Type
A document editor where you brief the AI on what you're writing and it drafts, edits and restructures the piece in place, rather than answering in a side chat panel.
What you'd use it for
Drafting and revising a long piece of writing — a novel, screenplay or script — inside one evolving document instead of pasting AI output back and forth from a chat window.
- Run an inline AI command from the editor to draft, rewrite or restructure a specific block of the document in place
- Brainstorm and generate content through a persistent chat panel alongside the document
- Keep character, setting and scene notes that the AI references while drafting long fiction
- Import a Word document or PDF and keep editing it with AI assistance, up to 150,000 words per document
- Generate an AI audio narration of a document with a choice of voice
The verdict
Type is built around the shape of a long document rather than a quick reply — the AI edits in place and can hold an entire manuscript as context, which is where chat-based assistants lose the thread. It earns its price on fiction, screenplays and other long-form work you return to over months, less so for anything short or occasional. The real cost is opaque — with no published rate for what a credit buys in AI output, you can't size a tier with confidence until you've burned through a Free month and watched how fast it goes.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | Trying the editor before committing. | Limited credits that never expire. |
| Basic | $8/mo (billed annually at $96/yr) | Shorter-form content or individual stories. | 500,000 credits monthly, premium AI models, priority email support. |
| Pro | $16/mo (billed annually at $192/yr) | Longer works like a novel or screenplay. | 1,500,000 credits monthly (3x Basic). |
| Max | $64/mo (billed annually at $768/yr) | Writing multiple books a year. | 6,000,000 credits monthly (12x Basic). |
Read from Type's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
What you need to start
- A Type.ai account, created with email or Google sign-in
A few minutes to create an account and land in the editor with AI chat and inline commands ready to use; sizing a paid tier takes longer, since the Free plan is the only way to see how fast credits burn through a real writing session.
Your first run Sign in, open a document, and ask Type Chat or the inline command palette to draft an opening section — you have AI-written text inside the document within a few minutes of creating an account.
Where it breaks
Pricing is entirely credit-based with no published conversion rate between "a credit" and "a paragraph of AI output," so it's hard to estimate which tier a given writing habit actually needs before using it for a month.
Browser-based document editor. Credits meter AI usage rather than a flat per-seat allowance, so cost scales with how much writing and editing you actually ask it to do.
First entry in this reference. There is no previous check to compare it against.
When not to use it
If your writing is short and occasional — emails, social posts, an entry now and then — a general chat assistant does the same job without a subscription or the guesswork of sizing a credit tier. It's also not the tool if you need a native mobile app, since Type currently only has a mobile web version and no iOS or Android app.
Type is a document editor first and an AI tool second, which is the opposite emphasis of most writing assistants in this category. Rather than a chat panel next to a blank page, you write inside a real document and brief the AI on what the piece needs — draft this section, tighten that paragraph, restructure the argument — and it edits in place rather than handing back a separate answer to copy over.
That distinction matters for anything longer than a single page. A chat-based assistant loses the thread of a long document fast; an editor built around the document keeps the whole piece as context, which is why Type’s own tier names point at length — “shorter form content” at Basic, “a novel or screenplay” at Pro.
The credit system is the real cost variable
All four tiers meter usage in credits rather than a flat monthly cap on documents or words, and the site doesn’t publish what one credit actually buys in AI output. That makes the sticker prices a rough guide rather than a firm answer — the honest way to pick a tier is to start on Free, see how fast the limited credits burn through a real writing session, and size up from there.
Where it sits next to a general assistant
If your writing is short, occasional emails or posts, a general chat assistant like Claude covers the same ground without a subscription. Type earns its price when the writing is long-form and recurring — fiction, scripts, or any project where staying inside one evolving document beats pasting text back and forth with a chatbot.
Alternatives
Writing & editingHarnessNovelcrafter
A novel-writing workspace where you bring your own AI model keys, and the AI reads a story bible you maintain to stay consistent across a long manuscript.
Writing & editingAppsSudowrite
A fiction-writing assistant that drafts scenes, suggests alternates for a stuck sentence, and tracks characters across a manuscript.
Writing & editingAppsSquibler
A book and screenplay writing workspace with AI drafting and outlining built in, plus a path to self-publishing once the manuscript is done.
Assistants & chatModelClaude
Anthropic's AI assistant, available in a browser tab and — the part that matters here — as a desktop app that can read the files on your own machine and reach the systems you connect to it.
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