When AI tools like ChatGPT shape how we write, originality have grown complex. It is safe to say that we use AI tools almost every single day. And thus, Turnitin was born. It is dedicated to detecting plagiarism and identifying text that might be generated by AI.

Nowadays, Turnitin is being adopted by many famous universities. It is essential to learn to use it properly and have a thorough understanding of its reports. This guide explains how Turnitin AI detection works, how to use it, and most importantly, how to interpret its reports responsibly.

1、How it work?

Turnitin’s AI detection is different from plagiarism checks, it focuses on analyzing linguistic patterns, sentence structure, text coherence and syntax to estimate whether a passage sounds like it was written by a large language model.

Recently, Turnitin’s AI Writing Detection Model Overview further explains that its system now distinguishes between AI-generated text and AI-paraphrased text, providing more nuance in interpretation.

As Turnitin notes , the model calculates the likelihood that parts of your text were generated by AI.

However, The percentage generated by Turnitin’s AI writing detection model is not necessarily the percentage of the entire submission … it should not be used as the sole basis for adverse actions against a student.(Turnitin Support Guide – AI Writing Detection) It outputs a percentage—probabilistic, not definitive.

So, their detection should be viewed as an indicator, not evidence of misconduct.

2.How to use it?

Using Turnitin’s AI detection is straightforward:

1. Upload your document

Acceptable formats include .docx and .pdf (text-based). Avoid scanned or image-only files, as Turnitin can’t process them.

2. Enable AI writing detection

For most institutions, this is automatically activated for instructors. If you manage your own Turnitin account, check the submission settings before uploading.

3. Submit and wait for processing

Depending on file size, reports usually generate within a few minutes. You’ll receive two indicators:

• Similarity Score (for plagiarism checking)
• AI Writing Indicator (for potential AI-generated text)

4. Open your report

The AI Writing Indicator appears as a blue icon next to the submission title.

• If Turnitin detects AI content with moderate to high confidence (20–100%), it displays a percentage in blue.
• If the detection is below 20%, the system replaces the number with an asterisk (*%), indicating low confidence.
• Gray indicates that the file could not be processed for AI writing (for example, scanned documents or images of text).

5. Use Turnitin AI detection in Aceessay.ai

On the Aceessay website, we has integrated the Turnitin AI detection function. You can checkout Aceessay AI detecctor page to try Turnitin AI detector and download the detection report. Also we provide bypass Turnitin function through which you can convert your AI text to the version which cannot be detected by Turnitin.

3.How to Read and Interpret the Report

The cost of Turnitin’s detection service is very low. The value of this report does not lie in mere numbers; it’s about understanding what those colors and percentages actually signify.Only by effectively using the reports provided by Turnitin can it truly contribute to the improvement of your writing.

a. Key Elements of the Report

Once the AI report is open, the challenge is not just seeing the data but understanding what it’s telling you.
Each Turnitin AI report displays two layers of information:

• Quantitative (the percentage of suspected AI-written text)
• Qualitative (color-coded highlights showing where AI may appear).

Firstly, you need to clearly understand what each color represents.

(Turnitin Enhanced Report Guide )

b. Making Sense of Numbers

Turnitin’s percentages reflect probabilities, not certainties.

• 0–19% (*%) → Low confidence — often stylistic coincidence.
• 20–79% → Moderate confidence — requires contextual review.
• 80%-100％ → High confidence — AI-like writing patterns dominate.

Turnitin’s internal testing reports a false-positive rate of around 4% at the sentence level, and below 1% at the document level.

So, if your essay has a 15% AI score doesn’t prove AI use—it simply signals linguistic similarity.

Take this Turnitin report as an example. Don’t forget to pay attention to the content in the “Detection Groups” section below. It will tell you approximately what percentage of the content was generated by AI and what percentage was rewritten using AI tools. This method can help you eliminate some tools that perform poorly in humanizers.

c. interpret the report effectively:

1. Look for color clusters, not isolated highlights—single cyan or purple phrases may be normal.

As this article is highlighted in cyan, it indicates that this section of the language is possibly generated by AI and needs to be rewritten. This kind of highlight is very convenient. It enables you to quickly identify which part of your article has problems.

