{"id":9362,"date":"2021-03-26T22:47:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/?p=9362"},"modified":"2022-10-23T04:46:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T04:46:07","slug":"best-free-plagiarism-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/best-free-plagiarism-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Best FREE Plagiarism Checkers for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reviewed 7 free plagiarism checkers for students. <strong>And in my opinion, the best free plagiarism checker for students is Quetext. <\/strong>It\u2019s got a high-quality dashboard as good as any paid tool. It also detects a decent amount of plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>Some other decent tools that get an honorable mention are Duplichecker, plagiarismdetector.net and Small SEO Tools.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my overall results:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #ffe0bd; width: 37.6166%;\" width=\"137\"><strong>Plagiarism Checker<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #ffe0bd; width: 19.7927%;\" width=\"146\"><strong>Rating<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #ffe0bd; width: 23.7305%;\" width=\"158\"><strong>Plagiarism Detection Ability<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #ffe0bd; width: 18.8601%;\" width=\"160\"><strong>User Experience<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 37.6166%;\" width=\"137\"><strong>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quetext.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quetext<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 19.7927%;\" width=\"146\">8.5\/10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.7305%;\" width=\"158\">High<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 18.8601%;\" width=\"160\">High<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 37.6166%;\" width=\"137\"><strong>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duplichecker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duplichecker<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 19.7927%;\" width=\"146\">7.5\/10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.7305%;\" width=\"158\">High<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 18.8601%;\" width=\"160\">Medium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 37.6166%;\" width=\"137\"><strong>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/plagiarismdetector.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plagiarism Detector<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 19.7927%;\" width=\"146\">7.5\/10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.7305%;\" width=\"158\">High<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 18.8601%;\" width=\"160\">Medium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 37.6166%;\" width=\"137\"><strong>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/smallseotools.com\/plagiarism-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Small SEO Tools<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 19.7927%;\" width=\"146\">7\/10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.7305%;\" width=\"158\">Medium<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 18.8601%;\" width=\"160\">Medium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 37.6166%;\" width=\"137\"><strong>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/1text.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1text<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 19.7927%;\" width=\"146\">6.5\/10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.7305%;\" width=\"158\">Medium<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 18.8601%;\" width=\"160\">Low<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 37.6166%;\" width=\"137\"><strong>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plagium.com\/en\/plagiarismchecker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plagium<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 19.7927%;\" width=\"146\">6\/10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.7305%;\" width=\"158\">Medium<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 18.8601%;\" width=\"160\">Low<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 37.6166%;\" width=\"137\"><strong>7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperrater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paper Rater<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 19.7927%;\" width=\"146\">Did not Provide Results<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.7305%;\" width=\"158\">Low<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 18.8601%;\" width=\"160\">Low<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color: #f9ffd8; padding: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: center; overflow: auto; line-height: 1.6em;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>A Word of Warning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Beware that free plagiarism checkers are <em>no where near as good <\/em>as the plagiarism checkers that I use as a professor. Your teacher probably has access to a quality <a href=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/plagiarism-checkers\/\">plagiarism checker<\/a> like Turnitin, which will detect plagiarism not only from the web but also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/journal-articles\/\">Journal articles<\/a> and<\/li>\n<li>Textbooks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So the best thing you can do is <a href=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/how-to-paraphrase\/\"><em>learn to paraphrase properly <\/em><\/a>to avoid the possibility of plagiarism altogether.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Below is my full review of all 7 free plagiarism checkers.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How the Test was Done<\/h2>\n<p>To conduct this test, I wrote a 470-word mini-essay on <a href=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/types-of-globalization\/\">Globalization<\/a>. I just whacked it out in one short sitting, so it\u2019s not referenced or of the quality I\u2019d submit to a university. But it was enough for the test.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I went online and found some sentences that I could cut and paste into the piece. The idea here was to see how well the plagiarism detectors would pick up the sections that I had plagiarized.