International students carry a writing load domestic students never see: turning out high-stakes English — application essays, statements of purpose, coursework, a thesis — in a language that isn’t their first, while detectors flag non-native English at rates native speakers rarely hit. Most writing tools were built for native speakers chasing polish, so they read an international student as a careless native instead of a capable person working across two languages. Diglot starts from that reality.
You draft in your first language and cross into English in the same editor, source held in view. Each grammar correction comes with the reason your L1 caused it — a Chinese applicant’s SOP that reads translated because the tense keeps flattening, say — so the fix carries into next semester’s essays instead of resurfacing every time. Application documents get structure and register guidance meant for second-language writers.
And the documents you write in Diglot can carry an Authorship Certificate, a signed record of how each one was written, so if an AI flag ever lands on the essay that decides your admission, you have concrete process evidence to show. Free to start, with plans that stretch to thesis length.