2. Understand writing context. Academic and technical writing often follows fixed formulas (“This study explores…”, “The results indicate…”), which can trigger AI-style signals. So do not change the structure and style easily just because of the AI rate, considering whether the phrasing simply reflects disciplinary conventions.
3. Check tone variation. Human writing has rhythm, emphasis, and small imperfections; AI writing tends to be balanced but emotionless. Reading flagged sections aloud can reveal whether the flow feels too uniform or detached.

4.Understanding the Limitations

Even Turnitin acknowledges that AI detection is guidance, not evidence.

Turnitin may also make false detections. Human-written texts can be wrongly labeled as generated by AI, and there is also some AI-generated content that can evade AI detection.

Besides, ESL submissions sometimes receive inflated AI scores, even when entirely human-written.writers whose first language is not English often rely on simpler sentence structures, limited vocabulary range, and predictable phrasing patterns to ensure grammatical accuracy.

For instance, a 2024 study cited by the University of San Diego Law Library found that AI detectors disproportionately flagged essays from non-native English writers as “AI-assisted” compared to native-level counterparts. Educators should therefore interpret ESL reports with caution.

In summary, the AI report is a mirror—imperfect but useful. It reflects patterns in writing and prompts reflection on how we create and learn. So being familiar with Turnitin is of great benefit to us.
I hope that through this blog, you can learn more about it.

About the Author

Claire Dawson

Claire Dawson is a dynamic content strategist at AceEssay, blending creativity with data-driven insights to craft compelling narratives and optimize SEO strategies. With a solid background in Marketing and Digital Media, Claire thrives on helping brands, especially in the academic space, grow their digital presence.

When Turnitin shows “*%,” it almost always means:

-The AI probability is 20% or below, usually in the 1%-19% range.

In plain English, Turnitin detected very few AI-like characteristics in the writing.

This symbol usually means that the amount of AI influence is small and not concerning.

It does not mean that the text is AI-generated.

It does not indicate or imply academic misconduct.

It does not accuse the student of improper AI use.

Instead, “%“ indicates that the writing is overwhelmingly human-like, with only a few minor patterns reminiscent of AI phrasing.

Why Doesn’t Turnitin Show the Exact Number?

Turnitin intentionally rolls up all AI percentages below 20% for two important reasons:

Low scores are not meaningful indicators.

Detection is statistically unreliable at such low percentages, so Turnitin rolls them all up to avoid false positives.

These scores rarely indicate any misconduct, as most institutions do not regard writing under 20% AI detection as anything but normal human writing.

Most of the AI-like structures in such cases are due to:

natural clarity or conciseness

predictable academic style

repeated sentence structures

simple vocabulary

standard student writing conventions

If Turnitin were to show low numbers in such cases, it might cause an uproar.

Does % Mean the Writing Is Safe?

Generally, yes.

A % score usually indicates:

-a low level of concern

-human authorship

• no indication or evidence of improper AI use

If Turnitin detects AI confidence is low, educators do not question the writing with such scores.

What Commonly Causes a % Score? (1%-19%)

Writing likely exhibits slight AI characteristics if:

-You employed a clean, structured academic style.

-You wrote in concise, repetitive ways.

-You summarized straightforward information.

-Your tone was consistent.

-English is not your primary language; you relied on simple phraseology.

Patterns like this that could appear as AI writing are pretty typical in many student papers.

What Should Students Do If They Receive a % Score?

Nothing.

A % score is the best and least problematic result you could get other than a 0%.

If you are concerned about even the most minuscule AI signals, you could add more personal analysis or reasoning, unique examples, varied sentence structure, drafts, and notes showing your writing process, where relevant and appropriate.

But for the most part, instructors usually do not expect any of that.

How Do Teachers Interpret %?

Most instructors will interpret % as:

Not AI writing

No misconduct

No suspicion

Completely acceptable

In fact, some training made it clear that instructors should not act on scores below 20%.

