Check your essay before your grader does.

0 / 1500 words No account needed

Checks the live public web in real time. We keep no database of student papers, and results are a guide for review - not proof. How it works

Why students check before submitting

Most flagged plagiarism is not theft - it is a paraphrase that stayed too close to the source, a quote missing its citation, or a paragraph assembled from notes without tracking where the notes came from. A pre-submission check catches exactly that: it highlights every sentence that matches a public web page and shows you the page, so you can add the citation or rewrite before it costs you.

Your draft is not stored in any matching database when you check it here - there is no database. Some free checkers quietly archive what you paste and your own draft can later match against itself. We check against the live web only.

The honest part: this is not Turnitin - and neither is any free tool

Turnitin matches against a private archive of previously submitted student papers and licensed journals. No free web tool can see that archive, whatever their marketing says. What we check is the public web: the sources you actually researched from, the essay-mill pages, the Wikipedia paragraphs - the places accidental overlap really comes from.

Use this check to fix citations and rewordings you can act on. A clean result here means no public web matches - it lowers your risk, it does not guarantee a 0% at your institution.

Reading your report

  • Red highlights are exact matches - word-for-word overlap with a source. Quote and cite them, or rewrite.
  • Amber highlights are near matches - paraphrase that tracks a source closely. Check the side-by-side view and make it genuinely yours, with the citation.
  • Quoted material and bibliography entries will match - that is what citations do. Highlighted is not the same as guilty.

Frequently asked questions

No - and no free tool can. Turnitin matches against its private archive of previously submitted papers, which nobody else can access. What we check is the live public web: the essays, articles and sources a reader (or a suspicious grader googling a sentence) would actually find. Use us to catch missed citations and accidental overlap before you submit.

Yes. Checking your draft here does not add it to any database - there is no database of submissions. That matters: some "free" checkers quietly archive what you paste. Your text stays attached to your report only, and anonymous checks are not linked to your identity.

1500 words per check without an account, 3 times a day - enough for most essays. A free account raises it to 3000 words and 8 checks a day with saved reports. A typical thesis chapter fits in one paid check (1 credit per 1,000 words, packs from $4.99).

No. Correctly quoted material, common phrases and reference entries naturally match their sources - that is what quotation is. The report highlights exact and near matches in different shades so you can tell copied prose from cited material. Check that every highlighted passage has its citation, then move on.

Checking your own work before submission is exactly what these tools are for - it is proofreading, not misconduct. What gets students in trouble is submitting copied text, not scanning for it. If your institution has an AI/tools policy, read it, but self-checking drafts is standard practice.