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TextSight vs WriteHuman, calibration vs score-reduction.

WriteHuman lives in your browser. The flagship surface is a Chrome extension that students install once and then call from any Google Doc, Notion page, or Gmail draft with a right-click. Stealth mode rewrites the selected text in place at roughly $12 a month for 80,000 AI rewriter words flat. There is no detector view of its own, no API tier, and no batch-paste path. TextSight sits at the opposite end of that workflow. A sentence-level AI detector is the centre of the product, a published methodology backs the scores, and three AI rewriter modes (Light, Balanced, Maximum) are bundled inside every paid plan for a calibration workflow rather than an in-flow rewrite. This page is the honest cut: a Chrome-extension AI rewriter aimed at student-facing drafts versus a calibration desk built for editors, freelancers, and compliance leads.

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At a glance

TextSight vs WriteHuman on the seven features that matter.

Compact feature grid first. Chrome-extension rewrite versus calibration-desk-on-web. Sections below unpack each row, and the spots where WriteHuman's in-flow rewrite genuinely wins are flagged so the choice is honest.

Feature TextSight WriteHuman
Primary productAI detector first, ethical AI rewriter bundledChrome-extension-first AI rewriter
Detection: real or proxyReal classifier (sentence-level)Proxy that validates its own AI rewriter output
Free tier (no signup)3 scans/day, 5000 chars/scan, no cardLimited free trial, then paid
Pricing modelFlat subscriptionFlat subscription (cleaner than credit packs)
Entry price$19.99/mo Pro flat$12/mo for 80K words
Pro annual effective$14.99/monthSame monthly rate (no annual published)
.edu student discount$13.99/month (verified .edu)Targets students but no .edu discount published
Sentence-level highlightsYes, colour-coded per sentence with rationaleNo, AI rewriter output rather than per-sentence detection
ESL false-positive rate~6% on internal 600-essay ESL benchmarkNot publicly tested, AI rewriter tool rather than detector
Bundled AI rewriter modes3 modes (Light, Balanced, Maximum) on ethical scope2-3 aggression levels, score-reduction-first
Ethical scopeAuthentic voice plus calibration, not detector workaroundExplicit student-detection-workaround framing
REST APIBusiness $39.99/mo for detection plus AI rewriter plus bulkNo API, consumer Chrome extension only
Chrome extensionYes, free on all tiersYes, flagship product
Brand recognitionNewer, growingNiche, student-targeted
Best fitWriters needing detection plus ethical AI rewriter plus ESL accuracyStudents wanting in-Chrome rewrites with predictable monthly cost

Last verified 2026-06-03 · TextSight numbers from internal 100-passage benchmark · WriteHuman numbers from public site plus Chrome Web Store listing

The honest part

Where WriteHuman is the right call.

Four spots where WriteHuman beats TextSight on the workflow it was built for. Calling them out up front is the whole point of an honest compare page.

Chrome-extension-first, in-context rewrite

This is the real differentiator. WriteHuman's flagship surface is a Chrome extension that students install once and then trigger from any text field on the open web: a Google Docs paragraph, a Notion block, a Gmail draft, a Canvas LMS reply. Highlight, click Advanced, watch the selection rewrite in place. TextSight ships a Chrome extension too, but it scans pages and pipes selections into the TextSight tab; it does not replace text inline on the host page. For a writer whose entire day happens inside Chrome, the in-flow rewrite saves a tab switch on every paragraph, and the saved seconds compound.

Established in the student AI rewriter market

This is the core reason most users pick WriteHuman, and it is not marketing. The product has been recommended in student writing forums, Discord servers, and Reddit threads since the early Turnitin-AI-detection era. For users whose entire workflow is paste an AI draft, run an AI rewriter, submit, that established community trust is real value. TextSight is younger and positions for a different buyer, so the recommendation flywheel in student forums is not in our favour today.

Fast paste-to-rewrite onboarding

WriteHuman's onboarding is paste-and-run with almost no surface area. For a user who already knows what an AI rewriter does and just wants to rewrite a paragraph in 20 seconds, the focused UI beats a multi-surface product on raw speed-to-first-output. TextSight's free path lands on the detector first, with the AI rewriter surfaced after the calibration scan, which is the right shape for the calibration workflow but adds a step for the pure rewrite use case.

Brand recognition in writer and student communities

"WriteHuman" is one of the more searched AI rewriter brand names in writing forums and student groups. If a peer or community recommends it by name, brand recognition is real marketing value. TextSight is younger and competes on substance, sentence-level evidence, and bundle math rather than name recall. For solo writers and students whose peers already know the name, the recognition shortcut matters in the choice.

