Is EduBirdie Legit and Helpful to Students?
Let’s Figure Out

EduBirdie is a pocket-friendly academic help service popular with many students. Besides academic writing, the platform offers editing services and even an option to humanize AI-generated text. Site visitors can also take advantage of free tools to detect plagiarism, generate essay topics, create citations, and rewrite texts.

While most reviewers praise the service, there’s a significant number of comments expressing customers’ dissatisfaction. Those comments cite refund issues, unhelpful customer support, and the subpar quality of papers.

EduBirdie has been on the market since 2015. Since its launch, the online helper has been constantly adding various services for students. Checking the positive EduBirdie reviews, you can find customers praising the service for its versatility.

So, EduBirdie has been around for almost a decade and has a significant number of positive reviews. That could’ve been the end of the story. But when it comes to online services, we know that longevity is not always synonymous with quality and that it’s worth considering negative reviews when deciding whether to use the service or not.

After our thorough investigation, EduBirdie receives 4.8 out of 5 points within the NoCramming Spotlight Score. It fares pretty well in terms of the service features, convenience, and reputation. Yet, other aspects called for a deeper analysis on our part.

We should start from the basics, answering the question: what is EduBirdie? It is a writing platform that claims to be a professional service to aid students who can’t even.

The site is quite simple and easy to navigate. Even if you can’t figure out how to use the service, the support team will try to contact you if you browse aimlessly through the website for a while. And the prices seem quite budget-friendly if you stick to the maximum deadline. Everything seems intact at first glance. That begs the question: why does the service have so many negative reviews?

Another interesting aspect is that every third negative EduBirdie review claims that the service uses non-native speakers as writers or even AI bots. While being refused a refund for subpar work — and some reviews cite that issue — is anything but pleasant, having the artificial intelligence crafting orders without letting the customers know about it is a cardinal sin of online essay services.

Those were the comments that ignited our interest in investigating the service, and we must admit that after all the work done, they are not as far-fetched as they may seem. So, fasten your seatbelts; going through this review may be quite a turbulent flight.

First, we must talk about the elephant in the room. While researching the service, we found out about the EduBirdie scandal. It turns out that in 2018, the service has been aggressively promoting itself through various influencers and YouTube channels. “Well, what’s the big deal?” you may ask.

The main problem is that by promoting itself not as an academic helper but as an essay writing service, it basically was promoting cheating, which goes against YouTube policy. As a result, the ads were removed from over 250 social media channels. EduBirdie’s response to the controversy was underwhelming at its best: they don’t tolerate plagiarism. Yet, the service is prohibited in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, as well as in Australia and New Zealand.

But okay, after all, the negative EduBirdie.com reviews are not related to breaching YouTube’s policy or the jurisdictions that the service is prohibited in. The service states it has more than 450 writers, but some reviews point out that the writers often ignore the instructions provided by the customers. The comments also mention that the papers are poorly written, which suggests that they are written by non-native speakers with a poor command of English.

Did we encounter anything that those reviews mention? Let’s see. The writer ignored our instructions, and the paper was poorly written. So, yes! And the AI bots mentioned above will pop up later, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

The good thing about the customer support at EduBirdie is that it notifies you that you can contact them. As we were browsing through the site, we heard a sound notification. The chat window in the lower right corner of the screen changed as if indicating that we’ve received a message. It’s a nice way to let the customers know that if they have any problems, they can contact the support team. Anyway, we decided to put this live chat to the test and used our old scenario for the support team.

Pretending to be a prospective customer, we stated that we were hesitant because of the negative Edu Birdie reviews and asked whether the support team could comment on that. Courtney, who replied within less than a minute, provided us with a lengthy and satisfying answer.

Courtney stated that some customers are unsatisfied with the order only after getting grades and often request refunds past the refundable frame. And that’s the reason for their complaints. Seems like a legit answer. And that’s something that frequently happens to online writing services around the world.

Basically, that lengthy reply answered our question. The funny thing is that we never clarified anything regarding the negative comments and never mentioned refund issues. All in all, the team is well-prepared and is aware of what past users complain about. It’s interesting what Courtney would’ve answered had we asked about the illegal YouTube ads.

Yet, after that, Courtney started pressing us to place the order, aggressively promoting free revisions and the refund policy.

You need to check out the writers to answer the question: does EduBirdie actually work? By browsing through the list of writers, you may get the feeling that the service is good and straightforward. You can check the writers’ profiles before you hire any of them. Moreover, you can check the reviews of past customers, and EduBirdie doesn’t shy away from the harshest ones.

If you scroll down through the multiple 5 out 5 stars reviews long enough, you can bump into some 1-star reviews. There, you can learn that university professors have a poor command of English and have issues with citing sources.

We finally selected a writer for our essay on “Propaganda as an Integral Part of Genocide.” We decided that Dr Rutherford would help us find the answer to the question: is EduBirdie reliable or not? After all, Dr Rutherford was one of the writers who offered their bids for our order.

