In September, a writer used a little-discussed feature of Pangram’s software, the plagiarism checker. In analyzing the unpublished manuscript, Pangram flagged two lines that were close to other writing—both common phrases, and not exact matches as a full sentence. One linked to a post in an online forum. The other linked to the full, pirated manuscript of a published book, hosted on Notability (which is supposed to be a private note-taking and annotation app, rather than a viewable or searchable content repository). Pangram’s plagiarism checker, which was added over a year ago in August 2025, “compares your text against billions […]
