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Quote checker

Finds the quotations in your text and checks each one against a source you paste. Where a quote diverges it shows the original wording, so you can see whether a word drifted in copying or the passage was never there.

Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and there is no account or limit.

Last reviewed 15 August 2026 · The HumanFlow team

Anything between double quotation marks is treated as a quotation.

The passage you quoted from. Nothing is sent anywhere.

The error this catches

Quotations drift. Someone reads a passage, writes the sentence a day later from a note rather than the page, and reproduces the sense while losing a word — an although becomes a though, a hedge disappears, a plural turns singular. Nobody intended anything by it, and the quotation marks are still making a claim about exact wording that the sentence no longer supports.

The tool shows you the divergence rather than only reporting it. When a quote stops matching, the source text from that point onward appears underneath, which is usually enough to see what happened and fix it in a few seconds.

Why quotation accuracy is worth a tool of its own

Misquotation sits in an awkward gap. It is not plagiarism — the source is credited — and it is rarely deliberate, so it is not academic misconduct in the way fabrication is. It still undermines the thing a citation exists to do, which is let a reader go and check. A reader who follows your reference and finds different words has no way to tell a slip from a distortion.

It is also invisible to the checks people usually run. A similarity score rewards quoted text for matching a source and says nothing about whether it matches accurately, and an AI-writing score is not looking at quotations at all.

What this does not do

It reads nothing off the internet. There is no lookup, no database of sources, and no check that the work you pasted exists — everything happens in your browser against the text you supply, which is also why nothing you paste goes anywhere. If you need to compare two whole drafts rather than check quotations inside one, the diff checker is the tool for that. If the question is whether you can show you wrote something, the evidence that actually helps is drafting history rather than anything a text tool can produce after the fact.

Common questions

Does a green result mean my citation is correct?
No. It means the words you put in quotation marks appear in the text you pasted below them. Whether that text is the source you cited, whether the author is the one you named, and whether the page number is right are all outside what this can see. It answers one narrow question accurately rather than a broad one vaguely.
Why does it ignore capitalisation and curly quotes?
Because a passage copied out of a PDF and the same passage on a publisher's website differ in dash style, quotation-mark style, hyphen style and line breaks without anybody having misquoted anything. Flagging those would produce a wall of false alarms and teach you to ignore the output.
What does “starts matching, then diverges” mean?
The opening words of your quotation are in the source and the later ones are not. That is the signature of a quote reconstructed from memory or lightly tidied while being copied. The tool shows what the source reads from the point of divergence so you can restore the original wording.
Is changing a word inside quotation marks actually a problem?
Yes, and it is the kind that is easy to commit accidentally and hard to explain afterwards. Quotation marks are a claim that these are the author's exact words. Where you need to alter something for grammar or clarity the convention is square brackets, and omissions take an ellipsis — both of which this tool understands and will not flag.
Can I use this to check quotes in work I have been questioned about?
It is a reasonable thing to run, though put it in perspective. Accurate quotation is evidence of careful work rather than proof of authorship, and it addresses a different allegation from the one an AI-writing score raises. If you are answering a detection score, the drafting record matters more.
Why are single words in quotation marks skipped?
Because they are almost always a term being named rather than a passage being quoted — writing about the word “burstiness” is not quoting anyone. Checking them would fill the results with items that were never quotations.

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