# AI Essay Writer - PaperMate — user reviews > 31 indexed App Store user reviews of AI Essay Writer by MasterMind Software LLC, rated 4.80/5 from 839 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ai-essay-writer-papermate/id1670680306/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ai-essay-writer-papermate/id1670680306.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 738 · 4★ 56 · 3★ 19 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 19 ## What do users think of AI Essay Writer? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Brilliant app that duplicates the relationship between author and publisher - 👍 Helps generate ideas and brainstorm - 👍 Great starting point to generate ideas - 👍 Extremely helpful for academia - 👍 Helpful for court cases **Cons** - 🐛 No longer works, getting error messages - 🐛 Stopped working after 1 week, no technical support - 🐛 Keeps saying 'host name not found' - 🔒 Unauthorized charges, no refunds **Commonly reported bugs** - Login screen freezes - Incompatible with older devices **Most requested features** - Add Chinese language support - Improve editing and revision flows - Add ability to save unfinished prompts ## Newest reviews (10 of 31) ### 5/5 — Awesome product *2025-01-22, version 2.3.1* I love the fact that you can select detailed writing styles and different formats. It’s a great starting point to dish out ideas , then bring it to desktop and work on the output further ### 5/5 — Wow this Papermate app *2025-01-22, version 2.3.1* Is amazing and surely the developer is the masterminder of it all ### 5/5 — 希望有中文支持 *2025-01-22, version 2.3.1* 会更新简体中文吗：） ### 5/5 — This is seriously the best phone app for research *2024-12-21* Please continue to grow this app. I would donate to you if I could to help you grow. Thank you very much for developing this AI essay app. ### 5/5 — Love this new update *2024-07-09* Outstanding work I absolutely love the latest changes! ### 3/5 — Great but a few things *2023-10-17* At first I was loving it but when I did 3 copies it told me “you have to pay to do more Than 3 copies” I found that dissopointing becuase its meant to Help you with grades but there is gonna be more Than 3 Essays a year. And last make more things Free. ### 4/5 — Really nice app! *2023-08-27* An issue I’ve been having though that makes it 4 stars is the fact that you can leave the things too easily, and lose your progress on writing it. Maybe add a feature to… idk, save prompts you haven’t finished? Or maybe add a exit confirmation so I — or we — can’t lose our progress. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Extremely helpful *2023-06-30* This app is one of the very few extremely helpful apps for academia. I hope that it will grow and advance in the future more. ### 5/5 — Great help *2023-05-19* I needed it for my court case and it really is so helpful and improved my filings greatly. Nice job to these developers. ### 5/5 — The best!! *2023-05-19, version 1.1.3* I highly recommend this innovative AI tool for its exceptional abilities in correction, essay writing, and translation. It is by far the best tool I have used and will not disappoint you. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ty *2026-05-12, version 2.6* Tx ### 1/5 — Buyer Beware *2025-05-09* I bought the 1 year subscription it stopped working after 1 week! Technical support is nonexistent please save your money! I’m fighting my bank now for a refund ### 1/5 — Scam *2025-02-03* I considered this app was really beneficial until I was instantly charged for what was supposed to be a three day free trial as soon as I selected it. When I attempted to contact support and ask for a refund I was denied. I’m beyond infuriated by this and would not advise anyone to pay for anything on this app or trust the “free trials” they are offering because evidently it’s a scam. ### 1/5 — UNAUTHORIZED CHARGE *2024-12-03* As a brand, loyal iOS, Apple customer, I can say that I’m pretty disappointed because I utilize the free trial period to test out products in which I may choose or not choose to invest in needless to say, even though I unsubscribed and decided to go with another product with the same software developer, I found myself $90 short for a subscription that I did not authorize hence the canceling of subscription prior to the trial and date, but it was still charged anyway and not really sure how this happened but I do know that the app was uninstalled a few weeks prior to doing a new software update, which is the most recent software update only to see that the app reappeared on my phone and was charged the same exact day for an annual subscription. Kind of defeats the purpose of utilizing the free trial- still trying to get