Paraphrase-Online Review 2024 : Honest Insights

Paraphrase-online is a freemium online tool that is commonly used to help with writing. This tool has a few different modes that enable it to paraphrase in different ways. Today we are going to look at its features and functionality and see how it helps with academic writing.

Paraphrase-Online Review

We are going to start with its basic free features and then move on to the advanced premium features.

Paraphrase-online has five different paraphrasing modes. Out of these only two are available for free. They are called:

• Word Changer
• Sentence Rephraser

Pretty self-explanatory, but let’s check them out in more detail and more specifically, see how they are useful in academic writing.

1.     Word Changer and Its Use in Academic Writing

Word changer is a mode that can…well…change the words in a given text. It will never change more than one word at a time. That means no phrase changes and no structural changes. However, that does not mean it won’t replace those words with words only. It can and will use phrases to replace words where necessary. Check out the given image to see what we mean.

The very first word “Greatest” has been replaced with “Most noteworthy”. So, you can see that it does use phrases to replace words. Another thing you will notice is that the new words/phrases are red. That signifies that they are new additions. If you click on them this happens:

New synonyms show up and you can add them to the output. This gives you some agency and lets you alter the output to your liking (a little bit). The most obvious use of this in academic writing is that you can reduce the number of technical terms and as well as overused words/jargon/terminology. Which does a lot for readability and understanding.

2.     Sentence-Rephraser and Its Use in Academic Writing

Sentence rephraser is a mode in which the tool changes phrases instead of words. But that might make you think: if it changes phrases, why is it named sentence rephraser? The reason is that when you get the output, you can edit it sentence by sentence rather than word by word.

As you can see in the output, the last sentence is underlined, and a word saying “Rephrase” shows up. If you click it, the entire sentence gets paraphrased. Well, technically a drop-down menu shows up that lets you select from one of many possible paraphrases.

The most beneficial use of sentence rephrasing in academic writing is that it can help you articulate sentences in better ways. So, if you are having trouble trying to explain something in your academic text, try this mode, it may help out.

Now, we come to the three premium modes. They are called:

• Academic
• Creative
• Shorten

These names are not as self-explanatory as the previous ones. But we will tell you about all of them. Let’s start with the academic mode.

1.     Academic Mode and its use in Academic Writing

Academic mode can change anything that is required to make the tone of the text fit that of an academic write-up. It will change words, phrases, and even the sentence structure if it is required. Here is an image of the Academic mode in action.

As you can see there are vast changes in the text because input did not follow an academic tone. But now after being rephrased, there is no doubt that it belongs in a science book or a research paper.

Another thing you will notice is that you can change the individual words in the output, only the entire sentence. This is the same as it was in Sentence rephraser mode.

2.     Creative Mode and Its Use in Academic Writing

Creative mode is quite different than Academic mode. It does not change the tone to make the content look more professional. Instead, it changes the text to make it look more interesting. Sometimes that also results in better readability.

So, if you are having trouble making your academic write-up look interesting, then try using this mode.

It also changes the text a lot, so if you are having problems with content duplication then try using this mode to deal with them.

You may have noticed that it has the same “Rephrase” button as the previous mode. So, as it turns out, only the Word Changer mode can alter words in the output, and the rest of the modes only change entire sentences.

3.     Shorten

This is a mode that is used for creating abstractive summaries. An abstractive summary is just like any other summary, but it is paraphrased. A normal summary uses the same words and phrases that are present in the source material, but in an abstractive summary, the content is paraphrased too.

You cannot change the output of Shorten mode which makes it quite different than other modes. Its main use in academic writing is to summarize the long parts. Academics will find that this mode is particularly useful when writing literature reviews as they can become quite long. But with this mode, their length can be adjusted to become more suitable for the work.

Pricing of Premium Modes

Now that we have seen how each mode of Paraphrase-online helps with academic writing, let’s see how much it costs to use them.

There are two packages that you can buy: a monthly plan and a yearly plan. Here is the breakdown of both of them.

Monthly Plan:

• 5 Dollars
• Lasts for 30 days.
• 5,000 words per submission
• 10,000 submission
• No ads
• Unlocks all premium modes.

Yearly Plan:

• 39 Dollars
• Lasts for 365 days.
• 5,000 words per submission
• 120,000 submissions
• No ads
• Unlocks all premium modes.

As you can see, the major difference between the packages is their cost, activation period, and the number of times you can use them. Honestly speaking, this is a pretty cheap tool considering the quality of paraphrasing you are getting. Just consider, for as little as five dollars per month, you are getting premium quality paraphrasing with no grammar or contextual errors. That’s a pretty good deal.