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of the plagiarized sentences:<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #7A7A7A; padding: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: center; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em;\">\n<p>\u2026 there have been some serious downsides of globalization. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Economic globalization impacts the environment and <a href=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/education-for-sustainable-development\/\">sustainable development<\/a> in a wide variety of ways and through a multitude of channels.<\/span> The enormous expansion of \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 many blue collar workers have felt disenfranchised and left behind. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Globalization has not been good for working people (blue or white collar) and has led to the continuing deindustrialization of America<\/span> \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Overall, 4 sentences and 74 words of the essay were directly plagiarized. That\u2019s 15% of the total text. Then, I pulled out 7 different free plagiarism checkers and ran the piece through the plagiarism checkers to see which ones would pick up the plagiarized text.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the results.<\/p>\n<h2>Best FREE Plagiarism Checkers for Students<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Quetext<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quetext.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quetext.com<\/a> has a beautiful interface. Simply go to their homepage and paste your text to get started. Once you click \u2018check plagiarism\u2019, it will ask you to sign-up to get your results. I recommend doing this. It\u2019s worth your while.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/quetext-landing-page.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019re logged in, the dashboard is very clean and high-quality for a free tool. In fact, it feels a lot like the industry-leading (but expensive) Turnitin dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>The text is shown in the middle of the piece, with the sections identified as plagiarism underlined. You can click on each identified plagiarism section and the right-hand column will show you the original webpage to see the highlighted similarity in its original context:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9367 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/quetext-dashboard-1024x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/quetext-dashboard-1024x527.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/quetext-dashboard-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/quetext-dashboard-768x395.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/quetext-dashboard-1536x790.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/quetext-dashboard.jpg 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Often, the identified potential plagiarism isn\u2019t anything to worry about. The similarity might be just a coincidence, in which case you can leave it. At other times, it\u2019s clear that the original source and your copied section are too similar and it\u2019s worth changing the text.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall, quetext identified all 4 of the plagiarized sentences. It also found 4 sentences that I hadn\u2019t plagiarized, but were very similar to some source texts online.<\/strong> For two of them, I would have changed them because the similar webpage also discussed globalization. For the other two, it was complete coincidence and the similar webpage wasn\u2019t even talking about globalization at all, so I didn\u2019t find them to be too problematic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color: #fafafa; border: 1px solid #7A7A7A; padding: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: center; overflow: auto; line-height: 1.6em;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>How does a Teacher Assess if I\u2019ve Plagiarized?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your teacher will check the source text, just like I\u2019ve done above, to see if the similarities are of concern. There are regularly false positives (for example when the source text isn\u2019t even about globalization), so just like your teacher will, you need to check the suspected plagiarism and assess whether the similarity is coincidence or too much of a similarity for comfort. It\u2019s common for tools like quetext to return a plagiarism score of 15% &#8211; 20%, with all of this being false positives that you don\u2019t need to worry about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One thing I do wish Quetext allowed you to do is to make edits in their dashboard. It would be good to get those sentences that were plagiarized, re-word them within the dashboard, and then re-run the check. This may be a feature in the PRO version, but of course, this is a review of FREE features of each plagiarism checker.<\/p>\n<h3>2. Duplichecker<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duplichecker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duplichecker<\/a> was quite easy to use and, while plastered with ads, could be used without any problems. The report shows the highlighted plagiarized sections on the left hand side and the matched sources on the right hand side:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9368 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/duplichecker-dashboard-1024x494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/duplichecker-dashboard-1024x494.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/duplichecker-dashboard-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/duplichecker-dashboard-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/duplichecker-dashboard.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This interface was better than many of the others that I reviewed here. You could see the plagiarized sentences in context on the right-hand side and an estimated percentage of similarity to the source.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Quetext, you couldn\u2019t click on the highlighted sentences to bring up the similar source on the right. Instead, you need to scroll through and do a little detective work. Furthermore, it would have been nice to have had the sections on the right-hand side to have the similar text highlighted in the same color as the sentence on the left-hand side. So, again, Quetext wins in terms of user experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duplichecker beat Quetext by finding all 4 plagiarized sentences and no false positives. But, the source webpages that they identified were mostly from coursehero, which was not the true original source.