Smodin Review: What to Know About Smodin Before Buying a Subscription

What Is Smodin & How It Works

First, what is Smodin? The platform is marketed as “a personalized assistant” that helps with writing. That’s an accurate description—whatever writing tool you can think of, Smodin has it. This includes:
- AI generator
- Rewriting tool, aka Rewriter
- AI remover
- AI content detector
- Grader (to access your level of writing)
- Plagiarism detector
- Summarizer
- Translator
- AI chat.

This is not even a complete list of everything Smodin has to offer. You can pick a subscription plan based on which of these you need and then never have to browse for tools separately again. We can see why Smodin may look appealing to people who write regularly, including students.

However, if you decide to give Smodin a chance, we recommend starting with a free trial. Although the price isn’t high ($25/month for the most popular “Students” plan), given the quality of Smodin’s tools, you’re basically just paying for the convenience of having them all in one place. The quality isn’t superior to free alternatives.

Smodin’s Customer Support Team

Before you decide if the AI writer Smodin offers is worth it, we want you to know that Smodin’s customer support could use some work. Given that it’s often used by people on a deadline, like students with a fast-approaching submission date, we’d expect a more responsive support team.

There are three ways to contact Smodin: via email, over the phone, and on WhatsApp. If you’re in a hurry, we’d recommend WhatsApp. According to the website, the average time users wait for an email response is 1-4 hours. However, we sent Smodin an email to check if this was true and didn’t get a reply until the next day (roughly 12 hours later).

We didn’t have much luck on the phone, either. Granted, we did call Smodin outside regular business hours, but this isn’t a good enough excuse. We waited for about 15 minutes to be connected with an agent but ran out of patience before it happened.

Luckily, WhatsApp helped. An agent responded in less than 5 minutes, and we were generally satisfied with how they answered our questions. So, if you decide to use Smodine and need assistance, WhatsApp is your best bet.

Smodin AI Generator’s Quality of Writing: What to Expect

The best way to describe Smodin’s quality when it comes to AI generation would be “not any better than others, including GPT’s free version.” If you’re generating an essay, you can pick an essay type, the number of paragraphs, and a few other things. However, you can do the same in your prompt when using basically any AI generator, so we can’t see how Smodin is a better choice.

Also, if you’re hoping to get undetectable AI-generated content, you’ll be disappointed. When we ran our Smodin-generated essay on CBT reframing (which is alright quality-wise, but clearly AI-generated) through a free AI detector, it came back at 100% AI-generated. When we used Smodin’s so-called “AI remover” and then checked the essay again, the result was 60% AI-generated. Clearly, the AI remover doesn’t work well enough.

Smodin Pricing: Does Smodin Offer Good Value for Money?

Smodin isn’t an expensive platform, especially considering how many tools you gain access to. The cheapest plan is called “Teachers” and costs only $15/month. However, it only includes an AI Detector, an AI Grader, and a Plagiarism Detector, so we recommend you go with the “Students” plan instead.

“Students” covers a bunch of AI-generating tools (including an essay generator), a so-called Paragraph Rewriter, a Summarizer, and a Translator—so most of the features you’d need to use Smodin as your one-stop-shop platform for writing assistance. The “Students” plan costs $25/month. This isn’t much, but we aren’t convinced Smodin is worth it when you can use most of the tools it offers for free on other platforms. You’re basically just paying for convenience.

The most expensive Smodin plan, “Ultimate,” costs $30/month and combines the features of “Teachers” and “Students.” If you want to use all of Smodin’s tools, this is the one you’ll have to opt for.

Other Smodin Tools

Frankly, we wouldn’t recommend using Smodin for anything other than AI writing and perhaps summarizing. In particular, the Rewriter tool (which can supposedly remove plagiarism from your text and humanize AI-generated content in it) doesn’t work. As we’ve already briefly mentioned, it turned 100% AI-generated text into 60% AI-generated text—not nearly good enough if you’re hoping to make your AI-generated content undetectable.

The tool we did like was Smodin’s Summarizer. We tested it with a few different texts—including both function and non-fiction—and the results were good every time. The Summarizer gave us well-structured, coherent, and accurate summaries. So, if you have tons of assigned readings at school and could use some help keeping up, you might like Smodin’s Summarizer. Is it worth $25/month, though? Not really.

How Quick Is Smodin’s AI Generator?

Smodin’s AI writing tools (including the essay writer, the research paper writer, and the rest) are all pretty quick. Our essay was 5 paragraphs and roughly 1,000 words long—and also included in-text citations—yet it took Smodin less than 15 seconds to generate. That’s a really good result! Most free AI generators are slower, including GPT (if you’re using the free version).

Other Smodin features are quick, too, including the plagiarism detector. One of the biggest issues with free plagiarism detection tools available online is that you first have to wait in line to have your text checked (which sometimes takes up to 10 minutes or even more) and then wait while the program is running a check. This can be annoying, especially if you’re doing it often, so Smodin could be a good alternative.

Smodin Plagiarism Score

Plagiarism is also an issue when you’re using Smodin to generate texts. When we ran our Smodin-generated essay through a plagiarism detector, the originality score turned out to be 29% unique and 71% plagiarized.

That’s not a good result; AI-generated texts are almost never 100% original, but the non-original content typically makes up about 20-40%, not 70%. Moreover, when we used Smodin’s Rewriter to remove plagiarism, the originality score was still only 65%—again, not nearly good enough.

Sure, whether or not to give Smodin a chance is up to you, but if you do, we encourage you to triple-check everything, both for AI content and plagiarism. Even if you’re using Smodin’s Rewriter, keep in mind that it likely won’t work perfectly.

Smodin’s Pros & Cons: Quick AI Generator with Questionable Quality

Overall, if you value convenience and don’t want to waste your time googling every time you need a plagiarism detector or an AI generator, Smodin might be what you’re looking for. However, the quality leaves much to be desired, especially when it comes to content originality and humanization of AI-generated content.

Pros:

✅ Smodin tools are quick, especially AI writing tools ✅ Considering how many features you gain access to through Smodin, the price is fair ✅ Smodin is convenient because it unites a variety of writing tools in one place

Cons:

❌ Smodin’s AI writing tools aren’t better than free alternatives; the only major advantage is their speed ❌ Even after the Rewriter (for humanization and plagiarism removal), content generated using Smodin’s tools remains unoriginal, and the generated content is flagged as such ❌ Most Smodin features are available for free elsewhere (just not in one place)