NoteGPT alternative: only if you came for the AI detector

One thing first, because it decides whether this page helps you at all. NoteGPT is a study and summarising suite of roughly forty tools, and only two of them check or rewrite text. If you are replacing the video summariser, the transcription, the flashcards or the note taking, nothing here is relevant and you should stop reading.

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Where the detector sits inside NoteGPT

NoteGPT (notegpt.io) describes itself on its homepage as "Your All-in-One AI Learning Assistant". The catalogue is large: video and PDF summarising, transcription, text to speech, podcast generation, voice cloning, image generation and editing, slide generation, essay writing and grading, flashcards, quizzes, translation, and a chat interface offering several model families.

Two of those tools matter here: an AI Detector at /ai-detector and an AI Humanizer at /ai-humanizer. Both have their own landing pages, and both are metered on the pricing page under "Basic Quotas", listed beside transcription, summary, mind map and translation.

That framing matters. Detection is not what NoteGPT is for. It is a line item inside a study suite, and whether that is a problem depends entirely on why you are there.

The company is named. The Terms of Use identify the entity as "NoteGPT Inc.", give support@notegpt.io as contact, and carry an effective date of 28 April 2026. The domain has been registered since April 2023.

I ran both endpoints, and they behave differently

The detector is live and genuinely open. A POST to notegpt.io/api/v2/text-detector with no authentication returned HTTP 200 in about 3 seconds on 16 August 2026. The response is more detailed than most free checkers give you:

`` {"code": 100000, "message": "success", "data": {"is_human": 100, "ai_percentage": 0.0, "ai_word_count": 0, "total_word_count": 62, "ai_sentences": []}} ``

I sent three passages. A casual conversational one returned is_human: 100. A deliberately formulaic corporate one returned is_human: 50. A twelve word sentence was rejected with {"code": 164001, "message": "wrong params"}, so a minimum length is enforced.

Two honest caveats. I wrote all three passages myself, so ai_percentage: 0.0 on both completed probes is consistent with the truth and says nothing bad about the tool. What the probes establish is that the endpoint is live, open without a login, enforces a minimum length, and returns two separate figures. is_human and ai_percentage moved independently in my tests, which is worth knowing if you are reading one number on screen and treating it as the whole answer.

The humanizer did not behave as its landing page describes. That page is headed "Free AI Humanizer" and the heading continues with the words "100% Human Text & No Sign-up, Unlimited". An unauthenticated POST to notegpt.io/api/v2/rewriter/stream returned:

`` {"code": 164003, "message": "login expired"} ``

The pricing page describes it differently again, metering "AI Humanizer" inside the same Basic Quotas bucket that Pro caps at 1,000 a month. So three of NoteGPT's own surfaces describe the humanizer's availability three ways: unlimited and sign-up free on the landing page, quota metered on the pricing page, login gated at the endpoint. I report what each returned rather than guess which is intended. Check it yourself before planning around "unlimited". The client also enforces a 300 character minimum, and offers nine preset tones plus style, length and similarity controls.

What NoteGPT claims, and what it charges

The detector page claims "near 100% accuracy in detecting content generated by AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and more", and states "No login required". Both are NoteGPT's claims, reported as theirs. The page also lists an input allowance shown as "0/20000" characters, file uploads to 40MB covering PDF, PPT, Word and TXT as well as JPG, PNG and WEBP images, and support for "multiple languages", naming Chinese, Spanish and Japanese as examples.

Pricing, from notegpt.io/pricing, in US dollars:

PlanMonthlyAnnualDetector and humanizer allowance
Free$0$015 monthly quotas
Pro$9$108/yr1,000 Basic Quotas per month
Unlimited$19.92$239/yrUnlimited Basic Quotas
Max$69$829/yrUnlimited Basic Quotas

Two clauses in the Terms of Use are worth reading before uploading anything sensitive. Refunds are available "within 24 hours of your first purchase only", reduced by the value of any Premium Credits used, and "Discounted purchases are non-refundable". Separately, uploading content grants NoteGPT "a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, and perform" that content, limited by the same clause to "operating, improving, and promoting the Service". Users do retain ownership of AI generated output.

Where NoteGPT is still the better choice

For most people who use it, the honest answer is that we cannot replace NoteGPT, and it is not close.

