Probably Great, If All of Your Sources Are Websites Hey, this service is probably great, if all of your sources are websites. Since you can't try out the service before sinking money into it, you will spend some to find out whether it works for you. For me, it miss-identified a basic McLuhan citation, and failed to recognize any in text citations from book sources in the Chicago Full-Note format. It even suggested, the title of an in-text citation to be plagiarism. The thing is, with a limited number of pricey tries, the amount of iterations to figure out how to get a decent result should not be put on the user! Particularly, with plagiarism testing, the tool should hopefully over-and not underreport, but by not recognizing any book publication prior to 2010, this seems like a big risk. It honestly seems like you are paying for a very baseline service, a sort of feelgood expenditure. While the support responded quickly and kindly, apparently not providing refunds is part of their business model. I am genuinely curious why this software has so many good reviews here. Edit: I just read some more reviews, and I am not sure why, but most of them are one- or two-liners from the 20th to the 30th May 2020. That is a little odd, and maybe presents something for Trustpilot to look into.

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.

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.

Excellent program for checking plagiarism Very useful for students, who want to check their papers for plagiarism. The peculiarity of the site is that it does not count random coincidence in two words as plagiarism, which saves a lot of time and nerves. Also, prices are quite affordable for students.

The software was used by my university The software was used by my university, and claimed that I had plagiarized 31% of a paper. I wrote my paper from scratch, and even demonstrated to my teacher where I found my information and how it was dissimilar from the wording of my paper. This is the only plagiarism checker that checks against the web and gave a false positive on the same paper. It claims to be free for students but it isn't unless your teacher sets up an account for you. As more papers get put into their system and online there is a greater and greater chance that it will falsely accuse of plagiarism.