S19-14-Unicheck

Software Profile

Number	S19-14
Product	Unicheck
Company	Address: Email: sales@unicheck.com support@unicheck.com Phone: +1 281 912 0548 (US) +1 888 231 5356 (US, Call toll free)
Web-Site	https://unicheck.com/
Software-Type	Online, can be integrated with API and API Docs
Costs (04.05.2020.)	Personal – 15 $ (100 pages, 40% savings per page) K-12 & Higher Education – contact sales Business – 15 $ (100 pages, 40% savings per page)
Test Date	November 2018 – November 2019

Description

Unicheck, which declares itself to be a plagiarism checker, was launched in 2014 under the name Unplag. The brand name changed in 2017. It is operated by the company UKU Group ltd registered in Cyprus (Opencorporates, 2019). It is being used by 1,100 institutions in 69 countries, and apart from institutional users (high schools, higher education institutions, and business), they also offer their services for personal use. The pricing plans differ according to the type of user. Unicheck compares the documents with web content, open access sources and for business customers, also with their private library. They also claim to perform homoglyph (similar-looking character replacement) detection.

Pros & Cons

Unicheck system has very high usability results.
This system has low results in finding similarities in texts from online articles in Czech, Slovak, and Turkish languages.
System allows to choose to check the similarity between documents and Internet or uploaded Library, or both.
It is possible to switch from PDF format to plain text in online report.

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