Tools / A little help at hand
Read my writing like an editor
Paste your draft and see it marked the way an editor marks it — hard sentences, passive voice, buried verbs, hedges, weak landings, slow openings, all in the text itself.
The whole read happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, no signup — so it costs nothing to run and stays free.
How it works
Fourteen deterministic checks over your sentences — the same ones that run inside the Verbaria editor. No model reads your draft, so the same text gives the same marks every time.
What it doesn’t do
It marks style, not truth and not grammar. It cannot tell you whether a sentence is right — only that it is doing something worth a second look.
Common questions
Is this a free Hemingway Editor alternative?
Yes, and it reads for more than Hemingway does. Hemingway marks hard sentences, adverbs, and passive voice. This adds buried verbs, hedges, weak landings, slow openings, scaffolding, clichés, redundant pairs, inflated words, repeated words, and narrated realizations — fourteen lenses instead of four, with no signup and no paste limit.
Does my writing get uploaded anywhere?
No. The entire read runs inside your browser tab. Your draft never leaves your machine, is never sent to a server, and is never stored — which is also why the tool can stay free with no account.
Why does it flag a sentence I like?
Because a flag is not a verdict. Sometimes the long sentence is the rhythm, the hedge is the honesty, and the fragment is the point. The tool's job is to show you the spot; the decision stays yours.
Can an AI chatbot do this instead?
It can give you an impression, but not the spot. Ask a large model to edit your draft and it hands back a rewrite you have to diff by eye. This marks the exact characters, counts each kind, and never touches your words.
The reference behind it
Every finding here has an entry that explains it — what it is, why it matters, and when the flag is your voice working.
These tools are yours — if something’s rough, say so. Nothing required, no name needed.
More free tools
Is this still your writing?
Paste what you originally wrote or said, then paste the version that came back from an AI or an editor. See sentence by sentence what is still your words and what was replaced.
How hard is this to read?
Paste a piece and get its reading level, its reading ease, how long it takes to read, and the specific sentences carrying the weight.
Structured data for a piece of writing
Paste your piece and get the Article and FAQ structured data for it — built from your actual headings and paragraphs, not typed into a form.