About OKhuman

The OKhuman ecosystem allows a writer to showcase human effort in their written work to their reader. It doesn’t judge the quality of the writing, that’s for your readers to do. In fact, your text does not ever leave your device. The tool observes and characterizes human effort into meaningful insights, so you can represent this to your audience.

How it works

1. You install the OKhuman app on your computer (macOS 14+, Windows 10+). OKhuman works in the background while you write in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Canvas, Gmail, Apple Notes, Hemingway App, Substack, Medium, WordPress, Ghost, Slack, LinkedIn and more. There are no interruptions to your workflow.
2. As you write, OKhuman documents your writing activity and the time invested in your writing process.
3. When you stamp, OKhuman generates a stamp URL and appends it to your document. To show your audience the writing effort behind your words, leave the stamp in the document. If you don’t want it shown, delete it. Your stamp is still archived for future use.

Getting Started

Register

Create your account at okhuman.com using your email address. To complete signing up, review our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Download & Install

On the Dashboard page, click Download:

• On Windows, open the downloaded “exe” file and follow the installation wizard.
• On MacOS, open the downloaded “dmg” file and double-click “Install OKhuman”.

One-time setup

1. Grant permissions when prompted. These are required for effort observation.
2. Sign in to your OKhuman account. This process will take you to the OKhuman website and back into the app.
3. IMPORTANT: Google Docs users need one extra step. This needs to be done for every Google account that you would like to write using:
   1. Open a Google Doc
   2. Go to Google Docs’ Accessibility Settings (Tools -> Accessibility)
   3. Check “Turn on screen reader support” and “Turn on braille support” and click OK.
   4. Because of a Google Docs bug, you need to go into these settings again and confirm that these are set. If not, please check again and press OK.

Note: Some in-app help screens will guide you through these steps including your first time reviewing and stamping. Read ahead to understand these concepts better.

Stamping your work

Stamp any document to show the effort behind it. Ensure that you have OKhuman enabled for your writing app, write and click Stamp (or use the keyboard shortcut).