The best article rewriting software on earth: and it is free!!

by Eklavya on September 3, 2007

The other day I got an email from an internet marketer wherein he recommended about a new article rewriting software. This software was targeted towards those who wants to create content for their website but don’t have the time for writing the new stuff. This software helps them in rewriting an existing article so that it appears unique and get a good ranking in Google. What this particular software does is to give suggestions (by providing synonyms or similar phrase) for every word mentioned in the article so that necessary changes can be made in it. After changing most words of the articles with appropriate similar words, you can get a brand new article.

After the advent of Adsense program from Google, the creation of original content (mainly in the form of articles) has become quite a rage. Since Google is becoming more and more sensitive (and technologically capable) to identify the duplicate content from the original one, the earlier practice of using articles from Article Directories (such as Ezine Articles) as fresh contents for our website is losing it’s effectiveness. If you republish an article in your website there is every possibility that this article will be entered into the supplemental index of Google (which is a less important Google index considered different from main index) and you’lll not get any benefit from it.

The solution of this problem proposed by some clever internet marketers is to use the rewritten version of the article instead of the original one. The strategy lies in rewriting the article with the help of other similar words such as synonyms etc. This way the article become a new one and unique. This increases its possibility of being considered as a fresh & unique article that can get a higher ranking in Google.

In order to save time, many people have invented softwares for rewriting the entire article automatically. It is claimed that you only need to point and click and you’ll instantly get a new article. Some softwares also claimed to be able to create hundred different clones of a single article just by the click of a button. It was also claimed that many people are using these softwares with amazing results.

As I read all this stuff about article rewriting softwares, I decided to try my hand with some of them. I was hoping to get the magical wand that will help my problem of content creation by rewriting thousands of articles that lies dormant in the hard disk of my computer.

Alas ! How wrong I was. My search for the perfect software that can rewrite the articles lead me to a disappointing conclusion. I found that all these Softwares (particularly those recommended by so called Internet Gurus) are a pure waste of time and money.

There are two types of Article Rewriting Softwares in the market. First are those that provide a list of synonyms and similar phrases for the exact words/phrases used in the article. However, as you use them, you’ll find that to choose the synonyms for every single word and to make it as meaningful as the original sentence was, is a very time consuming exercise.

For example see this screenshot. The software used is Wordflood”


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Though it is nice to have a readymade list of all the similar words of a particular sentence in an article, is it really the way to rewrite an article? Can we have a perfect rewrite of an article if we just replace the words use in it with their synonyms? There can be only one answer of this question – No. In most of the cases, if you change the words with their synonyms, you will not only change the body of the article but also distort its soul. The whole article will lose it’s meaning. So in all likelihood you’ll have to use your brain to make the article meaningful and unique.

The second types of Article rewriting softwares are those which provide a point & click” interface. You load an article in the software and just by clicking a button; you’ll get a brand new article. No need to select the synonyms or similar phrase. The software does the entire work for you. This type of softwares, though are very fast, have some serious disadvantages. The most glaring one is their tendency to completely distort the meaning of the sentences used in the article and render it ineffective. Just see these two paragraphs generated by one such software Contentwrite Pro which is selling for a price of $97.

This was the original paragraph :

“Many dental insurance companies offer deductibles that can be decided upon. If you can afford to have a higher deductible, you may find that it then becomes more affordable dental insurance. This is one way that you can lower your rates.”

Now after using that software, here is the resultant rewritten paragraph .The words in bold are new replacement made by the software.

“Many dental insurance companies agreement deductibles that can be absolute upon. If you can present to have a senior deductible, you may find that it then becomes more affordable dental insurance. This is one way that you can worse your rates.”

Now tell me would you like to have such a meaningless stuff on your website ? The phrase lower your rate” has completely lost its meaning when we replace it with worse your rates”.

The second big disadvantage of using such point & click” software is that they can not create a really unique article despite their big claims. If you use an entirely automatic software( the one where you load an article, click a button and get a new rewritten article), there is every possibility that this resultant article will also be considered a duplicate one by Google because just like you other persons (using the same software ) may have also created the same resultant article and used it on their websites. There is every possibility of this because free to use articles are available for everybody to use. In other words your precious software will be of no use to you.

 

Apart from other two reasons, rewriting an existing article is itself a grey area. You are using somebody else idea and giving it your name by tinkering with some words and paragraphs. Read this interesting discussion on digital point on this issue. Secondly, often the resultant product is a crap, with no soul in it.

