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.

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Lex alternatives at a glance

ToolPricingOpen sourceUpvotes here
WordtuneFreemiumNo11
GrammarlyFreemiumNo35
SpellbookContact for pricingNo43
ClaudeFreemiumNo35
KickresumeFreemiumNo18
ReziFreemiumNo39
NotionFreemiumNo20
VEEDFreemiumNo31
ResumeAIFreemiumNo0
ChatPDFFreemiumNo0
FigmaFreemiumNo35
SudowriteSubscriptionNo14
PerplexityFreemiumNo39
ChatGPTFreemiumNo10
ProWritingAidFreemiumNo0
WritesonicFreemiumNo22
UizardFreemiumNo21
Chibi AISubscriptionNo0

Wordtune

Rewrite and refine sentences as you draft

  • Freemium
  • Shares 3 categories with Lex

Wordtune focuses on rewriting: highlight a sentence and it offers alternative phrasings that are more formal, more casual, shorter or longer.

Grammarly

Writing assistance that follows you across apps

  • Freemium
  • Shares 3 categories with Lex

Grammarly checks grammar, spelling, clarity and tone as you write in the browser, desktop apps, email clients and mobile keyboards.

Spellbook

AI contract drafting and review inside Word

  • Contact for pricing
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

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

Anthropic's assistant for writing, analysis and code

  • Freemium
  • Shares 3 categories with Lex

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…

Kickresume

Resume and cover letter builder with AI drafting

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

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

ATS-focused AI resume and cover letter builder

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

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.

Notion

Connected workspace for notes, docs and projects

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

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.

VEED

Online video editing with subtitles and AI avatars

  • Freemium
  • Shares 1 category with Lex

VEED is a browser-based video editor covering recording, trimming, subtitles, translation and brand kits, with AI features for avatars, dubbing and clean-up.

ResumeAI

AI resume builder and ATS score checker

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

ResumeAI is an online resume builder and ATS score checker that helps job seekers draft, format, and optimize their resumes.

ChatPDF

Chat with any PDF document using artificial intelligence

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

ChatPDF allows users to upload PDF documents, books, and research papers to ask questions, extract summaries, and find information through a conversational interface.

Figma

Collaborative canvas for interface design and prototyping

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

Figma is a browser-based design tool where interface design, prototyping, design systems and developer handoff happen in one shared file.

Sudowrite

AI writing partner built for fiction and novels

  • Subscription
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

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.

Perplexity

Answer engine that cites its sources

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

Perplexity answers questions by searching the web and writing a synthesised response with inline citations you can check, rather than a list of links.

ChatGPT

OpenAI's general-purpose conversational assistant

  • Freemium
  • Shares 3 categories with Lex

ChatGPT is OpenAI's assistant for conversation, research, writing, data analysis and coding. It combines web search, file and image understanding, image generation and a growing set of connected tools in one interface, w…

ProWritingAid

The complete toolkit for storytellers

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

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…

Writesonic

Content and AI-search visibility platform for marketers

  • Freemium
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

Writesonic combines AI writing with tracking of how a brand appears in AI search. It drafts and optimises articles, landing pages and ads, then monitors mentions and citations across assistants such as ChatGPT and Perple…

Uizard

Turn rough ideas and sketches into UI mockups

  • Freemium
  • Shares 1 category with Lex

Uizard generates editable app and website mockups from a text description, a hand-drawn sketch or a screenshot, aimed at people who need to communicate an idea quickly rather than produce final design.

Chibi AI

AI writing assistant with custom personas and editor

  • Subscription
  • Shares 2 categories with Lex

Chibi AI is an AI-powered writing assistant and document editor designed to help content creators maintain their unique voice.

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, Kickresume, Rezi, Notion, VEED, ResumeAI, ChatPDF, Figma, Sudowrite, Perplexity, ChatGPT, ProWritingAid, Writesonic, Uizard and Chibi AI.
Are any Lex alternatives free?
Wordtune, Grammarly, Claude, Kickresume, Rezi, Notion, VEED, ResumeAI, ChatPDF, Figma, Perplexity, ChatGPT, ProWritingAid, Writesonic and Uizard 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.