If you fit any of those patterns, the rest of this page is informational rather than persuasive. WriteHuman is the tool for the job.

Where TextSight wins

Five real advantages for honest calibration workflows.

Five concrete gaps in WriteHuman's product shape that matter for editors, SEO teams, ESL-heavy classrooms, agencies running API pipelines, and students who want detection rather than detector workarounds.

1. WriteHuman has no API tier at all

This is the cleanest gap. WriteHuman is a Chrome extension plus a thin web app, both pointed at a single user typing in a browser. There is no documented REST endpoint, no bulk processing path, no webhook, no server-to-server option on any published plan. If your workflow involves a content-ops pipeline that rewrites 300 drafts a week before they ship to a CMS, or a research team that wants programmatic detection across thousands of student submissions, WriteHuman is structurally the wrong shape. TextSight Business ships a documented REST API at $39.99 monthly with detection, AI rewriter, bulk endpoints, and per-key usage caps. The API tier is the boundary between consumer and professional usage, and only TextSight is on the professional side of that boundary here.

2. The Chrome-extension UX trades evidence depth for inline speed

The same in-context rewrite that makes WriteHuman fast also strips evidence. The extension shows a small overlay with a score and an aggression toggle; the host page receives the rewritten text and the original disappears. There is no per-sentence colour map, no rationale strip explaining why a paragraph reads as AI-shaped, and no undo to the original draft inside the extension panel. For a writer iterating across multiple revisions, that loss of evidence matters. TextSight scans return a sentence-level highlight stack with rhythm-flat / vocabulary-cluster / cadence labels per line, so the writer edits the four sentences that actually flag instead of accepting a wholesale rewrite of the whole paragraph.

3. Aggressive-mode student framing creates institutional risk

WriteHuman's product copy and marketing channels (TikTok study-help creators, student-forum referrals, "beat Turnitin" framing) target the K-12 and undergraduate market explicitly. Universities increasingly run detection pipelines as part of academic integrity workflows, and being able to demonstrate a "ran it through an aggressive-rewrite AI rewriter" pattern in metadata is the kind of evidence institutional reviewers now look for. TextSight's calibration positioning is the opposite stance: scan first, edit the rhythms that read AI-shaped, ship the honest draft. For a school administrator, a journal editor, or a publisher's compliance team, the brand framing is a procurement filter before any technical conversation begins.

4. 80,000 words per month is half of TextSight Pro's bundled allowance

WriteHuman's Basic plan around $12 monthly buys 80,000 AI rewriter words flat. The Pro tier roughly doubles that for double the price. TextSight Pro at $14.99 monthly on annual billing includes 50,000 AI rewriter words plus unlimited detection scans on top, which is the difference between a single-product subscription and a calibration-plus-rewrite bundle. Students who only rewrite a small handful of essays per term might exhaust WriteHuman's 80K cap on a single 50-page thesis revision; the same usage on TextSight stays under the Starter allowance.

5. WriteHuman has no public detector, so there is nothing to validate against

Unlike most AI rewriter tools, WriteHuman does not ship an independent detector view. There is no "score this arbitrary text" pane, no third-party detection API call, no public methodology. The product is an AI rewriter endpoint and nothing else. That works for a student in a single-detector world, but it leaves the writer with no in-tool way to check whether the rewritten draft will survive a downstream check from Turnitin, GPTZero, Originality, or any institutional detector pipeline. TextSight ships a calibrated detector with sentence-level evidence, a published methodology, and a documented benchmark on raw model output, so the calibration loop runs inside one product.

Benchmark

Two different tools, two different jobs.

WriteHuman ships no public detector on any tier of the product, so a head-to-head TPR/FPR table is fundamentally misleading: there is no comparable validation loop to invert. What we CAN measure is whether TextSight detects raw WriteHuman-rewritten output across all three aggression tiers.

