Apps

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Getting Started with TellDear

You are a few minutes away from analyzing any text for logical fallacies, cognitive biases, manipulation tactics, and more.

What is TellDear?

TellDear maps the full landscape of flawed reasoning: 535 aspects across 6 dimensions — logical fallacies, cognitive biases, manipulation tactics, statistical errors, argumentation schemes, and discourse mechanics.

You can paste any text and get an instant AI analysis. But TellDear is just as much a place to explore and get curious. Browse the taxonomy and stumble onto concepts you've never heard of. Quiz yourself with the Fallacy Trainer. Follow the Knowledge Graph and discover how manipulation, bias, and logic interlock. Use it as a reference, a training ground, or simply a source of inspiration — whatever draws you in.

6 dimensions · 535 aspects

The Apps

Seventeen apps, each built for a specific analysis task. All require an API key.

Text Analyzer
Deep analysis of any text against 535 aspects — the core app.
Argument Lab
Break down propositions into logical structure and identify hidden claims.
YouTube Analyzer
Analyze YouTube videos for rhetoric and bias (via transcript).
Headline Decoder
Detect framing, spin, and bias in news headlines.
Ask Your Uncle
Decode classic rhetorical fallacies from everyday conversations.
Spin Doctor
Identify narrative manipulation in political and media texts.
Fallacy Trainer
Quiz yourself on fallacy and bias recognition — learn by doing.
Bias Mirror
Check your own arguments for weaknesses before you publish.
Steel Man
Build the strongest possible version of an opposing argument.
Comeback
Get Socratic counter-questions that expose flawed reasoning without making a counter-claim.
Debate Arena
Interactive debate trainer with AI-guided Socratic questioning.
Argument Mapper
Map the logic of speeches, articles, and debates as an interactive visual graph.
Crux
Find the one premise an argument cannot survive without.
Unpack
List every hidden assumption a claim silently relies on.
Flip
Map the exact conditions under which your belief would be wrong.
Falsify
Identify the evidence that would disprove a claim — and whether it could exist.
Cui Bono
Identify who gains financially, politically, or reputationally if a claim spreads.
Scale
Put any statistic in context: absolute vs. relative, base rates, comparison groups.
Source Compare
Compare two news texts on the same story and map their rhetorical differences.
Common Ground
Find shared premises between opposing positions and separate real disagreements from framing gaps.
Flashcards
Rapid-fire multiple-choice quiz — identify fallacies and biases from short examples.
Aspect Finder
Describe any situation and discover which aspects of critical thinking are relevant.
Source Evaluator
Paste any article or text to evaluate its reasoning quality across 5 dimensions.

Getting Started in 4 Steps

1

Create an account

Sign up at the Login page. You will receive a confirmation email — click the link to activate your account.

2

Get an API key

TellDear supports many AI providers — including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, Groq, xAI, and OpenRouter. Add your own API key to keep costs under your control and usage private. The provider is auto-detected from your key.

  1. 1. Pick a provider: console.anthropic.com (recommended), platform.openai.com, or aistudio.google.com.
  2. 2. Create an account and navigate to the API Keys section.
  3. 3. Create and copy your key. Anthropic keys start with sk-ant-, OpenAI with sk-, Gemini with AIzaSy.
  4. 4. Set a spending limit in your provider's billing settings (recommended: $5–10/month).
3

Enter your key in TellDear

Go to your Account page, paste the key into the API Key field, and save. TellDear encrypts it at rest — it is never shared or logged.

4

(Optional) Choose a model

Each provider has a sensible default model. On your Account page you can switch to a different model — for example Haiku (faster, cheaper) or Opus (most capable) for Anthropic, or the equivalent tiers for OpenAI and Gemini.

Start here: 10 essential patterns

These are the most common and accessible reasoning patterns — the ones you'll encounter every day. Learn these first.

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Costs

TellDear is free — no subscription, no ads.

API costs are billed directly by your provider, not through TellDear. Free-mode usage has no cost.

Typical cost per analysis: $0.01–0.05. A $5 monthly limit covers hundreds of analyses.

Set a spending limit at console.anthropic.com to stay in control.

Privacy

Your API key is encrypted at rest and used only to relay your own API requests. It is never stored in plain text, logged, or shared.

Text you submit is sent to your chosen AI provider's API for processing. TellDear does not store analysis results or input text beyond the current session.

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