Question 1

What is TextPulse?

Accepted Answer

TextPulse is an academic-first AI text humanizer that rewrites generic, robotic AI-generated content to natural, human-like prose. It combines fine-tuned language models trained on research content, syntax-aware NLP algorithms, and lexical knowledge bases to be semantically faithful to the input text, preserving the underlying meaning, discipline-specific terms, citations, and a formal, academic tone. The byproduct is a complete AI-to-human style transformation that achieves a low, acceptable score on university-grade AI detectors like Turnitin, GPTZero, and Copyleaks.

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Question 2

What does 'humanize AI text' mean?

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Humanizing AI text means rephrasing AI-generated content so it reads like it was written by a person. TextPulse restructures sentence patterns, adjusts statistical fingerprints like perplexity and burstiness, varies sentence length, and introduces the natural irregularities and subtle imperfections that human writing exhibits. The meaning stays the same; just the delivery becomes natural.

Question 3

Who is TextPulse for?

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TextPulse is built for academic researchers, PhD students, postgraduate and undergraduate students, university professors, ESL (English as a Second Language) writers, content marketers, bloggers, corporate professionals, and authors. Anyone who uses AI to assist with their writing and needs the output to read naturally and pass AI detection can benefit from TextPulse.

Question 4

Is TextPulse a paraphrasing tool?

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TextPulse can also be used as a paraphrasing tool, since it performs rephrasing by sentence fusion and sentence splitting. So if you are looking for a paraphraser that outputs content in a human writing style, this tool can also be used for that purpose.

Question 5

How is TextPulse different from other AI humanizers?

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1. Other humanizers were developed for general-purpose content and blogs, so they output a conversational tone that is unacceptable for academic writing. Ours was trained on peer-reviewed research papers, so it was taught to rephrase in an academic tone.

2. Other humanizers distort meaning and drop key terms and citations. Ours prioritizes semantic faithfulness: meaning, key terms, and citations are preserved during the rewrite.

3. Other humanizers intentionally mechanically inject grammar errors to pass AI detectors. Ours was built with proper grammar preservation in mind, and trained on actual human research writing, so it mimics that exact writing style. Naturally, as a by-product, it achieves low and acceptable scores on AI detectors.

4. Others mostly work for just English. Ours works for 60+ international languages, and also on US/UK English styles.

Question 6

What languages does TextPulse support?

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English is fully supported on every plan. Plus adds the multilingual humanizer, which covers 60+ languages including Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.

Question 7

What is the maximum word count per submission?

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A single pass takes up to 500 words on Pro and 1,000 words on Plus, and the input box holds up to 8,000 characters. For a full paper, chapter, or dissertation, work through it section by section: paste a section, humanize it, then move to the next. Your allowance is spent per word humanized, so splitting a document costs no more than processing it at once.

Question 8

Can I use TextPulse for non-academic writing?

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Yes. While TextPulse is optimized for academic writing, it works well for any professional, formal, or even conversational writing: blog posts, reports, corporate communications, grant applications, and more. The citation preservation and freeze terms features are particularly useful for technical content of any kind. The SEO freeze terms feature also locks in SEO primary, secondary and long-tail keywords for SEO purposes and improved SERP ranking.

Question 9

Am I allowed to use an AI humanizer for my research writing?

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Using an AI humanizer is comparable to using editing software: it refines how your ideas are presented without generating new content or arguments. Most universities permit a degree of AI-assisted editing, but policies differ, so always check your institution's AI use policy and disclose AI assistance where it is required. Our AI Use Policy page summarizes the current positions of major universities and publishers.

Question 10

Does TextPulse work on mobile devices?

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Yes. TextPulse is a web application that works on any device with a modern browser: desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. No software installation is required.

Question 11

Is there a browser extension or desktop app?

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TextPulse is currently available as a web application only. A browser extension and desktop app are on our roadmap for future development.

Question 12

How fast is TextPulse?

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A pass usually finishes in well under a minute, with live progress shown while the engine works. Timing depends on the length of the passage and the intensity you pick.

Question 13

How does the NLP + LLM hybrid engine work?

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The humanizer engine employs a hybrid between advanced NLP algorithms and a fine-tuned LLM trained on an extensive dataset of human-written, peer-reviewed research papers in various disciplines. The NLP layer extracts in-text linguistic signals (perplexity, burstiness, sentence structure, lexical diversity, formality register, n-gram frequency, token distribution, etc.) to identify which patterns read as machine-written. The LLM layer rephrases those passages using the signal profile as a guide, rebuilding the cadence a human writer would produce while preserving your intended meaning, technical terms, citations, and academic tone. Finally a series of post-processing steps validate grammar, citation integrity, acronyms and terminology before the output is returned.

