The Verdict
AutoCrit is a specialist editing tool with deep, fiction-focused reports and a comparison of your manuscript against published books in your genre. LiberScript includes a whole-manuscript critique as one part of a workspace that also handles writing, interior design and export. Choose AutoCrit if detailed fiction analysis is the main thing you want. Choose LiberScript if you want solid feedback plus everything needed to publish, in one place.
What Each Tool Is For
AutoCrit is self-editing software aimed mainly at fiction writers. It runs your manuscript through reports on issues such as pacing, dialogue, repetition, adverbs, clichés, passive voice and showing versus telling, and it can compare your writing with published books in categories such as romance, thriller and fantasy. You work on your manuscript inside its online editor, importing and exporting as needed.
LiberScript is a browser workspace for the whole route from manuscript to publish-ready files. Its critique is built in, alongside a grammar check, a planner, an interior designer and exports for ebook, print and Word.
At a Glance
| AutoCrit | LiberScript | |
|---|---|---|
| Main purpose | Self-editing and manuscript analysis | Writing, critique, formatting and export |
| Pricing | Free tier plus paid plans | Passes from $3.99 a day to $299.99 lifetime |
| Focus | Fiction-specific reports | Fiction and nonfiction |
| Genre benchmarking | Compares your writing with published books in your genre | No |
| Style checks | Pacing, dialogue, repetition, adverbs, clichés, passive voice, show vs tell and more | Adverbs, passive voice, filler words, clichés, repetition, show vs tell, pacing and dialogue balance |
| Grammar and spelling | Included in its checks | Grammar and spelling check across every chapter |
| Progress measure | Report scores | Readiness score for each pass |
| Formatting and export | Not its focus | Themes, paginated preview, EPUB, print PDF and DOCX |
Depth of Feedback
AutoCrit is built to go deep on fiction. Its reports focus on the problems that most often weaken novels, such as dialogue tags, pacing and repetition, and present them in detail so you can work through each category. Writers who enjoy analyzing their prose closely tend to appreciate the granularity.
LiberScript's critique covers the most common craft issues across the whole book in one organized list: overused adverbs, passive voice, filler words, clichés, repeated phrases and show-versus-tell moments, each linked to the exact sentence. It tracks pacing and dialogue balance chapter by chapter, adds a grammar and spelling check, and gives each pass a readiness score you can track across revisions. It is designed to be thorough without becoming a project of its own.
Genre Comparison
AutoCrit's genre benchmarking is a distinctive feature. It compares measurable aspects of your writing with published books in your category, which can show whether your dialogue, pacing or word choices sit far outside what readers of that genre are used to.
LiberScript does not offer genre comparison. Its feedback is about patterns in your own manuscript rather than how it measures against other books. If benchmarking matters to you, that is a clear point in AutoCrit's favor.
Where the Feedback Lives
With AutoCrit, you bring your manuscript into its editor to run the reports, then make changes there or carry them back to your main manuscript. That adds a step if you write elsewhere.
With LiberScript, the critique works on the same manuscript you write and format. Findings can be highlighted directly inside your chapters, so you fix them in place, rerun the critique and move straight on to design. There is no copying text between apps.
Beyond Feedback
This is where the tools diverge most. AutoCrit's job is analysis. Once your manuscript is polished, you still need a formatter to produce publishable files.
LiberScript continues to the finish line. It imports DOCX, EPUB, PDF, Markdown and plain text and detects your chapters and front and back matter. Its Design tab offers themes and controls for fonts, spacing, chapter openers, drop caps and numbering, with real paginated spreads at your trim size. It exports an EPUB for ebook stores, a print-ready PDF for KDP Print, IngramSpark and other printers, and a DOCX. It also numbers footnotes and generates a bibliography for nonfiction, and supports unlimited collaborators.
I edit and proofread books for self-publishing authors, and format them for ebook and print.
