Shortlyai.com Review

The Comprehensive Review Of Shortly AI—An AI Writing Tool

Written By: Derek Gehl

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Shortly AI is a powerful AI-driven writing software that creates original content with the click of a button, allowing users to write well with no stress.

We’ve been using Shortly AI for some time now. And we’re impressed with what this AI writing software can do. Based on our experience, Shortly AI is extremely user-friendly, and it creates excellent written content. It can save you loads of time and effort. But we’ll do a deep dive into how Shortly AI works so you can see for yourself. 🙂

What We Thought Of Shortly AI


Before doing a comprehensive review, we’ll give you the short and sweet of it. Here’s how we ranked the capabilities of Shortly AI. 

An AI Writing Tool Review - Overview & Summary

Overall Score

09/ 10

Sentence Structure

9/ 10

Grammar

9/ 10

Plagiarism

10/ 10

Templates

7/ 10

Creativeness

10/ 10

Usability

10/ 10

How Does Shortly AI Write Content?


Shortly AI uses Open AI’s GPT-3, an advanced neural network that uses machine learning to create completely original text. GPT-3 is on the cutting edge of AI-powered writing technology. If you ask us, the written content GPT-3 generates is indecipherable from that of a human.

GPT-3 is the result of the recent revolution in machine learning. This proprietary software has been trained on about half a trillion words of professionally written text. It has taken that knowledge and uses it to create 100% original content based on your inputs.

What Can Shortly AI Write For You?


Shortly AI uses two starting templates—one meant for articles/blogs and another for writing a story. The articles/blogs template is ideal for writing non-fiction pieces like a promotional blog or an academic paper. They designed the story template for fictional or creative pieces, like a short story or novel.

When opening the writing tool, they will ask you which template you would like to choose. It looks like this.

AI Writing Tool

Just choose which starting template you would like. Click “start writing”, and you are off and running.

Let’s break down how we can use each of these templates. We’ll show you how to use all the functions available in this AI-driven writing software. So, you can see how it will work for you. 

1. Article/Blog


We’ve played around with this writing template quite a bit. And we’ve been pretty happy with the results the AI has given us. This feature is excellent for anyone who needs to write great non-fiction content. If you’re a student, digital marketing expert, small business owner, or anyone who needs to write regularly, then you can benefit from using Shortly AI’s article/blog template.

Shortlyai.com - Sentence Structure: 4.5/5

Let’s check out how it works. 🤨

When you open the article/blog writing tool, you’ll be shown a writing prompt.

AI Writing Tool

On the left-hand side, you can see three writing aids—Writing stats, Article brief, and Output length. These are used to help you write better and to help the AI understand what you want. Let’s see what happens when we give the AI some information to work with.

AI Writing Tool

Here we entered a title and a couple of sentences to open our blog. As you can see on the left, the software tracks how many pages, words, and characters you’ve written. We wrote some information regarding the theme of our blog, into the content brief made to assist the AI in meeting your goals. And last, we set the output length to “a little”, the least of the three options.

 After pressing the “write for me” button, this is what we got.
AI Writing Tool

The highlighted text was written by the AI. We found it to be creative, original content that met the friendly, fun tone we were going for.

 But if the AI gives you something you don’t like, you can quickly get another output in seconds by clicking the “redo” button. The “redo” button is located to the right of the “write for me” button–it resembles a recycling sign. We pressed “redo” and this is what the AI gave us.
AI Writing Tool

As you can see, we got a completely new write-up from the AI. And when we continued to hit the “write for me” button, the AI created more great writing. Here’s a look at some more content the AI produced with just the click of a button.

AI Writing Tool

The highlighted text was the next output generated by the AI.

We could continue like this, and eventually, the AI would generate our entire blog. The software allows us to edit the text as we go, to personalize it for our needs. But the AI will do the heavy lifting to create good content.

 But in general, the AI writer generates well-written factual text. And it can vastly improve your content. Additionally, it can cut down on working time and significantly improve your workflow. What might normally take you a whole day to write can instead be done in an hour or two using Shortly AI

SHORTLYAI.COM - Grammar: 09/10

We were thrilled with the writing that the AI produced. However, we’d encourage you to fact-check the information it gives. We found that sometimes, the information, such as the name of a restaurant, was outdated.

2. Story


We’ve had so much fun with the story writing template. The AI writer has created some amazing content that perfectly matched the tone of the story we wanted to write. If you’re a creative writer, an aspiring novelist, or even a seasoned author, this program can offer you something useful.

When you choose to use the story template, it will present you with a writing prompt that is nearly identical to that of the article/blog template. The only difference is—the writing tool called “Article Brief” in the article/blog template is called “Story Background” in the story template. However, it serves the same purpose in both templates.

We entered some details like this:

AI Writing Tool

Here you see, we entered a title and wrote a few sentences to open our story. We also entered some background information into the “story background” section. This directs the AI to follow your intended goal, theme, and tone.

This time we set the output length to “a lot”. We clicked “write for me” and here is what we got:

AI Writing Tool

The highlighted text was written by the AI. The AI-generated text amounted to ninety-nine words. We were quite happy with the content that was generated. It definitely met the fun tone of our story. And we felt the details it generated went along with our intended plot.

