Wordtune
Rewriting assistant still online — AI21 halted development in 2025
Overview
Wordtune is AI21 Labs' sentence-rewriting and summarising assistant, once pitched as an all-in-one reading and writing platform. AI21 discontinued its development in April 2025 to focus on enterprise agents; the product remains online and paid, but unmaintained.
Pricing
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- 10 rewrites/day
- 3 AI summaries/mo
- Unlimited grammar & spelling
- 30 rewrites/day
- 15 AI summaries/mo
- Unlimited AI recommendations
- Unlimited rewrites & summaries
- Vocabulary & fluency tools
- Premium support
- Everything in Unlimited
- Admin & billing controls
- Dedicated business support
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
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Wordtune's rewriting suggestions are still genuinely good — natural, context-aware, and particularly useful for non-native English speakers polishing tone — but the product is in maintenance mode. AI21 discontinued its development in April 2025 while pivoting to the enterprise Maestro platform, then cut 61% of staff in May 2026 amid acquihire talks with Nebius, so nobody is meaningfully improving or supporting this tool. The free tier's roughly 10 rewrites a day evaporate fast, $19.99/month is steep for a largely sentence-level assistant, and Trustpilot shows a pattern of billing and cancellation complaints that unmaintained products rarely fix. General chat assistants have absorbed most of what made it special. Usable today if you already rely on it; hard to recommend committing new money to.
What people say
AI21 Labs quietly stopped developing Wordtune in April 2025 — the first visible retrenchment in what became a full company crisis, with a 61% workforce cut (about 110 of 180 staff) in May 2026 and reports of an acquihire-style deal moving the remaining team to Nebius. The parent company's sole focus is now its enterprise agent platform, Maestro. Wordtune itself is still online and still charging subscriptions: as of August 2025 it claimed 10 million users and more than 782 million rewrite suggestions served.
The tool earned that user base honestly. G2 reviewers consistently praise how it tightens emails and reports, offers several rephrasing options per sentence, and helps non-native English writers sound natural — the sentence-level rewriting really was better calibrated than asking a chatbot to "make this better." The same reviews flag suggestions that turn repetitive and generic, and the pricing has aged badly: the free plan allows roughly 10 rewrites a day, while the Unlimited tier runs $19.99/month for what remains a largely sentence-scoped tool in a world of capable general assistants.
The alarming pattern is on Trustpilot: repeated reports of charges continuing after cancellation — one user says they were billed almost $360 over two years despite cancelling three times — plus accounts of documents going blank with no recovery and support silent for months. Complaints like these are bad in a healthy product; in one whose maker laid off most of its staff and halted development over a year ago, they're disqualifying. Fine to keep using if you already have it. Hard to justify starting a paid subscription on abandonware.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- Wordtune was developed by AI21 Labs, whose co-founder Yoav Goldberg is one of the world's most cited NLP researchers with over 50,000 citations.
- The tool generates up to 8 alternative phrasings per rewrite request, allowing writers to choose the variation that best fits their voice.
- Wordtune's text editing model was trained specifically on parallel rewrites of professional text — a unique dataset that makes it more accurate than general-purpose models for this task.
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