Key Takeaway

Here is the simple truth about Turnitin’s meaning when you see “%”:

It means the AI detection score is below 20%, which is very low and practically harmless.

In other words, your writing is likely human and does not suggest a problem with academic integrity.

This brings us to the rest of the series, in which we discuss what AI percentages with two or more digits mean and how they are likely interpreted.

Author Bio

Fiona Zhang is an AI writing analyst and content strategist specializing in humanization tools, AI detection, and academic integrity technologies.
Visit her author page: https://blog.aceessay.ai/Fiona-Zhang/

Recently, we’ve been hearing the same frustration over and over from international students:“I used ChatGPT to polish my essay, but Turnitin flagged 70% as AI.” or“My professor told me my paragraphs sound too ‘machine-like’.” …..I believe that you, who are reading this blog, have also experienced something similar. These aren’t isolated cases！

As Turnitin’s AI detection becomes standard in nearly every university submission system（a built-in feature that analyzes linguistic patterns to identify text likely written by AI）, even light edits from ChatGPT can trigger “AI-generated” alerts. Turnitin has also been actively monitoring “AI bypassers” ，and continually updates its algorithms to catch unnatural linguistic patterns.

To understand what really works in 2025, we ran a real-world test of the best AI humanizer tools — comparing how effectively they make text sound natural and pass academic AI detectors like Turnitin and GPTZero.

What Students Care About Most？

After analyzing over 3,127 survey responses from international students in Arts, Social Sciences, and Business courses, we found that users’ biggest concerns about AI writing and “AI humanizer” tools cluster around five main points:

1. Natural language flow — The rewritten text must sound human, not “edited by a robot.”
2. Academic integrity — The tool shouldn’t destroy logic, citations, or tone.
3. AI detection safety — It should lower AI percentage in Turnitin and GPTZero.
4. Affordability — Most students expect < $20/month plans.
5. Ease of use & multilingual support — Many users write in English as a second language.

These five factors shaped the evaluation criteria for our October 2025 tests.

How We Tested？

Last tested: October 2025
Target group: Arts, Social Science, and Business students
Tools tested: We have selected eleven tools that are currently the most popular and have the greatest potential in the market. They are: Undetectable AI, Ace Essay, StealthWriter, QuillBot, HumanizeAI Pro, WalterWrites, Humbot, BypassGPT, Phrasly, Decopy, Humanize.io

AI Detectors used: Turnitin, GPTZero
We relied on two of the most trusted AI detection systems:

• Turnitin —Most universities have integrated Turnitin’s AI writing detection tool into their assessment processes to evaluate academic submissions.The company has also addressed the rise of “AI bypassers” in its official blog, emphasizing continuous model updates to catch unnatural language structures that mimic human writing(Turnitin Blog: What Are AI Bypassers and Why Educators Should Care).
• GPTZero — a popular open-access detector among students and editors. It provides transparent scoring and sentence-level explanations, helping us measure linguistic naturalness more objectively.

Using both allows for a balanced assessment，helping us to obtain a more accurate result.

For this comparison, each tool was tested using the same 500-word excerpt from an AI-written essay on “Cultural Identity and Media Representation”
The text was first written in ChatGPT, then “humanized” using each tool.

We rated:

• Naturalness (1–10) — judged by 3 academic writing tutors.
• Academic Coherence (1–10) — logical flow, vocabulary precision, tone consistency.
• AI Detection Rate — measured by Turnitin + GPTZero.
• Cost— per-word or monthly plan.
• Ease of Use — processing speed, clarity of output.

OK! After making all the preparations, now let’s officially move on to the evaluation stage.

Tool-by-Tool Evaluation

After a 10-day evaluation process, I compiled this table. Next, I will provide you with a detailed explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of each tool.

1.Ace Essay (2025 Edition)

Website: aceessay.ai
Score:9.1 / 10
Naturalness: 9.0 | Academic Coherence: 9.1 | AI Index after processing: ↓ from 94% → 8%
Price: $1.2 per 1,000 words

Pros:
✅ Academic-specific model tuned for essay and thesis writing
✅ High accuracy in preserving citations and logical structure
✅ Multilingual interface (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean…..)
✅ The revised text has a high degree of semantic consistency with the original text.

