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Write to a brief, then check the draft against a published style list and rewrite it until it passes. This is one of three tools here that needs an account, because it calls a model that costs money. The rest of the site runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.

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One account for the seo audit, the article writer and the uptime monitor. Nothing in the tool list asks for one.

No password. We send a six digit code, and the same code is a link in the email.

Want a bigger allowance?

There is a limit because every audit is a request to somebody else's server and every article is a model call, and both are paid for out of one person's pocket. That is the entire reason, and it is why the rest of the site has no limits at all.

Ask, and say what you are using it for. There is nothing to pay and nothing to sign up to. The limits are there to keep the bill survivable, not to sell you the next tier.

Write to hello@shimtools.com

Send it from the address you signed in with, so we know whose limit to raise. Asking has never been refused.

What every draft is checked against

A failed check goes back to the model with the specific violation, up to three times. Any rule still broken at the end is listed with the draft rather than hidden.

No em dashes or en dashes
The single clearest tell. Commas, colons and full stops instead.
No stock openings
Nothing beginning with a definition, a rhetorical question, or the year.
No filler vocabulary
A published list: delve, seamlessly, unleash, in today's world, and the rest.
Varied sentence length
Measured, not asserted. Uniform sentence length is the second clearest tell.
No summary paragraph
Articles end on a point rather than restating what was said above.
Your links, in context
Anchors you supply, placed where they make sense, not listed at the end.

Questions

Why does this one need an account when the rest of the site does not?
Because it calls a language model, and every call costs money. Everything in the tool list runs in your browser, sends nothing anywhere and works with your connection off, which is exactly why it can be unlimited and free. This cannot be either, so it is a separate product on a separate page rather than a limit quietly bolted onto a free tool.
Does it claim the writing is undetectable?
No, and be wary of anything that does. Detectors disagree with each other and change without notice, so a promise built on them is one update from a refund. What is promised is narrower and checkable: the draft is tested against a published list of rules, sent back to be rewritten when it fails, and the finished piece comes with a list of anything it still breaks.
What is sent to the model?
The brief: the site name, the niche, the topic, the tone and the length. Nothing about your account goes with it, not your email address, not your account id, not your key. That is asserted by a test rather than only stated here, because it is the kind of promise that quietly stops being true when somebody adds a field.
Does it write the images too?
There are no images. A generated image on an article is usually worse than none, and a stock photograph of a laptop has never helped anybody. The draft is the title, a summary for the meta description, and the body in Markdown.
How long does it take?
Up to three model calls, so tens of seconds. It queues rather than making you wait on a connection that would time out, and the page shows where you are in the line. Paid plans get a head start in the queue, measured in time rather than rank, so free work is never stuck behind paid work indefinitely.
What length can I ask for?
400 to 2,500 words. The number is a target rather than a promise: a piece padded to hit a word count reads exactly like a piece padded to hit a word count.

Also here: the SEO audit, the fake API, and what is stored and what is not in the privacy note.