AI tools for publishing: a comparative table to help you navigate
27/5/25
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As a wave of AI tools continues to emerge, each claiming to be the most powerful on the market, many publishing professionals are left wondering: Which AI tools are best suited for publishing? Which ones are genuinely relevant and safe for our line of work?
To answer these questions, we spoke with over thirty professionals across the publishing sector. Their feedback informed the creation of our 2025 AI guide for publishers and helped us identify the AI tools that are currently being used in practice.
This summary presents those insights in the form of a comparative table highlighting mainstream AI tools employed in publishing today, categorized by profession.
Please note: this is not a ranking or endorsement of any particular tool. Our approach is intentionally neutral, aimed at offering a factual snapshot of the current state of AI in publishing.
We’ve also included an assessment of each tool’s limitations and potential data security risks. These tools may be powerful, but it's essential to stay vigilant about protecting your data and upholding royalty rights.
Overview of Artificial Intelligence tools in publishing
Here is a current overview of AI tools used in the publishing sector:
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe.", Abraham Lincoln
We hope this overview of AI tools proves useful to you. However, the aim isn’t just to collect tools for the sake of it, but to make thoughtful, effective use of them.
Each tool should be approached as a project in its own right: tested, evaluated for its relevance, understood in terms of its limits, and explored deeply to make the most of its potential.
Learning is essential, these technologies only become truly useful to publishing professionals when they are well understood and properly used.
The goal isn’t to adopt AI just because it’s trending, but to choose the tools that best fit your specific work environment and add real value.
In short, it’s not the tool that defines the strategy, it’s a clear strategy that gives meaning to the tool.
If you’d like to go further and explore best practices for integrating AI into your publishing work, check out our white paper on AI in publishing.