Cons：
⚠️Slight delay when processing long documents (>2,000 words)

2.Undetectable AI

Website: undetectable.ai
Score: 7.6 / 10
Naturalness: 8.0 | Academic Coherence: 6.5 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 20%
Price: $9.99 / month (Starter Plan)

Pros:
✅ Moderate success rate on Turnitin / GPTZero reduction
✅ Affordable monthly pricing and browser-based tool
✅ Good for light edits or short reports

Cons:
⚠️ Weak academic tone — risks making essays sound too conversational
⚠️ Tends to break structured argumentation in research papers
⚠️ Citation formatting often lost or altered

3.StealthWriter

Website:stealthwriter.ai
Score: 7.2 / 10
Naturalness: 7.0 | Academic Coherence: 6.8 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 25%
Price: $20 / month (Basic Plan)

Pros:
✅ Good natural rhythm for casual or narrative text
✅ Handles medium-length text (500–1500 words) efficiently

Cons:
⚠️ Casual tone unsuitable for university essays
⚠️ Formatting loss (citations, indentation) in output
⚠️ High-tier plans costlier than competitors with similar performance

4.QuillBot

Website: quillbot.com
Score: 6.9 / 10
Naturalness: 7.8 | Academic Coherence: 6.0 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 38%
Price: $19.95 / month

Pros:
✅ Reliable paraphrasing engine with grammar tools
✅ Browser extensions and Google Docs integration
✅ Good for minor style adjustments
✅ Stable and easy to use

Cons:
⚠️ Weak AI detection evasion ability
⚠️ Often flattens sentence complexity
⚠️ Subscription cost relatively high

5.HumanizeAI Pro

Website: humanizeai.pro
Score: 8.1 / 10
Naturalness: 8.5 | Coherence: 7.3 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 15%
Price: $10 / month

Pros:
✅ High fluency and natural rhythm
✅ Effective at lowering GPTZero detection rates
✅ Quick rewriting speed

Cons:
⚠️ Citation and reference list formatting issues
⚠️ Slight meaning drift on long sentences
⚠️ Occasional redundancy in phrasing

6.WalterWrites

Website: walterwrites.ai
Score: 6.8 / 10
Naturalness: 6.0 | Coherence: 7.0 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 40%
Price: $8 / month

Pros:
✅ Simple interface and quick processing
✅ Suitable for blog or narrative text
✅ Low monthly cost

Cons:
⚠️ Weak academic tone
⚠️ Minimal AI-rate improvement
⚠️ Frequent loss of structure in academic drafts

7.Humbot

Website: humbot.ai
Score: 7.9 / 10
Naturalness: 8.3 | Coherence: 7.1 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 18%
Price: $8 per 1,000 words

Pros:
✅ Competitive pricing
✅ Stable AI score reduction
✅ Natural linguistic rhythm
✅ Suitable for humanities coursework

Cons:
⚠️ Minor grammar inconsistencies
⚠️ No reference formatting function
⚠️ Not ideal for very long research papers

8.BypassGPT

Website: bypassgpt.io
Score: 6.7 / 10
Naturalness: 6.9 | Coherence: 6.3 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 34%
Price: $10 per 1,000 words

Pros:
✅ Modern and intuitive interface
✅ Acceptable speed
✅ API support

Cons:
⚠️ Overly aggressive rewriting
⚠️ Average AI rate reduction
⚠️ Meaning shifts on complex arguments

9.Phrasly

Website: phrasly.ai
Score: 6.5 / 10
Naturalness: 6.2 | Coherence: 6.8 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 40%
Price: $6 / month

Pros:
✅ Budget-friendly
✅ Simple and quick interface
✅ Decent for casual rewriting

Cons:
⚠️ Simplifies complex structures
⚠️ Unsuited for academic writing

10.Decopy

Website: decopy.ai
Score: 6.3 / 10
Naturalness: 6.0 | Coherence: 6.1 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 42%
Price: $7 / month

