DeskReady vs asking ChatGPT or Claude to check your paper
A strong chat model finds real problems. What a dedicated check adds.
What ChatGPT and Claude does
Paste your PDF into ChatGPT or Claude, ask for a careful review, and a strong model will find many real problems. When we compared on a few papers (October 2026), the strongest chat models found a similar share of the issues DeskReady found.
A chat assistant is also better at what DeskReady doesn't do: discussing the science, suggesting rewrites, answering follow-up questions.
What DeskReady does
DeskReady checks whether a manuscript agrees with itself before you submit it. It works through every paragraph, table, figure and reference of the final PDF: numbers in the text are compared with the tables they describe and recomputed, claims with the results that should support them, figures with their captions and the text, and every reference is looked up in Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, DBLP, NASA ADS, INSPIRE-HEP, OpenAlex and DataCite, and checked for retraction notices. Each finding is quoted and highlighted on your own page; a finding that can't be located there is dropped. Re-checks of a revised PDF show which findings you resolved. Any field, any venue; manuscripts are processed only in the EU and never used to train models. First check free, then from €5.90 per paper.
Side by side
| What you get | ChatGPT and Claude | DeskReady |
|---|---|---|
| Discussing the science, rewriting | Yes | No |
| Every paragraph, table, figure and reference covered | Whatever one answer has room for | Yes, the same way on every run |
| Numbers recomputed against the tables | By the model, if asked | Yes |
| References looked up in databases | Only if it searches, and only if asked | Every reference, eight databases |
| Findings shown on your page | As text in the chat | Quoted and highlighted on your PDF |
| Re-checks of a revised version | Start again | Resolved, still open and new findings |
When ChatGPT and Claude is the better choice
- Thinking through the science and the writing with you, in conversation.
When DeskReady is the better choice
- Coverage you can rely on: every paragraph, table, figure and reference, checked the same way each time.
- Evidence you can see: each finding quoted and highlighted on your own page.
- A record across revisions, and processing only in the EU.
Using both
Use a chat assistant to think about the science and the writing; use DeskReady for the last read before you submit.
See what DeskReady finds in your paper. Your first check is free and needs no account.
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