Question 14

What are the in-text linguistic signals TextPulse analyzes?

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TextPulse works in two layers, and analyzes an array of multiple in-text signals, including perplexity (word-level surprise), burstiness (sentence length variation), lexical diversity (vocabulary richness), sentence structure (syntax depth), token distribution, transition patterns, formality register, readability scores (Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog), n-gram frequency, passive voice ratio, clause embedding depth, hedging language, discourse markers, collocations, nominalization, pronoun distribution, adverbial placement, punctuation patterns, paragraph flow, citation density, and semantic coherence.

Question 15

What are the humanization intensity levels?

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The slider has five stops: Mild, Moderate, Balanced (recommended), Strong, and Aggressive. Mild makes subtle adjustments and keeps most of your wording. Balanced restructures the patterns that read as machine-written and adds natural lexical variation, which suits most academic writing. Aggressive rewrites at passage level, splitting and merging sentences for the deepest change. The AI detector pass rate increases as you move on the scale from Mild to Aggressive. The slider itself is a Plus feature; Pro runs every pass at Balanced.

Question 16

Which intensity level should I use?

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Start with Balanced. It is the recommended setting for most academic writing and gives the best trade-off between natural phrasing and staying close to your original. If the text only needs light touching up, use Mild or Moderate. If a Balanced pass leaves too much machine cadence behind, move up to Strong or Aggressive and run it again.

Question 17

Will TextPulse break my citations?

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No. TextPulse automatically detects in-text citations in APA, IEEE, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, and other major formats before humanization begins. Citations are locked and pass through completely untouched.

Question 18

What citation formats does TextPulse support?

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TextPulse supports all major citation formats: APA (Author, Year), IEEE [1], MLA (Author Page), Chicago (Author Year, Page), Vancouver (numbered), Harvard, Turabian, and others. Both parenthetical and narrative citations are detected and preserved.

Question 19

What are freeze terms and how do they work?

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Freeze terms are words or phrases you want TextPulse to never modify during humanization. This is essential for discipline-specific terminology: technical jargon, chemical names, methodologies, proprietary terms, abbreviations, and multi-word technical phrases. When you define freeze terms, the engine locks them in place and works around them. It also injects additional discipline-relevant vocabulary into rephrased passages to enhance naturalness.

Question 20

How many freeze terms can I add?

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Freeze terms are a Plus feature. Plus users can lock up to 10 discipline-specific keywords or phrases per pass, and TextPulse will never rewrite them.

Question 21

Does TextPulse introduce grammar errors?

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It was trained on human writing. And human writing is never grammatically perfect. It comes with subtle imperfections and varying styles. This is true even for peer-reviewed academic research papers. With this being said, benchmark tests show that the humanizer maintains a ~94% grammar accuracy. So you get a grammatically acceptable draft, with subtle imperfections, as if a postgrad wrote it. Note that if you want to clear up any residual grammatical imperfections, we made this easy too. The Grammar Checker tool was designed for this exact purpose. In the dashboard, go to 'Actions' above the Output Panel, then press 'Grammar check'. This takes you to the Grammar Checker tool, where you can apply a Light Proofreading pass on the humanized text, without re-spiking the AI score.

Question 22

What is the post-humanization toolkit?

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Plus includes three companion tools in the dashboard for polishing humanized text. The Grammar Checker was engineered to perform a light, detector-safe proofread: it fixes clear spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors without re-spiking the AI score, so your AI score stays low (heavy rewriting is what pushes detector scores back up). The Em Dash Remover replaces AI-typical em dashes with natural punctuation. The AI Word Cleaner swaps vocabulary that AI models statistically overuse, words like delve, pivotal, underscores, and tapestry, for the formal wording human researchers actually write. The grammar checker and word cleaner use your word credits, but the Em Dash Remover is free to use. Like the humanizer, each of these three tools handles up to 1,000 words per pass.

Question 23

How does the Grammar Checker fix errors without raising my AI score?

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The Grammar Checker was designed to do a light proofread and adjust critical grammar errors without re-introducing the AI fingerprint. This is in contrast to other grammar checkers like Grammarly and QuillBot, which increase the AI score. It runs a single light proofread pass that fixes only clear, unambiguous errors: missing commas, subject-verb agreement, articles, possessives, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, doubled words, misspellings, and broken punctuation. It never rephrases, reorders, or smooths sentences at the syntactic level, because rewriting is exactly what pushes detector scores back up. Best used on your humanized text. You review the result as plain text or a word-level diff, then copy it or export it as text or Word, including a Word version with tracked changes.