<\/strong> Coursehero is simply a database on student essays, so in reality it just found other plagiarized essays that other students had written! Nevertheless, it\u2019s good enough to find sentences that are similar.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that I found a little annoying was that Duplichecker has a \u2018make it unique\u2019 function that spins the text to make it unique. DON\u2019T DO THIS! It makes the text awkward and sometimes illegible.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Plagiarismdetector<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plagiarismdetector.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plagiarismdetector.net<\/a> is very similar to Duplichecker, to the extent that I did wonder if they were using the same technology to generate their results. It also has a very similar layout with the text on the left hand side and snippets of the plagiarized sources on the right:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9369 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/plagiarismdetector-1024x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/plagiarismdetector-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/plagiarismdetector-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/plagiarismdetector-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/plagiarismdetector.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did notice, though, that after analysis the paragraph formatting had been collapsed. It turned my essay into a big wall of text that I found difficult to navigate. Keeping the break points of paragraphs would have been helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Also like Duplichecker, you couldn\u2019t click on the highlighted sentences to generate a highlighted pane on the right with the original text highlighted in its original context. The lack of this feature across all but Quetext really did bother me personally.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the coursehero results (aka other student essays that plagiarized the original source) were shown instead of the true original source. I would like to see coursehero deprioritized, so if plagiarism was detected from coursehero <em>and <\/em>another source, the other source is displayed instead of coursehero. The same would go with the UKEssays site, which is another database of (often plagiarized) essays that students often.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall, plagiarism detector identified all 4 of the plagiarized sections and generated no false positives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>4. Small SEO Tools<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smallseotools.com\/plagiarism-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Small SEO Tools<\/a> has a plagiarism checker designed for online publishers and bloggers rather than students, but we can make use of its power for any text, really.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing you\u2019ll notice is that you have to navigate between the ads to use the tool. Of course, it\u2019s a free tool, and the owner of the tool needs to pay the bills somehow, so I don\u2019t hold this against them.<\/p>\n<p>You can paste your text into the search bar or even upload a document to be checked. Then, tick the Captcha to prove you\u2019re human, and click \u2018check for plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I really like about the Small SEO Tools plagiarism checker is that it provides a really nice to use sentence-by-sentence analysis, as shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9370 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallseotools-dashboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"813\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallseotools-dashboard.jpg 813w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallseotools-dashboard-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallseotools-dashboard-768x318.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you click the red \u2018compare\u2019 button for plagiarized sentences (as shown above), it will drop that sentence as a quote into Google and display all results:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9371 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallseotools-google-results.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"914\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallseotools-google-results.jpg 914w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallseotools-google-results-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/smallseotools-google-results-768x467.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This can be nice because you can see <em>how many different sources <\/em>have all used that same sentence, and dropping quotes like this into Google is something I definitely do when I suspect one of my students has plagiarized.<\/p>\n<p>But again, Quetext won when it came to user interface because they display the results within the dashboard, allowing for a quick and easy check without having to switch tabs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall, Small SEO Tools found 3 of the 4 plagiarized sentences, and gave no false results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>5. 1text<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1text.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1text<\/a> is a clean, basic plagiarism checker that doesn\u2019t require you to login to get your results. Simply go to 1text.com and paste the text you want to check into the search bar:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9372 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-dashboard-1024x376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-dashboard-1024x376.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-dashboard-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-dashboard-768x282.