App or human? Most of the internet's opinions on this are sponsored. Here is the unsponsored version.
- Apps win on speed, price, and 2am availability, perfect for early drafts - Humans win on everything that matters later: generic motivation, mismatched research interests, an opening that will annoy a professor - The failure mode of apps is false confidence, green checkmarks are not approval - The failure mode of humans is cost and variance, a bad reviewer is worse than none - The answer is sequence: apps for drafts one through three, a human for the final pass
Whichever route you take, the draft still has to fit each target school. SOPCraft handles that final step: a tailored draft for your two programs for $4.99. Sequence complete, stress over.