17 Plagiarism-Checking Alternatives to Turnitin

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Turnitin

Scribbr is a direct competitor to Turnitin. It offers proofreading and editing, plagiarism checking, and a citation generator. The big difference is that a team of real human academic editors do the proofreading, not a computer program. That’s a huge benefit over Turnitin’s software, especially when it comes to identifying grammatical errors.

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Unicheck

If you only need to check for plagiarism, consider Unicheck or Plagscan. Read through the descriptions of other tools we mention to see if they may better meet your needs.

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PlagScan

Plagscan is the Number Two Turnitin alternative according to both Alternativeto.net and G2. It is an online plagiarism checker with a document manager. The app allows students and participants to submit work, but it doesn’t offer full classroom management software features.

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PlagiarismCheck

PlagiarismCheck.org is an online tool for schools and higher education that integrates with popular e-learning tools. The sources used when checking for plagiarism are not listed on the official website. Pricing guide:

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PlagiarismSearch

PlagiarismSearch is another online plagiarism tool that integrates with popular e-learning tools. When checking for plagiarism, it uses these sources:

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Plagramme

Plagramme is an online plagiarism checker for students and educators. Students and “simple users” can get a quick plagiarism check for free. Premium users and educators get a detailed report using the following sources:

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Viper

Viper is another popular online plagiarism tool that allows limited checking for free. 10 billion sources are used when checking for plagiarism. They’re not listed on the website, but described this way: “Viper checks for plagiarism against 10 billion sources, scouring books, papers, PDFs and journals across the web to find matches with your work.”

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Noplag

Noplag (from $10/month) uses a wide range of online and academic sources and offers a writing app.

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Compilatio.net

Compilatio.net offers writing and assessment tools for students and teachers in addition to the copyright tool we mentioned above. These tools significantly focus on detecting plagiarism and checking submitted work against internet sources, Compilatio’s own database, and documents previously analyzed by your institution.

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Copyscape

Copyscape offers a free comparison tool and a premium service that starts at 3 cents for 200 words. A 5,000-word check costs just 51 cents.

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Urkund

URKUND by Ouriginal is a plagiarism detection service for institutions. Pricing is by quote only.

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Copyleaks Plagiarism Detector (from $8.33/month) is an online tool and mobile app for business and academia.

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Plagius

Plagius (from $5/month) is a Windows application that analyzes academic papers for plagiarism.

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Quetext

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Plagiarism Checker X

Plagiarism Checker X (free, $39.99 for individuals, $147.95 for businesses) is a Windows application that doesn’t require an ongoing subscription. It “helps you detect plagiarism in your research papers, blogs, assignments, and websites.” The free app allows you to perform 30 searches per day.

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Plagiarismhunt

PlagiarismHunt is an online tool that gives you a plagiarism percentage for free. A detailed report of the findings costs $6, while a more extensive check costs $45.

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Grammarly

I found the plagiarism check as fast and accurate as Grammarly’s. Its other features come in second best, however. Spelling and grammar checking is good, but it lags behind Grammarly when correcting punctuation errors. Turnitin is better at detecting plagiarism, and worse at checking for grammar.

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ProWritingAid

When suggesting how to improve your writing, ProWritingAid offers 20 detailed reports. While live suggestions are offered, those reports allow you to study various ways of making your text more readable and engaging.

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WhiteSmoke

When checking for plagiarism, WhiteSmoke compares your document with online content but not academic databases. In my experience, it gave too many false positives to be useful. For example, when checking my test document, it said both the phrase “Google Docs support” and the single word “punctuation” were plagiarized, which is ridiculous.

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GradeProof

GradeProof is even more affordable. In fact, much of its functionality is available for free, while a Pro subscription costs just $17.47/month. The trade-off is that it only works in Google Chrome and by using the iOS mobile app.

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PlagiaShield

PlagiaShield (from $14.90/month) takes on plagiarism from the opposite direction: it makes sure your website’s content isn’t being used (and misused) by others. It even helps fight thieves by preparing DMCA forms for you.

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Plagly

Plagly is a free online tool that checks for grammar mistakes and plagiarism. It helps businesses optimize their websites by eliminating duplicate content. It’s also used by students and teachers.

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Scribbr

Scribbr is a direct competitor to Turnitin. It offers proofreading and editing, plagiarism checking, and a citation generator. The big difference is that a team of real human academic editors do the proofreading, not a computer program. That’s a huge benefit over Turnitin’s software, especially when it comes to identifying grammatical errors.

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PaperRater

PaperRater is an online tool that uses artificial intelligence to help improve your writing. The software does proofreading (including a spelling and grammar check), writing suggestions, and plagiarism checking. Submissions are pasted into a web form. It offers a usable free plan; if you subscribe to the Premium version, they can be uploaded.

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Citation Machine

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cite4me.org.org

Cite4me.org is a completely free online tool that helps students generate reference pages and check for plagiarism when working on academic papers. Creating a free account unlocks all of its features.

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Proctorio

Proctorio is a “learning integrity” platform that does more than plagiarism checking. It provides an electronic test proctor service. Proctorio will verify students’ identity via facial recognition, lock down computers and mobile devices during a test, warn when exam questions have been posted online, and offer full analytics.

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