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Free reading-level rewriter.

Rewrite any text to a simpler reading level with AI - plain English, grade 8, grade 5, or more concise. Free, no sign-up. From the team behind Sidenote, the AI reading assistant that cites every answer to the source.

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Free reading-level rewriter - common questions.

Yes: free, with no sign-up. There's a small daily limit because each rewrite uses AI; sign up to Sidenote to rewrite more.
Four: Simplify (plain English), Grade 8, Grade 5, and More concise. Each one preserves your original meaning - it won't add or drop facts.
No. Your text is sent securely to produce the rewrite and isn't stored by Sidenote afterwards. Only an anonymized rate-limit count is kept to keep the free tool fair.
Each rewrite runs an AI model, so the free tool has a small per-minute and daily cap to keep it sustainable. The counter shows how many you have left; sign up to Sidenote for more.
This tool rewrites text you paste. The Sidenote extension reads and explains whole documents in place - simplifying, summarising and answering questions, with a citation to the exact source passage for every answer.
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