What Zia by Zoho does
Zia is the AI-powered writing assistant from Zoho, available in Zoho Writer, a word processor. It supports English, Spanish, French, and Brazilian Portuguese. Named features include content generation, grammar checking, readability analysis based on the Flesch-Kincaid index, and writing quality monitoring that flags overused adverbs, passive sentences, and cliches. Zia also offers plagiarism checking and domain-specific spell checking with dictionaries for legal and medical documents. The page states that Zia integrates with ChatGPT and can be added to Chrome. The writing assistant is described as free, and Zoho says it is paid by customers rather than advertisers.
How Zia by Zoho compares with its closest alternatives
3 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Zia by Zoho does. Among the 5 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Flowrite at $4 a month and the median is $12. None of the 5 offers an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Zia by Zoho. Zia by Zoho offers a web app and a mobile app. Of the alternatives, 4 offer a web app and 1 offers a mobile app. Zia by Zoho was founded in 1996; the alternatives were founded between 2006 and 2020. The alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United States, Israel and Finland.