Paste a chapter and get a style report in seconds: cliches (checked against a 330-phrase bank), repeated-word echoes, filler words, your passive-voice ratio and a sentence-rhythm read. Every check is deterministic and runs on your device. Your manuscript is never uploaded, stored or sent anywhere.
Nothing you paste is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere. The five checks below run entirely on your device.
Your text never leaves this page. The analysis runs entirely in your browser: no upload, no server, no storage, no AI reading your manuscript.
1. Cliches. Your text is matched against a bank of330 stock phrases compiled from three free, openly licensed cliche lists (the Garner-derived and GNU diction lists plus the large write-good community list, all as published in the open-source proselint project; every source is documented in the site repository). Matching tolerates inflection, so "avoided it like the plague" is caught by the bank entry "avoid like the plague".
2. Word echoes. A word repeated close together registers with readers as an echo even when they cannot name it. The analyzer flags any non-stopword whose inflected forms recur within a 50-word window, ranked by how often and how closely they repeat, and separately lists words overused across the whole piece (four or more uses and a rate above 4 per 1,000 words). Character names will surface here; skim past them.
3. Filler and dead words. Empty intensifiers (very, really, totally), hedging qualifiers (just, actually, basically) and stiff formal phrases (in order to, prior to, utilize). These come from the same word banks that power our Dead Word Sandbox andGrammar & Style Checker.
4. Passive voice. A form of "to be" or "to get" followed by a past participle (was written, got taken, had been carried), using the standard irregular-participle list plus regular -ed forms. Reported as the percentage of sentences containing at least one passive construction. Passive voice is a tool, not a sin: the report tells you your ratio and where each instance sits, and you decide.
5. Sentence rhythm. The distribution of sentence lengths, their standard deviation, and your three longest sentences. Prose in which every sentence runs the same length reads as monotone across a chapter, whatever the length.
The scorecard shows counts and rates, never letter grades: a grade would pretend a precision that style analysis does not have. Severity labels come from these fixed thresholds, so the same text always gets the same report.
| Check | Low | Worth a look | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cliches | up to 1 per 1,000 words | up to 3 per 1,000 | more than 3 per 1,000 |
| Word echoes | up to 2 echo groups per 1,000 words | up to 5 per 1,000 | more than 5 per 1,000 |
| Filler words | up to 15 per 1,000 words | up to 30 per 1,000 | more than 30 per 1,000 |
| Passive voice | up to 10% of sentences | up to 20% | more than 20% |
| Sentence rhythm | std dev of 7+ words (varied) | std dev 4 to 7 | std dev under 4 (monotone), once you paste 10+ sentences |
An AI reader gives you a different opinion every time you ask, and you cannot see why. These checks are the opposite: fixed word banks, fixed windows, fixed thresholds. Run the same chapter twice and you get the same report twice. Fix three echoes, run it again, and the number drops by exactly three. That makes the report something you can revise against, rather than a mood. It also means the tool never needs to read your manuscript on a server: the whole engine ships to your browser as a small script and some word lists.
Here is the opening paragraph of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900, public domain), and the exact report the analyzer produces for it. This output is generated at build time by the same code that runs in your browser.
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cooking stove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner.
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