Frequently asked questions

Yes. TypoSweep is an AI-assisted tool, but it is not generative AI. It creates nothing. Its only job is to spot typos in your writing: wrong words, missing punctuation, duplicate phrases, broken sentences. It looks. You decide. It never writes a word of your book, never rewrites your prose, and never makes a change without your explicit approval in Word's tracked-changes view. We think this is how AI should be ethically used in creative writing (never for the creative part).

No. Your manuscript is yours, full stop. We never use it to train any AI model, and the AI we use to run your audit doesn't retain or train on it either. Nobody at TypoSweep reads your manuscript. Only the AI looks at it, and only to find typos. We never share it with anyone outside the small set of service providers (file storage, the AI itself, email delivery) needed to deliver your audit, and none of them use your text for any other purpose. Your uploaded file and the generated reports are automatically deleted from our storage after 30 days. See the Privacy Policy for the full handling detail.

No. TypoSweep flags potential errors and proposes specific fixes, but nothing in your manuscript changes without you accepting it. Every suggestion shows up as a tracked change in your Word document. You can accept, reject, or ignore each one. A voice-profile filter also runs in the background. It treats fragments, comma splices, intentional repetition, and other stylistic patterns as choices, not errors, and drops flags that would just be us critiquing your style. Your voice stays yours.

Grammarly catches some typos, but most of what it flags is style: passive voice, sentence length, comma placement, word choice. For a careful writer, most of its suggestions are wrong and many of them are frankly annoying. TypoSweep does the opposite. It focuses narrowly on typos and clear errors (wrong words, dropped punctuation, doubled words, broken sentences), and it respects your stylistic choices. Grammarly is a writing critic. TypoSweep is a proofreader.

No, and we don't want it to. TypoSweep is a proofreader, not an editor. A developmental editor works on plot, structure, and pacing. A copyeditor works on grammar, consistency, and style. A proofreader is the final pass that catches the typos that survived everything else. TypoSweep does that last job, after your own edits, after beta readers, and after (if you have one) your editor. A good human editor brings craft, structure, and judgment no AI can match. TypoSweep is the quiet last sweep before you publish.

Upload your .docx and give us an email. We run TypoSweep on the first 5,000 words. Usually under a minute. We show you a sample of what we found so you can judge the catch quality before you pay anything. If you like what you see, you can unlock the full TypoSweep on the rest of your manuscript for $29.

A Microsoft Word .docx file, up to 50 MB. We can't currently accept older .doc files, PDFs, Google Docs links, or plain text. If you have a Google Doc, you can export to .docx via File → Download. If you have a .doc or .pdf, you'll need to convert it to .docx first. (Word's built-in "Save As" handles both conversions.)

For most manuscripts, 5 to 10 minutes from the moment you pay until the email lands in your inbox. Longer books (closer to our 200,000-word cap) can take up to 15. You don't need to keep the browser open. We email you the moment your TypoSweep is ready, with download links for the tracked-changes Word doc and the report.

Our automated full TypoSweep currently caps at 200,000 words to keep turnaround fast for every customer in the queue. That covers virtually every commercially published novel. If your project is longer, email us at hello@typosweep.com and we'll work with you.

Anything under about 5,000 words won't show much value from the preview, since the preview audits the first 5,000 words. The full TypoSweep still works on shorter manuscripts, but if you're submitting a short story or essay, the $29 price may or may not be worth it for your project. Use your judgment.

Reject it in Word. Every suggestion in your tracked-changes file is yours to accept or reject. The report also sorts flags into three tiers (likely, worth a look, and probably intentional) so you can focus your review on the cases where TypoSweep sounded most confident, and skim the rest.

If your preview surfaces an unusually high number of potential issues, we won't let you pay for the full TypoSweep. That sounds strict, but it's protective: a flood of flags usually means the manuscript would benefit from a first run through spellcheck or time with a human editor before TypoSweep can do its best work. TypoSweep is a final pass, not a replacement for editing the manuscript first. If you've already done both and think we're wrong, email us.

If we fail to complete your TypoSweep due to a technical fault on our end, we refund the $29 automatically. If you're unhappy with a completed TypoSweep, email us at hello@typosweep.com within 14 days and we'll work with you in good faith. See the Terms for the formal version.

Yes. Each upload is treated as a new submission. If you accept some of TypoSweep's suggestions, make further edits, and want a second sweep, upload the revised file. You pay another $29 each time. For most authors, one sweep close to publication is enough; two is rarely necessary.