Critique
Critique Labs (Starman LLC) · Marketing
Critique is an AI browser extension that fact-checks web pages and social posts in real time. The AI fact checker adds cited verdicts, credibility scores, and a chat panel that reads your open tabs.
About Critique
What Is Critique
Critique is a browser extension from Critique Labs that checks what you read while you browse. It runs on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, and it works on two levels: it labels claims automatically as you scroll, and it lets you ask about anything by right-clicking it.
The idea behind it is simple. Most people verify a claim by opening a second tab and typing it into a search box, then reading a few results and guessing. Critique does that research for you and returns a verdict with the sources it used. A claim comes back as verified, disputed, misleading, or unverifiable, and you can hover to see the evidence on both sides.
Automatic checking does not cover every site. The extension flags social posts and news articles in real time, and the list of supported platforms is still growing. On everything else, you trigger a check yourself by highlighting text and picking Critique This. The tool also carries a clear limit: Critique Labs states that outputs are probabilistic and that material decisions still need a human review.
Getting Started
- Install Critique from the Chrome Web Store, the Edge Add-ons store, or Firefox Add-ons.
- Pin the extension to your toolbar so the popup is one click away.
- Open the popup, sign in, and refresh any tabs you already had open.
- Browse as usual. Verdicts appear on supported sites, and you can right-click any text or image to check it.
Product Information
A quick look at Critique's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- News readers who want a second opinion on a story
- Social media users who scroll fast
- Researchers and students checking sources
- Casual debaters and fact-check hobbyists
Tasks
- Verifying a quote or statistic before you repeat it
- Sizing up a news outlet
- Checking an image
- Comparing several sources at once
Scenarios
- Job hunting and company research
- Wading through a heated comment thread
- Following a breaking story
Key features
Real-time fact-checking
Critique is an AI fact-checking browser extension first and a research tool second, and real-time checking is the part you notice on day one. It marks each claim with a color: green for verified, yellow for disputed, red for misleading. Hover over a mark and you get the supporting evidence, the contradicting evidence, and the original sources. This runs on Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, YouTube comments, and news articles.
Right-click Critique This
Where automatic checking stops, the manual option starts. Highlight any text on any site and pick Critique This from the right-click menu, and Critique returns a cited answer. It handles single claims, quotes, statistics, and historical facts, which makes it the fallback for pages outside the supported list.
Critique Flow side panel
Critique Flow turns your open tabs into the context for a chat. Press Command+Shift+K on a Mac or Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows and Linux, and the side panel opens with your current tabs pulled in. You can ask across sources, compare what two articles say, or look for contradictions, and answers come back with citation-style annotations.
Article breakdown and credibility scores
On a news site, Critique reads the article for you and returns a summary of the main points, the sources behind them, and a credibility score for the outlet. It is a faster way to size up a story than reading every paragraph, and it helps you decide whether a headline is worth your time.
Image analysis
Right-clicking an image triggers a check on the picture itself. Critique looks for the original publication, signs of editing, and where else the image has appeared, then describes what is in the frame. That matters for viral photos that get recycled with a new caption, and it applies to brand logos and text inside images too.
Agentic search engine
Critique's fact-checks sit on an agentic search engine that searches the web live rather than reading a fixed index. It follows links and explores related pages the way a person would, which is how it pulls current sources instead of older cached ones. The same engine also powers a separate API platform where developers build and publish search endpoints.
Pros and cons
Pros
- The free Starter plan covers unlimited manual fact-checking, so the core right-click check costs nothing.
- Verdicts come with citations, which lets you check the checker rather than trusting a label.
- Runs on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, so the fact-check extension for Chrome works the same as the builds for the other two browsers.
- Automatic checks work inside comment threads on Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, and YouTube.
- Image analysis adds source tracing that most fact-check tools skip.
Cons
- Automatic real-time checks only cover the supported platforms, so on an ordinary blog you fall back to manual checks.
- The feature list promises upcoming support for Facebook, Instagram, Gmail, and Google Docs, which means those sites are not covered yet.
- Verdicts are AI output and Critique Labs says they can be wrong, so high-stakes reading still needs your own judgment.
- There is no mobile app yet. The iOS and Android apps are still on a waitlist, so phone browsing is out for now.
Frequently asked questions
Critique is a browser extension that fact-checks what you read online. It labels claims as you scroll, checks text and images when you right-click them, and returns answers with the sources it used.
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