We wondered if he would ask us for clarification or whether we needed any specific source materials to cite. We also wanted to ask him which field he was a doctor in. But we had to wait nine days until any kind of communication with Dr Rutherford occurred.

We can spoil the suspenseful atmosphere and state that reviews were quite right, but let’s end this point with a cliffhanger.

Now, let’s talk EduBirdie prices. As the website states, you can get help for a starting price of $13.99. Our essay had to be seven pages long. As you can see from the image, none of the writers estimated their rate lower than $18 per page. Prof Shelby thought that his work was worth $30 per page. By the way, Shelby is a university professor who, according to some reviewers, has a poor command of English and issues with citing sources. Knowing that, we thought, “No, thank you.”

But why do you have to choose on your own? You can allow the service to pick a writer for you. That will keep the $13.99 per page price. Well, not exactly. Allowing the service to pick a writer for you will cost you an extra $9.99. Also, you can opt for Gold or Platinum writer, and it will add 10% and 20%, respectively, to the overall price. And don’t forget that the deadline affects the price. We hope it answers the question of how much is EduBirdie service.

Instead of discounts, EduBirdie offers a referral program, which has become more and more popular among online writing services. For every friend you get to order from EduBirdie, you get $25. And you can request a refund within 72 hours after accepting the order. To get the refund, you need to provide detailed information on why you are dissatisfied with the order.

Finally, we come to the point in our EduBirdie.com review where we disclose the quality of the paper that we got. But first, let’s talk about the revision policy in general. You can request revisions while the writer works on your paper, granted they provide you with bits of the paper.

And you can request as many revisions as you want unless you accept the order. However, once the order is accepted, you have only three days to request a revision. We had to request revisions upon checking out the delivered paper. And honestly, if every customer receives a paper like that from the service, it begs the question: how is EduBirdie legal?

We provided instruction that the essay must touch upon such cases as propaganda in the Third Reich, propaganda during the Rwanda genocide, and propaganda on Russian TV. The instructions were ignored completely. The author only expanded on the propaganda in the Third Reich.

But that was not the only problem with the essay. The paper was poorly written. Firstly, it seemed that the author couldn’t decide whether he was writing in British or American English. It had “analyze” but “centre” and “fulfill” but “defence.” And there were issues with the grammar.

The revised paper was written better: at least the author opted for American English and followed our initial instructions. But despite all that, the paper looked awry for some reason. As it turned out later, you should really trust your gut in such cases. We’ll get to that in a minute.

Does EduBirdie work? In terms of deadlines — yes. The minimum deadline is six hours. And that will seriously affect the price. The minimum price per page can rise up to $30 ‒ basically, the price that Prof Shelby has bid for our ten-day deadline. The maximum deadline is two months, and it greatly reduces the price. Here, you can expect the per-page price to be even lower than $13.99.

One important thing we must add here is that you can’t request complex works like theses and dissertations from EduBirdie. Thus, the minimum deadline is always six hours. However, you may get a suggestion that you should extend the deadline to at least eleven hours or reduce the number of pages.

Honestly, the deadline is the only thing with which the service didn’t disappoint us. The writer submitted the finished paper on time. But, considering the overall quality of the submitted EduBirdie essay, the on-time submission didn’t do much to improve the bitter taste of the experience.

Just imagine for a second that you needed the paper urgently and got a submission that was poorly written and ignored your instructions. Waiting till the paper is revised will affect your grades. Submitting it as it is will destroy your grades.

If you decide to stay away from the service essay writing offers — which we can advise you — you may still use some useful tools from the online helper. You can use the EduBirdie plagiarism checker for free. It is quite precise. Now, back to our investigation.

Earlier in this review, we mentioned that something felt amiss with the revised paper. So, we decided to run the essay through several plagiarism checkers. The results were disastrous. Okay, the percentage of plagiarized content ranged between 13% and 19%, depending on the checker. However, there was an issue with the source material cited. We figured out later that some sources cited weren’t used. And the materials that the paper plagiarized weren’t cited. In other words, if you want your order to be plagiarism free, you better order from elsewhere.

There was another problem with the paper. It started with lengthy explanations of propaganda and genocide. And those explanations didn’t tie into the text properly. We decided to run the paper through AI detectors as well, and it turned out that the paper contained bits crafted by artificial intelligence. Namely, the explanations of propaganda and genocide were created by AI. Gladly, that was enough proof to get a refund.

"So, what can be said about EduBirdie? We must say that the United Kingdom is safe, as a thing like the UK Edu Birdie doesn’t exist. However, North America is not safe, as it seems that many people are using the US and CA Edu Birdie.

We can simply say that we were just among a few unlucky ones who left grudge-filled comments on review aggregators. But what do we have here?

• Writers ignoring instructions — ✔️.
• Poorly written papers — ✔️.
• Non-native speakers writers — ✔️.
• Orders crafted by AI — ✔️.

Unlike some of the commentators, we did get our refund. But overall, the issues mentioned in comments on review aggregators are real."

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