Question 24

How is the Em Dash Remover different from the humanizer's remove em dashes option?

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The humanizer option cleans em dashes as part of a humanization pass; the Em Dash Remover is a standalone tool for any text you paste in. It highlights every em dash as you type and counts them live, then replaces each one with your choice of punctuation: Smart mode picks a comma, colon, period, or clean removal from the sentence context, or you can force commas, semicolons, or colons everywhere. It also catches spaced en dashes and typed double hyphens if you switch those on, while number ranges are never touched. It is free to use and does not consume your word credits.

Question 25

Which words does the AI Word Cleaner replace?

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It targets the vocabulary AI models statistically overuse: inflated verbs like delve and harness, superlative adjectives like pivotal and groundbreaking, ornamental nouns like landscape and tapestry, stacked transitions, throat-clearing filler such as it is important to note that, signature AI phrases like a testament to, and corporate jargon. A research-sourced lexicon flags candidate AI terms, then a context-aware model pass checks each one in its sentence and swaps the real offenders for the plain wording human researchers actually use. Words used in a legitimate domain sense stay, so a finance paper's 'leverage' or a geography paper's 'landscape' is never touched, and citations, numbers, and technical terms come through untouched. Export the result with tracked changes to review every swap.

Question 26

What are writing modes?

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Writing modes tune the rewrite to the kind of document you are working on: General, Academic, Corporate, Creative, and Blog/SEO. Academic is the default and is available on every paid plan; the other four are Plus features. In Blog/SEO mode the freeze-terms field becomes SEO keywords, so the SEO keywords and phrases you need to rank for are never rewritten.

Question 27

What does the remove em dashes option do?

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AI drafts overuse em dashes, and both detectors and human reviewers notice. The Remove em dashes control (ON by default) strips AI-typical em dashes from the output and replaces them with commas, so the punctuation reads the way an academic writer would actually punctuate.

Question 28

Can I see exactly what the humanizer changed?

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Yes. Every paid plan includes the tracked-changes view: a word-level diff that shows precisely what was rewritten, so nothing slips through unreviewed. The Plus plan adds tracked-changes export, letting you open the diff in Microsoft Word or save it as a PDF for further editing.

Question 29

What text metrics does TextPulse report?

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Every pass reports four tiles plus a Human Score: Rewrite (how much of the text changed), Readability (Flesch-Kincaid grade level), Perplexity (an estimate of word-level surprise, where higher reads as more human), and Burstiness (sentence-length variation, drawn as a sparkline that changes colour as variation rises). Edit Metrics in the user menu lets you choose which tiles stay visible.

Question 30

What do perplexity and burstiness mean?

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Perplexity measures how predictable word choices are: AI-generated text has low perplexity because it always picks the most statistically likely next word. In contrast, human writing has higher perplexity because people use unexpected word choices. Burstiness measures variation in sentence length: AI tends to produce flat, uniform-length sentences, while humans naturally mix short and long sentences. TextPulse increases both metrics to match human writing patterns.

Question 31

Can I humanize the same text multiple times?

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Yes. You can re-run a pass with a different intensity or different settings. The Plus plan adds the Re-humanize feature, which feeds the output straight back into the engine for a second round of iterative re-humanization. Each pass refines the text further, which helps when the first result is not natural enough. Every pass spends words from your allowance.

Question 32

Why is the Rewrite percentage low sometimes?

Accepted Answer

The engine gauges how machine-written the input reads and rewrites in proportion. AI-generated text gets restructured heavily. If you paste human-written or heavily human-edited text, its structure and wording already resemble human writing. The humanizer is familiar with the shape of human text, so naturally, it changes less. A low Rewrite score on that kind of input is expected behavior.

Question 33

What is humanization history?

Accepted Answer

Every pass is saved to your History page, where you can reopen past runs, review the input and output side by side, and send any run back to the workspace with one click using Rewind. Pro keeps your last 3 humanizations, Plus keeps your last 20, and older runs drop off automatically.

Question 34

Does TextPulse change the meaning of my text?

Accepted Answer

No. TextPulse rephrases how your ideas are expressed, not what they say. The engine preserves the semantic content, argumentative structure, and logical flow of your original text. Technical claims, data references, and conclusions all remain intact.

Question 35

Can TextPulse handle tables, figures, or equations?