If you came for summarising, transcription, flashcards, quizzes, slide generation, voice work or the chat interface, we offer none of it. TextSight does one job. Swapping a forty tool suite for a detector leaves you shopping for six other products, which is a bad trade for a student or anyone running a study workflow.

Even on detection alone it beats us in places. Its detector is open without an account, where ours is not beyond three checks a day. It accepts up to 20,000 characters at once, well above our anonymous cap. It takes image uploads, which we do not. And it advertises multiple languages, where we are English only and say so.

If you are checking Chinese, Spanish or Japanese text, NoteGPT offers something we do not offer at all, and you should test it against your own material rather than switching on the strength of a comparison page.

Where TextSight fits, if detection is the actual job

TextSight is a detector rather than a suite, which is a disadvantage if you want breadth and an advantage if you want depth on one thing.

The box above runs the live product. Anonymous use allows 3 checks a day, pooled across the AI Detector and the Document Detector, capped at 1,000 words with a 25 word minimum. A free account raises that to 60 checks a day at up to 5,000 words, and saves every scan run while signed in to Scan History. That is not a paid feature: free accounts get it too. Starter allows 200 a day; Pro and above are unlimited.

Rather than a bare percentage, results land in three bands. Under 30 reads "likely human-written", 30 to 69 "mixed signals", 70 or above "likely AI-generated". Sentence-level analysis and PDF export start at Starter, with file upload, URL scan and bulk scan. The Chrome extension and REST API start at Pro. Teams and branded reports start at Business.

Plans run Starter $9.99 a month or $7.49 annually, Pro $19.99 or $14.99, Business $39.99 or $29.99, Enterprise $79.99 or $59.99, annual billing being 25 percent below monthly.

The limitation, stated plainly: our detector is an English-only ensemble built on DeBERTa, RoBERTa and ELECTRA, and it carries a known false-positive bias against writers using English as a second language. If your English reads as ESL, treat a high band from us with suspicion, and never let a tool of any brand stand in for a judgement about your work.

NoteGPT alternative alternatives, frequently asked.

Does NoteGPT have a real AI detector?
Yes. Its /api/v2/text-detector endpoint answered an unauthenticated request with HTTP 200 on 16 August 2026, returning is_human, ai_percentage, ai_word_count, total_word_count and an ai_sentences array.
Is the NoteGPT humanizer free and unlimited?
Its landing page says so, but the pricing page meters "AI Humanizer" under Basic Quotas, which Pro caps at 1,000 a month and the free plan at 15, and an unauthenticated request to the rewriter endpoint returned "login expired". Verify before relying on it.
Is NoteGPT worth keeping alongside another detector?
For many people yes. It is the only tool here that also summarises videos, transcribes audio and generates flashcards. Nothing on this page argues for cancelling it if that is why you subscribed.
What does NoteGPT cost?
Free with 15 monthly quotas, Pro $9 a month or $108 a year, Unlimited $19.92 a month or $239 a year, Max $69 a month or $829 a year.
Can I get a refund from NoteGPT?
The Terms of Use allow refunds "within 24 hours of your first purchase only", minus the value of any Premium Credits used, and state "Discounted purchases are non-refundable".
Does TextSight do anything NoteGPT does not?
For detection specifically: three band reporting instead of a raw percentage, sentence-level analysis, PDF export, saved scan history for any signed-in user, URL and bulk scanning, a Chrome extension and a REST API. For everything else NoteGPT does, no.

Sources and dates checked.

All checked 16 August 2026, all on notegpt.io unless stated.

  • Homepage. Positioning line and tool catalogue.
  • /ai-detector. Heading, accuracy claim, "No login required" statement, 20,000 character allowance, 40MB file limit and accepted formats, language claims.
  • /ai-humanizer. Heading text, character allowance, nine tone presets, style, length and similarity controls.
  • /api/v2/text-detector. Three unauthenticated POST probes: two HTTP 200 responses and one wrong params rejection below the minimum length.
  • /api/v2/rewriter/stream. Unauthenticated POST returned {"code": 164003, "message": "login expired"}. Client bundle enforces a 300 character minimum.
  • /pricing. Plan names, monthly and annual prices, Basic Quota allowances covering AI Detector and AI Humanizer.
  • /terms. Effective 28 April 2026. Entity NoteGPT Inc., support address, refund window, user content licence clause.
  • WHOIS for notegpt.io. Created 6 April 2023.
  • textsight.ai. Own limits, bands, plans and features.
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