Paraphrasing tool

How the paraphrasing tool works

Type or paste your text, pick one of nine rewrite modes, and press Paraphrase. The tool sends your text to the rewrite engine and streams a new version back word by word. The result lands in a card beside your original, so you can read both together and decide which sentences to keep. Nothing is saved: your text stays in the browser until you run a rewrite, and the result is yours to edit.

Unlike a synonym swapper that trades one word for another and often breaks the sentence, a real paraphraser works at the sentence level. It can split a long sentence in two, merge two short ones, move a clause to the front, change the register, or tighten a wordy phrase, all while holding the meaning steady. That is why the output reads like writing rather than a shuffled word list.

The nine rewrite modes, and when to reach for each

Modes change the goal of the rewrite, not just the wording. The strength slider is a second dial on top: Minimal makes light edits close to your original, while Maximum rewrites more freely. Most everyday work lands well on Standard at Balanced strength.

• Standard rewords with light reordering. The safe default when you want a fresh phrasing that still tracks your sentences closely.
• Fluency smooths awkward, choppy, or non-native phrasing into text that flows. Good for second-language drafts and rushed first drafts.
• Formal removes contractions and slang and lifts the register for reports, applications, and professional email.
• Academic uses a scholarly, hedged voice and tries to keep domain terms intact. Pair it with a low strength and freeze your technical vocabulary.
• Simple shortens sentences and plain-words the text to roughly an eighth-grade reading level. Useful for explainer content and accessibility.
• Creative varies the phrasing more boldly with vivid wording. Reach for it on marketing copy, not on anything that must stay literal.
• Shorten condenses to roughly 40 to 60 percent of the length while keeping the core point. Handy for abstracts and summaries.
• Expand elaborates to around 150 to 180 percent, adding detail and connective tissue when a passage feels thin.
• Custom follows a free-text instruction you write, such as second person, punchier, for a landing page. Use it when none of the presets fit.

Step by step

1. Paste the sentence, paragraph, or article you want to reword into the editor.
2. Pick a mode that matches your goal, for example Formal for a cover letter.
3. Set the strength. Start at Balanced; drop to Light if precision matters, raise it if the rewrite feels too close to the original.
4. Add any terms you must keep exactly to the Freeze words box, separated by commas.
5. Press Paraphrase and watch the rewrite stream in beside your text.
6. Toggle Side by side to compare line by line, then copy the result and edit it into your own voice.

Worked before and after examples

These show the same sentence rephrased for different goals. Notice how the meaning stays put while the structure and register move.

Standard reword of a wordy sentence

Original: The committee decided to postpone the meeting because several key members were unable to attend, and they felt that proceeding without a quorum would undermine the validity of any decisions reached on the day.

Rewrite: With several key members absent, the committee postponed the meeting rather than make decisions without a quorum, which would have called those decisions into question.

Fluency rewrite of a non-native draft

Original: I am writing for to ask about the position which was advertise last week, because I have much interest and I think my skills are very good fit for this.

Rewrite: I am writing to ask about the position advertised last week. I am very interested in the role, and I believe my skills are a strong fit.

Simple mode for a dense explanation

Original: Photosynthesis is the biochemical process by which chlorophyll-bearing organisms convert luminous energy into chemical energy stored in carbohydrate molecules synthesised from carbon dioxide and water.

Rewrite: Photosynthesis is how plants turn sunlight into food. They use light to combine carbon dioxide and water into sugars that store energy.

When and why to use a paraphraser

Reach for the tool when you understand an idea but the words are not landing: a clunky sentence in a report, a paragraph that repeats itself, a draft email that reads too cold, or a source you want to restate in your own framing. It is also a fast way to produce a second version for an A or B comparison, to match a house style, or to bring a passage down to a readable grade level.

It is the wrong tool for a few jobs. Do not use it to pass off a source as your own work, to mass-produce near-duplicate pages, or to launder a quotation you should be citing. Rephrasing the words does not transfer ownership of the idea. The honest use is to clarify your own writing and to restate sourced ideas in your voice with a citation.

Tips for a rewrite that sounds like you

• Treat the output as a draft. The most natural results come from editing the rewrite, not pasting it unchanged.
• Freeze the words that must not move: names, numbers, citations, and technical terms.
• Work in small chunks. A paragraph at a time is easier to review than a whole essay.
• Lower the strength when meaning is fragile, and raise it when the rewrite is still too close to the source.
• Read the result aloud. If a sentence trips you, edit it; that is where the human voice comes back in.

Paraphraser, summarizer, or grammar checker?

These tools overlap but solve different problems. A paraphraser keeps roughly the same length and changes the wording. A summarizer cuts length and keeps only the main points. A grammar checker leaves your wording mostly intact and fixes mechanical errors. If your sentence is correct but clumsy, paraphrase it. If it is too long, summarize or use Shorten mode. If it has a spelling or agreement slip, run the grammar checker instead.