Free Vs Paid - Why should I pay?
Introduction
Recite officially launched in 2022, following a lengthy beta period, which attracted almost 70,000 registrations and checked more than 700,000 documents. Recite now offers two tiers of service.
In order to continue to make Recite even better, and develop new features, we use investment from subscriptions and one-off payments. We appreciate that not everyone can afford to pay and therefore we're extremely keen on continuing to offer a beneficial product for free. We'd really appreciate your support if you can afford to upgrade and remove the limitations though. As you'll see below, we've developed some great new features, exclusively for users on our paid plans.
Free plan
Our free tier is ideal for undergraduate students or anyone else writing shorter essays (fewer than 2,500 words and fewer than 50 references). For those writing longer works, Recite will still work, but will only give feedback on the first 2,500 words and 50 references. We also limit uploads on our free tier to 2 per day.
In summary, Recite:
- Checks the first 2,500 words of your work
- Checks the first 50 references in your reference list
- Limits you to 2 uploads per day
- Limits uploads to .docx and .txt formats only (plus our paste option)
Paid plans
As mentioned above, our paid tier allows us to invest in the further development of Recite. We have many more features we'd like to add and areas we'd like to improve further.
With our paid tier the limitations mentioned above are all removed, with the only restriction being a 50MB upload limit. On this plan you can upload lengthy documents, as often as you like, in a wide variety of formats.
In summary, Recite:
- Checks the full document uploaded (file size limit of 50MB applies)
- Checks all references in your reference list
- Allows unlimited uploads (fair usage policy applies)
- Allows uploads in a variety of formats
- Offers access to additional paid-only features
Additional paid plan features
In summary, you additionally get:
- Crossref integration (APA only)
- Retractions detected
- Interactive year distribution graph
- Ability to ignore citations
- Enhanced DOI checks (APA only)
- Downloadable PDF of your results
In more detail, you get:
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Crossref integration
We take your reference list entries and attempt to match them against the Crossref database, highlighting any discrepancies
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Retractions detected
RetractionWatch integration - we take all of your reference list entries that have DOIs and look them up against the RetractionWatch database, highlighting any that have been retracted (or other noted issues).
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Interactive year distribution graph
Recite provides an interactive year distribution graph/stats for your reference list.
If your institution specifies that your reference list should have X% from the last Y years, this is really easy to check using this feature.
Recite defaults to providing a percentage for the last 5 years, but you can adjust the start and end year to create any range you like.
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Ignore citations
Easily mark any citation(s) as ignored, to clean-up your output, as you desire.
Click the play button to see a video demonstration of the ignore citations feature.
More information on using this feature can be found in User Interface > Ignore Citations
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Enhanced DOI Checks
We colour code the DOIs in your reference list, allowing you to easily see their status:
- Green - DOI is present and appears to be valid*
- Grey - reference has no DOI and Crossref has no sensible suggestion
- Orange - reference has no DOI, but Recite has found a Crossref entry that looks to be relevant
- Red - DOI is invalid (checked against the DOI database)
* Note: Recite does not check the DOI is correct for the given source, just that it is a valid DOI.
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Downloadable PDF
Download as PDF option for easy export of your results
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More to follow
We're constantly working on new ways to add value for Recite subscribers, so be sure to look out for new feature announcements.