Accepted Answer

TextPulse processes plain text, and it is built for technical writing: inline mathematical notation, LaTeX spans, chemical formulas, and sub- or superscript characters are detected automatically, locked, and passed through unchanged. Tables, figures, and images cannot be pasted into the editor, so humanize the surrounding prose section by section, but avoid inputting anything that is not body text.

Question 36

Should I paste my whole paper or just the body text?

Accepted Answer

Paste body-text paragraphs only. The engine is tuned for body text, so leave out headers, titles, figure and table captions, and reference lists, then re-insert the humanized text into your structured document afterward.

Question 37

Can I upload a document instead of pasting text?

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Yes. You can upload .docx and .txt files straight into the input panel. Output can be copied or exported as text, Word, HTML, or Markdown, and the Plus plan also adds tracked-changes and PDF export.

Question 38

Does TextPulse work with text from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI models?

Accepted Answer

The model was trained to detect the writing styles and patterns of all popular AI model families, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Meta Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, Grok, as well as other smaller models. It tends to do its best humanizations on Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek output, which achieves the highest detection bypass rate. ChatGPT comes towards the end, with a slightly lower detection pass rate.

Question 39

Will my humanized text be flagged for plagiarism?

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No. TextPulse generates original rephrased text; it doesn't copy from any source. The output is unique to your input and won't match existing content in plagiarism databases. Your original citations and references remain intact, so proper attribution is preserved.

Question 40

Which AI detectors does TextPulse help you clear?

Accepted Answer

It has been tested against the major AI detection platforms: Turnitin, GPTZero, Copyleaks, ZeroGPT, and Originality.ai. We target the linguistic patterns each detector analyzes, but results vary as detection algorithms update. Our focus is on producing natural human writing rather than optimizing for any single detector. Naturally, as a byproduct, this reduces the AI score when tested on university-grade AI detectors. After benchmark testing, we achieved a 92.33% pass rate on Turnitin AI, an 89.12% pass rate on Originality.ai, and an 87.91% pass rate on GPTZero.

Question 41

Does TextPulse include an AI detector?

Accepted Answer

No. TextPulse does not run detector scans and does not sell detector credits. What the app shows after each pass is a Human Score: an estimate, computed from your own text, of how likely detectors are to read it as human-written. It is a guide, not a detector result. If your institution asks for a specific detector report, run the text through that tool directly.

Question 42

What does the Human Score mean?

Accepted Answer

The Human Score combines rewrite depth, vocabulary diversity, token distribution, and sentence-length variation into a single estimate, from 0 to 100, of how human-written the output reads. It is calculated from your text inside the app, so it never calls a detector. Treat it as a signal that a pass did its job, not as a score anyone else will see.

Question 43

Does TextPulse guarantee a 0% AI score?

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No, and we are transparent about this. No tool can guarantee a specific AI score, because detection algorithms are updated constantly. What TextPulse does is reduce AI scores below the flagging thresholds used by major detectors. Results vary with the input text, the intensity you choose, and the detector doing the scoring.

Question 44

Will humanized text pass Turnitin AI detection?

Accepted Answer

In benchmark testing on a 2,000-document academic corpus, the engine achieved a 92.33% pass rate on Turnitin AI, 89.12% on Originality.ai, and 87.91% on GPTZero. If a pass still scores high, run it again at a higher intensity or use the Re-humanize feature.

Question 45

How do I get the lowest possible AI detection score?

Accepted Answer

Four practical steps: (1) Run the pass again; the engine produces different output each time, and a rerun often lands a lower score on the same input. (2) Raise the intensity (a Plus control), which forces a deeper rewrite. (3) Use Re-humanize (on the Plus plan) to feed the output through the engine for a second round. (4) If you draft with an AI assistant, use Claude or Gemini: the engine reaches its lowest detection scores on their output, and their formal writing is cleaner than ChatGPT's to begin with.

Question 46

Why does passing university-grade detectors like Turnitin matter?

Accepted Answer

AI-generated text has a recognizable style that readers often spot without any tool: generic, robotic phrasing, uniform sentence lengths, and the same overused vocabulary. Human writing is direct and active, with natural variation in rhythm and word choice. The humanizer's job is to move your text from the first style to the second, because that is what professors, reviewers, and readers actually prefer to read. University-grade detectors like Turnitin are the most reliable benchmark of whether your text truly reads as human. When it passes, you have confirmation.

Question 47

Is there a free plan?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Free plan is a free humanization demo: you get the full humanizer workspace with a real before and after example, citation preservation, and the tracked-changes view, so you can see exactly what the engine does to academic writing. Humanizing your own text needs Pro or Plus. No credit card required to start.

Question 48

What plans are available?

