editGPT
editGPT is an AI writing editor that proofreads text and returns every change as an accept-or-reject suggestion. It imports and exports Microsoft Word files with track changes intact, and offers six adjustable editing intensities.
What is editGPT?
editGPT is a browser-based writing editor that proofreads and improves text using OpenAI models, and its defining choice is that it never simply hands back a rewritten document. Every correction arrives as a tracked suggestion the writer can accept or reject, one at a time or all at once, so the author keeps the final say on each sentence. The stated aim, repeated across the site, is to sharpen writing while preserving the author's own voice rather than replacing it.
The tool started in early 2023 as a small Chrome extension built by Sal Bajo, which displayed grammar corrections and readability improvements directly inside ChatGPT and spread quickly after a Reddit post. By late 2023 it had grown into a full rich-text web editor able to handle longer documents. Today the web application is the main product, and the original browser extension is still maintained alongside it.
Control over how aggressive the AI should be is exposed through six named editing levels, each with a published intensity: Grammar (~5%) for grammar fixes only, Light (~10%) for minor readability gains, Proofread (~20%) for standard proofreading, Natural (~25%) to soften awkward phrasing, Streamline (~30%) to improve overall flow, and Improve (~40%) to clarify difficult passages.
The feature that most clearly separates editGPT from general chat assistants is its Microsoft Word round trip: a .docx file can be imported, edited by the AI, and exported again with track changes intact and rich formatting such as bold and italics preserved. Documents can also leave the editor as PDF or plain text, or be shared by email.
Around the editor sit several free utilities: an AI content detector scored on a weighted rubric, an SRT subtitle proofreader, a text splitter and a text improver. A personal dictionary and reusable custom prompts let regular users tune the suggestions to their own vocabulary.
The homepage claims 252.6K active users and 15.4M generated edits, and the site positions itself openly against Grammarly, ProWritingAid, Hemingway and Wordtune.
What it does
- Proofread and improve any text pasted or typed into the editor
- Choose how aggressive the edit should be, across six graded levels
- Accept or reject each suggested change individually or in bulk
- Import a Word document, edit it with AI and export it with track changes preserved
- Export finished work as .docx, .pdf or .txt
- Check whether a text was written by AI, using the free detector
- Proofread SRT subtitle files and split over-long texts
When to use editGPT / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if editGPT is the right fit.
When to use editGPT
- Book authors and novelists who need to edit long manuscripts without losing their own voice
- Students and academics polishing dissertations, master's theses and college admissions essays
- Professionals who exchange Microsoft Word documents and depend on track changes surviving the round trip
- Job seekers rewriting a CV or a cover letter before sending it out
- Non-native English writers who want their text to read more naturally
When not to use editGPT
- Developers looking to call a proofreading engine programmatically, since no public API is documented
- Organisations bound by GDPR paperwork, as the site publishes no DPA, no subprocessor list and no hosting location
- Teams that need real-time collaborative editing, which the tool does not document
- Users who work primarily on a phone or tablet, as there is no iOS or Android application
- Heavy daily writers on the free tier, whose 10,000 words per month will run out quickly
How to use editGPT
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create a free account on the site; no credit card is requested
- Start a new document and either type directly or paste existing content such as a blog post, report or academic paper
- Add a title at the top of the document to stay organised
- Pick an editing level in the toolbar, from Grammar through to Improve
- Read the suggestions as they appear in the text and in the suggestions panel
- Accept or reject each suggestion individually, or apply them in bulk
- Add recurring terms to the personal dictionary so future suggestions respect them
- Switch working language from the language dropdown if you are not writing in English
- Export the finished document as .docx, .pdf or .txt, or share it by email
- Optionally install the Chrome or Firefox extension to edit inside the ChatGPT website instead
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Full Microsoft Word round trip with track changes preserved, which few competitors offer
- Fine control over editing intensity through six clearly labelled levels
- Nothing is applied without consent: every suggestion can be accepted or rejected
- Explicit and repeated commitment never to train models on customer content
- Permanent free plan of 10,000 words per month with no credit card required
- Free side tools usable in the browser, including the AI detector
- Public, itemised pricing with an annual discount of up to 50 percent
Cons
- No postal address and no telephone number are published anywhere on the site
- Total silence on GDPR: no DPA, no subprocessor list, no Article 27 representative, no hosting location
- The privacy policy promises no third-party sharing while the FAQ describes processing through OpenAI models
- Terms of service look generated, with a governing-law clause reduced to the fragment 'au' and no effective date
- Word quotas for the Pro and Elite plans contradict each other between two sections of the same guide
- No public API and no mobile application for iOS or Android
- Supported languages are never listed, and the site warns that quality varies by language
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is available, covering 10,000 words per month with no credit card required. The cheapest paid plan is Pro at 15.00 USD per month on monthly billing, falling to the equivalent of 8 USD per month when paid annually at 96 USD per year.
