critiquebrowser.app

What It Is

Critique is an AI fact-checking and webpage chat tool built for the browser. Its tagline is “Browsing meets AI”: users can select text on any website and right-click to critique it, or chat in a sidebar with the current webpage as context. It combines real-time search and automatic citations to help assess how credible information is. The site also shows an example of detecting claims via microphone input and providing fact-checking prompts, but the iOS/Android mobile apps are still at the waitlist stage.

Core Capabilities

Based on the available information, Critique’s core features include manual fact-checking, automatic fact-checking tooltips, detailed article checks, reliability scoring, webpage-context chat, real-time search, and text/image critique. The Premium plan also includes the Critique Flow Side Panel, which can be opened with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+K. However, the site does not disclose the underlying AI models, retrieval sources, citation filtering mechanism, or fact-checking accuracy. Its output should therefore be treated as an aid for judgment rather than a final conclusion.

Pricing and Trial

Pricing is fairly clear: Starter is free forever and includes unlimited manual fact-checking critiques across all websites, right-click critique, and the ability to exclude specific sources. Premium costs $2.99/month, can be cancelled anytime, offers refunds if you are not satisfied, and includes automatic prompts, article reliability scoring, unlimited image and text critique, early access to mobile apps, and more. Installing the extension also comes with a 7-day Pro free trial, making it relatively good value among personal productivity tools.

Pros and Cons

The main advantages are a highly usable free tier, a smooth browser-based workflow, low-friction right-click operation, and integration with real-time search and webpage context. It is well suited for quickly cross-checking news, papers, social media posts, or long-form articles. The drawbacks are also clear: the site does not specify Chinese-language support, data privacy practices, how browsing data is handled, payment methods, or API availability. Support for Facebook, Instagram, Gmail, Google Docs, and similar platforms is still marked as upcoming. The risk of false positives and false negatives in automatic fact-checking also cannot be assessed from the website alone.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Critique is best suited to students, researchers, content creators, knowledge workers, and heavy information consumers who want to quickly identify questionable claims, make an initial credibility assessment of an article, or chat with webpage content. The available text does not state whether it works reliably from mainland China, so access is currently unknown. If access is unstable, alternatives to consider include Perplexity, ChatGPT browser extensions, Kagi Assistant, and Google Fact Check Explorer, though actual usability will still depend on the user’s network environment and payment options.