Textly AI Review
The first thing a Textly review has to do is tell you what you are looking at. textly.ai is a holding page for investors. The product is Linguix. Everything below is about Linguix, because that is the only thing there is to review.
Scored on the six-dimension BrokenCtrl methodology, set independently of the affiliate link. How scoring works.
| Dimension | Basis | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Transparency | Investor page fronts a different product; user counts differ 15x between own channels. | 3 / 10 |
| Data Privacy | Chrome listing says text goes to OpenAI; privacy policy's processor list omits OpenAI. | 3 / 10 |
| Safety Architecture | clipboardRead permission added quietly in 2024; collects 'personal communications'. | 4 / 10 |
| Corporate Conduct | Non-refundable subscriptions; cancellation by email reportedly not honoured. | 3 / 10 |
| Bias Mitigation | No published bias evaluation. | 5 / 10 |
| Regulatory Alignment | Unaudited HIPAA self-assertion aimed at clinicians; two documents disagree on hosting. | 3 / 10 |
| Total | 21 / 60 |
The homepage claims 450,000+ users. The Chrome Web Store — which counts installs directly — says 30,000. Both are published by the same company. The extension is genuinely maintained (v1.6.140, March 2026); the blog has been dead since late 2023.
Linguix’s own Chrome Web Store listing states that your text is sent to OpenAI. Its privacy policy contains an exhaustive list of service providers — Google Cloud, Amplitude, Intercom, Stripe, PayPal, Sendgrid, Mailgun. OpenAI is not on it.
There are two readings. Either OpenAI is an undisclosed sub-processor, which is a plain GDPR transparency failure. Or the advertised ChatGPT integration does not do what it says. Both are bad, and you can check it yourself in two browser tabs.
The product is marketed to clinicians and claims to be “fully compliant with HIPAA,” handling protected health information. HIPAA has no certifying body, so this is an unaudited self-assertion. It sits alongside a security page that says the infrastructure runs on Azure and a privacy policy that names Google Cloud and never mentions Azure. Two live documents disagree about which country your text is processed in.
The extension holds <all_urls> read and write access — unavoidable for a writing assistant. It also holds clipboardRead, which was added in 2024. Chrome’s own disclosure on the listing states it collects “personal communications.”
Linguix ships an AI content detector and a text humaniser in the same product. It sells the lock and the key. It makes no explicit “undetectable” promise, which is more restraint than most of this cohort shows — but the two features are aimed at opposite sides of the same academic-integrity problem.
Pro at $30/month, $140/year, $240 for two years. Subscriptions are explicitly non-refundable and users report cancellation by email not being honoured. API tiers run $99–$1,499/month.
Grammarly — The incumbent with published security certifications and a real trust centre.
TextCortex — Similar breadth; read its training-data contradiction before choosing either.
Is Textly the same as Linguix?
Yes. textly.ai is the investor page of Textly, Inc. The product you would actually use is Linguix, at linguix.com.
Does Textly send my text to OpenAI?
Its Chrome Web Store listing says so. Its privacy policy's list of service providers does not name OpenAI. The two documents do not agree.
Is Linguix HIPAA compliant?
It claims to be. HIPAA has no certifying body, so the claim is a self-assertion with no external audit behind it.
Can I get a refund?
No. Subscriptions are explicitly non-refundable under the current terms.