This is the honest guide to rewriting AI text on the TextSight free tier. The free tier gives you 3 actions a day, scan or humanization in any mix, at up to 260 words per humanization, in Basic mode, no credit card and no expiring trial. That is enough for a few short pieces a day, or a bigger draft worked through a section at a time. The rest of this page walks through the five-step workflow on the free tier, the limits worth knowing before you start (3 actions a day, 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 3 scans a day 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: you get 3 actions a day, scans and rewrites alike, at up to 260 words per humanization. The five steps below are written assuming you want to use them deliberately rather than burn them on exploratory clicks.
Open app.textsight.ai and sign in or sign up with email only (no card, no expiring trial). Click the AI Humanizer tab in the left nav and paste the AI draft into the input box. The counter under the box shows the live word count against the 260-word limit; if the draft is longer, trim it or rewrite it a section at a time. Free accounts get 3 actions a day at up to 260 words per humanization, in Basic mode.
Basic, the free default, is right for drafts that already carry your voice and just need the residual AI rhythm smoothed. Advanced is right for heavy ChatGPT or Claude output where you want to keep the ideas and replace the prose almost entirely. Business and Casual set the register. Advanced, Business and Casual start on Starter; the limits are the same regardless of mode, so picking a lighter mode does not save anything. Start with Basic if you are not sure.
Click the Humanize button. The rewrite renders in a sentence-level diff view with the original on the left and the humanized 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 humanizer is a draft generator, not a final answer. A careful read-through is what separates a good humanized 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. Scans come out of the same 3 actions a day as rewrites, so plan one for the re-check. 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 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 daily allowance, not a feature-locked preview. But there are four things it does not include and a few numbers worth knowing before you plan your work. The list below is the honest version, not the marketing version.
The headline limit. The counter is words sent into the humanizer, not words returned, and it is the same whichever mode you pick. A longer draft goes through a section at a time. There is no monthly cap, so nothing expires at month-end. For most light users this is enough for a few short pieces a day, or one larger draft worked through over a couple of days.
Scans and rewrites draw on one count: 3 actions a day, in any mix, resetting daily, with up to 1,500 words per scan. That is enough for two rewrites and a re-check, or three scans of 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 humanization 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 humanizer 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 humanizing for your own use, the free history view is enough.
The detector and humanizer 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 manually (the highlight map starts on Starter), 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 humanizer 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 3 actions a day, scan or humanization in any mix, at up to 260 words per humanization, in Basic mode, with no card. Paid tiers raise the limits and add the Chrome extension, file upload, REST API, and white-label reports. Yearly billing saves 63%.
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The free tier is genuinely usable for the writer who edits a few short pieces a week. 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 use up your 3 actions before lunch most days, the workflow has outgrown free. Starter at $7.49 yearly raises the cap to 40,000 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 weeks on free; if the count hits zero before your work is done most days, 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 humanize 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 humanizer. If your source material lives in PDFs (client briefs, research papers, transcripts) or you regularly humanize 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 humanize AI text without paying anything and without using any humanizer 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 humanizer, run a quick pass, see the diff view.
Open the humanizerThe longer manual workflow: four patterns, three humanizer 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 pricingPaste generated text and get a version that keeps the meaning but drops the machine rhythm.
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