Willem
Useless, bad quality editing, a total waste of time and money
Enago edited my text and changed 50% of the wording. A totally ridiculous replacement rate. I'm not a native speaker but surely my English isn't that crap. I usually get 5-7% replacement rate which is normal. A lot of edits were useless (changing 'essential' to 'key' as a typical example). Worse, a lot of edits changed the meaning of the text. To their credit they issued a second and third, less heavy edit in a short turnaround time, but these still contained a lot of really bad errors changing the meaning of the text. It surely looks like an AI job with possibly some human intervention afterwards. They pretend to be US based and use English sounding names in emails, but most if not all use Indian English in their communication - why pose as a US based company? Is there something to hide? Some other reviews on Trustpilot support this point. Also, initial email responses are totally besides the point, definitely scripted and perhaps even AI based. This has been a massive waste of my time. They stubbornly refuse to admit any wrongdoing even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary (I really know what I'm writing and most definitely I can spot changes to the meaning of the text, but Enago think they know better). I'm not sure if this is a true scam or just a really crappy editing service, but in any case avoid Enago at all cost. And Enago, please spare me the typical sycophantic reply to this review saying you're sorry, you'll do better next time, yada yada yada. You know you're not sorry and you don't intend to improve.

