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 signed Disclosure Bundle. 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-locked to you · Citation-safe · Detector-validated · Deadline-aware · Signed Disclosure Bundle
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 memory

Persistent voice fingerprint

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

02 · 5-detector check

5 real detector verdicts

GPTZero, Originality, Copyleaks, ZeroGPT, Sapling.

03 · Citation-safe

Citation-safe 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

Signed Disclosure Bundle

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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