Writing · Analyzer · Checker

POV, tense, and head-hopping checker

Paste a fiction scene and get a fast read on likely narrative point of view, tense balance, dialogue-versus-narration noise, filter words, and sentences that may be leaking more than one character’s interior state.

Scene input

Analysis updates instantly. Use the button only if you want a shareable URL for a short excerpt.

Why this page is worth using

Targets search intent around POV checker, tense consistency checker, and head-hopping checker queries.
Separates narration from dialogue so a character saying “I” does not automatically fool the POV estimate.
Flags sentences worth revising instead of pretending a rough heuristic can replace editorial judgment.

Read the launch note for this writing tool.

Scene diagnosis

Sentence flags

Revision notes

What this checker is looking for

POV drift: first-, second-, and third-person signals competing inside the same narration.
Tense wobble: past-tense and present-tense markers both showing up where one dominant mode was expected.
Head hopping: one sentence appearing to expose more than one character’s thoughts, feelings, or perceptions.

Scope note

This is a revision aid, not a full parser. It uses simple heuristics, so it works best as a way to find unstable sentences fast, then decide manually whether the prose is genuinely wrong or just stylistically unusual.