Wordtune focuses on rewriting: highlight a sentence and it offers alternative phrasings that are more formal, more casual, shorter or longer.
Lex alternatives
Sharing a category with Lex is what puts a product on this page at all. These 18 writing tools are the closest of the ones that do, ordered by how much of Lex’s categories and tags each one covers and how closely its own description reads like Lex’s — that is an ordering, not a verdict. We have not tested any of them, and there is no score on this page.
Back to the Lex listingLex alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Pricing | Open source | Upvotes here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wordtune | Freemium | No | 11 |
| Grammarly | Freemium | No | 35 |
| Spellbook | Contact for pricing | No | 43 |
| Claude | Freemium | No | 35 |
| AI Text Cleaner | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Rephrase AI | Freemium | No | 0 |
| ShipLog | Freemium | No | 0 |
| GrantCue | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Kickresume | Freemium | No | 18 |
| Rezi | Freemium | No | 39 |
| ResumeAI | Freemium | No | 0 |
| ChatPDF | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Sudowrite | Subscription | No | 14 |
| Notion | Freemium | No | 20 |
| Figma | Freemium | No | 35 |
| ProWritingAid | Freemium | No | 0 |
| Perplexity | Freemium | No | 39 |
| VEED | Freemium | No | 31 |
Grammarly checks grammar, spelling, clarity and tone as you write in the browser, desktop apps, email clients and mobile keyboards.
Spellbook works as a Microsoft Word add-in, suggesting clause language, flagging unusual or missing terms, and reviewing a contract against a firm's playbook without leaving the document.
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, desktop, mobile and through an API. It handles long documents, structured analysis, writing and software development, and can use tools, browse connected data sou…
AI Text Cleaner
Remove invisible characters, Markdown and AI formatting from
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories with Lex
AI Text Cleaner removes hidden Unicode characters, zero-width spaces, unusual whitespace and Markdown residue from drafts.
Paraphrase sentences, paragraphs, emails, and drafts with Rephrase AI. Make your writing clearer, more professional, or shorter without changing its meaning.
ShipLog provides a feedback board, changelog, and embeddable widget to help SaaS founders collect feature requests, manage user voting, and publish updates.
GrantCue is a grant management platform that helps nonprofits, research teams, and businesses find, track, and apply for funding opportunities.
Kickresume offers recruiter-reviewed templates plus an AI writer that drafts summaries and experience bullets from a job title, alongside a website version of your resume.
Rezi drafts and formats resumes with an emphasis on passing applicant tracking systems, scoring content against common screening criteria and rewriting bullet points into measurable achievements.
ResumeAI is an online resume builder and ATS score checker that helps job seekers draft, format, and optimize their resumes.
ChatPDF allows users to upload PDF documents, books, and research papers to ask questions, extract summaries, and find information through a conversational interface.
Sudowrite is designed for novelists rather than marketers, with tools for brainstorming plot, describing scenes, expanding sparse drafts and keeping characters consistent across a long manuscript.
Notion is a flexible workspace where documents, databases, wikis and project boards share one structure, so a task list and a spec can live in the same system.
Figma is a browser-based design tool where interface design, prototyping, design systems and developer handoff happen in one shared file.
ProWritingAid provides writing and editing software designed to help authors and writers finish their books. The platform includes planning tools, grammar and style checkers, manuscript analysis, and story critique featu…
Perplexity answers questions by searching the web and writing a synthesised response with inline citations you can check, rather than a list of links.
VEED is a browser-based video editor covering recording, trimming, subtitles, translation and brand kits, with AI features for avatars, dubbing and clean-up.
How to choose a Lex alternative
This site holds four things about each of these products that are worth comparing before you open any of them, and none of them is an opinion. The pricing model above is the one recorded on the listing — a product marked Contact for pricing will cost you a sales call before it costs you anything else. The open-source column decides whether leaving later is a migration or an export. The shared categories and tags under each entry are how close the overlap with Lex actually is: a tool covering all of Lex’s categories is doing roughly the same job, one sharing a single category may only touch the same part of it — and a tool can be high on this page on the strength of its description alone, which means it describes the same work in the same words rather than that anybody checked it does that work well. Upvotes are votes cast here by people with accounts, and they say what this site’s readers picked, not what is best for you.
What we do not hold is a test. Nobody here has run these products side by side, so the last step is yours: open two of them and give each one the job you actually have.
Lex alternatives FAQ
- What can I use instead of Lex?
- 18 other writing tools listed here share a category with Lex: Wordtune, Grammarly, Spellbook, Claude, AI Text Cleaner, Rephrase AI, ShipLog, GrantCue, Kickresume, Rezi, ResumeAI, ChatPDF, Sudowrite, Notion, Figma, ProWritingAid, Perplexity and VEED.
- Are any Lex alternatives free?
- Wordtune, Grammarly, Claude, AI Text Cleaner, Rephrase AI, ShipLog, GrantCue, Kickresume, Rezi, ResumeAI, ChatPDF, Notion, Figma, ProWritingAid, Perplexity and VEED record a freemium one — a free tier with paid plans above it. Those are the models on their listings here, not a check of their current price lists.
- Are any Lex alternatives open source?
- None of the 18 on this page are listed as open source.
- How was this list of Lex alternatives put together?
- By query, not by hand. Sharing a category with Lex is what qualifies a listing at all; these 18 are the closest of those, measured by how much of Lex's categories and tags each one covers and how closely its description reads like Lex's. That is a measure of closeness and not a ranking against Lex — we have not tested any of these products, and nothing on this page is a score.