Mentafy analyses draft progression – retroactively from version history or while you write. Based on your technological setup and preferences, we offer three different implementation options.
- Features
- Full Experience
- Writing Assesment
- Finished Document
- Writing Recorder with Originality Report
- Writing Project Management
- Research Recorder
- Technical Requirements
- Cloud Drive Access
- MS Word Add-In
- Version History Access
- Data Privacy & Compliance
- Metadata Only
- Metadata Only
- Metadata Only
- Plagiarism Check
Explore which technical setup suits you best. Still unsure? No worries — we’re here to help! Reach out to us anytime.
Mentafy is designed to support everything from short academic papers to full-scale research projects. Our system ensures compliance, integrity, and seamless integration for writers, students, and institutions.
We understand that different institutions have different requirements. Contact us today to discuss your specific needs (text processor, cloud, LMS, etc.!)
Find quick answers to common questions below and enjoy your experience with us!
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General Questions
Mentafy is a writing integrity tool that helps writers, researchers, and institutions verify originality, track writing progress, and ensure academic integrity. It offers different access options, including cloud-based integration, plugin-based assessment, and version history analysis.
No! We offer multiple ways to use Mentafy. You can choose cloud-based automation, in-editor plugin tracking, or post-submission version history analysis, depending on your workflow.
Yes! Individual writers can use Mentafy’s without institutional access. You can register in an individual plan.
Mentafy is not a traditional plagiarism checker. Instead, it analyzes writing progression, version history, and originality to provide integrity insights.
Human writing processes can vary widely, but they remain distinctly different from AI-generated or plagiarized text. Even if a student’s writing style diverges from the norm, Mentafy ensures that genuine work can be clearly distinguished from AI or copied content. It achieves this by:
Allowing students and teachers to review recorded patterns in detail.
Ensuring no hidden judgments—data remains open for interpretation.
Continuously improving through human review and algorithm adjustments.
This ensures fairness, preventing wrongful accusations, and allows for a nuanced evaluation of writing authenticity based on evidence.
Mentafy doesn’t just evaluate the final product but the entire writing process. Even as AI tools become more sophisticated, they struggle to replicate key human writing characteristics, such as natural pauses, revisions, and decision-making. If students try to mask AI usage, Mentafy will still detect:
Restructured text, such as paraphrased or AI-transformed content.
Pasted external text, which deviates from the usual human writing flow.
Anomalies from auto-typing scripts, which fail to mimic natural writing progression.
Mentafy continuously refines its detection methods to stay ahead of evolving AI strategies, maintaining fair and transparent evaluation of writing.
While your intuition is valuable, Mentafy provides concrete evidence to support and validate your observations. Instead of relying on stylistic clues alone, Mentafy analyzes the entire writing process, showing exactly how a text evolved over time.
Differentiate AI assistance from full AI authorship – Some students may use AI for minor refinements (e.g., improving phrasing as non-native speakers), while others rely entirely on AI-generated text. Mentafy makes this distinction clear.
Outsmart "smart" AI users – Advanced AI tools can mimic human writing styles, making detection by style alone unreliable. Mentafy tracks the writing process, not just the output, making AI misuse much harder to conceal.
Back up your instincts with data – With Mentafy, you don’t just suspect AI involvement—you have the evidence to prove it, ensuring fair and transparent academic evaluations.
While reviewing version history manually is an option, it is both time-consuming and intrusive:
Tedious to analyze – Understanding how a final paragraph was compiled requires sifting through countless revisions, which can be overwhelming and inefficient.
Excessive disclosure – Traditional version histories expose every edit, including minor mistakes and abandoned ideas, going beyond what’s necessary to verify authenticity.
Concise & data-driven insights – Mentafy streamlines this process, providing a clear, structured summary of document evolution without excessive or irrelevant details.
With Mentafy, you get the key insights at a glance, allowing for a more efficient, fair, and privacy-conscious review process.
Features & Technical Requirements
Mentafy’s plugin is compatible with Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and Apple Pages. We are continuously working on expanding compatibility. Contact us for more.
Mentafy currently supports Google Drive and OneDrive for cloud-based automation. Additional integrations are available for institutions upon request. Contact us for more information.
Yes! The plugin version allows you to write offline, then syncs data once you're connected to the internet. The cloud and version history features require internet access.
If you delete a document, Mentafy does not retain its content—only metadata (timestamps, version history). This ensures that you maintain full control over your files.
Privacy, Security & Compliance
No! Mentafy only processes metadata (timestamps, changes, and document history), not full document text. Your writing stays private.
Institutions will not be able to see the actual content of your drafts. You have full control over your document text.
Instead, they only see general trends and insights about your writing process, such as:
When you worked on the document (timestamps).
How many times you made edits.
How long you spent writing in total.
