Pangram's plagiarism checker flags a pirated manuscript on Notability
The flagged copy was a full pirated manuscript hosted on Notability, an app meant for private note-taking and annotation.
In September, a writer used a little-discussed feature of Pangram's software — its plagiarism checker — to analyze an unpublished manuscript, according to the outlet. The tool flagged two lines close to other writing, though neither was an exact match as a full sentence, and both were described as common phrases.
One flagged line linked to a post in an online forum. The other linked to the full, pirated manuscript of a published book, hosted on Notability, an app the report describes as intended for private note-taking and annotation rather than as a viewable or searchable content repository.
A writer ran her own unpublished manuscript through a plagiarism checker and got back something stranger than a false positive: a link to her own book, pirated, sitting on an app built for private notes. That's not what Pangram was built to find, and that's exactly why it's worth sitting with. One flag, found almost sideways, is still a flag.
From the Coral Wire edition of Sat, Oct 24 2026 · Coral Index 43/100 (Headwinds)