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Wretify vs Sudowrite
Wretify is a clean, minimalist writing app for nonfiction writers, built for focus — with an AI that has read everything you've written and refuses to write it for you.
What is the difference between Wretify and Sudowrite?
Sudowrite is an AI writing tool for fiction authors that suggests, expands, rewrites and drafts story prose from your notes and outline.
Wretify is a clean, minimalist writing app for nonfiction writers, built for focus — with an AI that has read everything you've written and refuses to write it for you.
The two make opposite choices, and both are deliberate. Sudowrite’s AI writes prose with you and for you. Wretify’s AI refuses to: it has read everything you have written, thinks with you, and brings you your own earlier passages and real, cited research — but the sentences on the page are yours.
What is Sudowrite best at?
Sudowrite is built around generative help for fiction: continuing a scene with several options in your style, brainstorming names and plot, expanding a rushed passage, giving feedback, and drafting a chapter from its scene outline, with its own model made for fiction. It supports more than 30 languages and says it does not use your writing to train AI.
Novelists and screenwriters who want an AI collaborator inside the drafting itself.
Wretify and Sudowrite, side by side
| Wretify | Sudowrite | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Nonfiction books and articles. | Fiction. |
| Devices | In the web browser, on a computer or a phone. Nothing to install. | In the browser, with a companion app for iPhone and Android. |
| Price | One plan with every feature: $7 a month or $45 a year. The first 1,000 writers get 3 months free. Opens October 27, 2026. | From $10 a month (Hobby & Student), $22 (Professional) or $44 (Max), with up to 50% off yearly and a free trial. |
| Where your writing lives | Plain Markdown files in a Wretify folder in your own Google Drive. Wretify keeps no other copy. | Your Sudowrite account in the cloud. |
| AI | Bring your own key (Claude, Gemini or DeepSeek). The AI reads everything you have written, thinks with you and brings you real research and your own earlier passages. It does not draft your chapters; nothing reaches the page unless you press Replace or Insert, or drag it there. | AI is the heart of it: Write, Expand, Rewrite, Brainstorm, and Draft, which writes a first draft of a chapter for you. |
| Export | A chapter as Markdown, Word or PDF; a whole book as Markdown, Word or EPUB, with a bibliography. | Word (DOCX), per document or the whole project. |
Should I choose Wretify or Sudowrite?
Choose Sudowrite if you write fiction and want an AI that generates and continues prose with you.
Choose Wretify if you write nonfiction and want every sentence to be your own, with an AI that brings you sources and your own earlier thinking instead.
How does Wretify compare to other writing apps?
Every major writing app is good at something different. The full guide answers what the best software for writing books is, app by app.
Sources
- Sudowrite — www.sudowrite.com/
- Sudowrite pricing — www.sudowrite.com/pricing
- Sudowrite FAQ — sudowrite.com/faq
- Sudowrite Draft — docs.sudowrite.com/using-sudowrite/1ow1qkGqof9rtcyGnrWUBS/scenes--draft/49p5MTVxTKkVFEC5rVUzpY
- Sudowrite mobile app — docs.sudowrite.com/resources/ktuxRrzphwp3uTNneRtaos/is-there-a-mobile-app/sFZPG2o8QqXR7bqrb9Swae
- Sudowrite export — docs.sudowrite.com/using-sudowrite/1ow1qkGqof9rtcyGnrWUBS/exporting-files/3NtVWXcnwYaRCmPW2iwcCB
Updated . Prices and features of other apps are taken from their own websites on that date and can change. Wretify is our product, so we have tried hard to be fair to the others. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.