Are Plagiarism Tools Worth It For Freelance Writers?

Do the free ones work and are the paid upgrades really better?

My first feeling was that of embarrassment. The last thing I want is a client that I enjoy working for thinking I’m anything less than 100% decent. Once I got over my initial worry, I realised that he works with writers all the time, and he probably knows that these things just happen occasionally.

After the embarrassment, my next feeling was one of curiosity. I wanted to find out if all plagiarism tools are created equal. And importantly, if I needed to pay for Grammarly to get the same ballpark percentage as my client gets.

What follows are the results of my furious Google searching and tool testing. I hope this is helpful to you too.

There are some nice looking free tools out there. But after trying three of them, I was pretty disappointed. With each of them, I ran through my article that my client told me has a 7% score from his Grammarly tool.

The following free tools all returned a 0% plagiarism score for the very same article:

Thinking it might just be a funny article, I tried a couple more that had a 3% Grammarly score. But it was the same deal; a 0% score every time on each of those free tools.

So that was disappointing. I gave up hope of finding a free tool that I could rely upon. And instead, I started considering paying for Grammarly. Although I struggled with that idea.

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