AI Writing Tutorial By RankerToolAI Team July 11, 2026 10 min read

How to Use Writesonic (Old Product — Discontinued 2026)

Writesonic packs three genuinely different tools — a chat assistant, a long-form article writer, and an SEO scorer — into one $16/month plan. Here's how to use each one, and the order that actually produces a publish-ready article.

⚠️ Product discontinued: Writesonic dropped Chatsonic, Article Writer, and this entire product line in 2026, repositioning as an AI Search Growth Engine. This tutorial is kept for historical reference only — it does not describe the current product. See our current Writesonic review or Jasper if you want an AI writing tool.

Table of Contents

  1. What Writesonic Actually Does
  2. Getting Started: Account Setup
  3. Chatsonic: Web-Connected Chat
  4. Article Writer 5.0
  5. SEO Mode: Optimizing While You Write
  6. Using the 100+ Templates
  7. Full Workflow: Keyword to Published Article
  8. Writesonic Pricing 2026
  9. Common Beginner Mistakes

What Writesonic Actually Does

Writesonic runs on GPT-4 with its own fine-tuning for marketing content, and bundles three distinct tools that solve different problems: Chatsonic (a ChatGPT-style assistant with live web access), Article Writer 5.0 (long-form, SEO-optimized content generation with inline citations), and SEO mode (real-time optimization scoring while you write).

What Writesonic Does Best

Chatsonic has real-time web access, unlike a standalone ChatGPT conversation

Because Chatsonic connects to live Google data, it isn't limited by a training cutoff — genuinely useful for research-heavy content or anything referencing current events, pricing, or recent releases.

Getting Started: Account Setup

Go to writesonic.com and sign up for the free plan — 10,000 words/month with no credit card required, enough to properly test Chatsonic, Article Writer, and the template library before paying anything. The dashboard's main sections are Chatsonic, Article Writer, Templates, and Photosonic (image generation).

Chatsonic: Web-Connected Chat

How to Use Chatsonic

  1. Click Chatsonic in the left nav
  2. Type your question or request as you would in any chat interface
  3. For anything time-sensitive, add "using current data" or a specific date range to your prompt — this triggers Chatsonic's web-browsing behavior more reliably
  4. Use the image icon to generate visuals via DALL-E directly inside the same conversation

Chatsonic is the right tool for research-first tasks — competitor analysis, current-event summaries, fact-checking — where a standalone AI chat's training cutoff would be a real limitation.

Article Writer 5.0

How to Generate a Long-Form Article

  1. Click Article Writer in the left nav
  2. Enter your target keyword or topic
  3. Choose tone of voice and target word count
  4. Review the auto-generated outline before full generation — edit headings here rather than after the full draft is written
  5. Click Generate Full Article — Writesonic produces a complete draft with inline citations for factual claims
Pro Tip

Edit the outline stage, not the final draft

Adjusting headings and structure before generation is far faster than restructuring a completed 2,000-word article. Spend the extra two minutes at the outline step.

SEO Mode: Optimizing While You Write

SEO mode (available on the Freelancer plan and above) adds a live optimization sidebar to Article Writer, scoring your draft against competitor content for your target keyword as you write.

How to Enable SEO Mode

  1. When creating a new Article Writer document, toggle SEO Mode on before generation
  2. Enter your target keyword — Writesonic pulls competitor data to set target word count and suggested terms
  3. Check the sidebar score as you edit, adding suggested terms where they fit naturally

This is Writesonic's answer to a dedicated tool like Surfer SEO — less deep, but built into the same editor you're already writing in, which removes a whole separate optimization step for straightforward content.

Using the 100+ Templates

For short, structured formats — product descriptions, ad copy, email subject lines — the template library is faster than Article Writer or Chatsonic.

  1. Click Templates in the left nav
  2. Search or browse by category
  3. Fill in the requested inputs and click Generate
  4. Writesonic produces several variations to choose from or combine

Full Workflow: Keyword to Published Article

Here's the workflow that gets the most out of Writesonic for a single blog article:

Step 1 — 10 min

Research with Chatsonic

Use Chatsonic's web access to pull current competitor angles and recent developments on your topic before drafting.

Step 2 — 5 min

Generate and edit the Article Writer outline

Adjust headings based on your Chatsonic research before generating the full draft.

Step 3 — 15 min

Generate the full draft with SEO Mode on

Review the SEO sidebar score and add any missing terms naturally as you edit the generated draft.

Step 4 — 10 min

Final human pass

Verify inline citations are accurate and add first-hand detail Writesonic couldn't generate on its own.

Writesonic Pricing 2026

PlanPriceWords / Includes
Free$010,000 words/mo, Chatsonic, 100+ templates
Freelancer$16/mo (annual)Unlimited words, SEO mode, Article Writer 5.0

Start free — the 10,000-word plan is enough to test all three core tools before upgrading.

Common Beginner Mistakes

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