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AI Detector for college students, built around the essay you actually wrote.

Self-check your undergrad essays, term papers, and lab reports before they land in Canvas or get a Turnitin AI report. Sentence-level highlights show which lines read AI, with perplexity and burstiness signals so you can revise the prose in your own voice instead of guessing. Useful when the deadline is midnight, the dorm is loud, and you want to know how your draft reads before your professor does. Private to your account, never used to train our model. Free to try. No card.

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Who it is for

Built for the undergrad essay and term paper.

For four-year undergraduates juggling several courses at once, where the AI policy changes from one professor's syllabus to the next and the same week brings two essays and a lab write-up. The realistic move is to draft, self-check before submission, then revise the sentences that read AI.

An undergrad's writing load is wide and uneven. One professor allows AI for brainstorming, the next bans it outright, and a third never says. You write a literature essay, a history response, and a chemistry lab report in the same seven days, each in a different register. A self-check before you submit means you walk into each course knowing how that specific draft reads, instead of finding out from a Turnitin report after the grade is in.

The English and humanities essay

Five to twelve pages of argument with a thesis, evidence, and a conclusion. This is the register most likely to read AI-like when you wrote it yourself, because a well-organised five-paragraph structure overlaps with how models write. Sentence-level highlights show whether a flag is real AI residue or just a tight thesis statement, so you fix the right lines.

The lab report and problem set write-up

Methods, results, and discussion paragraphs reward uniform, procedural sentences, which is exactly the rhythm detectors associate with AI. A self-check here is about telling genre from residue. Scattered yellow highlights across a methods section usually mean the genre showing through, not anything you need to rewrite.

Submitting on rotation during finals

Midterms and finals stack three or four deadlines into one week. The free tier covers casual single-essay checks up to 5,000 characters. When you are submitting daily, Pro removes the per-day limit and raises the paste size to 10,000 characters so each draft gets the same read.

Self-check before you hit submit

A four-step self-check that fits between your last edit and the Canvas deadline.

TextSight does not replace your professor's Turnitin report. It is the scan you run on yourself first, so you read your own draft the way the grading tool will, while there is still time to revise.

1. Finish the draft

Write the essay in whatever you use for class, Google Docs, Word, or the Canvas text box. Using AI for an outline or to get unstuck is a course-policy question, not the thing this scan is about. Write the actual prose from your own notes and reading.

2. Self-check the final text

Open app.textsight.ai, paste the finished essay, and run the scan. The free tier takes up to 5,000 characters per scan; Pro takes 10,000. You get an Authenticity Score plus a sentence-by-sentence colour map showing where the draft reads AI-like.

3. Revise the flagged lines in your voice

Look at the red sentences first, then the yellow clusters. Rewrite those specific lines the way you would actually say them, add a concrete example from the course, and vary your sentence lengths. You are fixing prose that genuinely reads AI-shaped, not chasing a number on writing that is already yours.

4. Re-scan, then submit in Canvas

Run it once more to confirm the flagged lines moved, then submit the cleaned essay in Canvas or whichever LMS your course uses. A typical undergrad essay takes only a few minutes to round-trip, which is the point during a week with three deadlines.

Plans & pricing

Pricing built for an undergrad workload.

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What you see in a scan

A colour map of your essay, not just a number.

A lone percentage tells you nothing about where to revise. The result panel shows which sentences reacted and why, so you can fix the specific lines instead of rewriting the whole essay the night before it is due.

Sentence-level highlights

Every sentence carries its own AI-likeness colour. A block of red sentences inside one body paragraph is a stronger signal than yellows scattered across the whole essay. Scattered yellows in tidy prose usually just mean you write the way your comp class taught you. You read the pattern, not just the headline number.

Perplexity, read-only on Pro

Perplexity is how predictable your word choices are to a language model. Low perplexity reads AI-like. Seeing it per sentence on Pro is what lets you tell a real AI residue from a thesis statement you rehearsed and polished until it sounded smooth.

Burstiness, read-only on Pro

Burstiness is how much your sentence length and structure vary. Models default to uniform, medium-length sentences. Real undergrad writing is bursty: a short punchy line, a long one, an occasional fragment. Flat, even rhythm across a whole essay is the pattern detectors react to most.

Authenticity Score and Plagiarism Risk together

Two readings in one scan. The Authenticity Score is the inverse-AI reading at the document level. Plagiarism Risk catches copied passages and citation-risky phrasing at the same time. Running both before you submit means one pass tells you about both the AI side and the sourcing side of an essay.

A self-check, not a verdict

Academic integrity, from the student's side of the desk.

A single number is not proof that anyone used AI. A self-check is for catching how your own draft reads while you can still revise it honestly, and for keeping a record if a flag ever turns out to be wrong.

Read the score as a signal, not a verdict

A low Authenticity Score means your essay reads more AI-like to the classifier. On its own it does not prove you used AI, and it does not mean a professor will accuse you. False positives are real, especially for non-native English writers and for the highly structured prose that comp classes reward, where the phrasing overlaps with AI defaults.

If you wrote it yourself and still got flagged

Save the report. It holds the text you scanned, the Authenticity Score, the sentence-level flags, and the timestamp. If an integrity conversation comes up, that gives you something specific to point at, a draft history and a set of flagged lines you already revised, instead of a vague "I really did write it."

