Sort structure and paragraphs first
A paragraph that's in the wrong place is not fixed by a better sentence inside it. Structure comes before line-editing.
Read the guide →Paste your draft, and see what's actually in it
Five browser tools measure sentence rhythm, passive constructions, filler, spelling mix-ups and word echo, each paired with a guide that tells you what to do about what you find. Nothing you paste is stored, sent anywhere or logged.
Read the writing and editing guidesFour passes, in the order that saves work
Structure, paragraphs, sentences and words: each pass has its own tools and guides, in the order that wastes the least time.
Check sentence rhythm next
Once the shape is right, look at how sentences run: length, rhythm, and whether the passive voice is doing its job.
Open the tool →Clear out filler last
Filler, hedges, echoed words, and mixed spelling conventions are the last pass, once the sentences underneath are settled.
Open the tool →What the tools measure, and what they leave to you
Paste your draft into any tool below. Each one measures a single observable feature of the writing, and each is paired with a guide that says what to do with the reading.
Sentence Rhythm Analyser
Paste a paragraph and the tool marks each sentence by length, so you can see which are running long and which are sitting at the same length as their neighbours, sentence after sentence. A long sentence is not a fault by itself; a paragraph where every sentence lands at roughly the same length is the thing worth noticing, because that flatness is what tires a reader before they reach the point. The tool cannot tell you which sentence is confusing, only which ones share a rhythm. That judgement stays with you.
Passive Voice and Nominalisation Finder
This tool finds passive constructions, such as 'the report was submitted', and nominalisations, a verb turned into a noun, as in 'the implementation of' where 'implement' would do the job in one word. Both are proper choices in some sentences: the passive suits a case where the actor is unknown or beside the point, and a nominalisation can name a settled idea. The tool flags every instance it finds; deciding which to keep is left to you.
Filler, Hedge and Cliché Finder
The tool marks filler that adds length without meaning, such as 'in order to' or 'at this point in time', hedges that soften a claim past the point of usefulness, such as 'somewhat' or 'it could be argued', and phrases too worn to notice any more, all in the same pass. A hedge is sometimes the right call, for instance where a finding is uncertain and the sentence ought to say so. What the tool cannot judge is whether your caution is warranted. It only shows you where you have hedged.
British and American Spelling Consistency Checker
Paste a draft and the tool flags British and American spelling sitting side by side in the same document, 'colour' next to 'color', 'organise' next to 'organize', the kind of mix that creeps in over several sittings. One mixed spelling rarely confuses a reader on its own, but a document that switches convention partway through reads as unedited to anyone who notices it. The tool shows you where the mix sits. Which convention to standardise on is a decision for your house style or your publisher.
Word Echo Finder
The tool finds words repeated at close range, the kind of echo that slips past a writer rereading their own sentence but lands squarely on a reader coming to it fresh. Repetition is sometimes deliberate, a word held across two sentences to keep an argument anchored, and the tool cannot always tell that apart from an echo you simply missed. It shows you where a word repeats. Whether that repetition is doing work is for you to decide.
An editing sequence
Structure first, then paragraphs, then sentences, then words: this is the order that catches the largest problems before you spend an hour polishing a paragraph you might cut entirely. Each pass has its own tools and its own guide, so you move from the shape of the piece down to the words inside it. The How to Edit Your Own Writing guide sets out the full sequence before you open a single tool.
Nothing you paste is stored
Every tool runs in your browser: nothing you paste is stored, sent to a server or logged anywhere, and the analysis happens on the page in front of you. That matters if you are pasting a draft report before it is finished, a chapter no one else has read, or an email that names people. Each tool can still give you a wrong reading, since none of them understand what your sentence means, only what it looks like on the page.
Tools that read your draft, guides that explain what to do next
Everything on this site runs in your browser. Paste a paragraph or a whole draft into any tool and the analysis happens on your own machine: nothing you paste is stored, transmitted or logged, and the page behaves the same whether you paste one sentence or ten pages.
Five tools, one job each
Each tool looks at one feature of a sentence that can be pointed to and counted.
- Sentence rhythm: the tool flags runs of sentences that are all the same length, and the long ones that have run on past the point where a reader can hold the thought.
- Passive voice and nominalisations: the tool finds constructions such as "a decision was made", and the verb hidden inside a phrase like "the implementation of", so you can decide whether to name the actor.
- Filler and hedges: the tool marks words that soften a claim without adding anything to it, words such as "somewhat", "arguably" or "in order to".
- Spelling convention: the tool catches a draft that switches between "organise" and "organize" without meaning to.
- Word echo: the tool shows where the same word has been used twice in close succession, a habit that is nearly invisible to the person who wrote it.
None of the five tells you what to write instead. Each one points at the sentence and leaves the decision with you, because a passive construction or a repeated word is sometimes the right choice, and a tool counting words on a page has no way of knowing which sentences those are.
An order that saves you from redoing work
Editing a whole draft sentence by sentence before the structure is settled means editing sentences that get cut anyway once the structure changes. The guides on this site follow a fixed order: structure first, then paragraphs, then sentences, then words. Read How to Edit Your Own Writing for the full sequence, or go straight to the sentence pass by pasting a draft into the Sentence Rhythm Analyser.
Each tool sits beside its own guide, so a flagged sentence comes with an explanation of why it was flagged and what the alternatives are.
Start with the draft you already have
Each tool shows you one thing your draft is doing, sentence rhythm, passive constructions, filler and hedges, spelling mix-ups, echoed words, and the guide beside it says what to do about what you find. Nothing you paste is stored, sent anywhere or logged.