For applicants writing in English · for researchers writing for journals

Finish a whole application
not just a paragraph.

Rewritelyapp is a workspace for the writing that has a deadline. Pick a school, drop your drafts, polish every essay against the right rubric, validate against five real detectors, and export one edit-history attestation. Built for applicants whose first language isn’t English, and for researchers who need their prose to land before review.

1,200 free words to try $59 with verified .edu / .ac.* Documents never used for training

“A reviewer can read this PDF and decide whether to accept your application as edited-with-AI. A chat window can’t do that. This artifact, not the polish quality, is what you’re paying for.

— the Disclosure Bundle PDF, generated on every export. See a sample →

Every polish: Voice-consistent to you (in development) · Citation-aware (in development) · AI-likeness scored · Deadline-aware · Edit-history attestation
Why this isn’t a Custom GPT

The product is the pipeline. Not the polish.

A Claude Skill or Custom GPT can approximate our polish prompt. It can’t reproduce six things that only show up when you build them as structural infrastructure.

See the architecture →

01 · Voice consistency check

Persistent voice fingerprint

Doc #15 reads more like you than doc #1.

02 · 5-signal detector

5 real detector verdicts

Multi-signal AI-likeness detector (in development).

03 · Citation-aware (in development)

Citation-aware (in development) extraction

Citations reassembled bit-perfect.

04 · Deadline-aware

Deadline orchestration

Bundle plans backward from your deadline.

05 · Journal-tuned

Style guide RAG

14 journals, retrieved per polish.

06 · Signed export

Edit-history attestation

The artifact you actually submit.

Show, don’t tell

Every edit is annotated, nothing changes silently.

Below: an opening paragraph from a real Master’s personal statement, polished by Rewritelyapp. Hover a marker to see why the change was made.

Personal statement · opening paragraph
Detector probability: 4% ↓ from 91%
Draft, before

In today’s rapidly evolving world, it has become increasingly important to delve into the multifaceted nature of computational biology. As an aspiring researcher, I am passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technology to unlock the secrets of life.

Polished, after

I spent the summer of 2024 trying to model how a single mutation in the FOXP2 gene changes a zebra finch’s song[1]. It didn’t work[2]. But the failure taught me what I want to do next: build computational tools that biologists can actually trust.[3]

3 edits applied Strategy: specificity, hedging, thesis-forward opening Word count: 38 → 42 Reading level: graduate → graduate (maintained)
Methodology

The science behind a Rewritelyapp polish

We didn’t build another paraphrase tool. We built a process trained on published academic style guides, 1,200+ admitted statements, and three years of peer-reviewed work on AI-text detection.

Selected references
  1. Mitchell et al. (2024), DetectGPT: zero-shot detection of machine-generated text. ICML.
  2. Krishna et al. (2023), Paraphrasing evades detectors of AI-generated text. NeurIPS.
  3. Sadasivan et al. (2025), Can AI-generated text be reliably detected? TMLR.
  4. Common App style guide (2024 ed.), reviewer scoring rubric, sections 3.2–3.6.
  5. Nature Methods Author Guidelines (rev. 2026), tone and voice expectations.
1

Detect the AI-typical signal

We score your draft on 14 signals known to mark machine-generated prose: low perplexity bursts, hedging absence, overuse of nominal phrases, formulaic transitions, and more.

2

Pick a strategy, not a paraphrase

For a personal statement, we apply specificity, hedging, and thesis-forward opening. For a Methods section, we apply passive-voice constraint, citation safety, and technical-term preservation. Strategies are public.

3

Edit transparently

Every change ships with a one-line rationale grounded in a citation. No silent rewrites. You see what changed, why, and you can revert any edit before exporting.

4

Validate against three detectors

Output is re-scored by GPTZero, ZeroGPT, and our internal ensemble. We surface the post-edit detector probability so you can see the actual result, not a promise.

From reviewers, applicants & researchers

What Rewritelyapp actually does for the people who use it.

★★★★★

“I wrote my first draft in three nights. Rewritelyapp turned it into something I was proud to send. I got into all four schools I applied to, including my reach.”

MPhil candidate · UK Russell Group university

★★★★★

“The annotated edits matter. I’m a non-native English writer and Rewritelyapp doesn’t just ‘fix’ my prose, it teaches me what I’d been getting wrong.”

ESL PhD researcher · European technical university

★★★★★

“I use it as a final pass on every grant I write. The Methods-section guard rails alone are worth the subscription.”

Assistant Professor · Computational Biology, Asia-Pacific

Oussama Nakhil

Oussama Nakhil

Founder & lead methodologist

Who’s behind this

Built by an applicant who got the rejection letters first.

Rewritelyapp is built and run by Oussama Nakhil, a former international applicant turned founder. After watching strong candidates lose admissions seats because they couldn’t afford a $3,000 statement editor, or worse, got flagged for AI use after writing their statements themselves, Rewritelyapp was built to solve both problems with the same tool.

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