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AI Detector for university students, from first-year coursework to the final dissertation chapter.

Self-check coursework, master's papers, and dissertation chapters before they reach Turnitin or your supervisor. Sentence-level highlights show which lines read AI, with perplexity and burstiness signals so you can revise the prose in your own voice. Built with international and second-language writers in mind, since formal academic English is the writing most prone to false positives. 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 university coursework and dissertations.

University writing covers a wider arc than college does. Freshers writing their first 1,500-word essay, master's students submitting term papers under tight deadlines, and PhD candidates drafting full chapters all need the same pre-submission scan, but for different reasons.

The university stack runs from undergraduate seminars to master's coursework to doctoral chapter drafts. Pre-scanning fits every layer because the institutional report at the end is the same Turnitin AI check, regardless of whether you are in year one or the third year of a PhD.

Undergraduate essays and seminar papers

Two to ten pages of structured argument across multiple modules. Free tier covers casual single-essay scans up to 5,000 characters. Pro at $19.99 a month, or $14.99 a month on yearly, unlocks 10,000 character pastes and unlimited scans for the weeks where you are submitting on rotation across three or four modules.

Master's coursework and term papers

Heavier reading load, denser citation requirements, and supervisors who already know what AI-shaped prose looks like. The sentence-level highlights matter here because master's writing rewards specificity and a single AI-rewritten paragraph can be the one your supervisor questions. The 90-day Pro history is the safety net.

PhD candidates and dissertation writers

Chapter drafts that get scanned chapter by chapter as they come together. The 10,000-character cap forces you to scan in sections, which matches how supervisors actually read drafts. PDF export keeps a defensible record of which version of each chapter was scanned and when, useful when an examiner asks about a draft you submitted three weeks ago.

A self-check that scales from essay to thesis

One workflow for a 1,500-word essay or a 9,000-character chapter section.

Turnitin still owns the institutional integrity record at most universities. TextSight is the private read you take on your own draft first, whether that draft is a first-year seminar paper or a methodology section bound for the examination board.

Draft in whatever the work demands

Word and Docs for coursework, Overleaf for a thesis written in LaTeX, or straight into Canvas or Blackboard. Using AI for an outline or a literature-search starting point is a question for your programme's policy. Write the prose itself from your own reading and notes.

Self-check the finished piece, or the section

Paste a completed essay, or one section of a longer chapter, into app.textsight.ai. The free tier takes 5,000 characters; Pro takes 10,000. A dissertation chapter is scanned section by section, which happens to match how supervisors read drafts anyway. Each scan returns an Authenticity Score and a sentence-by-sentence colour map.

Revise the flagged lines in your own voice

Start with the red sentences, then the yellow clusters. Rewrite them as you would actually argue the point, add a specific source or finding, and vary the rhythm. For second-language writers especially, this is about confirming a flag is real residue rather than your formal register, not about chasing a number.

Re-scan, then submit or hand it to your supervisor

Run it once more to confirm the flagged lines moved, then submit through your LMS or send the section to your supervisor. A short essay round-trips in minutes; a dense chapter section takes a little longer because there is more to read.

Plans & pricing

Pricing for undergrads, master's, and PhDs.

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What you see in a scan

Sentence highlights, perplexity, burstiness, and paragraph-level scores.

A single percentage is not a fix path. The TextSight result panel shows which sentences reacted and why, with paragraph-level rollups for longer chapter sections, so you can edit the specific lines instead of rewriting the whole submission.

Sentence-level highlights

Every sentence is colour-coded by its own AI-likeness score. Red sentences clustered in one paragraph are a stronger signal than scattered yellows. Scattered yellows in otherwise structured prose often just mean you were taught to write formally. 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. The score is shown per-sentence on Pro, which is the diagnostic context you need to decide whether a flag is real AI residue or just an unusually well-rehearsed literature review intro.