So what is the solution? Let me tell you what it is.

There is a software which is the most powerful article rewriter on earth. It’ll create the most powerful, accurate and unique rewrite of any article without distorting its soul. Do you know what it is ?

It is your brain.

A human brain’s probable processing power is around 100 teraflops, roughly 100 trillion calculations per second. This is based on factoring the capability of the brain’s 100 billion neurons, each with over 1,000 connections to other neurons, with each connection capable of performing about 200 calculations per second. See source

For the first time, researchers have calculated that the power of a single brain in terms of memory capacity and discovered that it is greater than all the computers ever made. While even the biggest computer has a capacity of around 10,000,000,000,000 bytes (10 to the power of 12), the human brain has a colossal 10 followed by 8,432 noughts, say the scientists who made the calculations in the journal Brain and Mind. Visit source


If you want to rewrite an article without losing its soul and without inviting the risk of any copyright infringement, you must use your brain to rewrite that article. There is no software that can match the power of your brain. A piece of code cannot think. But your brain can. A piece of code can’t distinguish between meaningless and useful stuff but your brain can.

You may say : But I would like to use these Softwares with my brain to rewrite an article. Is it Ok ?

My answer : No. Don’t use these crappy softwares as assistant in rewriting your articles. Use some solid Softwares. One such solid (& absolutely free) software is Wordweb from Wordweb.info which is based on Princeton‘s WordNet project and has a huge collection of 150000 root words & 120000 synonym sets.

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This small utility software reside in the system tray and whenever you need to find the meaning/ synonym of any word you only need to press Ctl + right click while highlighting that word. Instantly the small windows popup and you can choose the relevant words from the list.

 

Just use your brain in conjunction with this small free utility and you’lll have a better and unique article with all the possibility of higher ranking in Google.

If I were to rewrite the above-mentioned paragraph (about dental insurance) in my own writing, here is what it’ll become.

This was the original paragraph :

“Many dental insurance companies offer deductibles that can be decided upon. If you can afford to have a higher deductible, you may find that it then becomes more affordable dental insurance. This is one way that you can lower your rates”

This is the new rewritten paragraph with the use of human brain :

“While going for dental insurance you’ll find that many dental insurance companies offer deductibles ( an amount that can be deducted especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) which can be decided upon by negotiation. You can have a more affordable dental insurance if you manage to have a higher deductible. This is one of the ways to lower your income tax. “

As you can see by rewriting the paragraph using my own style, I make it unique while retaining its effectiveness. I even made it more effective by explaining the meaning of term deductibles” in the paragraph. This is something that can be done by a human brain only. No software can do it.

If you think your brain is not capable of writing or rewriting good stuff owing to your lack of proficiency in grammar or the vocabulary, then you should spend some money on a good English grammar book. Learn the language properly by investing your time and energy into it. It’ll be an investment of the lifetime. Don’t buy any useless stuff in the hope of making quick bucks. In the long run it is not going to help you.

Even now if you feel the urge to buy any writing software, you should buy softwares which are used by actual writers and Editors for creating original stuff. For example one excellent software is Stylewriter – the Plain English Editor. This software, though costs $160, is worth the money as it is a really powerful English editing Software meant for professional writers. What Adobe Photoshop is to Graphic Softwares, Stylewriter it to Writing softwares.

In any case, your brain is more powerful than Stylewriter too. Just hone your writing skills, use your brain, take assistant of Wordweb and rewrite your articles. Please remember that all the stuff that you write online is meant for real people not for Google. Even if Google gives you 1000 visitors what would these visitors do on your website if they find crappy stuff ? Don’t distort the soul of web’s content. First of all try to create original, unique and interesting article by using your brain. If creating original articles in not possible, rewrite already existing articles but again – use your brain. Make articles more interesting and powerful by rewriting them. Don’t distort their soul by using any rewriting software. They are a waste of money.

{ 138 comments… read them below or add one }

Christine Martell September 4, 2007 at 10:56 am

I had no idea such software existed. English is so complex, it would be hard to imagine how it could work……so thanks for testing it out and letting us know it doesn’t. Does explain some ‘articles’ I have seen and wondered if they had a human behind them.

