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DeepL Write

AI writing assistant from the team behind DeepL Translator, tuned for fluent rewrites across 19 languages.

Freemium· Free web app; DeepL Pro from ~$8.74/mo includes Write Pro featuresWritingDeepL proprietary LLM
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Pick DeepL Write if you draft in German, French, Spanish or other European languages and want rewrites that sound like a native speaker wrote them.

Skip if

Skip it if you need long-form content generation, an AI chat assistant, or deep integrations into Docs/Word workflows.

DeepL Write is an AI-powered writing companion built by DeepL, the German translation company best known for outranking Google Translate on European-language quality. It rewrites, refines, and corrects text for grammar, punctuation, clarity, and tone, offering inline word and sentence alternatives you can click through to find the phrasing you want. Unlike a pure grammar checker, it leans on DeepL's neural language models to suggest genuinely different ways to say something rather than just flagging errors.

It covers 19 languages including English (US/UK), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, with style and tone presets (simple, business, academic, casual, technical) on the paid tier. There's a free web app; DeepL Pro plans unlock longer documents, glossaries, custom styles, and team features, and DeepL Write Pro is bundled with the company's translation subscriptions. It's a natural fit for legal, marketing, and customer-ops teams who already use DeepL for translation and want the same multilingual polish on their original drafts.

The main caveat is scope: Write is a rewrite/proofread tool, not a long-form generator or AI agent — there's no chat, no document drafting from a prompt, and no integrations ecosystem to speak of beyond browser extensions and the editor itself. For non-English European languages it remains one of the strongest options on the market.

Editor's take

DeepL Write is the quiet best-in-class for multilingual rewriting — particularly strong on German and the Romance languages where Grammarly is weak and generic LLMs sound off. It's narrower than a ChatGPT-style assistant by design, and that focus is the point. Pair it with DeepL Translator and you have a serious bilingual writing stack.

— The AI Tool Bible editorial team

Pros

  • Best-in-class quality for non-English European languages
  • Clickable word and sentence alternatives, not just error flags
  • Style and tone presets for business, academic, simple, casual
  • Backed by DeepL's well-regarded translation infrastructure

Cons

  • ⚠️ No long-form generation or chat interface
  • ⚠️ Limited integrations compared with Grammarly or ChatGPT
  • ⚠️ Best features (styles, long docs) gated behind DeepL Pro
  • ⚠️ Only 19 languages — fewer than general-purpose LLMs

Use cases

rewritinggrammar-correctiontone-adjustmentmultilingual-editingbusiness-writing

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