Tracked Changes in Word

AI manuscript editing you can actually review.

Not a rewritten document you have to trust blindly. Not a diff you have to squint at. Real tracked changes in a real Word document — every edit visible, every change yours to accept or reject.

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The honest case

The problem with every other AI editor.

Most AI editing tools do one of two things: they rewrite your text and hand you a clean document with no indication of what changed, or they highlight differences in a web interface you cannot use in your actual workflow.

Neither works for academic manuscripts. Your co-authors need to see what changed. Your advisor needs to approve edits. Your journal may require a tracked changes version with your revision.

You need standard tracked changes in Word — the format every researcher, editor, and reviewer already knows. That is what PeerReviewAI delivers.

Three reviewers

Three editing layers, one document.

Not a single grammar sweep. Your document is edited by three independent reviewers — each focused on a different dimension of quality, each color-coded with its own name in the tracked changes.
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Scientific Content Edits
Scientific edits

Scientific substance — methodology that lacks precision, results that overstate or understate, discussion points that don't follow from the data, claims that need hedging, logical gaps between sections. The edits a rigorous peer reviewer would demand, implemented as tracked changes.

Reviewer 1 · Scientific
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Journal Compliance Edits
Compliance edits

If you selected a target journal, compliance edits are tailored to that journal's actual author instructions — not generic best practices. You can also upload your journal's guidelines directly if they are not already on hand. Reference style, section order, word limits, figure requirements, abstract structure — all checked and corrected as tracked changes. What used to take hours of tedious reformatting happens automatically in your tracked changes document.

Reviewer 2 · Compliance
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ESL Language Editing · $29 add-on
Language edits

Optional for non-native English speakers. Targets the patterns that mark ESL academic writing — article usage, prepositions, hedging, academic register, nominalizations, collocations. Each correction appears in its own color, separate from scientific and compliance edits.

Reviewer 3 · Language
The deliverable

What you get back.

A standard .docx file. Open it in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or any tracked-changes-capable word processor. Each reviewer's edits appear in their own color and name — insertions, deletions, and replacements, just like a human reviewer.

Accept the changes you agree with. Reject the ones you do not. No new software to learn. No web interface to navigate. Just a Word document that works the way Word documents have always worked.

Color-coded by reviewer
Scientific edits, compliance edits, and ESL edits each appear in a distinct color so you can tell at a glance which type of edit you are reviewing.
Standard Word format
Real tracked changes — not a simulated diff. Works natively in Microsoft Word, and in any application that supports the .docx tracked changes standard.
Accept or reject individually
Every edit is an independent tracked change. Accept what improves your manuscript, reject the rest. Full control.
Your formatting preserved
Document structure, styles, headings, references, and figures stay intact. Edits happen within your existing formatting.
Included with Author Review · $79

Bundled into Author Review. No separate charge.

Author Review ($79) includes the full manuscript review — methodology, statistics, reporting compliance, reference verification — plus the tracked changes document and the journal-specific compliance audit. One purchase, complete revision support.

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The comparison

How this compares.

A few other tools offer some form of AI tracked changes. Here is how PeerReviewAI is different.
Capability
PeerReviewAI
Grammar tools
Three-layer editing (scientific + compliance + ESL)
Scientific content edits (methodology, statistics, claims)
Journal-specific compliance edits
ESL-specific language editing
Generic grammar only
Color-coded by edit type
Full manuscript review included
Reporting guideline compliance
Reference verification
Grammar tools fix commas. PeerReviewAI fixes manuscripts.
Protected by Anthropic’s Zero Data Retention
Your manuscript is never stored, logged, or used for training. Processed for the review, then gone.
You stay in control

See exactly what needs to change — and decide what stays.

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