Criticly

Criticly is a macOS desktop app that brings AI to any text you highlight. Select a passage, press a global hotkey, and within seconds you’ll see questions, critique, or clarifications on screen.

Analyze text and ideas faster

Criticly helps you make sense of dense or messy information by pulling out what matters and challenging unclear reasoning. It’s useful when reading articles, working through notes, or drafting emails and documents.

• Extract key points from a selected passage
• Ask clarifying questions to reduce ambiguity
• Flag logical gaps and weak argumentation

Critical thinking on a hotkey

Instead of only summarizing, Criticly focuses on critical analysis. It highlights assumptions you may be making and points out potential blind spots—helpful for anyone who works with text regularly.

• Review arguments and reasoning quality
• Identify hidden assumptions
• Generate questions to test ideas

Privacy and local-first setup

The developers state that your text isn’t stored on their side. The app is code-signed and notarized for macOS, and it doesn’t require registration to start using it.

• No account required to launch
• Code-signed and notarized for macOS
• Text not stored by the developer (per their statement)