This is the honest guide to rewriting AI text on the TextSight free tier. The free tier gives you 1,500 AI rewriter words every month, all three modes (Light, Standard, Maximum), and three detector scans a day, with no credit card and no expiring trial. That is enough for three to five short pieces a month, or one bigger draft in a single pass. The rest of this page walks through the five-step workflow on the free tier, the limits worth knowing before you start (monthly quota, no API, no audit log, no white-label), the signs you have outgrown free and should think about Starter or Pro, and a truly $0 manual alternative for writers who want to rewrite without any tool at all. By the end you will know exactly what 1,500 words a month buys you, what it does not, and which path fits the writing you actually do.
The workflow on the free tier is identical to the paid tier with one constraint: every word you send to the AI rewriter comes out of the 1,500-word monthly bucket. The five steps below are written assuming you want to use the budget deliberately rather than burn it on exploratory clicks.
Open app.textsight.ai and sign in or sign up with email only (no card, no expiring trial). Click the AI Rewriter tab in the left nav and paste the AI draft into the input box. The character counter under the box shows live word count against your monthly bucket; if the draft is too long for what is left this month, the counter turns amber and you can either trim the draft or wait for the bucket to reset. Free accounts get 1,500 AI rewriter words per calendar month, shared across all three modes.
Light is right for drafts that already carry your voice and just need the residual AI rhythm smoothed. Standard is the default for general editing on a mixed draft where you wrote half and AI wrote half. Maximum is right for heavy ChatGPT or Claude output where you want to keep the ideas and replace the prose almost entirely. The free tier gives you all three modes; the quota is the same regardless, so picking a lighter mode does not save words. Start with Standard if you are not sure.
Click the Rewrite button. The rewrite renders in a sentence-level diff view with the original on the left and the rewritten version on the right. The free tier uses the same model as the paid tiers, so the output you see is the real output, not a watered-down preview. Wait for the diff to fully render before scrolling; the diff highlights help you scan which sentences actually changed and which were left alone.
Walk the diff view from top to bottom. For each rewritten sentence, decide whether to accept, edit, or reject. Accept rewrites that preserve your meaning. Edit rewrites that drift slightly but are still close. Reject rewrites that change the argument or lose a specific point; rewrite those by hand in your editor. The AI rewriter is a draft generator, not a final answer. A careful read-through is what separates a good rewritten piece from one that scores well but reads as something you did not write.
Copy the rewritten draft and paste it into the AI Detector tab. The free tier includes three detector scans per day, which is enough to verify two or three AI rewriter passes. Confirm the score has moved into a band you are comfortable publishing. A 95 percent starting draft typically lands in the 20 to 45 percent range after one Standard pass and one careful read-through. If the score is still high, the issue is usually a section you did not edit; rewrite just that section and re-detect.
The free tier is a real account with a real monthly quota, not a feature-locked preview. But there are four things it does not include and three quota numbers worth knowing before you plan the month. The list below is the honest version, not the marketing version.
The headline limit. The counter is words sent into the AI rewriter, not words returned, so a 1,500-word draft uses the whole bucket in one shot regardless of which mode you pick. The bucket resets on the first of each calendar month. There is no rollover; unused words at month-end disappear. For most light users this is enough for three or four pieces of moderate length, or one larger draft they care about getting right.
The detector is a daily-bucket limit rather than monthly. Three scans per day, resetting at midnight UTC. This is enough to verify two or three AI rewriter passes in a single session, or to spot-check a piece you wrote yourself before publishing. Daily limits are easier to plan around than monthly ones because you always know what is available today.
Programmatic authenticity is a paid feature; Business at $29.99 yearly adds REST API access with documented endpoints. The free tier is web-app only. If you need to integrate the AI rewriter into a CMS, a Slack bot, or a content pipeline, the free tier is not the path. For one-off manual work in a browser, the free tier covers the use case completely.
Free accounts can see recent scans in the history panel but cannot export the full timeline as CSV or PDF. Paid tiers keep the full audit log and add export. If you are documenting an editing process for a client or for academic disclosure, the paid tier audit log is the cleaner path; if you are rewriting for your own use, the free history view is enough.
The detector and AI rewriter can generate a one-page PDF summary on paid tiers (Pro adds it at $14.99 yearly) with your logo and notes. Free accounts can copy the score and the highlight map manually, but the formatted PDF export is paid-only. Agencies sending reports to clients usually need this; solo writers usually do not.