What Software Feedback Cannot Do
Both tools are good at spotting patterns in prose, and neither can tell you whether your story works. They cannot judge whether a plot twist lands, whether a character's motivation convinces or whether a nonfiction argument holds together. Those are questions for beta readers and a developmental editor.
Use software to clear away the habits you can fix yourself, such as filler words, repeated phrases and passive constructions. That makes a professional edit cheaper and lets the editor focus on what matters most.
Fiction vs Nonfiction Manuscripts
The kind of book you are writing changes which tool fits. AutoCrit's best reports are built around fiction craft: dialogue tags, scene pacing, character-driven prose and genre expectations. A novelist working on a romance or a thriller will find most of its reports directly relevant.
A nonfiction manuscript raises different questions. Is each chapter's argument clear? Do the examples support the point? Are terms used consistently? Pattern checks for filler words, passive voice and repetition still help, but dialogue and scene analysis matter far less. Nonfiction authors also need footnotes and a bibliography, which LiberScript handles inside the same workspace.
Memoir sits in between. It uses scenes and dialogue like fiction but also carries reflection and argument like nonfiction, so either tool can help. Pick based on what you need after editing: if you also need formatting, one workspace saves a step.
A Simple Self-Editing Routine
Whichever tool you pick, a steady routine gets more from it than running every check at once.
- Finish the draft first. Line-level feedback on a half-written book often gets wasted when chapters are cut or rewritten later.
- Fix structure before style. Read the whole book for plot, argument and order before you look at adverbs and repetition.
- Work one category at a time. Clearing all the filler words, then all the passive constructions, is faster than jumping between issue types.
- Accept judgment calls. Not every flagged adverb or passive sentence is wrong. Keep the ones that sound right when read aloud.
- Rerun after each pass. A fresh report or readiness score shows whether your revision actually reduced the problems.
Pricing
AutoCrit offers a free tier with limited features and paid plans that unlock more reports and capacity. Prices vary by plan and billing period, so check its pricing page for current options.
LiberScript's passes cost $3.99 for a day, $9.99 for a week, $29.99 for a month, $99.99 for a year or $299.99 for Lifetime, with no automatic renewal, and every pass includes the critique, design tools and exports.
Using Both
- Draft your novel wherever you write best.
- Run AutoCrit's reports for detailed fiction analysis and genre comparison.
- Import the revised manuscript into LiberScript, which detects chapters automatically.
- Run the critique once more as a final sweep, then fix anything it highlights.
- Design and export your ebook and print files.
To understand which kinds of editing software can and cannot replace, see our guide to the four types of book editing.
Who Should Choose Which
| If you... | Lean toward |
|---|---|
| Write fiction and want deep, report-by-report analysis | AutoCrit |
| Want to compare your writing with your genre | AutoCrit |
| Write nonfiction or a mix of genres | LiberScript |
| Want feedback and formatting in one workspace | LiberScript |
| Want one clear list of fixes per draft | LiberScript |
Frequently Asked Questions
Many fiction writers value its detailed reports and genre comparison. If you enjoy working through granular analysis, it can be very useful.
Yes. LiberScript's critique analyzes the whole manuscript for adverbs, passive voice, filler words, clichés, repetition, show vs tell, pacing and dialogue balance, plus grammar, with a readiness score. It does not offer genre benchmarking.
No. AutoCrit focuses on editing analysis. You will need a formatter such as LiberScript to create ebook and print files.
Its strongest reports are designed around fiction, such as dialogue and scene pacing. Nonfiction authors may get more from a general critique plus a human editor.
No. Software catches patterns in prose but cannot judge whether a story or argument works. Use it to tidy the manuscript before a professional edit.
After the full draft is finished and the structure is settled. Running line-level checks earlier often wastes effort on passages you later cut or rewrite.
AutoCrit offers a free tier with limited features, plus paid plans. LiberScript has no free plan, but its Day pass costs $3.99.