Veritype

Changelog

Last updated: September 2, 2026

Everything that has changed in Veritype, newest first. Updates reach you through the Chrome Web Store — Chrome installs them automatically once a release is approved, which usually takes a few days after it is submitted. You can check which version you have at chrome://extensions.

For where Veritype is going rather than where it has been, see the roadmap.

1.2.0 submitted September 2, 2026

One theme, from end to end: your reading. Every analysis you run now leaves a trace that belongs to you — first on your own machine, and then, only if you ask for it, on your account and across your devices.

New

• Where your reading sits. After an analysis the panel places your recent reading on the same left-to-right scale as the article you just read — one mark for the article, one for your own average — so you can see whether you are ranging across the spectrum or circling one part of it.
• A reading tally, kept on your device. One line per analysis: the day, the lean, and the publication. Never the address of the page, never its headline, and never its text. Veritype works out the publication on your own machine, so recognising it costs no request.
• Keep it on your account, if you want to. Off unless you turn it on. Switch it on and your reading follows you between devices. Entries recorded while it was off stay put unless you separately ask for them — turning sync on never quietly uploads history you kept private.
• A dashboard on the website. The spread of what you read, how it has moved over time, and which outlets you actually return to — at a size a side panel cannot do justice to. The panel links straight to it.
• Delete it and it is actually gone, on this machine and on the server, and the button says exactly what it will remove.
• Your recent analyses say they are temporary and offer you the way to keep them, rather than quietly dropping the oldest.
• Bring-your-own-key analyses count toward your recent list and your tally, the same as any other.
• The panel can reach the privacy policy it had been summarising without ever linking to.

Fixed

• The mark for the article you are reading is drawn properly. It was meant to be a hollow diamond and was rendering as four small slivers.
• The panel stops saying nothing has been analysed while it is showing you your own reading, and a signed-out panel stops denying what you have already read.
• A bring-your-own-key analysis shows up straight away in your recent list and in your reading summary, instead of on the next time you open the panel.
• Screen readers hear the confirmation when you stop syncing, and the copy control in your recent list reports failure the way the rest of the panel does.
• Bring-your-own-key analyses get the same neutrality instruction as every other analysis. It had only ever been applied on our side.

On the website

• Your dashboard, at /dashboard.
• A guide, at /guide — how to use Veritype, how it arrives at a number, and where it falls down.
• A lapsed session gets the sign-in page rather than a page insisting your own dashboard does not exist.

1.1.0 submitted September 1, 2026

The first update after launch. Two themes: making the free tier genuinely readable rather than merely limited, and making the panel quick enough to use on more than one article at a time.

New

• A keyboard shortcut. Press Alt+Shift+V while reading and Veritype analyzes the page — the panel opens on its own, without your hands leaving the keyboard. Inside the panel, R re-analyzes, C copies the report, and Esc closes Settings. If that combination is already taken by something else on your machine, Chrome leaves it unset — the panel will tell you and link you straight to where you can choose your own.
• Analyses remaining, on the toolbar icon. Free accounts now carry the number on the Veritype icon itself, so you can see what you have left without opening anything. It turns gold at one remaining and red at none. Pro accounts show nothing, because there is no number worth watching.
• Cached articles are credited where you can see it. An article someone else already analyzed costs you nothing, and the panel now says so on the report rather than leaving you to infer it from a counter that did not move.
• Personalize actually reorders your reports. Setting a persona now changes which signals appear first — a journalist sees sourcing before language, a student the reverse. Your persona is never sent to the model; the reordering happens on your machine.
• Free accounts see one AI-detection signal instead of none. Where an article only has one, it is shown with no lock at all.
• A way for bring-your-own-key users to support the project, who pay their own model costs and so have no subscription to buy.

Fixed

• Hitting the daily limit no longer takes your report away. Reaching ten analyses used to clear the report you were reading in order to tell you that you could not have another one. It now stays on screen, with the limit notice beside it.
• Signing in lasts. The panel could decide you were signed out about a minute after you closed the Veritype website, even though your session was perfectly valid. It no longer does.
• Copying a report copies all of it. Copied reports were being cut short and left out the AI-detection signals.
• Settings stops rearranging itself a moment after you open it.
• One sign-in prompt when signed out, not two.
• Small text in the panel is bigger. A handful of labels sat below the size this project holds itself to, including the one carrying the number of analyses you had left.

On the website

• One-click unsubscribe for anything we send you, with no sign-in and no account required — the address in the link is all it needs.
• A short survey when you uninstall. Anonymous, four options, entirely optional. It is the only way we hear from someone who leaves, and it made this release better.
• This page.

1.0.0 released August 31, 2026

The first public release, after review by the Chrome Web Store.

• Bias analysis and counterarguments, on a passage you select or a whole page, in a panel beside the article.
• AI-content signals — hedged observations, never a verdict.
• Similar Sources (Pro) — real, current coverage of the same story from outlets at a point on the spectrum you choose.
• Outlet ratings on two separate axes. Political lean and factual record are judged and shown apart, never averaged into one score. Only documented, dated, cited flags. The method is public.
• Analyze the page you are reading from inside the panel, with no right-click round trip.
• A short history of recent analyses, kept on your own machine and cleared when you close the browser.
• Copy a report out, with real headings and bullets in Word, Docs and Outlook.
• Provenance on every report: when it was analyzed, by which model, and whether it came from a shared cached result.
• Bring your own API key, and your text never touches our servers.

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