I pay for this service as a student I pay for this service as a student. Numerous times it ignores my footnotes/citations and still reports my text as plagiarized. This is a huge problem. Second, the service does not recognize references although it shows a category for references This web service is taken as gospel by universities yet has issues that create problems for students.

If you like using Bing, you'll love Unicheck. Otherwise... Bunch of things. For starters, with a Personal account you can't do Side-by-Side comparisons. Fine, fair enough. But then when I took a close look at the report turns out it missed over 50% of the items that were copied directly from a wide variety of business news sites. For each of them, pasting the text into Google brought up the page in the first result. When I enquired with customer support, the explanation was: "Our system uses Bing search engine, unfortunately some texts are indexed in the Google only". Um, ok. Yeah. I think that pretty much says it all. When I asked about a refund I was told: "Our service is non-refundable. It’s stated in our customer agreement which you had opportunity to read and agreed while creating an account." Guess I missed the part about their reliance on the Bing search engine. Use at your own risk. UPDATE: After saying goodbye to my $10, I tried the same doc again on Scribbr. Yes, it cost $20. That's why I went with Unicheck in the first place. But let's just say you get what you paid for. Scribber found at least 2x as many items that were copied from websites. Also, I went for it because, unlike Unicheck, they had a 100% Happiness Refund guarantee. So there you go. Good luck.

One of the worst plagiarism checkers One of the worst plagiarism checkers. First off, they are so expensive. They call it as free but when you try to use it, it doesn't show anything. Secondly it would even show references as plagiarized. How is it possible?

Unsatisfactory business practices Unsatisfactory business practices. They impose a time limit on the pages you buy, which reflects poorly on their customer service. Once you've utilised the service, the cost seems inconsequential to them. It feels as if they've taken my money without fair value in return.

Helpful This is a lifesaver for my master thesis. The option to directly visit the website that has been marked as "similar" is really useful for me. Also, I love that it subtracts citations from similarity percentages. All in all great app.