Your Shield Against Digital Manipulation

Criticaide analyzes text for manipulation tactics, credibility issues, and reasoning flaws to strengthen your critical thinking in an age of information overload.

Criticaide in action

Key Features

Criticaide uses sophisticated AI to protect you from misinformation and manipulation.

Your Personal Shield

Identifies manipulation techniques, credibility issues, and reasoning flaws in text content.

Critical Thinking Development

Helps you understand persuasion and manipulation mechanics through detailed analyses.

Advanced Agent Analysis

Utilizes specialized AI agents to detect cognitive biases, emotional manipulation, and logical fallacies among other things.

Complete Privacy

All processing happens locally on your machine - your data never leaves your device.

Instant Analysis

Global keyboard shortcuts for quick analysis of any text you encounter online.

Detailed Insights

Receive credibility scores, specific manipulation tactics, and actionable recommendations.

How It Works

A simple process with powerful results.

1

Select Text

Find content you want to analyze - news articles, social media posts, or any text.

2

Use Shortcut

Copy the text (Ctrl+C) then press the global shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T) to analyze.

3

Review Analysis

Get instant insights on potential manipulation, credibility issues, and reasoning flaws.

4

Make Informed Decisions

Use the detailed recommendations to evaluate the content more critically.

Download Criticaide

Get started with Criticaide today - it's free and open source.

Windows

For Windows 11

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macOS

Experimental

For macOS on Apple Silicon

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Mac support is currently experimental and may have stability issues.

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System Requirements

Windows: Windows 11 (x64)
macOS: Apple Silicon (arm64)
RAM: 8GB recommended (4GB minimum)
Storage: 2GB free space