The pricing page says fourteen days. Someone emailed to ask why we doubled what everyone else does.
The honest reason: seven days is too short to test a writing tool.
Writing doesn't happen daily
Most trial periods assume daily use. That is reasonable for a chat app or an expense tracker.
Writing isn't like that. One person publishes weekly. Another publishes monthly and spends this week reading. A seven-day clock measures whether you happened to have a writing session inside that window, not whether the tool is any use to you.
A weekly writer might finish one piece in seven days. They never reach the step where citations need checking. The trial ends first.
We wanted the trial to cover one full loop
Read, highlight, draft, check. You have to complete that cycle once to know whether it helps. For someone on a normal publishing rhythm it takes ten days to two weeks.
So: fourteen.
The trial ending is not the app ending
Worth being explicit. When the fourteen days are up, the extension still works.
The free tier stays: highlighting, the writing desk, exports. The trial unlocks the heavier parts, batch checking, long-document chunking, version history.
We also weren't going to build something where your own saved work becomes inaccessible. Your highlights live in your browser, and that does not change when a payment lapses.
Some people will get nothing out of it
Yes. Someone's fourteen days will land in a fortnight when they wrote nothing. Someone else will try it and leave.
We decided that getting one person who genuinely needs this through a full loop is worth more than blocking ten who wanted free use.
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