Pros:
✅ Low-cost subscription
✅ Fast output speed
✅ Lightweight and easy to use

Cons:
⚠️ Frequent truncation and grammar errors
⚠️ Little AI-rate improvement
⚠️ Lacks academic tone or structure

11.Humanize.io

Website: humanize.io
Score: 7.4 / 10
Naturalness: 7.6 | Coherence: 7.0 | AI Index: ↓ from 94% → 28%
Price: $9 / month

Pros:
✅ Simple, stable rewriting
✅ Consistent AI reduction
✅ Reliable grammar correction

Cons:
⚠️ Over-neutral tone
⚠️ Weak in argumentative writing
⚠️ Limited academic adaptation

In conclusion

Through this test, we found that most “AI humanizers” still fail to handle academic nuance — often flattening argumentation or simplifying tone. Well, logically structured papers with linguistic naturalness would be the strongest output from Ace Essay. QuillBot or Phrasly is suggested for more general paraphrasing; however, they struggle with AI detectability.
This mainly requires the demand of choosing appropriate tools according to different scenarios.

• In drafting an essay on a Literary and Humanities-related topic: Use ChatGPT or Claude for initial ideas → run through Ace Essay to humanize tone and reduce AI rate → final polish it in QuillBot
• Quick AI-Lowering for Coursework：Undetectable AI / Humbot + Ace Essay → These tools can give a fast first pass, but Ace Essay adds the academic depth needed for formal submission.
• Budget or Fast Tasks：Humbot / Phrasly /Humanize.io + Ace Essay → These lighter tools help for quick edits or drafts; Ace Essay can be used at the end for quality assurance.

At last, it is important to note that AI humanizers are not “cheating tools.” Academic humanizers are not designed to falsify authorship or bypass integrity systems. Their proper use lies in:

• improving linguistic naturalness of AI drafts;
• refining non-native writing into idiomatic academic English;
  In short: A humanizer should enhance clarity — not conceal authorship.

You can access Aceessay’s Bypass Turnitin page to try the Aceessay leading humanization technology.

About the Author

Claire Dawson

Claire Dawson is a dynamic content strategist at AceEssay, blending creativity with data-driven insights to craft compelling narratives and optimize SEO strategies. With a solid background in Marketing and Digital Media, Claire thrives on helping brands, especially in the academic space, grow their digital presence.

Last Updated: October 2025, The Latest Turnitin and GPTZero Updates

✍️ Introduction: Navigating AI Writing in 2025

AI writing assistants have become routine in academic and professional writing by 2025. Drafting, paraphrasing, and polishing—tools like Ace Essay and Essay Ace claim to help users create more natural, human-like text undetectable by Turnitin and GPTZero.

Now, with harsher institutional policies on AI and more effective detection tools, it is no longer a question of which tool writes better but which tool helps you remain compliant, authentic, and safe.

Here, we will review Ace Essay and Essay Ace in terms of accuracy, tone preservation, usability, and ethical design.

🎓 What Is an AI Humanizer—and Why It Matters

An AI humanizer modifies AI-generated text so that it reads as if a human wrote it. For students and professionals, that means a writing piece that sounds natural and logical, adheres to academic or professional standards, and minimizes the likelihood of being flagged as generated by AI.

That, however, becomes a balancing act between three significant parameters:
Reducing AI detection scores
Maintaining an academic or professional tone
Preserving logic and citation integrity
Let’s see how Ace Essay and Essay Ace perform in these areas.

⚙️ Test Setup (October 2025)

The test essay is a 900-word academic paper entitled “Behavioral Economics and Policy Design.”

The test parameters were as follows:

• AI Detection (Turnitin + GPTZero)
• Readability & Grammar (Grammarly Premium)
• Tone & Structure Preservation
• Citation Integrity (APA format)
• Price and Speed of Output
• Ethical Transparency

✅ Ace Essay: Consistent, Ethical, and Technically Reliable

🚀 AI Detection Performance

Ace Essay performed well, reducing Turnitin’s AI score from 81% to less than 5%, while GPTZero’s probability was reduced to almost human-level confidence.
The result did not “sound” like most rewriting tools, which are “robotically humanized.” Transitions, sentence length, and lexical variety were like real academic prose.