Amit Ganguly October 12, 2007 at 5:12 am

Hi Indian Blogger.I am weak in english.I cant rewrite.I am a handicapped person of 32 years old.I want to earn from home.Could you please tell me on how I will write?I will wait for your answer.
Thanking you.

Eklavya October 14, 2007 at 5:27 am

Amit You can’t rewrite but surely you can write. And that’s all is required. On the world of internet anybody and everybody who can read, research and write, he can earn from his own. It’s as simple.

Karen Zara October 18, 2007 at 12:21 am

I like the way you explained your views on this article rewriting matter. Very convincing. I’ve just stumbled this post. :)

Eklavya October 18, 2007 at 6:42 am

Thanks Karen for stumbling this post. It has been a big traffic booster.

Rosa Redder November 8, 2007 at 8:02 am

Dear Eklavya,
I’m very pleased with your article. I used Wordflood for 14 days (free) and I recognize the points you wrote about. My english is poor (I live in the Netherlands) but I try to make the best of it. So, your suggestion about WordwebPro, Stylewriter and using my free brains make me happy.
Thanking you,
Rosa

Eklavya November 8, 2007 at 10:34 am

Thanks Rosa. This has been one of the most popular article of my blog as it touches a core problem being faced by many webmasters/bloggers these days – the problem of generating unique & interesting content for their sites/blogs. I hope that points raised by me will be useful for bloggers/webmasters.

Chee Kui November 13, 2007 at 5:30 am

Lol… I thought you’re about to reveal something that I have been looking for. But geez! You’re breaking my heart. :p

Randi January 5, 2008 at 3:49 pm

Wow! Great blog – thanks for the info : )

hunter March 20, 2008 at 2:41 am

What an eye opener. Just like you, I have tons of PLR articles sitting on my computer and was looking for a software that can rewrite these articles to use on my websites. I’ve tried couple, but as you can tell, I wasn’t happy with the results, so I kept looking and ran into this post!

Thanks for the great post and I’ll start working on my own software(my brain)from now on.:)

Nguyen April 17, 2008 at 1:43 am

Thank you for the interesting articles. I have been searching and trying to find a articles writing software but all the software I have tried haven’t satisfied me. I keep searching for it and it leads me to your articles. Thank for the good information. Now I know what I should do and I don’t look for articles rewriting software any
more.
Nguyen
Http://busisnessallianceonline.com

Shalini May 7, 2008 at 8:23 am

This is quite interesting, never knew that such things existed. I agree that its best to think it yourself.

Kris June 23, 2008 at 5:06 pm

Thank you for a very nice article. I am located in the US and guess I tend to take the English language for granted. I use thesaurus software to find synonyms and then simply adjust the words around them to make sense. Of course some synonyms are a better match than others and most of the rewriting software is unable to make that distinction so you end up with some pretty strange gibberish. But as others have stated, there is no substitute for the human brain! :)

sathya June 26, 2008 at 2:29 am

good

john June 29, 2008 at 3:08 pm

I’ve just faltered abreast your think piece and must say I’m appositely instiled with the content. If it wasn’t for a nonfictional prose such as this.
I’d be well stumped and wouldn’t have a clue what to write :p

Spanish Romance July 20, 2008 at 11:41 pm

I’ve been looking for a article rewriting software for some time, and this is the best of the all. Can’t believe that it is also for free! Thanks.

Shariff October 26, 2008 at 8:42 am

Hai,
You have written this article only to give this stupid suggestion…?
“…spend some money on a good English grammar book. Learn the language properly by investing your time and energy into it. Itll be an investment of the lifetime…”
Please stop your advice and don’t create an article if you don’t have an idea. Everyone is not that expert in English. (See my English. What is wrong if I search for a software help?) Doubtlessly many people are in need of a rewriter software. If 90% jobs were done by the software, the final touch can be given using our brain. That’s ok.
Few days before I read in a forum. Someone had suggested to use the Google Translator to create new unique articles. Translate to Russian and again to English. As the Russian grammar rules are similar to English, the idea works well without much trouble. Try this.

Eklavya October 27, 2008 at 3:30 am

Dear Shariff,

You are free to consider my suggestion as Stupid or worthless. However, what I wrote has stemmed from personal experience of trying all these ‘Stupid Softwares’ which you are very fond of. I have also tried the Google translation tool with the Russian trick. All I can say is that Google translation tool is the next best thing after human brain. Still I found that at many places it makes a complete mess of the original article. And even if you want to use this, just ask an honest question to yourself : “Do you really need even Google translation tool’ when you can easily do little modification in the article by yourself.