SHORTLYAI.COM - Plagiarism: 10/10

We decided to see what else the AI could add to this story, so we clicked “write for me” again and this is what we got:

Here, the AI writer created an additional seventy-three words for our story.

We found the text to be relevant and with the tone of our story. But it wasn’t perfect. The good news is that we can easily edit the text and personalize it to our liking.

The AI writer does a great job of framing the story based on our input. However, we found we needed to tweak some of what it wrote because it didn’t make total sense in context.

SHORTLYAI.COM - Templates: 7/10

But don’t forget, by clicking “redo” we can create an endless amount of variations. So, we can cycle through thousands of AI-generated writing until we find the optimal output.

We found that the AI writer was great at generating fresh ideas when we were suffering from writer’s block. Then we could take the ideas we liked and build on them.

Shortly AI Slash Commands


Shortly AI’s slash commands are an excellent feature of the AI writer that we have not spoken about yet. Essentially, we can use slash commands to do multiple things like—instruct the AI on what to write next, rewrite a sentence, shorten a section, or expand a section.

We found this tool to be very useful. It can help you pinpoint select portions of the text that you would like changed. It was also incredibly intuitive and simple to use.

The command cheat sheet is located in the bottom right-hand corner of the text editor. When you click it, a helpful how-to guide pops up like this:

The black arrow denotes the location of the command cheat sheet button. Above that, you can see the instructions on how to use this tool.

We’ll show you an example of what each command can do for your writing here:

1. /Instruct


Shortly AI’s slash commands are an excellent feature of the AI writer that we have not spoken about yet. Essentially, we can use slash commands to do multiple things like—instruct the AI on what to write next, rewrite a sentence, shorten a section, or expand a section.

We found this tool to be very useful. It can help you pinpoint select portions of the text that you would like changed. It was also incredibly intuitive and simple to use.

SHORTLYAI.COM - Creativeness: 10/10

The command cheat sheet is located in the bottom right-hand corner of the text editor. When you click it, a helpful how-to guide pops up like this:

Input

Output

On the input side, we highlighted the commands given to the AI writer. On the output side, we highlighted what the AI wrote. We were impressed with how well the AI did with hitting the mark for what we wanted. It spit out one hundred and nine words of great information in the blink of an eye.

2. /Rewrite


At first we thought the rewrite function would be redundant since there is already a “redo” button. However, upon closer inspection, we could not have been more wrong.

Here’s an example of what the /rewrite tool can do.

Input

Output

The AI writer generated both the input and output sentences. This function is nice because it allows you to slightly tweak individual sentences. If you don’t like the sound of a certain sentence or even a phrase, you can select up to one hundred and sixty characters and have the AI rewrite it.

This is more precise than having the AI completely redo your blog or paragraph. It’s great for minor changes.

3. /Shorten


If you feel that a sentence or set of sentences is too wordy, the /shorten function can help you make your text more concise. We found it useful occasionally, but not with every piece of writing.

Here’s an example.

Input

Output

Sometimes, the AI will go off on a tangent about a topic. This function reins it back in and makes the writing more direct.

SHORTLYAI.COM - Usability: 10/10

It is limited because it only allows up to two hundred characters of input. But it’s a nice feature to incorporate.

4. /Expand


Sometimes the AI will briefly touch on an interesting point. Or you, as the writer, will mention a topic, but not be able to expand upon it. The /expand feature is made to help with these issues. We liked this feature a lot.

Let’s see what it can do.

Input

Output

In this example, the AI rewrote our sixty-nine characters into one hundred and eighty-nine characters.

We used this function a lot to expand upon topics that we lacked information on. It does a great job of describing many topics and expanding upon a simple idea. But it’s somewhat limited since you can only input one hundred and twenty characters.

How Much Does It Cost?


Shortly AI is available in a monthly and a yearly package. Both packages come with the same features. But you will save about 18% by selecting the yearly package. You can cancel either package at any time.

The pricing looks like this.

Annual Plan

Cancel anytime. Billed annually

$

65

/mo

2month free!


  • Powerful commands to help you write faster
  • Improve your writing and make writer's block a thing of the past
  • continuous updates - our AI only gets better with time

Get Premium

Monthly Plan

Cancel anytime. Billed monthly

$

79

/mo



  • Powerful commands to help you write faster
  • Improve your writing and make writer's block a thing of the past
  • continuous updates - our AI only gets better with time

Get Premium

Shortly AI is priced similarly to other high-end AI-powered writing tools. It is more costly than some AI writers on the market, but those tend to be of lower quality.

So, is Shortly AI Worth It?


If you’re asking us, the answer is yes, with a caveat. They did not price this software at a bargain basement rate. There are cheaper AI writers available. But the truth is that sometimes you just have to pay for quality. Shortly AI can deliver easy-to-use, high-quality writing at the click of a button.

If you write for a living, struggle with writing professional content, need to market your business, or are a student writing academic papers, then Shortly AI can improve the quality of your written content.