my money back even after submitting claims with Apple all I’m getting is a response that it’s not eligible for a refund, with absolutely no explanation. It’s really ridiculous and disheartening. ### 1/5 — 3 Day free trial is not free *2024-10-28* It’s not a free 3 day trial I did one thing and it charged me. Don’t waste your time! **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, and we apologize for the confusion. The free trial is only available for the yearly plan and renews automatically after 3 days unless canceled. We’re always working to improve clarity around our subscriptions, and we appreciate you giving the app a try. ### 1/5 — Won’t refund *2024-04-19* I hadn't planned on buying this because it's not suitable for writing genuine scientific papers; it's more geared towards simpler secondary school assignments rather than college-level work. Unfortunately, they're refusing to refund my money. ### 1/5 — It’s expensive *2023-10-10* I think it should let you do more stuff for free ### 2/5 — What’s going on?!?!? *2025-06-15* I love this app and have used it for years. It is very helpful but no longer works. Everytime I try to generate text I get an error message. I’m not sure if the new update is the issue or not, but I am going to need someone to contact as well as provide compensation for all of the weeks I’ve been unable to use this!!! 😡😤 **Developer response:** Hi there, I’m sorry to hear you’re having these issues. Could you please reach out through the support screen in the app, under the settings? That way, we can discuss and find a solution to this problem. Thank you! ### 3/5 — Almost perfect *2026-04-29* This app would be perfect if it received regular updates. There hasn't been a single one since October; we're already approaching ChatGPT 5.5, yet the app still offers 5.0, not to mention the advancements in Grok 4.2 or the latest implementations from Gemini and Claude. I believe AI applications cannot afford the 'luxury' of updating only once or twice a year, especially considering that model enhancements occur every couple of months. ### 3/5 — Not a primary text editor *2025-03-01* There needs to be more work done around the editing + revision flows. You can use this to get initial ideas, but will probably need to copy and paste into an actual text editor to keep a history of revisions. There is an undo revision action, but it undoes all revisions, not just the last one. Also, if you edit the text and then ask for a revision, it revises the original generated text, not your revised text. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very good *2026-07-27* Good ### 5/5 — John the Baptist *2025-12-10* This is a brilliant app that duplicates the relationship between author and publisher. It is all about editing what will be released for public consumption. The app can only work with what is written and presented. Garbage in garbage out; or intent and verbiage edited from an onsite consultant. The author has the last word, and the last edit. I decide whether to publish or not. I know if the content is genuinely mine to defend; because this app does no research for me. (Someone is helping me clarify what I wrote. And most of the time it understands what I wrote. It challenges me to write better first drafts; the more precisely I write is reflected in what comes back from the app.) Whoever programmed this kind of app, i want to thank you, and thank you for the experience of working with a collaborative editor. The relationship is there without “fire and brimstone” conversation. (It might save me from getting my head chopped off.) ### 5/5 — Incredible *2025-07-22* I gotta say that at first, I was skeptical at what this could do. Now, after a short period of time, I’m just blown away. Don’t even think about another app, because this is the one. Just download it. Period! End of story! ### 5/5 — 被墙 *2025-06-08, version 2.5* 升级到2.5以后，中国大陆连不上网了，之前的版本正常 ### 5/5 — good *2025-05-28* best ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-05-09* Ngl I do love this app but here recently it seems to not work more then it works it keeps saying about host name not found ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-05-05* Amazing App helps me rewrite my ideas better and helps with citations correctly. Even helps with my dyslexia on my easy ### 5/5 — Grateful for AI *2025-02-23* Words cannot express how much I’m thankful for this application. You have made my life worth standing. I have hope for my future. ### 5/5 — Great AI tool *2025-02-07* Becoming one of my favorite AI tools. Helps me generate ideas and brainstorm. ### 5/5 — Can I add a new language? *2025-01-23* Please add Chinese --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*