The best Lex alternatives in 2026

Lex combined a clean editor with AI feedback, line-level edits, live collaboration, and a choice of models. No single alternative matches it on every point, so start with the column that matters most to you.

Each alternative was judged on the things people used Lex for. Six checks:

1. AI feedback and prompts: can you ask for feedback on a draft, and save prompts or instructions to reuse, as Lex allowed?
2. AI edits: can the AI change the text, how do its edits appear, and can you see and reject what it changed?
3. Models: which AI models it runs, and whether you can choose, as you could in Lex.
4. Collaboration and history: live co-editing, comments, sharing a link, and version history.
5. Your files: whether a Lex export imports cleanly, and what you can export afterward.
6. Price: the cheapest paid plan for one person that includes the AI.

Where I mention how a tool behaved in practice, it comes from our hands-on review test, which ran several of these on the same document earlier in 2026. The ranking weighs AI feedback, AI edits, and collaboration most heavily, because those are what set Lex apart from a plain editor. If you used Lex mainly as a quiet place to write, the fit table further down is a better guide than the order of the list.

Think about what you opened Lex for. If it was feedback and edits on a draft, look at Revise, Type.ai, Claude, and ChatGPT. If it was writing with other people, Revise, Claude, and Google Docs have live co-editing. If it was a clean place to write, iA Writer is the simplest.

If you already have a Lex account, Lex says it will keep working, and it still has strengths that are hard to find in one place.

• A quiet editor with AI built in. Lex kept the writing surface plain while putting feedback, chat, and Checks a click away.
• Prompts you can share. Saved prompts, style guides, and knowledge bases can be shared with other people.
• Rewind. You can scrub back through a document’s history as well as save named versions.
• Several model vendors. Lex lists models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and TogetherAI.

Lex says existing accounts keep working, so current users can compare these alternatives against the product they already have.

Lex no longer lists prices publicly. The last price it announced, in July 2025, was $24.99 a month or $179.88 a year for Pro. Most alternatives cost less, and Grammarly Docs and Claude can be used free within their limits. iA Writer is a one-time purchase.

Lex’s FAQ says each document can be exported from the Share icon in the document toolbar as Word, PDF, Markdown, HTML, or LaTeX. Its documentation does not describe a bulk export, so plan to export documents one at a time.

1. Pick the format: use Word (.docx) for tools that import Word files, such as Revise, Google Docs, and Type.ai. Use Markdown for iA Writer.
2. Export each document: open it in Lex, click the Share icon at the bottom of the right-hand toolbar, and choose the format.
3. Import it: open the file in the new editor. In Revise, drop it into the editor above.
4. Check the result: compare headings, lists, links, and images with the Lex original.

Type.ai is the closest match for book-length creative writing. If you write with Claude, Claude Docs gives you a shared document with feedback in comments, and ChatGPT suits people who already use it, including inside Word. Google Docs suits Workspace teams, Grammarly Docs is a free option for cleanup, Notion suits writing next to team notes, and iA Writer suits writers who want no generative AI at all.

If you want AI feedback and edits you approve one at a time, on a model you choose, with collaborators in the same document, Revise fits best. Its tradeoffs are that it is a word processor rather than a Markdown editor, it does not work offline, and the larger models need a paid plan. For a wider comparison, see the best AI for writing.