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Send in a piece of writing and say how old you are. You get your own words back with a reviewer's notes attached to the exact sentence each one is about - calibrated to your age, not a generic style guide. Attempt the fix yourself before you ever see a worked example.

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A real example, not a screenshot

This is the actual review interface, loaded with a sample piece: "The Last Day of Summer", a descriptive-writing task from a 12-year-old writer. Click any underlined phrase to open its note.

A descriptive writing task for English. We had to write about a place that matters to us.

The last day of summer was very hot and I remember it really well because it was basically the last time me and my brother went down to the creek together before he went away to college which was something I had been dreading all year long without telling anybody about it. The creek was a good place. There was a lot of trees around it and the water was nice and cool and it made a sound that was quite relaxing. We had been going there since we were little kids. My brother taught me how to skip stones there when i was six years old and he was ten, and he was actually really good at it, he could get seven skips sometimes which I thought was amazing. I felt sad. I didn't say anything to him about feeling sad because I thought he would just laugh at me or tell me I was being a baby about it, so instead I just kept throwing stones into the water and watching them sink down to the bottom where I couldn't see them anymore. "You're doing it wrong," he said. "You have to flick your wrist." He showed me again, like he had a hundred times before. The stone went skipping across the water, one two three four five, and then it was gone. Then he stood up and brushed the dirt off his jeans and said we should probably head back because mom wanted us home for dinner before it got dark outside. I stayed for one more minute after he started walking. The water kept moving. I threw one last stone and it sank straight down like all the others had done before it, and then I ran to catch up with him because I didn't want to walk home by myself in the dark.

How a review works

Submit your writingPaste or upload a piece and say how old you are. That age changes what the reviewer looks for, not just how kindly it says it.
Notes land on your sentencesEvery note is anchored to the exact words it is about. Click a highlight, the note opens beside it - no hunting for which sentence a comment means.
Attempt the fix yourselfA box sits beside every note. The explanation says what is happening; you have a go before anything is shown to you.
Compare with a worked exampleUnfold one or two examples built only from words you already wrote - never a rewrite, never a new idea slipped in. Then judge your own attempt against them.
Revise, and see what movedSend the next draft. It is read against the last one, so you can see whether the habit the notes raised actually changed.

Calibrated to age, not just skill

The same sentence gets a different note depending on how old the writer is - not just a softer tone, but a different idea of what counts as a problem worth raising.

“I felt sad.” — from the sample above

Age 9upper-primary · 9–12

Your call

You told us just how you felt, and that's honest. Next time, try showing us what sad looked like on the outside instead of naming it - what were your hands doing? Was it quiet?

Age 40adult

Line edit

Cut this sentence. The paragraph already shows the feeling one line later - the stone-throwing, the silence. Naming it here gives away what that sentence is about to do for free.

I felt sad.— cut entirelyThe behaviour already carries the emotion; stating it first tips your hand before the demonstration lands.

There is no button that rewrites this for you.

That's deliberate, not a missing feature. A one-click rewrite hands back a better document and a writer who learned nothing from it - ProseBird is built around the slower version, where you attempt the fix and the tool checks your own next draft against your last one.

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