Accepted Answer

TextPulse offers three plans: Free (humanization demo, $0), Pro (25,000 words/month, $19/month or $169/year), and Plus (50,000 words/month, $29/month or $259/year). Pro and Plus subscribers can also add one-time credit packs on top of their monthly allowance.

Question 49

What's the difference between Pro and Plus?

Accepted Answer

Pro gives you 25,000 words/month (500 per pass), the Academic writing mode at Balanced intensity, citation preservation, the tracked-changes view, and your last 3 humanizations saved. Plus gives you 50,000 words/month (1,000 per pass), all five writing modes, the five-stop intensity slider, the multilingual humanizer (60+ languages), freeze terms and SEO keywords, US/UK English control, tracked-changes export, Re-humanize, and your last 20 humanizations.

Question 50

How much can I save with annual billing?

Accepted Answer

Annual billing saves about 26% against monthly. Pro drops from $19/month to $169/year, which works out to $14/month. Plus drops from $29/month to $259/year, or $22/month.

Question 51

What are one-time credit packs?

Accepted Answer

Credit packs are word bundles for Pro and Plus subscribers: buy once, use anytime, and credits never expire. Options: Starter Pack (10,000 words, $9), Research Pack (25,000 words, $19), and Thesis Pack (45,000 words, $29). Pack words stack on top of your monthly allowance and are consumed after it runs out.

Question 52

Do unused words roll over to the next month?

Accepted Answer

Monthly subscription words do not roll over; they reset on your billing date. However, one-time credit pack words never expire and can be used anytime. If your usage spikes some months, adding a credit pack to your plan is a cost-effective way to cover them without moving up a tier.

Question 53

What happens when I run out of words?

Accepted Answer

When you exhaust your monthly word allocation, you can: (1) wait for your allocation to reset on your billing date, (2) upgrade to a higher plan for immediate additional words, or (3) purchase a one-time credit pack for extra words without changing your plan.

Question 54

Can I switch plans mid-billing cycle?

Accepted Answer

Upgrading takes effect immediately; you're charged only the prorated difference for the remainder of your billing cycle. For any other plan change, email us and we will sort it out for you.

Question 55

Can I cancel anytime?

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Yes. Cancel from your account's Billing page whenever you want. There are no cancellation fees, no lock-in contracts, and no exit interviews. Your plan stays active until the end of your current billing period.

Question 56

Do you offer refunds?

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Subscriptions and credit packs are non-refundable, as set out in our Terms. The one exception: we may, at our discretion, refund a payment if you request it within 24 hours and fewer than 1,000 words have been processed on your account since that payment. You can cancel any time from your account's Billing page and you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.

Question 57

What payment methods do you accept?

Accepted Answer

Payments are processed by Stripe, which accepts major credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Link. Card details are entered on Stripe's own checkout and never reach our servers. Your statement shows TEXTPULSE.AI.

Question 58

Is there a student discount?

Accepted Answer

We keep our pricing accessible for students. The Pro plan at $169/year, or $14/month, gives you 25,000 words per month and is built with student budgets in mind. For institutional or group pricing (university departments, research groups), contact us for a custom quote.

Question 59

Do credit packs work with the free plan?

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No. Credit packs are add-ons for active Pro and Plus subscriptions. Upgrade to a paid plan first; after that, pack words stack on top of your monthly allowance and never expire.

Question 60

How do I know how many words I have left?

Accepted Answer

Your word balance is always visible in the top bar of the app, and the Billing page breaks it down into your monthly allowance and any credit pack words. The balance updates in real time as you humanize text.

Question 61

Is my text stored on TextPulse servers?

Accepted Answer

Text is processed as you submit it. On paid plans your runs are saved to your own history so you can reopen them later (the last 3 on Pro, the last 20 on Plus), and older runs drop off automatically. Nothing is kept beyond that history, and deleting your account permanently closes access to it.

Question 62

Can TextPulse staff read my text?

Accepted Answer

No. Text is processed through automated systems only. TextPulse staff do not read the content you submit for humanization, and we treat all user content as confidential.

Question 63

Is my data encrypted?

Accepted Answer

Yes. All data in transit is encrypted using TLS (HTTPS), and data at rest is encrypted by our hosting providers. Sessions live in secure HTTP-only cookies that cannot be read by scripts in the page.

Question 64

How does TextPulse handle authentication?

Accepted Answer

You can sign in with your email and password or with Google. Passwords are never stored in plain text, only as strong one-way cryptographic hashes, and sessions live in secure HTTP-only cookies that cannot be read by scripts in the page.

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