BothSideZ

See every side
of what you're sent.

Send Both Sides a video, an article or a question. It checks each point against sources you can open, argues every side at its strongest, and tells you where its own answer might lean.

Free in early access · invite-only for now · iPhone and web

See it at work

“A four-day work week”

A real check, shortened. It found the claims people make on each side, checked them, and laid out three positions — not two — because there really are three.

partly supported
In the world's largest trial, almost every company stuck with the four-day week afterwards.
What people take away: Employers who try it overwhelmingly keep it, so it must work.

Accurate as reported: 56 of 61 UK firms (92%) said they would continue. But they volunteered, were coached, and had no control group — it measures their choice, not whether output held up.

University of CambridgeAutonomy Institute
supported
The health benefits are now proven by peer-reviewed science.
What people take away: Cutting to four days measurably reduces burnout.

A 2025 Nature Human Behaviour study of 2,896 workers in 141 organisations found less burnout and better health. Limits: self-reported, six months, firms opted in.

NatureABC News
misleading
Iceland proved a whole country can move to a four-day week.
What people take away: A national four-day week has been tested and succeeded.

Iceland's trials cut the week from 40 hours to 35–36 — not four days. Researchers say the four-day framing greatly overstates what was tested.

The ConversationQuartz

Shorten the week

Heart

Burnout is a real harm, and productivity gains should show up as time, not only pay.

Logic

The predicted collapse in output keeps failing to appear, and 92% of trial firms chose to keep it.

Keep hours and employer choice

Heart

Thin-margin businesses — restaurants, care homes — can't absorb a fifth fewer hours.

Logic

Nearly all the evidence comes from self-selected firms with no randomly assigned control group.

Right to request, not a mandate

Heart

Workers deserve leverage to ask, without one rule for every industry.

Logic

It's the version actually on the books — Belgium's 2022 right to request — and lets evidence build sector by sector.

Fairness check

The pro side has a peer-reviewed study and large pilots; much of the critical case is methodological commentary — an imbalance that may reflect who funds research rather than who is right. I ran out of searches before checking long-run follow-ups and costed national estimates.

Read the whole check →

What Both Sides is

An app that checks what you're sent — and shows you every side of it.

Someone sends you a clip. It's confident, it's emotional, and it might be true. Both Sides listens to it, pulls out the points a viewer walks away believing, and checks each one against what's actually on the record. Then it sets out the sides of the issue — the heart and the logic of each — so you can make up your own mind.

It started with a simple wish — to see both sides of a story, with context for every point the person telling it makes — and the worry that comes with it: that the AI doing the explaining might be biased too. Both Sides is built to answer both.

Why it's different

Checkable, not trusted.

The usual way
  1. Watch a clip that makes you angry or certain
  2. Search for one claim, find an article that agrees
  3. Find another that doesn't
  4. Ask a chatbot, get one smooth answer
  5. Wonder which of them is leaning
  6. Never hear the other side's best argument
With Both Sides
  1. Send it the link
  2. Every claim, quoted, with its moment in the clip
  3. A verdict from a fixed list, with sources you can open
  4. Every side argued at its strongest
  5. A fairness check on its own answer
supportedThe record backs it.
partly supportedTrue in part; something's missing.
missing contextAccurate, but the full picture changes it.
misleadingTechnically true, leaves a false impression.
disputedExperts genuinely disagree.
falseThe record contradicts it.
can't verifyCouldn't be checked — so it says so.
opinionA value judgement. Labelled, never graded.

Eight verdicts, and only eight. Anything else the AI wants to say becomes “can't verify.” A source without a real link is dropped. A quote has to be words that were actually said.

What you get

One place to check it, understand it, and talk about it.

Any video link

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Threads. It listens to the audio and checks what's said, with the minute it was said.

Articles and pasted text

Paste a link to any article, or a whole block of text, and every main claim gets checked.

Plain questions

“Give me both sides of the immigration debate.” It maps the debate itself: the claims each side makes, and what the record shows.

Each point, checked

Quoted exactly, given one verdict from a fixed list, explained in a few sentences, with sources you can open.

Heart and logic

Every side gets what its people value and fear, and its strongest argument — the way its most thoughtful supporters would put it.

Argue a side

Pick a side and get its best case: the evidence, the objections you'll hear, honest answers, and the weak points not to lean on.

Talk with someone

Getting ready for a conversation with someone who sees it differently: where you agree, what to ask, what shuts it down.

Common ground

What the sides share, and the compromises people across the divide have actually proposed.

Follow-up questions

Ask anything about a check — “explain this to a teenager,” “what would change each side's mind?”

Share it

One link, with previews in Messages, WhatsApp and Facebook. The analysis travels; your transcripts and text stay private.

From your share sheet

On iPhone, tap Share → Both Sides on any post or article. On a computer, one bookmark does the same.

The fairness check

Every check ends by saying where it might itself lean, and what it couldn't check.

Pricing

Free while we're in early access.

Early access$0
  • Every way of looking at it — both sides, argue a side, talk with someone, common ground, just the facts
  • Videos, articles, text and questions
  • Follow-up questions and share links
  • A daily limit, so it stays free for everyone
Request an invite

Paid plans will be announced here before anyone is charged. No card is needed now.

Get Both Sides

On your iPhone, and in any browser.

iPhone

The app, with “Share → Both Sides” on any post or article. Early testers get it through TestFlight; the App Store listing is coming.

Ask to be a tester

Web

Everything the app does, in your browser. Your checks are the same on both.

Open Both Sides

From any page

On a computer, one bookmark sends whatever you're reading to Both Sides — it fills in the link and waits for you to tap.

Set it up in the app

Both Sides is invite-only for now. Signing in is your email and a six-digit code — no password.

Questions

The things worth knowing first.

Isn't an AI going to be biased too?

It can be — that's the worry Both Sides was built around. So it's built to be checkable, not trusted: every quote is real words from the source, every verdict comes from a fixed list, every source is a link you can open, every side gets equal care, and each check ends with its own fairness check. If a check gets something wrong, the sources will show it.

Does it tell me who's right?

No. It tells you what the record shows on each factual claim, labels opinions as opinions, and lays out each side at its strongest. Deciding is yours.

What can I send it?

A link to a video post (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Threads), a link to an article, a block of text, or a plain question. YouTube links sometimes fail because YouTube refuses some requests. Posts shared only with friends or followers can't be opened.

Can it see the video?

It listens to the audio. It can't see on-screen text or images, and it says so in every check of a video.

How long does it take?

A question or an article takes two to four minutes. A video takes about as long as the video, plus a minute or two. You can leave and come back; it will be waiting.

What happens to what I send?

Your checks are private to you unless you share one. Audio is deleted as soon as it's transcribed. You can delete any check, or your whole account, from inside the app. The privacy policy has the details.

Which AI does it use?

Anthropic's Claude, with live web search, so it can check claims against what's published now rather than only what it remembers.

Is it free?

Yes, while Both Sides is in early access. Pricing will be announced here before anyone is ever charged.

Help

A real person reads these.

Questions, ideas, something that went wrong, or a request to join. If it's a problem, say what you sent and what you expected instead — that's almost always enough to fix it.