See how a story is covered. Check what an article claims.
Veritas is a news reader for iPhone and Android. It reads the sources you choose, groups their reports into stories, and on request checks an article’s claims against independent sources and shows you each one.
- iPhone and Android
- Free to read
- No account
Not in the stores yet. It is coming to the App Store and Google Play.
Cheaper buses, twice the riders
1 of 2 claims is supported by independent sources. 1 could not be verified.
Claims
“Bus fares fell by 20 percent on 1 January.”
Supported
The transport authority’s notice and the city’s budget both give the date and the amount.
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“Ridership doubled within a month.”
Not verified
Passenger counts for January are said to confirm the increase.
Sources
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No source, no verdict
A language model can sound certain about anything. So Veritas does not take its word. A claim is shown as supported or contradicted only when an independent source that was actually retrieved is attached to it. The article’s own publisher never counts, under any of its addresses. Posts on social platforms do not count either.
Everything else is shown as “not verified”, whatever the model said, and the report tells you so. That rule is in the app’s code, not in a request to the model.
The four verdicts
- Supported
- Independent sources confirm the claim.
- Contradicted
- Independent sources say otherwise.
- Sources disagree
- Independent sources contradict each other.
- Not verified
- No independent source was found, or none could be attached.
What happens when you tap Check
The article is read in full
A check runs on the text of the article itself, never on the short teaser a feed delivers.
The model picks claims and searches
It chooses up to six claims that can be checked, such as numbers, dates, events and attributed statements, and searches the web for each. Opinions and predictions are left out.
Veritas follows every source
The app opens each source link to see where it really leads. Pages of the article’s own publisher are dropped, and so are social platforms.
Only then is a verdict shown
A verdict stays if an independent source is attached to that claim. If not, the claim is shown as not verified, and the report says what the model had called it.
There are no scores and no percentages. A check reads search results and can be wrong, and every report says so. The sources are one tap away.
What it does
Stories
When several of your sources report the same event, Veritas shows it as one story and tells you how many cover it. The day’s stories come first, ranked by how many of your sources report them, then everything else by time. The grouping happens on your device.
Stories
Bridge in Riverton closed after inspectors find cracks
Council passes budget after a late vote
Latest
School board delays decision on the new timetable
Harbour ferry to run every half hour from Monday
Coverage
Open a story to see each outlet’s headline side by side. With Premium, Veritas compares the reports and tells you what all of them say and where each one differs. The comparison uses headlines and opening lines only, and the note says so.
Bridge in Riverton closed after inspectors find cracks
How it is covered
All four report the closure and the detour. They differ on how long repairs will take.
All report
- Cracks in two steel girders
- Traffic sent over the northern crossing
Where they differ
The Courier expects repairs to take weeks.
Valley Herald quotes an engineer who speaks of months.
Reader
An article opens as text, without the page around it, and is kept for reading offline. You can have it summarised, ask questions about it, or check it. The publisher’s words stay in a serif on paper. What Veritas writes sits on a tinted note, so you always know who is speaking.
Bridge in Riverton closed after inspectors find cracks
Summary
The bridge is closed after cracks were found in two girders. Traffic is diverted north. The city has not said when it will reopen.
Inspectors found cracks in two of the bridge’s steel girders on Tuesday, the city said. Traffic is being sent over the northern crossing.
SummariseCheckAsk
Briefing
A short digest of the day, written from your own sources and linked to their articles. It adds nothing from elsewhere. If you want one, a reminder arrives at a time you choose.
Riverton’s bridge closure dominates today: four of your sources report it, and they differ on how long repairs will take. Two report the council’s budget vote.
Bridge closed after cracks are found
Inspectors found cracks in two girders. The bridge is shut and traffic is diverted.
Why it matters It is the main route across the river.
Bridge in Riverton closed after inspectors find cracks
Cracks close river bridge
Also
- Check a pasted link, or a link shared from another app
- Earlier checks are kept, and readable offline
- Add a source by its feed or website address, or pick from a catalogue
- Saved articles and search
- A light and a dark design
- English and German
The screens on this page are drawn, not photographed. Riverton, its newspapers and their articles are invented; the app’s wording and layout are real.
Free, and Premium
Reading costs nothing and needs no server. What uses AI is one subscription.
Free
- Follow any source that has a feed, or pick from a catalogue
- Stories grouped from your sources
- The reader, with offline reading
- Saved articles and search
Premium
- Check an article’s claims against independent sources
- Compare how your sources report a story
- Summaries and questions about an article
- The daily briefing
A subscription through the App Store or Google Play. The app shows the price before you buy; you cancel in your store account.
What Veritas knows about you
Where an article’s text goes when you ask for a check
- Your deviceSources, articles, checks and settings are kept here.
- Veritas serverPasses the text on and keeps none of it.
- Google GeminiAnswers, and searches the web for a check.
- No account
- There is nothing to sign up for. Your sources, articles, checks and settings stay in a database on your device.
- Nothing leaves unless you ask
- When you ask for a check, a summary or the briefing, the article text goes to the Veritas server, on to Google’s Gemini, and the answer comes back. The server keeps none of it.
- The subscription
- The server remembers a scrambled identifier of the purchase, the plan, when it ends and how many requests it made. Not your name, not your store account.
- No tracking
- No analytics, no advertising identifiers, no crash reports. This page sets no cookies and loads nothing from anyone else.
Not in the stores yet
Veritas is coming to the App Store and Google Play. Until it is there, there is nothing to download here.
Questions go to contact@cidix.dev.