🎯 Academic Tone and Flow

Ace Essay performs well in maintaining logical flow and coherence of argument. Where Essay Ace failed to preserve the topic sentences, transitional markers, and discipline-specific vocabulary, Ace Essay did a good job.

Even such subtle academic conventions as “however,” “in contrast,” and “the evidence suggests that” have been preserved, demonstrating a much more sensitive approach to linguistics.

🧩 Citation Integrity

Ace Essay preserves citations quite well; testing both APA and MLA formats preserves the references as is.

In comparison, Essay Ace often restructured or deleted parenthetical citations, thus risking incorrect formatting or incomplete referencing.

💬 Readability & Grammar

Grammarly Premium found no significant grammar issues after processing. It was a polished style but believable- what a fastidious student or researcher would usually produce after revising.

💡 Ethical and Functional Transparency

Ace Essay clearly states that it is an editing, paraphrasing, and academic style adjustment tool—not a ghostwriting tool.

Such a transparent position allows users to keep their academic integrity, which becomes even more relevant with the tightening of AI policies.

⚠️ Essay Ace: Decent but Inconsistent

Though Essay Ace has a slick interface and reasonably fast processing, it gives uneven results in more rigorous AI testing.

Residual AI Rate: Even after reprocessing, 20–30% of the content was flagged by Turnitin as “likely AI-generated.”

Over-simplification: Complex academic phrases were often reduced to an informal tone, distorting style.

Citation Gaps: In-text citations sometimes disappeared or were incorrectly reformatted.

No Guidelines: Essay Ace does not offer disclaimers or guidelines on ethical use, thus leaving first-time users unsure of how best to use it.

While this tool does well in general rewording, it is less useful in academic or high-stakes professional contexts.

💰 Pricing & Usability

The token-based model of Ace Essay allows students, freelancers, and educators to use the tool flexibly. Essay Ace is functional but has a higher cost per word and a fixed output level.

🧭 The Bigger Picture: Responsible AI Editing

AI humanizers are not about deception; they are about clarity and control.
The best ones reduce AI flags while allowing writers to keep their original tone and academic credibility.

Transparency and ethical use are important with the rapid development of AI detection systems such as Turnitin, GPTZero, and CopyLeaks. Ace Essay shows technical steadiness and promotes responsible use.

Always check your institution’s policy before using any AI tool, and remember, augmentation, not automation, is the goal.

🧪 Our Verdict

In 2025, Ace Essay and Essay Ace will have practical approaches to refining AI-generated writing.

Technically and ethically, Ace Essay stands above all.

Its near-perfect AI reduction, preservation of academic tone, and user responsibility have made it one of the best options for writers who value authenticity and compliance.

This will make the writing process smoother, safer, and more reliable when finishing a research paper or editing a business report.

👩‍💼 About the Author

Fiona Zhang

Fiona Zhang is a content strategist and operations lead at AceEssay, where she specializes in brand storytelling, SEO content planning, and user community growth. With a background in Communication and Digital Media, Fiona has worked across multiple content-driven startups, helping them scale from niche audiences to recognized online brands. At AceEssay, she focuses on building the brand’s editorial voice, managing cross-platform campaigns, and exploring how AI tools can enhance authentic academic writing. Her work blends data insight with creativity, making each piece of content both discoverable and meaningful. When she’s not crafting strategies, Fiona enjoys photography, reading marketing case studies, and experimenting with coffee recipes.

Last checked: October 2025. The latest Turnitin and GPTZero updates were used to compare the two tools.

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✍️ Introduction: The Dilemma of Writing with AI

For many students, writing with AI has become part and parcel of everyday academic life, from polishing essays to paraphrasing complex ideas. Essay Done and AceEssay promise to make writing “smarter.” However, as AI detectors improve and universities strengthen their rules on academic integrity, the question is not just “Which tool writes better?” but also “Which tool keeps me safe?” Thus, this review pits AceEssay against Essay Done to see which AI humanizer truly balances AI reduction, academic tone, and ethical safety.

