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Maple · Your essay coach (AI)
What's something you do that nobody asked you to do?
You said
“I fix the um the bikes in our building like people just leave them broken in the basement and I fix them and leave them out front with a note”
In your essay
I fix the bikes in our building. People just leave them broken in the basement, and I fix them and leave them out front with a note.
Your words · answer 3See how Maple works
Five steps from prompt to draft, shown with an invented example.
Step 1 of 5
Paste your prompt and your college
Paste the prompt exactly as it's given, then add the school and the word limit if you have them.
Invented example
- Essay prompt or assignment
- Why Alder Bay College? Tell us what draws you here and what you would add to our community. (250 words)
- School (for college essays)
- Alder Bay College
- Word or character limit
- 250 words
Or paste a class assignment, with your teacher's rubric under More options.
See an example
A real answer is messy. Here is one, and the sentence it became. (An invented example.)
What did your grandmother do when you burned the first batch?
What you said
(removed: so um) she didn't even get mad (removed: like) she just laughed and she said mija stop stirring it you're making it nervous and then (removed: she) she handed me the spoon back
In your essay
She didn't even get mad. She just laughed and she said, “Mija, stop stirring it, you're making it nervous.” And then she handed me the spoon back.
Your words · answer 3 · 0:42What changed: filler words and a repeat were taken out, and punctuation and capitals were added. No words were added.
Why students and parents trust it
0% AI-written
Built from your words: every sentence comes from what you said. Fixes to spelling, punctuation and filler words, and any small word like “the” added to join your words, are marked, and each sentence is checked against your answers.
An authorship record
Each sentence links back to the answer it came from, so you can show a parent, teacher or counselor how you wrote it.
Talk or type
Answer out loud or type, and switch anytime.
College and school essays
Personal statements, supplements and scholarships, plus class essays like argumentative and literary analysis.
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Their words, with a record
Maple, an AI coach, interviews your student and builds the essay only from their answers. Each sentence links back to the answer it came from, so you can see how it was made.
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Questions
Is this allowed?
Maple works like an interviewer and a proofreader: your coach asks questions, and your essay is built from your answers, with spelling and punctuation fixed. The stories, ideas and sentences are yours.
Rules differ, though. Many colleges have no policy on this kind of help, but some restrict any AI help with application essays, even brainstorming or organizing. Check each school's policy, and your teacher's for class essays, before you use any tool.
Will an AI checker flag my essay?
We can't promise anything about detectors, and no one honestly can promise you a score from any AI checker. They often disagree with each other, and some flag writing that people wrote themselves.
What we can say is that your essay has no AI-written words: it's built from your own answers, and your authorship record shows where every sentence came from, in case anyone asks.
So “0% AI-written” describes the words in your essay, not a score from any checker.
What do you store?
Your essays, answers and recordings are saved in your browser, not in an account on our servers. To run the interview, your prompt and answers are sent to our AI provider, DeepSeek, and your recordings to Groq, a speech-to-text service.
We keep usage records, such as which steps you reached and how long they took, without your answers unless you choose to share them.
What does “0 AI-written words” mean?
No sentence, idea or content word in your essay is written by AI. The AI chooses the questions and puts your sentences in order.
It also fixes spelling, punctuation and filler words, and may add a small connecting word like “and” or “the” to join your words. Every change is marked in the Proof view.
Who is Maple?
Maple is an AI essay coach, not a person or a counselor. Your coach asks one question at a time, listens to your answer, and asks what will make your essay stronger. Maple never writes your sentences.
Can I type instead of talking?
Yes. Choose Type at any point, or switch back and forth. Typed answers work exactly like spoken ones.
Your story, in your words.
Most essays take 10 to 25 minutes. You can stop and come back anytime.
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