Probably you are in a hurry my friend. A hurry to make as much money as possible in the least time possible. I wish you success but please take care that in your rush to rewrite articles by dozens you don’t degrade the quality of the web.

Ollie Phillips November 8, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Great article, I was researching these tools for a client, but had reservations which you have confirmed.

But, using the brain and a thesaurus does take lots of time, so many will still opt for the button push tools.

I do hope, as you say, all the generated stuff can be identified and barred by Google et al – if not today then – in the future.

Cheers

Ollie

sh November 8, 2008 at 8:51 pm

I think the write up is very informative.

I don’t know if I will use it, but one thing is for sure atleast I know what many people do when they write articles.

Thanks

Andy G November 14, 2008 at 10:16 am

What an awsome post about a very challenging subject. I have been looking all day for tools to help with articles. I didn’t mind putting the work in but I just wanted to make sure I was making it easier for myself.

I recently got subscribed to the articlewizard software and if I had seen this first I could of saved money and got better results.

The article search feature does not get results most of the time and probably nowhere near as good as finding articles manually and using your methods.

Awsome work, thank you.

cash gifts December 17, 2008 at 10:03 pm

the software is nice but it will be more beautiful if it can rewrite a single article into a many version. it takes too much of time rewriting a single article.

Malathy Badri December 24, 2008 at 7:38 am

I have never read such an excellent piece. What a fantastic review and your conclusion is just superb.
You are wonder! I wish I have your patience!

Amine Messai January 1, 2009 at 10:57 pm

Hi eklayva, as a computer englineer and programmer and also an internet marketer, i certainly don’t agree with your article, it is possible to make such a software, however don’t ever expect it to be a commercial software, you can make millions if you own such a piece of software, the possibilities are endless, a few people in the world may already own their custom made “extreme rewriters”, i do believe that a software will never replace the human brain, but i also believe that the human brain is capable of creating such a software, from a programmer point of view, i have been thinking about the perfect rewriting software for a few years, i won’t give details, but i would say result which is atleast 90-95% human friendly and readable is possible. and in the internet it’s not even about how good is your article, the goal is just to produce something friendly and readable and in the same time unique (escape the duplicate content filter).

Eklavya January 2, 2009 at 10:44 am

As far as I know, the best article rewriter on earth after human brain is Google’s translation tool. However, it has its own limitation. With all due respect to your opinion, I think that unless human brain develops a machine that can think ‘emotionally’ a perfect rewriter is not possible. Emotion is the factor that ensures that the soul of the article remain intact.

Amine Messai January 3, 2009 at 9:32 am

Hi, well :) as i said it’s not about what you know, never ever expect a software like this to be a commercial software, and you would have to think like a programmer to understand that it’s possible, it is a challenge but we the right people on your side (2 or 3 programmers, 1 statistics engineer and 1 or 2 english professiors), you can make something very close to perfection, a normal person may think its impossible, but as a programmer what u describe as emotion i call it “patterns” and with the help of a statistics engineer and english professors, we can recognize the patterns, structures, emotions and make suitable replacements for each of them, the human brain already developped human machines that can think emotionally it’s called Artificial intelligence, and the technology and science has been arround since many decades, to sum it up, a rewriter very close to perfection is definitely possible, but not within the commercial grade.
Kind regards
Amine

evannstenny January 26, 2009 at 7:48 am

A wonderful article i must say, you gave a detailed explanation of all the fag of article rewriting softwares. infact keep it up.

However i am new to blogging and i see your site is good. i’d like to learn how improve my site like yours. Inserting vidoes, animations at the side bar etc.

Kindly waiting for your reply

Dean Cowart January 26, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Thanks for posting your research for all to see.. I was even tempted to purchase one of these programs (something I never do) and have decided against it after reading your results. Thanks for saving me money – and most importantly – TIME

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Make Money Not Excuses January 28, 2009 at 3:21 am

Absolutely amazing article! Prior to performing the search that lead me to this blog post, I had just received an email promoting a new article writing software that does almost the exact same thing and costs $67. I almost bought immediately, but decided to perform a search for similar products in hopes of finding a cheaper program. I never expected to find a free program. Thanks for posting this helpful article. It’s the kind of content both GOOGLE and PEOPLE like.

