Is the Essay Writer Assistant free?
It is free with a Cleanor account, which comes with monthly AI credits. Each run costs 8 of those credits, the most expensive workflow on the site, because the output is long and has four labelled parts. Without signing in the run request is refused.
Does my essay text stay private?
No. This is a server-side workflow, so your topic, notes, and assignment context are sent to a Cleanor endpoint and on to a third-party model provider, and the run is recorded in your account history with its inputs and output. If the material is confidential or under an embargo, do not paste it in.
Will it write my whole essay?
Not in one run, and not well from a bare topic. The output is capped at roughly 1,800 tokens, so a long essay comes back as a thesis, an outline, and a partial draft rather than a finished piece. Drafting section by section, with your own notes supplied, is the way it is meant to be used.
Is using this cheating?
That depends on the rules you are working under, and those rules are set by your institution rather than by this page. Submitting generated prose as your own work breaks the policy almost everywhere. Using it to test whether your argument holds together, or to get a revision checklist for writing you did yourself, is a different act, and the distinction is one you have to make honestly.
Does it provide sources or citations?
No. It has no library access, no search, and no citation database. Any reference, page number, or statistic that appears in the output is generated text and may be entirely invented. Paste the sources you intend to cite into the notes field and check every one that survives into your draft.
Can it help me revise a draft I already wrote?
Yes, and that is what the "Revision plan from rough draft" preset is for. Paste the draft into the topic and notes field and ask for a revision plan in the brief; the revision notes section is where the useful output lands.
What are the four parts of the output?
Thesis and direction, which states the argument; Outline, the section-by-section structure; Draft, the main prose; and Revision notes, short next-step editing guidance. The panel splits them into labelled sections, and there is a raw view if you would rather see the unformatted model output.
How much text can I paste in?
Up to 12,000 characters of topic and notes, about 2,000 words, plus 3,000 characters of assignment context and a 1,400-character brief. Text beyond those limits is trimmed rather than rejected, so check that nothing important was sitting at the end of a long paste.
Does it detect AI writing or check for plagiarism?
No. There is no detector, no originality check, and no similarity database in this workflow. If your work will be run through such a tool, that is a question to settle before you use generated text, not after.