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AI cleanup

AI Text Cleaner

Highlight the tell-tale signs of AI writing — em dashes, stock phrases, smart quotes, hidden characters — and fix the mechanical ones in one click.

Tell density—0 stock phrases0 em dashes0 hidden characters0 curly quotes

Your text

Tells highlighted

Mechanical fixesHidden characters are always removed. Stock phrases are only highlighted — rewrite those yourself.

Your text is processed on your device and never uploaded anywhere.

Make AI-assisted writing read like you wrote it

Using ChatGPT or Claude to draft is normal now. Publishing the draft untouched is the problem: readers increasingly recognize the pattern — the em dashes, the “it's not just X, it's Y” constructions, the words delve, tapestry, and testament doing heavy lifting.

Paste your draft and the cleaner highlights every tell it finds, sorted into three kinds: stock phrases you should rewrite yourself, punctuation habits it can fix mechanically, and hidden characters it removes automatically. The score is a density measure — tells per hundred words — not a verdict.

What gets fixed automatically vs. flagged

Fixed in one click: em dashes (choose comma, period, hyphen, or removal), curly quotes straightened, and every invisible Unicode character stripped.

Flagged for you:stock AI vocabulary and decorated bullet-point structures. These need a human rewrite — that's the part that makes the text sound like a person, and no find-and-replace can do it.

Frequently asked questions

Is this an AI detector?
No. It doesn't guess whether text was written by AI — it highlights specific, fixable habits that are statistically overrepresented in LLM output: em dashes, stock phrases like 'delve' and 'testament to', smart quotes, and invisible Unicode characters. Human writing can contain all of these too.
Why do em dashes make text look AI-written?
ChatGPT and similar models use em dashes far more often than most human writers — frequently several per paragraph. Readers have learned to notice. An em dash isn't wrong, but a high density of them has become one of the most recognized tells of unedited AI text.
What are the hidden characters it removes?
Text copied from chat interfaces, PDFs, and word processors often contains invisible Unicode: zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces, soft hyphens, and byte order marks. They break search, cause weird line wraps, and can even flag text as machine-generated. The cleaner strips them automatically.
Why doesn't it rewrite the stock phrases for me?
Rewriting requires judgment about your meaning and voice, and doing it automatically would need an AI model — which would defeat the point. The tool shows you exactly where the clichés are; replacing them in your own words is what actually makes the text yours.

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