6 tools to detect plagiarism and copy and paste it

Last updated on 12 May 2026

Here are 6 online tools that allow to detect in the copies of your students plagiarism and other copy-paste.

This is the epidemic of the Google era. Plagiarism is a phenomenon long known and listed in the academic world. It touches today all grade levels from primary to high school. While this practice continues to develop, tools have fortunately emerged to help teachers track plagiarists. See six of them.

PlagTracker. A powerful tool with a particularly efficient algorithm that will scan your document and compare it to its base of 20 million referenced documents and everything you can find online. An interesting function: PlagTracker allows you to upload a text document, PlagTracker will scan it and then send you a complete report by email with all the sources of the copied elements. Plagtracker offers a limited free version and another paid version. Link: PlagTracker

PlagiarismChecker. This fully online tool plays the simplicity and will allow you to do a quick check in case of doubt about a passage in a copy. PlagiarismChecker offers a window in which you will copy the passage of the text on which you have a doubt. The results are displayed almost instantly if the passage exists somewhere on the web. Plagiarism Checker is completely free. Link: PlagiarismChecker

Viper. Here is the particularity of being in the form of software running on Windows. It must therefore be downloaded before it can be used. Viper will scan the web for a source document to detect possible copies or plagiarism. Link: Viper

To this first list let's add Duplichecker, ArticleChecker and Copyscape, three tools that I presented some time ago on my other website dedicated to Tools of the day before.

The tools exist unfortunately they will probably not be enough to solve this problem of school plagiarism. It will be necessary to add a real education of the students to the respect of the rules ethics, morals and authors' rights. It won't be the easiest.

And you what tools do you use to remove plagiarism and simply copy and paste it?