Mentafy is committed to fairness and inclusivity. The system is designed to account for variations in writing patterns caused by disabilities, such as dyslexia or motor impairments, ensuring students are not unfairly flagged. This is achieved through:
Individualized analysis that considers a wide range of behavioral indicators.
Adaptive learning models that continuously refine the detection of AI versus human writing.
Mentafy integrates feedback from educators and students to ensure that its system is inclusive, ensuring no disadvantage for students with disabilities while maintaining academic integrity.
Mentafy promotes transparency, not punishment. It distinguishes between legitimate language assistance, like translation tools, and AI misuse, providing educators with insights into the student's actual contribution. This approach allows multilingual students to:
Demonstrate their learning process and how they’ve used translation tools.
Receive fair evaluations, where the extent of their personal input is visible.
Gain more tailored feedback that enhances both language proficiency and academic writing.
Mentafy encourages growth and fair assessment, ensuring that multilingual students are not unfairly penalized for using tools to support their learning.
Creative writing, even if freeform, is not an issue for Mentafy. Our system focuses on the writing process, not just the final product. Whether structured or creative, human writing follows identifiable cognitive patterns:
Drafting, revising, and refining processes that evolve over time.
Spontaneous shifts in ideas and the natural flow of thoughts as the text develops.
Mentafy’s transparent analysis allows creative writing to be fairly assessed by looking at the evolution of the work rather than its final style.
Yes! We are fully GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliant and ensure that all user data remains private and secure. Our data processing policies are designed to meet academic and institutional privacy standards.
Mentafy processes data in secure, encrypted servers. We do not store deleted content or personal document text.
Mentafy prioritizes transparency and privacy. Our system avoids invasive tracking methods:
No keylogging or monitoring of live keystrokes.
No full version history access, only snapshot-based analysis of saved versions.
This approach ensures a balance between academic integrity and student privacy, providing a fair and privacy-conscious evaluation.
Mentafy is designed to respect privacy while ensuring fair assessment. Unlike proctoring tools, we do not record screens, monitor keystrokes, or track students in any intrusive way. Instead:
We analyze only saved versions of documents, not live activity.
Metadata insights are presented to educators, ensuring that only relevant information is shared.
Students are empowered to demonstrate their own work and receive feedback to improve their academic writing.
By focusing on transparency and supporting students' growth, Mentafy is a tool that fosters academic integrity without infringing on privacy.
AI Detection & Evasion Tactics
Mentafy analyzes the entire writing process, not just the text input. Even if students copy-paste AI-generated content gradually, it still leaves identifiable traces:
AI-generated text lacks natural pauses, revisions, and hesitations seen in human writing.
Gradual progression appears unnaturally smooth, lacking the organic flow of human thought.
Minimal revision patterns—authentic writing involves restructuring and adjustments, which AI-generated content typically lacks.
Mentafy detects these inconsistencies, making it hard for students to manipulate the writing process undetected.
Mentafy is designed to track the writing process, not just the final product. This makes AI-assisted edits, like those from paraphrasing tools, easy to detect. Mentafy identifies:
Rewriting patterns, where text is heavily transformed.
The extent of AI edits, providing instructors insight into how much of the text has been modified.
By focusing on the writing process rather than just output, Mentafy ensures transparency in the evaluation of academic integrity.
Mentafy automatically detects when text is pasted into the document, revealing:
Sudden appearances of text without organic progression.
Frequent pasting, which deviates from normal writing behavior.
This provides instructors with insights into the true writing process, allowing them to assess whether the work aligns with academic integrity standards.
Auto-typers, while attempting to simulate human typing behavior, fail to replicate the cognitive flow of real writing. Mentafy detects:
Unrealistic consistency in typing speed and rhythm.
A lack of natural cognitive pauses and revisions, which are part of genuine writing.
Mentafy’s system constantly evolves to identify these manipulation techniques, ensuring that AI-driven inputs are detected, and academic integrity is preserved.
Mentafy is not reliant on final text analysis alone. It focuses on tracking the human writing process, which remains difficult for AI to replicate, even as models become more sophisticated. AI struggles to reproduce:
Natural cognitive behaviors like pauses, revisions, and idea shifts.
Typing rhythms and decision-making patterns unique to individual writers.
Mentafy analyzes these deeply personal elements, ensuring the detection of AI-generated content even as AI writing tools evolve.
Mentafy’s system is designed to detect unnatural patterns, even when AI attempts to simulate human keystrokes or make gradual refinements. It identifies:
Mechanically precise edits that lack human inconsistency.
Unrealistic typing rhythms that do not reflect human cognitive flow.
As part of a continuous arms race, Mentafy refines its detection methods to stay ahead of emerging AI technologies, ensuring academic integrity.
Subscription & Support
Mentafy offers different plans for individual users, educators, and institutions. Contact us for pricing details based on your needs.
Yes! We offer a free trial for individuals and institutions to explore our features.
We provide 24/7 support via email and chat.