About Phrasit
Text tools, citations, and writing helpers for students and writers.
What this site is
Phrasit is a free hub of text manipulation, citation, grammar, and study tools for writers and students. Every tool runs in your browser, with no signup, no paywall, and no ads inside the tools themselves. Display advertising appears on the home page and on long-form guides, which is what keeps the tools free for everyone.
Who builds and maintains it
Phrasit is built, owned, and maintained by Vikas Dulgunde, a software engineer based in London, United Kingdom. I am a working software engineer with around 6 years of professional experience, and I make these tools because I use this kind of utility every day and wanted versions that are fast, accurate, and free of the upsells and tracking that clutter most of the alternatives.
This is not a faceless content farm or a venture-backed startup. It is one named person who writes the code, writes the reference content, and answers the email. If you find a bug, spot something inaccurate, or want a tool added, you are writing to the person who can actually fix it: team@palenebula.com.
Why that makes the tools trustworthy
The honest claim here is narrow and first-hand. Building word counters, character counters, case converters, diff tools, JSON formatters, citation builders, and reading-level analyzers is software engineering work, and software engineering is what I do for a living. When the character counter says it weights a tweet by t.co URL length and counts emoji as two units, that is because I implemented the counting rules against the platform behaviour, not because a marketing team wrote it. When the citation generator claims to support APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago, Harvard, and IEEE, it is because each style is coded against the published rules and covered by tests.
I do not claim to be a librarian, a lawyer, or an academic. The citation and writing guides are built by reading the published style manuals carefully and translating them into plain worked examples, and they carry a disclaimer to check your institution’s own requirements. What I can stand behind is the engineering: how each tool works, why it produces the result it does, and the methodology for keeping it accurate. That methodology is written out in full on the editorial standards and methodology page.
What I will not do
I will never ask you to sign up to use a tool. I will never sell your data, because I do not collect it in the first place. The text you paste into the word counter, case converter, comparator, and reading-level analyzer never leaves your browser. The citation generator sends only the URL or identifier you paste, never any of your own writing. The grammar checker proxies your text to LanguageTool when you press the Check button, which is the standard way grammar engines work, and that text is not stored on any server I run.
How the site pays for itself
Display advertising on guides and the home page. There are no ads inside the tools, and the site does not currently use any affiliate links. See the disclosure page for how the site is funded and the privacy policy for exactly what is and is not collected.
Get in touch
Email team@palenebula.com for bug reports, feature requests, corrections, partnerships, or legal questions. I read everything. The full contact details are on their own page.