A free tool
Pacing X-ray
Paste a chapter and see its pulse: where dialogue clusters, where the prose goes quiet, and how your sentence rhythm rises and falls. It reads the shape of your scene and never changes a word of it.
Your text is analysed entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or sent to any AI.
Pacing is not speed. It is control.
A scene can move quickly while nothing happens, and slowly while everything does. What you feel as pace is mostly the rate at which new information reaches you, and dialogue, sentence length, and white space are the levers that set it.
This tool does not tell you to fix anything. It shows you the shape so you can go back and decide on purpose. A silent stretch might be the best page in the chapter, or the place a scene quietly died. Only a reading tells you which, and the reading is yours to make.
Read the full guide: How to fix pacing problems in your novel
- What does the pacing analyzer measure?
- It measures the share of your prose that is dialogue versus narration, your sentence length and rhythm, and where in the passage dialogue thins out. Those are structural signals of pacing: stretches of long, dialogue-free prose tend to read slower, and dense dialogue tends to read faster.
- Is it really free, and do I need an account?
- Yes, it is free with no sign-up. The whole analysis runs in your browser, so there is nothing to log in to and nothing is stored.
- Does my text get uploaded or used to train AI?
- No. The Pacing X-ray runs entirely on your device. Your text is never sent to a server, never stored, and never used to train any model. There is no AI call involved at all.
- How is this different from DraftProse itself?
- This tool reads one pasted passage. DraftProse, the full writing studio, runs the same pacing read plus plot and character-voice reads across your entire manuscript, and like this tool it never generates prose for you. The workspace is free; the Reader is the paid part.