# Free AI Check

> A free, no-signup way to sanity-check whether text reads machine-made. Learn the tells, run the self-check list, and see where the free route stops.

Canonical: https://free-ai-check.com/

## Page
Free AI Check — A twelve-line self-check you run by eye. Nothing is uploaded and there is no signup.

## FAQ
- Q: Is this really free, and what is the catch?
  A: It is free in the sense that there is no account, no trial and no word limit on the self-check list you see above. The honest catch is that a list of tells is not a measurement. A paid detector runs a model over your text and gives you a probability. This page helps you look at the writing yourself, which is useful, but it is a different thing.
- Q: Can a self-check list really tell me if text was AI-written?
  A: No, and any page that promises that is overselling. These tells are patterns that are more common in machine writing, but human writers produce them too, especially when writing quickly or in a second language. Treat a high tell count as a reason to look more closely, not as a verdict.
- Q: Does my text get sent anywhere?
  A: No. The page runs in your browser and the checking happens locally. Nothing you paste is uploaded, stored, logged or emailed. That is deliberate: most people checking a piece of writing are checking something they would rather not hand to a stranger.
- Q: Which tells matter most?
  A: In practice, a repeated stock phrase is stronger evidence than a long sentence, and an unfilled claim is stronger evidence than a generic one is. The weak tells are things like sentence length or word choice on their own, because good human writers vary these freely. If you only remember one, remember to look for stock phrasing that repeats.
- Q: I write in English as a second language. Will this flag me unfairly?
  A: It might, and that is worth saying plainly. A careful non-native writer can produce textbook-clean prose that trips several tells, while a careless native writer produces messier text that trips almost none. If you are writing in a second language, treat the list as a style checklist to work against, not as an accusation.
- Q: When should I stop using a free check and pay for a detector?
  A: When the answer carries consequences: an academic submission, a client deliverable, a published article with your name on it. In those cases a self-check list is not enough, because you need a documented score you can point at, not a few observations. Use this page first to see whether the question is even open, then use a proper detector for the parts that matter.
- Q: Why do you say 'machine-ish' instead of 'AI-written'?
  A: Because the tells you can see in text do not identify an author, they describe a style. Text that was edited heavily by a person, translated by a tool, or written by someone copying a template can all read machine-ish. Being precise about that keeps the check honest about what it actually shows.
- Q: Is anything on this page misleading me into a paid product?
  A: There is one link on this page, it goes to a detector, and it is labelled. Nothing here is gated, no result is faked, and there is no countdown or 'upgrade now' interstitial. If a free checker hides its limits until after you paste something, that is the pattern worth avoiding.