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Scraib.app vs Wordtune

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Scraib.app starts at $3.99, Wordtune at $4.89. Only Wordtune has a free tier.

Scraib.appRewrites selected text for tone, grammar, and style in any Mac app with one keyboard shortcut.WordtuneSentence rewriter that keeps the meaning you intended

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FactScraib.appWordtune
CategoryParaphrasing & RewritingParaphrasing & Rewriting
Pricing modelPaidFreemium
Starts at$3.99 month$4.89 month
Public APINoNo
PlatformsmacOSWeb, Chrome Ext
CompanyAndrei AlikimovichAI21 Labs
Launched—2020
Last verifiedSep 1, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Scraib.app

Scraib's whole value is the keyboard shortcut — select text anywhere on a Mac, hit Control-R, and get a rewrite without copy-pasting into a separate app. Being a solo-developer product, the $3.99 monthly fee is reasonable, but the site itself was intermittently unreachable during research, which is worth checking before paying.

Pros

  • One shortcut works across 20+ different Mac apps instead of a separate tool per app
  • Supports a local Ollama model, so text never has to leave the machine
  • Lets a user bring their own API key for a flat one-time fee instead of a recurring one

Cons

  • Mac-only, with no Windows or web version
  • Built and maintained by one developer, with no larger company behind it
  • The main site returned server errors more than once during this review

Wordtune

Wordtune still does the one thing it was built for better than the general assistants do, but its owner is in visible trouble and the product has not shipped news in two years. Cheap and useful today, risky as a dependency.

Pros

  • Rewrites preserve intent instead of paraphrasing into something else, which is the whole point
  • In-place browser extension avoids the copy-paste round trip
  • Cheapest tier is under $5 a month on annual billing

Cons

  • Parent AI21 Labs is in financial distress: a $300M round never closed, acquisition talks with NVIDIA and then Nebius, and reported layoffs above 60%
  • The product blog has not been updated since June 2024 and the site footer still reads 2025
  • AI21's own site no longer mentions Wordtune anywhere, suggesting it is no longer a strategic product
  • Free tier's 10 rewrites a day is exhausted in a single editing session

Which one fits

Choose Scraib.app if you need

  • Mac users who write across many different apps and want one rewrite shortcut everywhere
  • People who prefer running a local Ollama model for privacy over cloud AI
  • Anyone who dislikes copying text into a separate AI chat window to fix it

Choose Wordtune if you need

  • Non-native English writers who need a sentence to read naturally, not be rewritten wholesale
  • Anyone editing inside Gmail, Docs or LinkedIn who wants suggestions in place
  • Light users, since the free tier is genuinely usable for occasional rewriting

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