For parents

Help for teens who find writing hard, without anyone writing it for them.

Updated November 2, 2026

What TomFiction never does

• It never adds sentences of its own. Your teen's answers go in only when they tap.
• It never changes the doc until your teen taps.
• It never makes a spelling or grammar fix longer than three words.
• It never suggests how to change an AI self-check result. Detectors can be wrong.
• It never asks for a diagnosis or a label.
• It never opens your teen's other files, and we don't train AI on their writing.

What it does

TomFiction is a Chrome extension that sits beside a Google Doc. It uses an AI model. It suggests small fixes, each with a plain reason. It sets MLA, APA or Chicago formatting and helps with citations. It gives an honest score, and a coach asks questions about the bigger gaps.

It can also build a first draft from your teen's own answers, in the order of a plan, with the spelling and grammar fixed. That draft goes in only when they tap Put it in my doc. In Google Docs version history it appears as one large change, not as typing. Some teachers may not allow this, so check first. You can turn inserting off completely in the panel's Preferences, and the writing receipt has a note to send the teacher.

Which is closer to your worry?

Essays and AI

Is it allowed? That depends on the school, so ask the teacher. A spelling and grammar check is the part most often allowed. A drafted start is the part most likely to be a problem.

College application essays. We read the published rules of 14 colleges. None of them bans a spelling and grammar check, and none of them lets AI write the essay. For an application essay, skip the plan and draft in Write. See the dated table of college rules.

Being flagged. Pro includes a private AI self-check that only your teen sees. Detectors can be wrong, either way, and no tool can promise what a school's checker will say. Google Docs version history shows how a doc changed over time, and TomFiction's History marks each change it made.

When writing is hard

• Talk instead of type. Your teen can tap Say it and answer out loud. Chrome turns speech into text they can fix.
• One thing at a time. Quick questions replace the blank page. Messy answers are fine, and any question can be skipped.
• Reasons in plain words. Each fix says what changed and why.
• No label needed. Nobody has to name a learning difference to use any of it.

We haven't run a study, so we don't promise any change in grades, skills or a learning difference.

Price, who pays, and how to stop

Semester Pass

$29.99 once for 120 days of Pro. It never renews, so there's nothing to cancel.

Pro Monthly

$9.99 a month until you cancel.

Free

$0 with daily limits and no card. A free Pro week starts by itself on the first paper of 300+ words. It needs no card and ends by itself.

Who pays

Only an adult can pay. Your teen can copy a pay link from the panel and send it to you. You pick the plan on the pay page, and Pro goes to their account.

Checkout is for adults

A student who says they're under 18 doesn't see checkout, and the pay page asks whoever pays to confirm they're 18 or older.

Cancel

Pro Monthly only: in the panel, tap TomFiction at the top, then Manage or cancel. Pro stays on until the end of the month paid for.

Refund

Refund within 14 days of any charge. Email orionjones99@gmail.com. Read the terms.

Who can use it

Students 13 and older. Under 18, a parent or guardian agrees to the terms. It works in Google Docs in Chrome on a computer. A school Google account may block it; a personal account avoids that.