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🎓 Why Do Students Turn to AI Humanizers

Most students do not use AI to “cheat.” They do it to clarify ideas, polish grammar, and avoid unintentional AI flags. For non-native English speakers, AI tools help make a rough draft into fluent academic writing. The difficulty lies in how “human” the text is in the end and whether the text passes the AI detectors without compromising logical flow or citation style.

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🧩 Meet the Tools: AceEssay and Essay Done

🔹 What Is AceEssay?

AceEssay is an AI-powered academic editor and humanizer designed specifically for university students. Unlike generic rewriters, AceEssay integrates AI detection bypass, tone preservation, and citation protection within one platform.

Key features include:

• AI humanization engine tested against Turnitin, GPTZero, and ZeroGPT
• Ethical editing reminders and integrity policy
• Support for academic formats (APA, MLA, Chicago)
• Free preview and token-based pricing for budget-friendly use

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🔹 What Is Essay Done?

Essay Done positions itself as a one-click AI rewriter that promises to make your essays sound “human.” Its appeal lies in its simplicity — paste your text, click “rewrite,” and get a new version in seconds.

However, as this review shows, speed comes at a cost: the rephrased results often sacrifice academic tone and citation accuracy, which can be risky under strict plagiarism policies.

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⚙️ Test Setup (October 2025)

Both tools were used on the same 800-word academic essay, “The Role of Behavioral Economics in Public Policy.” The following metrics were considered:

Metric	Tool Tested	Criteria
AI Detection	Turnitin + GPTZero	% of text flagged as AI-generated
Grammar & Readability	Grammarly Premium	Error count & flow
Academic Tone	Manual review	Preservation of research writing style
Citation Accuracy	APA format check	In-text and reference list consistency
Usability & Pricing	Interface + token cost	Speed, clarity, and pricing fairness
Ethical Transparency	Policy presence	Ethical disclaimers and boundaries

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✅ AceEssay: What Stands Out

1. 🚀 AI Reduction Accuracy AceEssay consistently lowered the AI rate from 82% → below 5%, outperforming Essay Done (which hovered around 25%). More importantly, the rewritten text still sounded cohesive and academically appropriate — not overly casual or mechanical.
2. 🎯 Academic Tone & Logical Flow

The coherence in transitions was preserved, along with the disciplinary vocabulary characteristic of research papers and literature reviews. Sentences were thus in line with academic conventions, which Essay Done sometimes disrupted by oversimplifying phrases.

3. 🧩 Citation Integrity AceEssay retained in-text citations perfectly (APA & MLA tested). Essay Done, in contrast, often reformatted or deleted parentheses, increasing the risk of citation inconsistencies.
4. 💬 Grammar & Naturalness The final output passed Grammarly Premium checks with zero major errors. Tone-wise, AceEssay’s writing felt like something a real student might produce after revisions — human, not “AI-polished.”
5. 💡 Ethical Transparency AceEssay explicitly reminds users about academic integrity and recommends using the tool for editing and paraphrasing, not full rewriting. This boundary-setting helps students stay on the right side of academic ethics.

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⚠️ Essay Done: Where It Falls Short

• Higher Residual AI Rate: Turnitin still flagged portions as “AI-generated” even after processing.
• Style Distortion: The rephrasing often translated academic expressions into informal ones, thus distorting the scholarly tone.
• Citation Breakage: References are sometimes removed or misplaced, which is a red flag in research essays.
• No Risk Disclaimer: Since there is no explicit ethical guideline, the site may mislead students about appropriate use.

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💰 Pricing Comparison

Feature	AceEssay	Essay Done
Free plan	✅ Limited tokens	✅ Basic mode
Full rewrite accuracy	95%	70%
Citation preservation	✅	⚠️ Partial
AI detection safety	✅ Excellent	⚠️ Inconsistent
Monthly price	$12.00	$19.00

AceEssay’s pricing is not only cheaper, but its per-token output also provides higher accuracy and cleaner structure — ideal for students working on tight budgets.

