Academic Writing, Done Honestly
Lauritzen Scholar is a distraction-free writing workspace for research papers, essays, and reports — where every claim you make can be checked against the sources you actually cited.
Write With Your Sources — Not Instead of Them
Lauritzen Scholar is not an AI ghostwriter. It won’t generate your thesis, your body paragraphs, or your conclusion. What it gives you is a clean space to write, alongside tools that catch the kind of mistakes that cost real grades: an unsupported claim, a missing citation, a quote nobody backed up.
Citation Checking that Reads Like a Second Set of Eyes
As you write, Lauritzen Scholar quietly checks each sentence against your source list — flagging direct quotes without a citation, evidence language (“studies show,” “researchers found”) with nothing behind it, and citations that don’t match anything in your bibliography. Every source shows exactly where it’s Supported, Unsupported, or unused.
Every Major Citation Style, Formatted Correctly
MLA, APA, Chicago, and IEEE — in-text citations and bibliographies are generated automatically in the right format, whether you’re writing a lit review or a lab report.
Structure Before You Draft
Start from a blank page or one of five built-in templates — 5-Paragraph Essay, Argumentative Research Paper, Literature Review, Lab Report, or Annotated Bibliography — each with a starting outline you can reshape immediately.
Know Exactly What You Need to Do
Paste in your assignment prompt and Lauritzen Scholar extracts word count targets, source count requirements, and checklist items automatically — then tracks your progress against them in real time, section by section.
Your Sources, Organized
Add sources by DOI, ISBN, or URL and let Lauritzen Scholar pull the metadata. Attach prepared quotes, track which sources you’ve actually used in the draft, and see at a glance which ones still need complete citation information.
Never Lose a Version
Save a snapshot of your draft at any point and restore it later — every revision is kept locally, so a bad edit or a deleted paragraph is never permanent.
Export It Your Way
PDF, Word (DOCX), RTF, or Markdown — with correct pagination, running headers, and a bibliography that starts on its own page, formatted to the citation style you’re using.
Built to Be Used by Everyone
Full support for Dynamic Type, Bold Text, increased contrast, reduced motion and transparency, VoiceOver, and Switch Control — plus one-tap presets for Dyslexia Support, ADHD Focus, and Low Vision that adjust spacing, line height, and animation without you having to hunt through settings.
Your Writing Stays Yours
Lauritzen Scholar is local-first: your documents live on your device by default. Turn on iCloud sync if you want them everywhere; leave it off and nothing leaves your device at all.
One App, One Price, Every Apple Device
Start a draft on iPhone, keep writing on iPad with a full side-by-side source panel, and finish on Mac with keyboard shortcuts for everything — new document, search, export, and settings, all one keystroke away.