How to humanize AI text on your phone

The short version

1. Copy the AI text first, using the copy icon under the reply in your AI app.
2. Open this page in your phone's browser.
3. Tap the box, tap it again, and choose Paste.
4. Tap Continue in Humaniser.
5. In Humaniser, tap Humanize, then copy the new version back into the app you were writing in.

Copying before you open the page saves a trip between apps. The box holds up to 20,000 characters, but Humaniser's free plan humanizes up to 200 words per run, and the counter under the box shows where you are.

On iPhone (Safari)

1. Open Safari and go to this site.
2. Tap inside the box once to place the cursor. Tap the same spot again and choose Paste from the menu that pops up. A three-finger pinch outward also pastes, if you prefer gestures.
3. Check the word counter under the box. If it reads more than 200, see the long-reply tip below.
4. Tap Continue in Humaniser. Safari loads humaniser.com with your text already in the editor.
5. Tap Humanize. When the result appears, use the copy button on it, then switch back to Notes, Mail or wherever the text is going.

To grab a single paragraph from a longer reply, triple-tap it: on iPhone, a triple-tap with one finger selects a paragraph and a double-tap selects one word. Then tap the selection and choose Copy.

On an iPad

The steps are the same in Safari on an iPad. With a keyboard attached, ⌘ + V pastes into the box and ⌘ + C copies the result, so you can skip the long-press.

On Android (Chrome)

1. Open Chrome and go to this site.
2. Long-press inside the box and tap Paste.
3. Or use Gboard's clipboard: tap in the box, open the clipboard from the row at the top of the keyboard, and tap the clip you want. It's handy when you've copied several parts and need the second one.
4. Tap Continue in Humaniser, then Humanize, then copy the result back.

Copying text out of AI apps

Most AI chat apps put a copy icon under every reply. Use it rather than dragging selection handles across a long answer on a small screen: it is quicker and it never misses the last line.

• The whole reply: tap the copy icon under the message.
• Part of a reply: long-press the message, choose Select text if the app offers it, and drag the handles to the part you need.
• Stray symbols: some apps copy their formatting as characters such as ** or #. Delete them in the box before you continue. The page on what survives the trip to Humaniser shows what else to tidy.

Copy text from a screenshot or photo

Copy the words out of the image with your phone's own text recognition, check them, then paste them here like any other text. The box takes text only, so an image can't be sent as it is.

• iPhone (Live Text): open the screenshot or photo in Photos, touch and hold a word, move the grab points to cover what you need, and tap Copy. Apple lists Live Text for iPhone XS, iPhone XR or later with iOS 15 or later. If nothing gets selected, check that Live Text is on in Settings > General > Language & Region.
• Android (Google Lens): open the image in the Google Photos app, tap More at the top and then Google Lens, then tap and select the words you want to copy.

Text recognition can misread a word, drop a line or join two columns, so read the copied text once in the box before you continue. A whole page photographed from a book or a handout is closer to a scanned PDF; the steps to clean up text copied from a PDF apply to it too.

Example: a reply for a group chat

Say an AI app drafted the 89-word message in this guide's sample, asking parents in a class group chat to help at a bake sale, and it reads like a press release. On an iPhone, the whole job looks like this:

1. Tap the copy icon under the AI reply.
2. Tap the home-screen icon for this page (set up below).
3. Tap the box twice and choose Paste. The counter reads 89 / 200 words free, so it fits in one run.
4. Tap Continue in Humaniser, then Humanize.
5. Read the result once. Check that "this Friday" and the request to reply are still there, because those are the details people act on.
6. Copy it, switch to Messages and paste it into the group chat.

That is one free run of the 3 you get each day. On school or office Wi-Fi, Humaniser may ask you to make a free account before your first run.

Put it on your home screen

A home-screen icon makes this page one tap away, like an app, with no app-store download. Chrome may call the step installing, but the icon still just opens this page.

• iPhone, Safari: with this page open, tap the Page Menu button and then Share. If your tabs sit at the bottom or top of the screen, tap the Share button instead. Scroll down the list, tap Add to Home Screen, then tap Add.
• Android, Chrome: tap ⋮ More on the right of the address bar, choose Install and create shortcut and follow the prompts. If your Chrome shows Add to Home screen there instead, tap that.

The icon only appears on the phone where you add it. Do the same on a tablet if you use one.

Why there is no app to install

The rewriting happens on Humaniser's servers either way. Your phone only has to send the text and show the result, and a web page does that without a place in your app list or a version to keep updated.

App or browser: what changes

If you came looking for an app, this is what using the page in your browser means in practice:

It also means the same page works on the laptop you use for school or work. If that's a Chromebook, the ChromeOS shortcuts make copying and pasting quicker. When you're back at a desk, use the paste box on the home page in exactly the same way.