Free is a single-user account. Business at $29.99 yearly adds five team seats and webhook integrations for routing scan or AI rewriter events into Slack, Notion, or a custom endpoint. If you are evaluating TextSight for a team, start a free account to test the workflow, then upgrade once the workflow is locked in.
Free covers 1,500 AI rewriter words and 3 detector scans a day with all three modes and no card. Paid tiers raise the monthly quota and add the Chrome extension, file upload, REST API, and white-label reports. Yearly billing saves 25%.
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The free tier is genuinely usable for the writer who edits two or three pieces a month. The point of upgrading is not the brand of the badge; it is hitting a real workflow ceiling that paid tiers actually fix. Here are the four signals.
If you blow through the monthly bucket in the first ten days of two consecutive months, the workflow has outgrown free. Starter at $7.49 yearly raises the cap to 20,000 words a month, which covers light freelance work without further thought. Pro at $14.99 yearly raises it to 50,000, which covers daily editing. The cleanest test is to track your usage for two months on free; if the counter hits zero before the month ends both times, upgrade rather than ration.
The free tier is web-app only. The Chrome extension lets you select text inside Gmail, Docs, LinkedIn, Notion, or any web editor and rewrite it in place. Starter adds the extension. If your work is mostly inside one browser tab at a time and you find yourself copying back and forth to app.textsight.ai several times a day, the extension pays for itself in friction reduction alone.
Pro adds file upload for PDF, DOCX, and TXT, and URL extraction for pulling text from a web page directly into the AI rewriter. If your source material lives in PDFs (client briefs, research papers, transcripts) or you regularly rewrite content drawn from articles, the Pro file pipeline replaces 20 minutes a day of copy-paste cleanup.
Business at $29.99 yearly adds five team seats, REST API access, and webhook integrations. If you are an agency editing client copy, a content team coordinating drafts, or a developer building TextSight into a pipeline, the Business tier is the answer. Below that scale, Pro is enough for solo work and Starter is enough for light freelance.
If you want to rewrite AI text without paying anything and without using any AI rewriter at all, the answer is manual editing against four recurring AI patterns. This works on any draft, takes no tooling, and is permanently free. The trade-off is time; the reward is that the voice is unambiguously yours.
"A robust, comprehensive, multifaceted approach" is the cleanest AI signature there is. Three adjectives in front of one noun. The fix is to pick the single adjective doing the most work, or replace the stack with a specific example. "An approach that catches both the obvious cases and the edge cases" carries meaning the adjective stack only gestured at. Scan your draft for any three-adjective stack and collapse every one.
Furthermore, Moreover, In addition, Additionally, In conclusion. ChatGPT and Claude stack these at paragraph boundaries to signal flow. Human writers trust the paragraph break to carry the transition. The fix is usually to delete the opener entirely with no replacement; the sentence underneath stands on its own. If the transition really needs a connector, swap to a concrete one tied to the previous paragraph rather than a furniture phrase.
Frontier models have favourite words: delve, leverage as a verb, navigate used metaphorically, underscore, showcase, myriad, tapestry, multifaceted, foster. Two or three of these in a 500-word section is statistically unusual for natural writing. The fix is a straight swap to plain English. Delve becomes look at or examine. Tapestry becomes pattern or layering. Navigate metaphorically becomes work through or handle. Underscore becomes show or emphasise. Mechanical but effective.
If every sentence in a paragraph lands between 16 and 22 words, the paragraph reads AI even when the vocabulary is clean. The fix is to vary length. Take two adjacent 18-word sentences and merge them into one 30-word sentence; follow it with a five-word punchline. Then leave the next two short sentences alone. Variation is the goal, not uniformity in the other direction. Human writing has short sentences next to long ones, and that contrast is what carries voice.
The free tool page itself. Open the AI rewriter, run a quick pass, see the diff view.
Open the AI rewriterThe longer manual workflow: four patterns, three AI rewriter modes, when each fits.
Read the workflowHow the 0-to-100 metric is computed and what each tier means for graded or published work.
Read the guideSide-by-side view of Free, Starter, Pro, and Business with every quota and feature.
See pricing1,500 AI rewriter words a month and 3 detector scans a day. All three modes. Same model as paid. Sign up with email only and start your first rewrite in under a minute.