Dock vs Other Writing Tools

Most writing tools are good at one thing. Grammarly fixes your grammar. QuillBot rephrases a sentence. ChatGPT drafts from a blank page. Hemingway counts your adverbs. They are useful, and these comparisons say so plainly.

Dock is a writing editor with three things the others rarely combine: citations that come from real, searchable academic papers, an assistant that waits for your approval before it changes a word, and an agent layer so you can write from a command line or an MCP client, not just a browser tab. It costs $144 a year, which works out to $12 a month.

These pages are not a list of reasons Dock wins every row. Where another tool is genuinely better for what you are doing, we say so, and we tell you who should pick it. Use them to figure out which tool fits your work, not to be sold.

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What Dock brings to every one of these

• Citations from real papers. Dock searches an academic index, not its own imagination. Sources come back with titles, authors, and DOIs you can verify, in seven styles you can switch across the whole document in one move.
• An assistant that asks first. Improve, rewrite, expand, or shorten any passage. Every suggestion is staged for you to accept or reject. Nothing rewrites your work behind your back.
• Three ways in. Write in the editor, drive it from the agentdock command line, or connect an MCP client like Cursor. Same documents, whichever door you use.
• Everywhere you already type. The Chrome extension puts the same help inside Gmail, your CMS, and dozens of other sites, in any text box.
• One flat price. Free to start, then $144 a year for unlimited use. No per-seat creep, no credit metering.

Start writing free at Start Writing, or see the full feature set at Dock Editor.