TextSight detection rate on WriteHuman AI rewriter output · n=150 (50 raw passages × 3 aggression modes) · 2026-06-03
WriteHuman mode n TextSight detection rate What WriteHuman claims about its mode Read
Light (Standard)5080% detected by TextSightLightest rewrite pass; WriteHuman's base AI rewriter tier on the Basic planTextSight catches most Standard-mode rewrites
Balanced (Enhanced)5070% detected by TextSightEnhanced mode, tuned for stronger score reduction on common detectorsTextSight still catches majority
Maximum (Advanced)5060% detected by TextSightAdvanced mode, most aggressive rewrite, willing to drift further from source voiceAdvanced still flagged 6 times out of 10; small-team rewrite engines cannot out-engineer rhythm detection
Combined (all modes) 150 70% mean detection rate 3 aggression levels tested TextSight catches 7-in-10 rewrites on average

What these numbers actually mean

The reading on the Stealth (Advanced) tier: 60 percent caught is the headline. WriteHuman markets Advanced as the deepest rewrite the extension can do, and TextSight still flagged 6 of 10 outputs at the default 60 percent threshold. The middle Enhanced tier (where the rewrites still read close to source) sits at 70 percent caught. The base Standard tier, which is what runs when a student clicks the extension toolbar with default settings, is caught 80 percent of the time. The Chrome-extension form factor caps how much rewrite the product can apply per click without breaking the host page, and that ceiling shows in the numbers.

For student-facing usage the implication is uncomfortable. A typical college essay flows from a Google Docs draft through Stealth mode then into a Canvas LMS submission box, and the receiving end is usually Turnitin's AI-detection layer plus whatever the instructor pastes into a second detector. Two probability draws, each at roughly TextSight-equivalent calibration, leave Stealth at well below a coin-flip of clearing both. The student-forum lore that WriteHuman clears every detector has not kept pace with how schools actually run detection in 2026.

For freelance writers delivering agency-written drafts, the math is similar but the consequences land on a paying client rather than an academic transcript. A delivered draft that AI rewriter-checks clean on WriteHuman's own panel still has a 60-to-80 percent shot of failing the client's independent detection pass, and a flagged client deliverable is the kind of reputation hit that ends a freelancer-client relationship.

The asymmetry there is no way around: WriteHuman ships only the AI rewriter half of the detect-and-rewrite loop. There is no public detector on any tier of the product, so there is literally no validation loop to invert. We benchmark what we can: TextSight scoring WriteHuman's output. Reversing the table would require WriteHuman to ship a real detector first.

Conclusion

WriteHuman is a tightly-focused Chrome-extension AI rewriter with real product-market fit among students who write inside Google Docs. The rewrite engine is fast and the in-flow UX saves a tab switch on every paragraph. But Stealth caps out around 60 percent caught at the default TextSight threshold, the product ships no detector of its own to validate against, and the entire surface area lives inside a single browser extension with no API tier or batch path. For solo students who want speed and accept the detection risk, the trade may be acceptable. For freelancers, agencies, editors, and institutional buyers who need real detection numbers and a defensible workflow, the gap is structural rather than something WriteHuman can ship its way out of without becoming a different product.

Methodology

  • Passage set: 50 raw-AI passages (25 GPT-4 plus 25 Claude Sonnet/Opus, 300-800 words each, native-English prompts spanning blog, academic, and business domains).
  • AI Rewriter runs: Each passage processed through WriteHuman's Chrome extension on a clean Chrome 134 profile at Standard, Enhanced, and Advanced (Stealth) tiers, 150 rewritten outputs total.
  • Account constraint: WriteHuman's Basic plan ships an 80,000-word monthly cap. Test traffic at 300-800 words across 150 runs stays well inside that budget but rules out repeated runs of the same passage to average noise; each output is a single sample.
  • Scoring: All 150 outputs scored by TextSight's detector at the default 60 percent AI threshold inside a 4-hour window on 2026-06-03.
  • Detection-rate definition: Percentage of rewritten passages still flagged by TextSight at 60 percent or above AI score.
  • What this is not: a symmetric TPR/FPR comparison. WriteHuman ships no public detector on any tier, so there is no comparable validation loop to invert. We benchmark the half of the workflow we can actually measure. CSV available on request.
Under the hood

Chrome-extension rewrite vs calibration desk.

The form factor decision is what drives every downstream difference. Worth holding in mind before pricing.

WriteHuman: Chrome-extension AI rewriter, no detector at all

WriteHuman's product is a browser extension. Install once, then right-click any text inside Chrome to rewrite it via Advanced, Enhanced, or Standard mode. The extension talks to a thin SaaS backend that holds the user's 80,000-word monthly allowance and returns rewritten prose into the host page. There is no detector view on any tier of the product. There is no API. There is no batch upload. The entire surface area is "highlight, click, replace." Strong fit for a student editing a single essay inside Google Docs. Wrong shape for any workflow that needs to score arbitrary text, run programmatically, or live outside Chrome.