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-dashboard.jpg 1236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you click \u2018check for plagiarism\u2019, the check does take a little while to load. That\u2019s because they give priority to people who sign up, so you might get a queue position and you will have to wait:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9373 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-queue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-queue.jpg 394w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-queue-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1text will look at three things: word count, grammar and spelling, and plagiarism. For our purposes, we want to focus on the plagiarism checker.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for this text, they didn\u2019t find any of the four plagiarized sentences:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9374 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-results.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-results.jpg 396w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-results-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was disappointing because in the past I have found 1text to be quite good at identifying plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>But, for demonstration purposes, I decided to feed an article entirely copied and pasted from a few different blog posts into 1text. I wanted to show you how the results show up. Here, I took a blog post on \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/intro\/\">how to write an introduction<\/a>\u2019 and fed it through the plagiarism checker. It correctly identified the whole blog post as plagiarized and pointed me to the copied sources:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9375 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-matched-sources.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-matched-sources.jpg 692w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1text-matched-sources-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, unlike Quetext, it didn\u2019t provide the dynamic functionality to click on a highlighted section and show me which sentence was taken from which source. So in this sense, there was a need for a lot more detective work for 1text. When it comes to user experience, Quetext won out big time.<\/p>\n<h3>6. Plagium<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plagium.com\/en\/plagiarismchecker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plagium<\/a> is a premium service but allows for light checks for free without signing up. You will be able to conduct a quick search for free, but the \u2018deep search\u2019 requires a login.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/plagium-login.jpg\" alt=\"\">From what I can tell, the deep search costs 8 cents per page. I\u2019m not sure if you could get a few for free before having to pay:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/plagium-price.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>So, I did the quick search! <strong>The quick search on plagium identified 0 of 4 of the plagiarized results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t satisfied with this, so I did another quick search with some obvious plagiarism going on. This time, Plagium did identify multiple results.<\/p>\n<p>For Plagium, the plagiarized sections are not highlighted. Furthermore, it\u2019s not placed side-by-side with the identified source text. Instead, it\u2019s simply placed in a list below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/plagium-results.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>So, overall, I wasn\u2019t particularly happy with Plagium. In my experience, it was a third-tier level of user experience for me and a lot of detective work would need to take place to identify the plagiarism, even if the tool finds it in the first place (which is clearly not guaranteed).<\/p>\n<p>The paid tool may be more user-friendly, but of course, this review is of the free features only!<\/p>\n<h3>7. Paper Rater<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperrater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paper Rater<\/a> failed to find any of the four plagiarized sections. So, I stuffed a bunch more clearly paraphrased text from sources like Forbes and Wikipedia. And it still didn\u2019t find any plagiarism. So I stuffed <em>even more <\/em>plagiarized text in. <strong>And it still didn\u2019t find any plagiarism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9376 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/paper-rater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/paper-rater.jpg 315w, https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/paper-rater-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was very surprised by this. So, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be going back to Paper Rater any time soon.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Overall, I was most impressed with Quetext. Even though Quetext did find a few false positives, I would prefer to get a thorough test that generates false positives than a tool that doesn\u2019t find any results at all. Quetext also had the most professional dashboard and user experience.<\/p>\n<p>In the second tier of free plagiarism checkers, Duplichecker and plagiarismdetector.net get honorable mentions. They both identified all the plagiarism and no false positives. Their interfaces were quite good, but still not as user friendly as Quetext.<\/p>\n<p>I also didn\u2019t mind Small SEO Tools for its simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>For the others, I personally would take a hard pass for various user experience problems, as well as their failure to find plagiarism in this test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reviewed 7 free plagiarism checkers for students. And in my opinion, the best free plagiarism checker for students is Quetext. It\u2019s got a high-quality dashboard as good as any paid tool. It also detects a decent amount of plagiarism. Some other decent tools that get an honorable mention are Duplichecker, plagiarismdetector.net and Small SEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-skills"],"acf":[],"modified_by":null,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"authorship-box-avatar":false,"authorship-box-related":false,"authorship-post-flat":false,"authorship-post-cards":false,"authorship-post-thumbs":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Chris Drew (PhD)","author_link":"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/author\/chris-drew-phd\/"},"uagb_comment_info":12,"uagb_excerpt":"I reviewed 7 free plagiarism checkers for students. 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