Catch the errors. Keep your words.

A few typical corrections, with invented sentences:

If a sentence is grammatical but clumsy, proofreading is designed to keep it. That restraint is the point: a proofread should not make a finished draft sound like someone else wrote it.

The three levels share one uploader and one price. Proofreading Only is what this page runs; Light and Full Editing are on the AI editing page.

A common route for a thesis or a novel is to edit an earlier draft for flow, revise it yourself, and then proofread the final version just before you submit it, so the last changes you made are checked too.

Long documents are where AI proofreading helps most, because a tired reader misses more on page 280 than on page 2. The proofreader works through the document section by section, so the last chapter is handled the same way as the first. A document over 150,000 words can be split and uploaded in parts.

Before you upload, three quick checks save a failed attempt:

• Save the file as Word (.docx). LaTeX (.tex) files are accepted on Monthly and Yearly plans.
• Accept or reject any tracked changes already in the document, so the new corrections are not mixed up with old ones.
• Remove any password protection in Word.

Guides for the documents people proofread most:

• Thesis editing and proofreading
• Dissertation editing and proofreading
• Academic papers and journal articles
• Novels and short fiction
• Memoir, biography, and other nonfiction

US and UK English are the two varieties on offer. For fiction and general nonfiction, the style manual follows your choice: the Chicago Manual of Style for US English and the New Oxford Style Manual (3rd edition) for UK English. Academic documents keep the citation style you pick, such as APA 7 or Harvard, in either variety.

Drafts written over months often drift between the two, with organize on one page and organise on the next. Choosing the variant up front gives the proofreader one target, so those strays are brought into line instead of being left mixed.

In practice, the best use of AI proofreading is as a thorough first pass: it clears the mechanical errors quickly, and you spend your own reading time on meaning. Read the tracked changes before you accept them, especially in technical terms, names, and quotations, where context matters most. If a submission is high stakes, you can still hand a clean draft to a human proofreader afterwards; they will spend their time on judgment rather than typos.

When you review, a few habits help catch AI slips:

• Check changes inside quotations. A quotation should match its source, errors included, so reject corrections there unless you are sure.
• Check names, technical terms, and deliberate spellings from your field or your fictional world.
• Read the comments. They explain the key edits, which makes it quicker to judge whether a change fits your meaning.
• Skim a sample of accepted changes at the end, rather than accepting everything unseen.

Proofreading, Light Editing, and Full Editing all cost the same, and checking your citations against your reference list is free on every plan. Full details are on the pricing page.

1. Open the downloaded file in Microsoft Word.
2. Select the Review tab.
3. Choose Next in the Changes group to jump to the first correction.
4. Choose Accept or Reject. Word moves on to the next change.
5. To keep everything that is left, open the Accept menu and choose Accept All Changes.
6. To clear the comments when you are done, open the Delete menu in the Comments group and choose Delete All Comments in Document.

To see the document as it will read with every correction applied, switch the markup view in the Tracking group from All Markup to Simple Markup or No Markup; switching back shows the changes again. In Google Docs, the tracked changes in an uploaded Word file show as suggestions you can accept or reject in the same way.

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