If the draft was more AI than you remembered

Be honest with yourself if the score lands below 50 on prose you thought was mostly your own. AI-assisted drafting tends to drift further into a final essay than students expect. The fix is to rewrite those paragraphs from your own notes and in your own voice, not to run them through another tool.

A single percentage should not decide a grade

A detector number is one input, not an academic-integrity ruling. The fair process is sentence-level evidence, a conversation, and a look at earlier drafts before any decision. That cuts both ways: it protects you from a wrongful flag, and it is the reason a self-check plus your own revision history is worth keeping.

Works alongside Canvas and Blackboard

How it fits the LMS your campus actually runs.

Most US campuses run Canvas or Blackboard, often with Turnitin's AI check switched on at submission. Native plugins are not shipped yet, so here is what works today and what is coming.

Today: copy out of Canvas, scan, paste back

Write inside Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, or Moodle as usual. Before you submit, copy the finished essay into TextSight, revise the flagged lines, and paste the cleaned version back into the submission box. A typical undergrad essay takes only a few minutes to round-trip this way.

Today: upload your Docs or Word file on Pro

If you wrote in Google Docs or Word, drag the DOCX, PDF, or TXT straight into TextSight on Pro, up to 10,000 characters per scan. You get the same sentence-level result without retyping or losing formatting in copy-paste.

Today: scan from the tab with the Chrome extension

The Chrome extension runs a one-click scan from any page, including a Canvas submission view. Handy for checking a paragraph of your own draft, an assignment prompt, or a peer review without switching tabs. Available on Starter and above.

Coming: native LMS plugins

Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, and Google Classroom plugins are on the roadmap. We are not putting a date on it while each platform keeps changing its plugin rules term to term. A plugin that works is worth more than a wrapper that breaks every semester.

Your essay stays yours

Private to your account, never used to train our model.

A self-check is only useful if it stays private. Your scans are yours, nothing about them reaches your college, and your text is never fed back into our model.

We never use your text to train

Essays you submit for scanning are never used to train our model or any other. That holds on the free tier exactly as it holds on Pro and Business. It is a stance, not a setting you have to go and find.

No account needed to start

The free tier needs no email and no account. If you are wary about leaving a trail, you can scan an essay without us ever knowing who you are or which college you attend.

Your college cannot see your scans

Scan history is private to your account. We do not share scan data with colleges, instructors, Turnitin, or any third party. Your scans are not part of any institutional record, and your professor has no way to pull them.

Delete any scan, GDPR-aware by design

Any saved scan can be deleted from your history, and on Pro you can remove individual records. Our privacy practices are GDPR-aware, and a standard DPA is available on Business and Enterprise for writing centres and tutoring teams.

FAQ

College students frequently ask.

Is TextSight the same thing my college uses to grade me?
No. TextSight is your own self-check, not your school's grading tool. Your professor's Turnitin AI report is the one that lands on the institutional record. TextSight is the scan you run on your own draft beforehand, so you can see which sentences read AI-like and revise them in your own voice before you submit. Treat the result as a heads-up, not a grade.
Can my professor or college see my TextSight scans?
No. TextSight scans are private to your account. The free tier does not require an email or any identity. Paid scan history is visible only to you. We do not share scan data with colleges, instructors, Turnitin, or any third party, and we never use your text to train our model. Your scans are not part of any institutional record.
Where does this fit if my class uses Turnitin inside Canvas?
TextSight runs before you click submit in Canvas. Draft your essay in Docs, Word, or the Canvas editor as usual. Before submission, copy the final text into TextSight, read the sentence highlights, revise the lines that read AI, then paste the cleaned version back into Canvas. Native LMS plugins for Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, and Google Classroom are on the roadmap; today the workflow is copy, scan, revise, submit.
I wrote my essay myself but I write formally. Will I get flagged?
Maybe, and you are not alone. Detectors are known to over-flag highly structured academic prose and writing from non-native English speakers, because that register overlaps with AI defaults. That is exactly why a pre-submission self-check helps. Scattered yellow highlights in otherwise structured prose usually reflect how you were taught to write, not AI use. You can add sentence variety and a concrete example, then re-scan to confirm.
Is using a detector on my own essay against academic integrity?
Checking your own writing before you submit is the honest use. TextSight is most useful when you wrote the work yourself and want to understand how a detector reads it. The goal is to revise prose that genuinely reads AI-shaped into your own voice, not to disguise work you did not write. If you used AI assistance, follow your course policy on disclosure.
Is the free tier enough for a full semester of essays?
For a casual single-essay check, yes. The free tier gives 3 scans a day and up to 5,000 characters per scan with sentence-level highlights, no card and no email. During midterms and finals, when you are submitting on rotation across several courses, Pro removes the daily limit and raises the paste size to 10,000 characters.
What do the perplexity and burstiness signals mean?
Perplexity is how predictable your word choices are to a language model. Low perplexity reads more AI-like. Burstiness is how much your sentence length and structure vary across the essay. Low burstiness reads more AI-like. Mixed perplexity with normal burstiness is the typical human pattern. TextSight surfaces both read-only on Pro so you can understand why a sentence was flagged, not just that it was.
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