Burstiness, read-only on Pro

Burstiness is how much your sentence length and structure vary across the section. ChatGPT defaults to uniform medium-length sentences. Real human writing has bursty rhythm: one short sentence, one long, one fragment. Low burstiness across an entire chapter is the classic AI fingerprint and the one supervisors learn to spot first.

Paragraph-level scores for longer drafts

For dissertation chapters and master's papers, paragraph-level rollups identify which sections of a long draft drift AI-shaped and which stay clean. Useful when you have a 9,000-character chapter section and need to know which two paragraphs to revisit rather than rereading the whole thing.

Graduate-level workflows

Dissertation and thesis support, chapter by chapter.

Master's theses and PhD dissertations run far past the 10,000-character per-scan cap. The Pro workflow is to scan by section, archive each result, and treat the 90-day history as your draft audit trail before the examination board sees anything.

Scan chapter sections, not whole chapters

A typical PhD chapter runs 8,000 to 15,000 words. Pro caps each scan at about 1,600 words. Split a chapter into its natural sections, introduction, literature review, methodology, findings, discussion, conclusion, and scan each one in turn. The split matches how supervisors actually read drafts, so the granularity is useful, not punitive.

The 90-day history is your audit trail

Every scan is retrievable for 90 days on Pro. For a writer iterating across a six-month dissertation cycle, that means every clean chapter scan and every revision is on record. PDF export lets you save longer-term archives chapter by chapter. When an examiner asks about a draft from three weeks ago, you have receipts.

Supervisor handoff before viva

Pre-scanning each chapter section before handing a draft to your supervisor catches AI-shaped phrasing before it reaches the person who will sign off your work. The conversation shifts from "did you use AI" to "this paragraph reads AI-shaped, let us discuss the underlying argument", which is the conversation you actually want.

LaTeX and Overleaf workflows

Copy the rendered text into TextSight rather than the LaTeX source. The classifier reads the prose, not the markup, and citation commands or equation environments will throw off scores if pasted directly. The cleanest workflow is to compile, copy the body text from the rendered PDF or output, and scan that.

Fits with your LMS

LMS context: Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, and Moodle.

Native plugins are not shipped yet. Here is the honest 2026 picture of what works today and what is on the roadmap, so you can plan around it during your degree.

Today: copy-paste from your LMS

Draft inside Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, or Google Classroom as you normally would. Before you click submit, copy the final text into TextSight at app.textsight.ai. Edit the flagged sentences in TextSight or back in your LMS, then submit the cleaned version. Round-trip is about six minutes for a typical undergrad essay.

Today: file upload on Pro

Drag a DOCX, PDF, or TXT into TextSight if you wrote in Word, Docs, or exported from Overleaf. Pro accepts files up to 10,000 characters per scan and returns the same sentence-level result the paste-in workflow does. Useful when formatting matters and you do not want to lose it in copy-paste.

Today: Chrome extension

One-click scan from any web page including LMS submission views. Useful when you want to scan an assignment description, a peer review, or a paragraph from your own draft without leaving the tab. Available on Starter and above.

Roadmap: native plugins

Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, and Google Classroom plugins are on the 2026 roadmap. We are not promising dates while LMS plugin requirements keep changing each term. We would rather ship a working integration once than ship a thin wrapper that breaks every semester.

An institutional view, not an auto-fail

Academic integrity, framed for supervisors and students alike.

No single number proves a student used AI. Across higher education the expectation is that a detector reading is one input among several, weighed alongside drafts, sources, and a conversation. The case for self-checking sits on both sides of that.

A score is a signal, not a ruling

A low Authenticity Score means your submission reads more AI-like to the classifier. It does not by itself mean you used AI, and it does not mean a supervisor will raise it. False positives are real, especially for second-language writers and for the dense, formal prose that postgraduate work rewards, where phrasing overlaps with AI defaults.

If you wrote it and the flag is wrong

Keep the report. It records the text you scanned, the Authenticity Score, the sentence-level flags, and the timestamp. If a question ever arises, you can show a draft and revision trail rather than offering a flat denial, which is what an integrity panel is actually looking for.

