What do you like best about Pepper Content?
I tried a few other GPT-3 powered services, and I feel Peppertype has most consistently produced better short-term content. As I'm updating this review in 2023, I should note that my comparison is now outdated, but it was my belief at the time of the original review. I have not spent time continuing to try other AI writing services now that ChatGPT exists, and I only use that and Peppertype. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pepper Content?
There is a lot of room for Peppertype to grow. It focuses on shorter-form content types, offers a decent variety in content types and generally works quite well. They classify many of their content types as long-form, though, which matters if you have a plan like I do, where you have a different amount of short-form vs. long-form words per month. However, their interface surprisingly does not indicate which content types are short-form or long-form, and your monthly usage stats don't even differentiate between short and long-form. Hopefully, they will address this, as I can't see why it would take much effort to fix.
It is disappointing they lack a long-form editor, which is the biggest weakness with Peppertype. The workflow is so lovely with some of their competition, and it can save a significant amount of time. It sounds like they are working on a long-form editor, and I'm confident they will do an excellent job with it from what I've seen from them so far. But I can only review the software in its present state, so this is the main reason for taking off one star.
Unfortunately, since my original review, they've failed to make any significant updates. It seems they are no longer interested in developing Peppertype. There have been long periods with no updates or communication. They've made a few minimal effort updates to the interface, seemingly to make it look like the service isn't completely abandoned. However, there is a ton of competition in the AI writing space, and many other services have constantly been updating and improving.
At least the service still seems to work. I have not been using it actively, but it still seems to work well enough when I have used it. I've heard several users say the output is not as good anymore, but I have not noticed this personally. I will continue to use it. For some things, it can be better than ChatGPT since its focuses on specific short-form content types and isn't locked down as much as ChatGPT. However, I will only use it because I have a lifetime plan without monthly fees. Given its not received any worthwhile updates in a very long time and there are better alternatives to subscribe to, I would look elsewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.