DeskReady vs Octym: consistency check or integrity review?
Two pre-submission tools that overlap less than their names suggest.
What Octym does
Octym is an AI manuscript review from the team behind Proofig, the image-integrity tool, launched in August 2026. As its site describes it, the review covers three groups: integrity inside the manuscript (including an AI-text signal it frames as a signal for a person to weigh), checks against the published record and the requirements of the target journal, and the quality of the research.
Its external checks include image and figure plagiarism and manipulation (powered by Proofig), retracted references (backed by the Retraction Watch database) and non-existent references. Review profiles can be configured to a journal's rules, and it is built for institutions and publishers as well as authors.
Pricing, as its pricing page is titled: packages from $99, one submission free.
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 | Octym | DeskReady |
|---|---|---|
| Image integrity (duplication, manipulation, image plagiarism) | Yes, its core strength | No |
| Retracted references | Yes, via Retraction Watch | Yes, via Crossref, which includes Retraction Watch |
| References that don't exist | Yes | Yes, eight bibliographic databases |
| Numbers in the text vs the tables, recomputed | Not stated | Yes, every number linked to a table |
| Figures vs captions, text and equations | Image integrity | Yes, each figure read on its own |
| Journal-specific rules | Yes, configurable profiles | No |
| Findings shown on your page | Signals with evidence | Quoted and highlighted on your PDF |
| Price | Packages from $99, one submission free | First check free, then from €5.90 per paper |
Facts about Octym from these public pages, checked 16 October 2026: Octym; Octym: what we check; Octym pricing. Tell us at support@deskready.eu if anything has changed.
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When Octym is the better choice
- Image integrity. If your paper has gels, blots, micrographs or other images a reviewer may check for duplication or manipulation, Octym (and Proofig) is built for that. DeskReady doesn't check images for manipulation.
- Journal and institutional setup: review profiles tuned to a journal's rules, and a team that configures them.
When DeskReady is the better choice
- Internal consistency, checked line by line: a number in the text that a table contradicts, a claim of 'best on every dataset' that one row disproves, a training schedule another sentence contradicts, a figure legend that names the wrong thing.
- Price for a single paper: from €5.90, first check free.
- Manuscripts processed only in the EU.
Using both
For life-science papers with images, run an image-integrity check as well. DeskReady covers whether the text, tables, figures and references agree with each other.
See what DeskReady finds in your paper. Your first check is free and needs no account.
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