If a long project drifted more than you noticed

Across a six-month dissertation cycle, AI-assisted drafting can creep further into the final text than you remember. If a section lands below 50 on prose you thought was your own, the honest fix is to rewrite those paragraphs from your notes, not to launder them through another tool.

Why faculty benefit from students self-checking

When a student arrives having already self-checked and revised, a flagged paragraph becomes a discussion about the argument rather than an accusation. A detector reading is one input, weighed with drafts and sources, never a standalone verdict. That process protects honest writers, including those whose formal or second-language style is prone to false positives.

Your draft stays yours

Private to your account, GDPR-aware by design.

A self-check on unpublished research only works if it stays confidential. Your scans are yours, nothing reaches your university or supervisor, and your text is never used to train our model.

We never use your text to train

Essays, chapters, and theses you submit for scanning are never used to train our model or any other. This holds on the free tier exactly as it does on Pro and Business. For unpublished dissertation work, that matters.

No account needed to start

The free tier needs no email and no account. If you are cautious about disclosing in-progress research, you can scan a draft section without us ever knowing who you are or which university you attend.

Your university cannot see your scans

Scan history is private to your account. We do not share scan data with universities, supervisors, examination boards, Turnitin, or any third party. Your scans are not part of any institutional record, and no examiner can pull them.

Delete any scan, with a DPA for institutions

Any saved scan can be deleted, and on Pro you can remove individual records. Our practices are GDPR-aware, and a standard DPA is available on Business and Enterprise for university writing centres and graduate-school cohorts.

FAQ

University students frequently ask.

Is TextSight a replacement for my university's Turnitin report?
No. Turnitin remains the tool most universities use for the institutional academic-integrity record. TextSight is a private self-check you run on your own draft before submission, so you can see which sentences read AI-like and revise them in your own voice first. Treat your university's Turnitin report as the source of truth and TextSight as the read you take on yourself beforehand.
Can I scan a full dissertation or thesis on TextSight?
Each scan takes up to 10,000 characters, around 1,600 words, so a full dissertation or master's thesis is scanned chapter by chapter or section by section. On Pro, the 90-day history keeps every section scan retrievable, so you can track which parts you have already revised and which still need a look before you hand a draft to your supervisor or the examination board. PDF export lets you keep a longer-term record of which version of each section you scanned and when.
Does my university, supervisor, or examiner 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 universities, supervisors, examination boards, Turnitin, or any third party, and we never use your text to train our model. Your scans are not part of any institutional record and your supervisor cannot pull them.
Does TextSight work with Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, or Moodle?
Native LMS plugins are not shipped yet. The workflow today is to draft in Word, Docs, Overleaf, or your university LMS editor, copy the final text into TextSight to scan, revise the flagged sentences, then submit the cleaned version through your LMS. Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, and Google Classroom plugins are on the roadmap. A Chrome extension covers one-click scans from any submission view in the meantime.
I am an international student writing in my second language. Will I be over-flagged?
Detectors are known to over-flag structured English from non-native writers, because formal second-language academic prose overlaps with AI defaults. This is a real and documented limitation across detectors, not unique to any one tool. A self-check is exactly how you catch it: scattered yellow highlights in otherwise structured prose usually reflect formal English instruction rather than AI use. You can add sentence variety and a concrete example, then re-scan to confirm before you submit.
Why would a supervisor or faculty member want students to self-check?
Because it changes the conversation. When a student has already self-checked and revised, a flagged paragraph becomes a discussion about the underlying argument rather than an accusation. A detector number is one input among several, not an integrity ruling. Encouraging students to read their own drafts the way a detector will, and to keep a revision record, supports a fairer process for everyone, including writers whose formal or second-language style is prone to false positives.
Will TextSight train its model on my dissertation chapters?
No. Text you submit for scanning is never used to train our model or any other. Data retention is bound to your history settings, deletion on request is supported, and our privacy practices are GDPR-aware. Dissertation drafts are treated exactly like undergraduate essays.
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