Secure Academic Proofreader

Who is this proofreader for?

PhD Students & Doctoral Candidates

Run a final grammar, tone, and citation pass on your dissertation before submission, without handing your unpublished findings to an unknown server.

Non-Native English-Speaking Academics

Fix grammar and sharpen academic tone while the AI is instructed to preserve your scholarly register and leave foreign-language quotes and names untouched.

Researchers Preparing Journal & Conference Submissions

Run a dedicated APA, Chicago, or MLA citation audit before you submit, entirely separate from — and independent of — the language check.

Pay-As-You-Go Credits

Proofreading costs just 2 credits per 900-character block, per selected engine (Grammar & Tone, or Citation Audit) — drawn from the same universal credit balance you use across every tool on this platform.

Credit Packages & Pricing

Free credits for testing are available daily.

Secure Academic Proofreading Workflow

Drop In Your Document

Drag & drop your .docx file, or resume a previously saved .sau session right where you left off.

The document is read and tokenized locally in your browser — the file itself never leaves your device.

Choose What to Check

Select Grammar & Spelling, Academic Tone, and/or the premium Citation Audit, covering APA 7th, Chicago 17th, or MLA 9th edition guidelines.

The Citation Audit runs on a separate AI engine and is billed separately, so you only pay for the checks you actually select.

Set the Document's Language

Anchor the analysis to the document's language, or leave it on auto-detect, so foreign-language quotes and names aren't flagged as false positives.

Review the Cost & Launch

A live calculator shows the exact credit cost and your available balance, so there are no surprises before you commit to the analysis.

Review Every Suggestion in One Table

Browse a filterable, paginated table showing the original sentence, the suggested fix, and an academic reasoning for each issue. Accept or reject changes one at a time, or in bulk.

Save Your Progress Anytime

Long manuscript, limited time? Export an encrypted, password-protected .sau session file (AES-256-GCM) and resume your review later, on any device.

Export Your Results

Download the corrected document and a full errata report, both generated as ready-to-share .html files directly in your browser.

Both files are assembled client-side — they go straight from your screen to your device.

How we compare to standard proofreading services

The Standard Market Approach

Typically, your manuscript is uploaded in full and kept on the provider's servers indefinitely — including your unpublished conclusions.
Depending on the provider's terms, your text may be included in datasets used to train future AI models.
The full document — bold text, footnotes, comments, and all — is transmitted as-is, exposing its complete structure and metadata.
Grammar checking and citation checking are often bundled as a single, all-or-nothing paid feature.

Risk: Long-term exposure of unpublished research, unclear AI training practices, and a full copy of your manuscript sitting on someone else's server.

Our Privacy by Design Approach

Your .docx file is read and tokenized entirely in your browser — the original file itself never reaches our servers.
Contractual, enterprise-grade guarantees ensure your text is never used for AI model training.
Five independent, redundant mechanisms guarantee deletion of the tokenized text — the same layered guarantee the Transcriber uses.
Grammar/tone and citation auditing are separate, selectable engines — you only pay for what you actually need.

Result: A polished manuscript on your device — and nothing left behind on ours.

A Personal Story

I was finishing my dissertation and needed a final proofreading pass before submission — grammar, tone, and citation formatting all had to be airtight. Typing every correction by hand across a hundred-plus pages wasn't realistic anymore, so I went looking for a tool that could do the heavy lifting.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my manuscript stored on your servers?

No. Your .docx file is read and tokenized entirely inside your browser — it is never uploaded in its original form. Only the tokenized text is sent to EU-based cloud storage via a temporary Signed URL. Tokenization replaces the document’s structural formatting with placeholders; it does not strip names or other identifying content out of the text itself, so please consider what your manuscript contains before uploading. Once your results are ready, five independent deletion mechanisms permanently erase that text — two enforced at the storage level and three in application code, ending with an hourly orphan sweep and a cloud-provider lifecycle rule as the outer bound.

Will my document be used to train AI models?

No. We process your text using AI API calls restricted strictly to EU-only infrastructure. We have contractual guarantees that your submitted data is never logged or used to train any artificial intelligence models — and any temporary storage during processing is erased by our five-layer deletion guarantee.

What file formats and citation styles are supported?

The tool accepts .docx files up to roughly 100,000 characters, or a previously saved .sau session. You can run a Grammar & Spelling check, an Academic Tone check, and a citation audit covering APA 7th, Chicago 17th, or MLA 9th edition guidelines.

Do I need an account, and how much does it cost?

No registration, email, or password is required. Proofreading costs 2 credits per 900-character block, per selected engine, from your universal credit balance, and we provide free credits daily for testing, so you can try it before paying anything.

What happens to my document's formatting, like bold text and footnotes?

Before anything is transmitted, structural elements like bold, italics, and footnote markers are replaced with anonymous placeholder tokens in your browser. The AI only ever analyzes raw text mixed with these tokens, and your document's original structure is restored when the corrected file is generated.