TextSight: detector first, three AI rewriter modes bundled for calibration

TextSight is a web app. Paste or upload a draft, get a sentence-level AI-detection map with per-line rationale and an overall Authenticity Score, then run Light, Balanced, or Maximum AI rewriter modes on the sentences that flag. The Chrome extension scans the current page or the highlighted selection and pipes the result into the web app rather than replacing host-page text. The flow is built for editors, freelancers, SEO leads, and compliance reviewers who need to read evidence before they accept a rewrite. The trade-off is one extra tab switch compared to WriteHuman's in-place replace, and the rhythm-preserving AI rewriter is less aggressive than Advanced on raw score reduction.

What the gap looks like in practice

A student writing a take-home essay highlights a paragraph in Google Docs, right-clicks, picks WriteHuman Advanced, and the paragraph is rewritten in place inside the doc. Three seconds, zero tab switches, no detector to consult. The same student in TextSight pastes the paragraph into the web app, sees a sentence-level highlight strip showing which two sentences still read AI-shaped after the first rewrite, edits those two by hand, and ships. WriteHuman is faster on the click. TextSight is more accurate on the result because the evidence is visible. Different jobs for different writers.

Plans & pricing

TextSight pricing, with the WriteHuman comparison.

WriteHuman's pricing is dead simple: flat $12 per month for 80,000 AI rewriter words on the Basic plan, no credit packs, no annual-only discount, no API tier. The Pro tier roughly doubles the word allowance and roughly doubles the price. TextSight's stack is wider because the detector is bundled at every paid level, so the comparison below is "Chrome-extension AI rewriter with 80K words" against "calibrated detector plus AI rewriter with unlimited scans plus 50K AI rewriter words on Pro."

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Annual billing saves 25 percent on every TextSight tier. WriteHuman's Basic plan is $12 flat for 80,000 AI rewriter words inside a Chrome extension, with no detector, no API, and no published annual discount. TextSight Pro at $14.99 on annual billing buys the same AI rewriter surface plus unlimited detection scans plus the Chrome extension in one subscription. View full pricing →

The decision

Which one should you pick.

Two very different product shapes pointed at two very different users. Use this picker to match the form factor to your day.

Pick WriteHuman if

  • You live inside Google Docs, Notion, or Gmail and want the rewrite to happen in place
  • Predictable flat pricing for under 80,000 AI rewriter words a month fits your budget
  • You only need an AI rewriter and never need to see a detector score or sentence-level evidence
  • You are a student following a peer recommendation from a writing community or TikTok
  • You accept that aggressive in-place rewriting can break source voice and citation flow

Pick TextSight if

  • You need detection at all (WriteHuman ships no public detector on any tier)
  • You need a documented REST API for content-ops pipelines or research workloads
  • You want sentence-level evidence so you can edit four flagged sentences instead of rewriting a whole paragraph
  • You write in ESL or conversational English and need a lower false-positive rate than perplexity-led detectors
  • Your buying context (editorial, compliance, classroom) needs defensible calibration-first framing

Both stacks can coexist when the budget allows. WriteHuman's Chrome extension handles in-line rewrites while drafting; TextSight runs the post-draft detection check and the calibration rewrite on sentences that still flag.

Real workflows

Three users, three different right answers.

Picking between calibration-first detection and score-reduction-first authenticity is workload-specific. Three concrete profiles, three concrete picks.

The college student writing a take-home essay in Google Docs

Drafts a 1,500-word literature take-home essay in Google Docs over a Sunday afternoon, then has 20 minutes before submission to "smooth it out." Installs the WriteHuman extension, highlights each paragraph, picks Advanced, accepts the in-place rewrite, submits. WriteHuman wins on convenience for this exact flow. The honest follow-up: the school runs Turnitin AI plus a second detector on the receiving end, and the benchmark above shows Stealth lands around 60 percent caught on TextSight calibration. The convenience is real; the detection-clearing guarantee is not.

The freelance content writer with 30 client drafts a month

Mixes AI-assisted outlines with hand editing. Needs every delivery to score under 30 on whatever detector the client runs while keeping the source writer's voice intact. TextSight wins. One subscription at $14.99 monthly on annual Pro buys unlimited detection scans, sentence-level highlights to find the four sentences that actually flag, and a rhythm-preserving AI rewriter for those sentences specifically. WriteHuman has no detector to confirm the rewrite cleared the threshold, no batch path for 30 drafts, and the in-place Chrome rewrite cannot be rolled back if the client pushes back on voice.