- Free — 10
- 000 words per month
- no credit card required
- Pro — 15 USD per month
- or 96 USD per year (equivalent to 8 USD per month)
- the quick start guide states 500
- 000 words per month in one section and 300
- 000 words per month with advanced editing tools in another
- Elite — 25 USD per month
- or 180 USD per year (equivalent to 15 USD per month)
- the guide states 3
- 000
- 000 words per month in one section and 2
- 000
- 000 words per month with all features unlocked in another
- Business — 100 USD per month
- or 720 USD per year (equivalent to 60 USD per month)
- Custom team solution — dedicated model
- private API access
- integration with the client's system and bespoke prompts
- priced on request
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how editGPT handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no GDPR framework on this site at all. The words GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation and CCPA appear nowhere across any page collected, and this is silence rather than a refusal: the publisher does not claim compliance, and equally never states that it is not compliant. No data processing agreement is offered, no subprocessor list is published, no Article 27 EU representative is designated, no data protection officer is named, and no hosting country or region is disclosed. The privacy policy nevertheless grants some of the substance of the regulation in practice: users may access, correct or delete their information by logging into their account, deleted documents are said to be permanently removed from the servers, and deleting an account removes all associated documents and account information. The applicable law is given in the terms only as the fragment 'au'.
Who owns the data?
The privacy policy places ownership of submitted content firmly with the user: only you can access your saved documents and submitted text, and you keep complete control over saving and deleting them. No clause transfers rights over user documents to the publisher. The terms of service claim intellectual property only over the material published on the site itself, not over customer content. The single licence the user grants is narrow and unrelated to documents: any Comments posted on the website may be used, reproduced and edited by editGPT on a non-exclusive basis. Neither legal document carries an effective date, so the version in force cannot be dated.
Reuse rights
Collected data covers account details such as username, password and email address, the text and files submitted for proofreading, usage data including pages viewed and links clicked, and log data such as IP address, browser and operating system. The stated purposes are limited to delivering and maintaining the service, providing customer support, detecting technical problems, complying with applicable law and protecting the rights and safety of the publisher, its users and the public. The privacy policy says submitted text and files are used solely to deliver the service to the user, and that files, documents, submitted text and account data are not shared with any third party. That last statement sits awkwardly with the AI detector FAQ, which explains that content is processed through secure APIs using stable versions of OpenAI's models. Users may access, correct or delete their information at any time from their account. Google Tag Manager, a Facebook Pixel and the Rewardful affiliate script are loaded across the site.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The site discloses nothing about where data is hosted. No hosting country, no region and no cloud provider is named on any page, and no trust or security page exists. The privacy policy refers to documents being removed "from our servers" without ever saying where those servers are, and the AI detector FAQ says content is processed through secure APIs and not stored once the result has been returned. The only geographic signal is technical rather than declared: the domain resolves to an anycast front-end address geolocated in the United States on Amazon infrastructure. That describes how the website is delivered, not where customer documents are stored, and it should not be read as a hosting commitment. No jurisdiction is stated for data processing either; the only legal-geography clue anywhere on the site is the 'au' fragment in the governing-law clause of the terms.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting editGPT.
- The publisher cannot be reached by post or telephone: support@editgpt.app is the only channel, which limits recourse in a dispute
- The trading name shown in the footer, Cluster Software Ptd Ltd, uses a company suffix that matches no jurisdiction and appears to be a typo
- The country of origin is not stated by the site; it can only be inferred from the 'au' governing-law fragment in the terms
- The terms of service are visibly template-generated, including a clause asking you to email 'editGPT' without giving any address
- Neither the privacy policy nor the terms carry an effective or last-updated date, so you cannot tell which version you agreed to
- No retention period is published in figures for documents, logs or account data, only a promise of permanent deletion on request
- Leaning on an editor that rewrites for flow can erode your own revision habits; the graded levels exist precisely so you can keep the lightest touch that does the job
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. The web editor needs no installation: create a free account, paste or type your text, pick an editing level and start reviewing suggestions. There is no API key to obtain, nothing to deploy and no configuration to work through, and the publisher provides a quick start guide. The only optional step is installing the browser extension from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons, which takes a couple of clicks.
Deployment
Integrations
Behind editGPT
Social
Resources
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Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement editGPT.
Frequently asked questions
Is my text used to train AI models?
Is there a free plan, or only a trial?
What does the paid version cost?
Can I keep Microsoft Word track changes?
Which AI model powers the tool?
Is there a browser extension?
Is there an API or a mobile app?
Which languages are supported?
Who is behind editGPT?
How do I delete my data?
Should you pick editGPT?
editGPT is a real, working product rather than a promise: its prices are published to the dollar, its quick start guide documents each editing level and its intensity, its extensions are live on both the Chrome and Firefox stores, and its AI detector can be used in a browser without an account.
Its strongest argument is the Microsoft Word round trip. Importing a .docx, editing it with AI and exporting it again with track changes intact is genuinely uncommon, and combined with six graded editing intensities it gives writers a degree of control that general-purpose chat assistants do not offer. The permanent free tier of 10,000 words per month, with no card required, makes that easy to test before paying.
The weakness is not the product but the paperwork around it. The publisher is named only as Cluster Software Ptd Ltd in a footer, with no postal address and no telephone number, and the company suffix itself looks like a typo. The terms of service read as generated boilerplate, down to a governing-law clause reduced to the fragment 'au', and neither legal document carries an effective date. Most notably, the site never mentions the GDPR at all: no data processing agreement, no subprocessor list, no Article 27 representative, no stated hosting location.
One contradiction is worth knowing about before uploading anything sensitive. The privacy policy states that no files, documents or account data are shared with any third party, while the AI detector FAQ explains that content is processed through OpenAI's models.
For an individual writer, a student or a small team, editGPT is a reasonable and inexpensive tool with an unusually clear no-training commitment. An organisation with compliance obligations should obtain written guarantees from the publisher before trusting it with confidential documents.
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