US Letter and A4 with no email capture in front of it.
You already have a draft. The hard part is the next one.
Editing is the part that feels like work and is secretly the easy half. The half that fails is sitting down tomorrow, and the day after, while a phone full of apps competes for the same twenty minutes. WritersLock locks your distracting apps until today's writing is done — so the draft exists before there is anything to check.
Free 3-day trial in the app. No signup to use this tool — ever, and nothing you paste here leaves your browser.