Check your thesis for consistency chapter by chapter or page by page
Over two hundred pages, one concept can end up defined in one chapter, qualified in another, and used differently in the conclusions. Nobody wrote it that way on purpose. But a reviewer could notice.
HILO gathers all those mentions on a single screen, with the page of each one, so you can correct them together instead of going back and forth through the document.
- Finds the concept even when it's said in other words
- Gives you back the edited document as .docx
- Download the topic's summary or its concept map
Eight tools for your thesis material
Gather a topic
The mentions of a concept across the thesis, even when they're said in other words and even when chapters 2 and 6 don't use the same vocabulary. Each one with its page.
Fix the passages together
The gathered passages are corrected on a single screen and the whole thesis downloads as .docx, with the original untouched.
Concept map
The concept and its branches, drawn from what the thesis says. The branch with a single paragraph behind it is the one worth looking at before you hand it in.
Code the interviews
Several interviews as a folder and a topic searched across all of them at once, with the interview and the page each passage came from.
Kappa calculator
Agreement between two coders, with the confidence interval and the interpretation. It's the number a committee tends to ask for, and the one journal reviewers ask for.
Check your dataset before analyzing
Your thesis dataset before it goes into the analysis: duplicates, categories written two ways, empty cells, and columns that don't match between files.
Find verbatim quotes in interviews
If your thesis uses interviews, the verbatim quotes about a concept, with who said them and on which page, ready to paste into the results.
Variable operationalization
Paste your thesis objectives and HILO matches them against the variables in your dataset: what each one measures, what is missing, and with what formula.
Remove identifiers before sharing
To send the dataset to your supervisor or the ethics committee without ID numbers or names: each person gets a code, the same in every file, and nothing leaves your browser.
What gets checked most before you hand it in
You can use it on your thesis, undergraduate thesis, monograph, paper, or any academic writing. The length changes, not the problem: a topic written over months ends up said in several ways.
Unify how you name each thing
It detects whether the same phenomenon shows up as “job precariousness” in the theoretical framework and as “informality” in the analysis. HILO gathers the variants, shows how many times you used each one, and you decide which to keep.
Check how you cite each author
It brings up every mention of an author across the work so you can check that you interpret them the same way in the literature review and in the discussion. In journal articles and conference papers, where space forces you to condense, readings drift the most.
Cut what you said twice
The same argument developed in one chapter and again later, in other words. Seeing them together, you decide which one stays. In long final projects there is usually more repetition than you remember.
Check that every objective has an answer
It gathers what the work says about each objective and each hypothesis, so you can verify that they were fully developed. It's the check you will be most grateful for the week before you hand it in.
Your document isn't stored on our servers
Reading the document and editing happen on your computer. Changes are saved to your own Google Drive or Microsoft 365, in your account. You download a new document and your original stays as it was; the change history is a Premium feature. When you use an AI feature, only the passage needed for that query is sent to Gemini, Google's model, and HILO doesn't store it.
No. HILO doesn't write, doesn't suggest paragraphs, and doesn't fill in what's missing. All it does is gather what you already wrote on a topic and put it together so you can review it. Every passage it shows comes from your document and keeps its page number, so you can always go back to the original and check it. The writing, and the decision about what to change, remain yours.
Yes. HILO is built for long documents, which is where a topic gets scattered across dozens of pages. You can work chapter by chapter or with the whole work, from an undergraduate thesis to a doctoral dissertation.
With smart search, yes: it groups by topic even when the exact term doesn't appear. Without AI it works the same way, but grouping by keyword.
Both. You can download the full document with your edits applied, the topic's summary separately, or the concept map as PNG or SVG.
Not on our servers. Processing happens in your browser and saving goes to your own Google Drive or Microsoft 365. The same goes for a research report in progress or a practicum report you haven't submitted yet.
Word documents (.docx) and PDF. PDFs are read, searched, and coded; the download with your changes is always .docx.
No. HILO doesn't evaluate or supervise your work: it gathers what you wrote on each point so that you, or whoever corrects it, can see it together.
Try it without signing up
Upload a chapter, type a concept, and see how many times you said it in different ways. Without signing up, search is by keyword. To search by meaning, create a free account: it comes with 100 welcome hilos, the unit HILO uses to measure AI usage.