The university editorial lead reviewing 100 student essays a week

Mix of original student work, ESL writing, and suspected AI submissions. TextSight wins, clearly. The whole job is honest detection with sentence-level evidence and ESL-aware scoring, and TextSight ships exactly that. WriteHuman is structurally unusable here: it has no detector at all on any tier, no bulk upload path, no API for an institutional pipeline, and its student-targeted positioning makes it the wrong vendor to bring into a procurement conversation with a dean. TextSight .edu Pro at $13.99 monthly also keeps the per-reviewer budget within department petty-cash range.

FAQ

TextSight vs WriteHuman, frequently asked.

Does WriteHuman have a detector?
No. WriteHuman is an AI rewriter-only product. The Chrome extension and the thin web app both expose a single workflow: highlight text, pick a mode (Standard, Enhanced, or Stealth/Advanced), receive a rewrite. There is no "score this text" pane on any tier and no third-party detection API call. That is the cleanest difference from other score-reduction tools in this category. TextSight ships a calibrated sentence-level detector with a published methodology as its centre of product, plus three AI rewriter modes bundled on every paid plan for the calibration workflow.
How does WriteHuman's pricing actually work?
Flat monthly subscription, no credit packs. The Basic plan is roughly $12 per month for an 80,000-word AI rewriter allowance that resets each billing cycle. The Pro tier roughly doubles the word allowance and roughly doubles the price. There is no annual-only discount published on WriteHuman's pricing page, no API tier, and no .edu rate. TextSight Pro is $19.99 monthly or $14.99 on annual billing for unlimited detection scans plus 50,000 AI rewriter words, and verified .edu emails get Pro at $13.99 monthly.
Does WriteHuman have a free tier?
WriteHuman offers a small free trial preview of the AI rewriter, then requires a paid plan to continue. There is no permanent free tier and no daily free quota. TextSight's free tier is permanent: 3 scans per day at 5,000 characters per scan with no signup or card required for the first scan, and no expiration. For students checking the calibration loop before a single take-home essay, TextSight's free path is more honest about the trial-vs-permanent distinction.
How aggressive is WriteHuman compared to TextSight Maximum?
WriteHuman Stealth (Advanced) is more aggressive on raw score reduction in the in-place Chrome rewrite. The benchmark on this page measures the result honestly: TextSight catches 60 percent of Stealth output, 70 percent of Enhanced output, and 80 percent of Standard output at the default 60 percent AI threshold. TextSight's Maximum mode is single-pass and rhythm-aware. It pushes scores down meaningfully while preserving more source vocabulary and paragraph structure, which matters when the rewritten draft still has to read like the original writer to a client or instructor.
Does WriteHuman have an API?
No documented API on any published WriteHuman plan. The product is a Chrome extension plus a single-user web app. Content-ops pipelines, research workflows, and any server-to-server use case sit outside WriteHuman's product shape entirely. TextSight Business at $39.99 monthly ships a documented REST API with detection, AI rewriter, bulk-scan, and per-key usage tracking, which is what makes the Business tier the line between consumer and professional usage in this comparison.
Why does TextSight not market itself as a detector workaround?
TextSight's positioning is calibration, not detector workaround. The intended flow is scan a draft, read the per-sentence rationale on which lines flag and why, rewrite those specific sentences, recheck, ship. That is the workflow an editor walks through with a writer, and it is defensible in classroom, editorial, and compliance buying conversations in a way aggressive-mode student-detector-workaround framing is not. WriteHuman's product copy and channel marketing target the K-12 and undergraduate AI rewriter market; that resonates with one buyer and creates procurement friction with everyone else.
Does WriteHuman handle ESL writing well?
WriteHuman ships no detector, so there is no ESL accuracy story to evaluate on its side at all. The AI rewriter rewrites whatever text it is given without scoring whether the source was native-English, ESL, or AI-generated. TextSight's detector has roughly a 6 percent false-positive rate on a 600-essay internal ESL benchmark (Indian, Filipino, Chinese student writing plus first-person blog drafts), which is 25 to 35 percent lower than perplexity-led detectors on the same passages. For classroom calibration or institutional workflows with international students, the ESL accuracy gap is the decisive feature.
Can I run WriteHuman and TextSight together?
Yes, and the form-factor difference makes the stack natural rather than redundant. WriteHuman's Chrome extension handles in-flow rewrites while drafting inside Google Docs, Notion, or Gmail (the speed-to-rewrite case). TextSight runs the post-draft detection scan, surfaces sentence-level evidence on which lines still read AI-shaped, and offers the calibration-mode rewrite for those sentences specifically (the validation case). The two together fill in for each other's gaps: WriteHuman has no detector, TextSight has no in-place rewrite. Combined cost lands around $25 to $30 per month per writer.
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