Free Tools for Academic Writing
Tools built for research writing: remove em dashes from AI drafts, check abstracts against journal word limits, and soon, generate and verify citations against real scholarly databases. Start in seconds.
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Cleanup and formatting
Quick fixes for AI-assisted drafts: clean up punctuation and check length limits before a supervisor, reviewer or submission portal sees the text.
Em Dash Remover
Remove the most recognisable AI tell with context-aware replacements, not find-and-replace.
Word Counter
Words, characters, sentences, reading time and journal length targets. Accurate in 100+ languages.
Readability Checker
Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG, Gunning Fog and three more formulas, scored live with research-calibrated targets.
Citations and research integrity
The academic backbone of the suite: generate, verify and retrieve real citations against scholarly databases.
Citation Generator
APA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard citations from a DOI, URL or title lookup.
ChatGPT Citation Generator
Correctly formatted references for citing ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in APA, MLA and Chicago style.
AI Citation Checker
Paste a reference list and verify every entry against Crossref, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar to catch hallucinated citations.
Citation Finder
Describe a claim or topic and retrieve real, citable papers with formatted references.
Journal Finder
Match your title and abstract to suitable journals across every major publisher.
AI writing tools
Our full academic editing suite. Free to use with an account; paid plans unlock higher word credits.
AI Proofreader
Academic proofreading with tracked changes you can accept or reject line by line.
AI Text Humanizer
Rewrite AI-flavoured drafts into natural academic prose without losing meaning.
Paraphrasing Tool
Citation-aware paraphrasing that preserves technical terminology.
AI Summarizer
Condense papers and chapters into faithful summaries and abstracts.
AI Translator
Academic translation across 50+ languages with terminology control.
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