Cramly AI detector review: Students’ helper or a time waster?

How does Cramly AI detector work?

As we’ve already mentioned to our team at NoCramming, the AI detector seems like a feature created solely to lure site visitors behind the paywall and turn them into customers. Still, to make this Cramly AI detector review as full and all-encompassing as possible, we must analyze the AI detection quality, along with the other aspects of the service.

As we all know, there’s still no direct and ubiquitous algorithm for AI detection. Usually, AI detectors look for patterns in writing, i.e., similar word choices and sentence length. Yet, Cramly’s website does not provide information on how the detector works. We asked support about it, but more on that later.

To test the AI detector, we ran the same text through Cramly and other detectors. We used Copyleaks, Quillbot, ZerogGPT, and Grammarly.  While the other detector sites showed more or less similar results, Cramly’s ones were completely different. Full disclosure - we used one of the reviews from NoCramming. We know for a fact that a human has written that text, but Cramly showed that it was 30% AI-generated and 50% plagiarized. All the other detectors we used showed 0%. Grammarly showed 5%, but it also looks like a strategy to get the user to pay.

Is Cramly AI detector support any good?

The only way to contact Cramly AI detector support is via email. They don’t have a live chat or phone number. If you press the email button at the bottom of the screen, you will be redirected to a blank page instead of Gmail. To find the actual email address, we just used Google. Later, we found it in their policy, as well.

We pretended to be a customer thinking about subscribing and asked a few simple questions. We asked how their detectors work and which AI model they used. After sending the first message, we waited for three hours and then sent a follow-up.

Unfortunately, we never got a reply.

Some of the reviewers on TrustPilot also mentioned that the support was not helpful. It’s worth noting that Cramly AI doesn’t reply to all the reviews on that same platform. We think it’s good business to reply to positive reviews and at least try to resolve the issues of people who’ve left a negative review. But on TrustPilot, only 3 out of 18 reviews have a reply. The company also replied to the reviews almost 6 months after they were submitted.

Is Cramly AI a useful tool?

Apart from the Cramly AI detector, there is a whole writing help service. The detector is just a sales funnel tool. However, we will only focus on the AI detector today because all the other services will require a much longer and more comprehensive review.

We would not recommend students to rely on this AI detection tool. It shows bogus percentages, does not highlight the problematic areas and simply does not detect much. The detector is only there to make you sign up and buy a subscription, which is not cheap, but we will tell you more about their prices later.

Once you sign in, you might notice that the detector disappears. It doesn’t exist in the site’s extensive list of services, which once again proves our point—the detector is just a sales trick.

Can you use Cramly AI for free?

The so-called AI detector is one of the very few features on the site available for free. Once you sign up, you can choose to stick with the unpaid version. Keep in mind, though, that after every other click, you’ll see a pop-up offering you to upgrade. The detector is not accessible in the site's version for users who are logged in.

There are three kinds of subscriptions at Cramly - annual, monthly and lifetime. The annual subscription is the most affordable one. It costs $4 per month, which amounts to $48 yearly. Yet, if you’re not sure you will use the service for a whole year, you can opt for a monthly subscription. It will cost you $19.99 or $21.99 without the ‘Promo price for a limited time only.’ The lifetime subscription costs $109.99 per month or $250.00 without the discount.

If you want to pay for an AI tool, you’d be better off with a ChatGPT Plus subscription. It costs about the same—$20 per month—but it’s more straightforward, and you can train it however you like.

Ease of use of Cramly AI

The AI detector Cramly so proudly promotes is one of the few features on the site that work. And by work, we mean you click a button, and something happens. Another working feature is this fun little game where you can ask a question and get an AI-generated answer from one of the great philosophers. It’s really fun and can potentially lead someone to explore philosophy deeper. In our opinion, this game-like feature is more useful than the detector itself.

When you click the envelope icon that’s meant to redirect you to Gmail, it takes you to a blank page. When you go to their blog, you see a 404 page not found. For us, it can only mean two things - the site is either under maintenance or has been created very recently. That, again, proves that their claim about having helped 1+ million students is deceptive.

If you go to their Instagram, you can see that the first post there was published on August 15, 2023. That’s likely the approximate time the service was created. You can’t help a million students in that time.

Terms of service & Cramly’s policies

We must give credit where credit is due, and Cramly’s terms and privacy policy are solid. They are written in normal human language instead of legalese, broken up into categories and are easy to go through. We always recommend our users to check the terms and policies of a service before use. Services often disclose facts that they don’t put on their main page in those policies, so it’s a useful habit to pick up. If you want to use Cramly, reading those policies will not be a problem. They also have a separate page dedicated to academic integrity, which we also recommend you go through.

Overall, Cramly does not perform any illegal activities, doesn’t sell your data, and if they have to share it, it’s not personalized.

Still, there was one thing we didn’t like. Here is a quote from the privacy policy: ‘By using our extension, you consent to the collection, use, and sharing of your data as described in this Privacy Policy.’ It is unclear to our team whether the aforementioned extension means the service itself or some other app. We don’t know.

Cramly AI plagiarism detector

Just like the AI detection tool, the plagiarism detector is not available behind the paywall. Judging by our experience working with and reviewing similar services, it can only mean one thing - the plagiarism detector doesn’t work at all. It’s all about scaring you into pressing that ‘Rewrite’ button. After that, you log in, start using the essay generator and forget all about the plagiarism.

Any plagiarism detector would show the plagiarized areas. This one doesn’t. We think it’s pulling those percentages out of thin air. We ran that same text we used to check the AI detection through several plagiarism detectors. They showed varying percentages, but none were higher than 13%. The fact that Cramly AI detected 50% of plagiarism in our text is just a sales tactic meant to evoke fear. For our team at NoCramming, that’s simply unethical.

Cramly AI: Pros & Cons

As much as we would like to recommend this service, we cannot. Bearing in mind the other Cramly AI detector reviews we’ve found online, this is not just our opinion. The AI and plagiarism detector is a scam. It doesn’t detect anything; it’s only there to lure you in. Unethical sales tactics, half the website not working, and a lack of answers from support all lead to us warning you against using this service.

Pros:

✅ Pretty design ✅ Philosophers Q|A ✅ A wide array of functions

Cons:

❌ AI detector doesn’t work ❌ The plagiarism detector is fake ❌ Half the site redirects to blank pages ❌ Lies about the number of customers ❌ Support doesn’t answer