S19-12-Plagiarism Software

Software Profile

Number	S19-12
Product	Plagiarism Software
Company	Address: 438, Streatham High Road London, UK. SW16 3PX Email: info@contentarcade.com support@plagiarismsoftware.net Phone: +971-56-8927183
Web-Site	https://www.plagiarismsoftware.net/
Software-Type	Online
Costs (04.05.2020.)	Basic – 10 $, 100 searches, 1 000 words per search, 1 Month Business – 20 $, 150 searches, 1 500 words per search, 1 Month Enterprise – 50 $, 400 searches, 2 000 words per search, 1 Month Corporate – 120 $, 200 searches, 10 000 words per search, 3 Months Exclusive – 150 $, 100 searches, 30 000 words per search, 6 Months
Test Date	November 2018 – November 2019

Description

Plagiarism Software is operated by a private company settled in Pakistan. They focus on any type of individual users and claim to have 500,000 users. According to the information from the representative of the company, they started approximately in 2014 (on the web they claim to have seven years of experience which would date back to 2012) and they are using search engine services to browse the web. They offer five levels of pricing that differ according to the amount of the content being compared.

Pros & Cons

Plagiarism Software system has low both usability and coverage results.
It is possible to test and see results only for 1 file at the same time.
Tested texts in Latvian language are not readable in downloaded report (see in screenshots), because many characters are replaced with „?“ and text formatting is different comparing to formatting used in tested text files.
Maximum 2000 words allowed per search (see in screenshots).

Coverage results

Single source

Multi source

Usability results

Workflow process usability

Can upload and test multiple documents together
Auto-fill metadata for documents
The system uses original file names for report
There are no word limit for the testing document
The system display text in the chosen language only
The system can process large documents (for example, a bachelor thesis)

Result presentation usability

Reports are downloadable
Results are saved in the user’s account and can be reviewed afterwards
Matched passages are highlighted in the online report
Matched passages are highlighted in the downloaded report (offline)
Evidence of similarity is demonstrated side-by-side with the source in the online report
Evidence of similarity is demonstrated side-by-side with the source in the downloaded report
Document formatting is not changed in the report
Document page numbers are shown in the report
The report is not spoiled by false positives