Opera Adds an AI-Powered Writing Mode

Opera added a new AI Feature Drop called Writing Mode to its desktop web browser today alonside a few other enhancements to its Aria in-browser AI assistant.

“Writing Mode is a new feature that allows you to improve any text you are writing by having Opera’s in-browser AI Aria correct or tweak it – all from within the Command Line,” an Opera representative told me. “So whether you are writing a social media post, email, or job application, when you start typing in the box Aria will pop-up to help make sure your text is the best it possibly can be. Whether you’re writing in X (previously Twitter), Gmail, Facebook, or even a job form.”

To use Writing Mode in Opera, just select any text box on the web and start typing. As you do, the Aria icon will appear alongside the text box. You can click this icon to display the Aria command line in Writing Mode. (Or, just type Ctrl + / to access Aria directly.)

Once in Writing Mode, you can ask the Aria command line to tweak what you wrote, check the spelling and grammar, add emojis and hashtags, and edit it in other ways. Aria will prompt you with suggestions like “Make it shorter,” “Make it longer,” alongside a “Tweak it” icon (a pen). And then you can click “Insert to input” to paste the edited text into the text box.

In addition to Writing Mode, Opera has updated Aria with a chat summarize feature so you can recap an entire interaction with the AI, links to the sources it used to provide information, and a new Explore More feature for the command line that helps you go deeper on a topic you’ve selected on a web page. (Explorer More was previously available in the Aria sidebar.)

To access these features now, you need to install Opera Developer, which gets bi-weekly AI Feature Drops ahead of their potential addition to the stable version of the browser.