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🧭 Responsible Use: A Note on Academic Integrity

Let’s be clear: AI humanizers are not “cheat tools.” They are assistive editors that help students sound more natural, correct grammar, and fit academic tone requirements.

However, such texts cannot be submitted as original work since that would violate university policies. AceEssay focuses on ethical editing, allowing users to remain authors and reduce false AI flags.

As AI detectors develop so quickly, you have to keep an eye on your institution’s updated policy regarding AI-assisted writing. Tools like AceEssay are there to help you and not do your thinking for you.

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🧪 Our Verdict

Category	Winner
AI Reduction	AceEssay
Academic Tone	AceEssay
Grammar Quality	AceEssay
Citation Safety	AceEssay
Ethical Design	AceEssay
Price	AceEssay

Final Verdict:

Essay Done is good — but AceEssay is smarter, safer, and built with students in mind.

Whether you’re revising a policy paper or polishing your literature review, AceEssay provides a much more human, academically acceptable, and ethically acceptable experience.

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🔚 Conclusion

In 2025, with AI detectors becoming sharper, international students need tools that balance intelligence with integrity. AceEssay isn’t just about lowering AI scores — it’s about preserving your authentic voice while staying within academic boundaries.

✨ Use it wisely, write with integrity, and let your ideas shine — not your AI detector score.

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👩💼 About the Author

Fiona Zhang

Fiona Zhang is a content strategist and operations lead at AceEssay, where she specializes in brand storytelling, SEO content planning, and user community growth. With a background in Communication and Digital Media, Fiona has worked across multiple content-driven startups, helping them scale from niche audiences to recognized online brands. At AceEssay, she focuses on building the brand’s editorial voice, managing cross-platform campaigns, and exploring how AI tools can enhance authentic academic writing. Her work blends data insight with creativity, making each piece of content both discoverable and meaningful. When she’s not crafting strategies, Fiona enjoys photography, reading marketing case studies, and experimenting with coffee recipes.

Writing accurate references in line with complex formatting rules is no easy task. Ace Essay has just launched its Citation Generator to help you produce precise, officially-formatted references. Currently, it supports six mainstream citation styles: APA 7th edition, MLA 9th edition, AMA 11th edition, IEEE, Chicago 17th edition, and Vancouver. Choose the style you need, enter your search term, and click the “Cite” button to receive a perfectly formatted reference.

The generated reference text can be copied to the clipboard or exported to a Word file.

A detailed attribute-editing panel on the right side of the product lets you fine-tune each field to meet publisher requirements.

More citation styles will be added in the near future.

Personal profile

Claire Dawson is a dynamic content strategist at AceEssay, blending creativity with data-driven insights to craft compelling narratives and optimize SEO strategies. With a solid background in Marketing and Digital Media, Claire thrives on helping brands, especially in the academic space, grow their digital presence.

At AceEssay, she’s the driving force behind the brand’s editorial voice, developing content that speaks directly to users while also optimizing it for search engines. Her unique approach combines her deep understanding of audience psychology with cutting-edge AI tools to elevate the academic writing process.

Outside of her work at AceEssay, Claire is an avid traveler and a hobbyist photographer. At the same time, she loves making friends with people of different backgrounds.

Personal profile

Fiona Zhang is a content strategist and operations lead at AceEssay, where she specializes in brand storytelling, SEO content planning, and user community growth.

With a background in Communication and Digital Media, Fiona has worked across multiple content-driven startups, helping them scale from niche audiences to recognized online brands. At AceEssay, she focuses on building the brand’s editorial voice, managing cross-platform campaigns, and exploring how AI tools can enhance authentic academic writing. Her work blends data insight with creativity, making each piece of content both discoverable and meaningful.

When she’s not crafting strategies, Fiona enjoys photography, reading marketing case studies, and experimenting with coffee recipes.

Ace Essay has just launched Math Solver. It achieves over 95 % accuracy on high-school and undergraduate math problems. Simply upload or screenshot an image of the question and you’ll receive a complete, step-by-step solution.

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