Max January 30, 2009 at 4:03 am

Well done! An excellent article. You’ve hit the nail squarely on the head.

For a negotiable fee I can do rewriting for anyone that needs it.

Or I’m available for proofreading, if you want to do the rewriting yourself.

My details are at http://prooftext.wordpress.com

ELLY February 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm

thanks….

andri February 16, 2009 at 11:18 pm

uhm… well like to test it :)

Lubos Tomicek February 25, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Hi, thanks, for your article. It says what I am thinking as well. I came here from google search, and maybe you can help. I am looking for some free software where I can have on one side original text and on other side my rewriting, to allow me to see both of them simultaneously. Moreover they have to have spell-checker. I can’t find any. Do you know something like that? Thanks upfront for info.

Amir March 1, 2009 at 8:19 am

Thank you very much.
It’s very helpful software.

Nadir Aziz April 9, 2009 at 4:05 am

Hi,
I loved the article. You made a clear differentiation between re-writing as done by a software, and by the human mind. It is very important for this distinction to be understood by anyone who intends to get into content re-writing as a profession.
I have been a content researcher and re-writer for some years, and still find it amazing that people do not understand this subtle difference.
Once again, well written, and thank you for heling out so many others.
Regards!

Dodik May 8, 2009 at 2:15 am

Nice article….thanks

mona May 10, 2009 at 7:17 am

gud work man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i really appreciate ur effort…i want to start working as a re writer n found ur article worth millions…seriously!! Thumbs up :)

Online Printing May 21, 2009 at 8:55 am

I have used this software and honestly I was moderately impressed.
It may be good for someone but probably not the one for me.

Good article of-course.

Earn money from forex May 28, 2009 at 7:51 am

WOW, that is indeed a good and very explicit info about article writing software..i spend 6 minutes in your blog…well, keep going..so now i am going to purchase any software that related to writing etc.

Earn money from forex May 28, 2009 at 7:54 am

Sorry, sorry i said i am not going to purchase…sorry.

Easy Article Rewriter May 30, 2009 at 2:09 am

This is an interesting thread. I have actually developed a free article rewriting tool which allows you to rewrite existing articles with ease such as PLR.You still have to do the writing but what it does is simplifies the process. It removes the headache of having to read, digest and rewrite a whole article therefore removing a lot of the thinking involved. Any of you are free to give it a go. It doesn’t cost anything and your articles will pass copyscape 100% every time. It’s called easy article rewriter.

Arman June 13, 2009 at 12:27 am

So true, i’ve tried several softwares to help me rewrite articles and the best one so far is ms words to find word synonims…

Hans Kristian Anderson June 18, 2009 at 11:47 pm

I just tried a free article re-writer and it was complete garbage. I think I’ll go with wordweb instead.

Thanks

discount July 5, 2009 at 3:03 am

English is very important.But I feel very hard to write or rewrite content in English.

paul July 14, 2009 at 11:08 am

guy:
this is very ingenenious text on article writting. right now i received a promotion on the mass article contol. I agree that best article writting tool is ur brain. best article writting software can not beat the brain.moreover the machine writting article have no soul and will be perceived by reader.
be careful with the software!

Jun July 25, 2009 at 10:05 am

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Eczema Herbal July 28, 2009 at 4:30 am

from a long time i am searching for article re writer software. thanks for useful post. if we convert any articles using this is it unique?

Translator July 28, 2009 at 10:50 pm

I agree that the brain is the best, but is there are way to speed up the process? I have lots of articles that are original but need to get more power out of them.

john B. August 12, 2009 at 2:32 pm

Right on the button!

I’m in a situation right now. see, my boss wants me to rewrite a single copy to produce 532 unique articles! WOW!

the worst thing is that I’m a programmer! I like to program rather than rewrite an article! but anyway i accepted it for experience sake and for money.

GOD HELP ME. and all the tools out there.

MagicStarER August 24, 2009 at 9:00 pm

I believe you have hit the nail on the head about article-rewriters. They are too hard to use, screw up the meaning of the sense of your articles, and are basically useless. Just use your brain, pare the articles down, restructure the sentences, use new words and give new titles. Probably can do that faster than you can using the rewriting software, anyway!

Everyone wants to get by without working at it. But the bottom line is: you have to work at this or you will get nowhere!

Hey! Can I rewrite this article? (LOL!!!)

thanks for a good read! :)

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