Toxicity: Text & Tone Analyzer vs. Verity
Reviewed by Jacob Reed, founder of Verity ·
Short answer
Toxicity is an Android app that reads a pasted text or a screenshot, scores its tone in the cloud and suggests a reply, free for three messages a day. Verity reads a whole exported conversation in your browser, keeps every date, and gives you a numbered record for a lawyer, for one-time prices. On the same fictional chat, both found gaslighting and DARVO; only Verity flagged the threats.
Both start from the same worry: a message that leaves you second-guessing yourself. Toxicity answers it one text at a time. Verity answers it across the whole history.
1.What each one is built to do
Toxicity
Tell you what one message is doing. Its listing says it spots gaslighting, guilt-tripping, blame-shifting and emotional pressure, explains the pattern and suggests how to reply, in six tones: Calm, Firm, Empathetic, Witty, Formal and Text/Slang. It names dating, co-parenting and work messages as uses.
Verity
Organize a whole conversation. It reads months or years of messages and looks for warning patterns such as gaslighting, DARVO, threats and coercive control, and healthy ones such as accountability, across all of them, listing each flagged message with its date.
2.How you give it your messages
Toxicity
Paste text, or scan a screenshot. In version 1.4.1, which we tried, the paste box took up to 1,000 characters and screenshot scanning was a Premium feature.
Verity
Upload the app’s own export: WhatsApp, iMessage, Android backups, Messenger, Instagram, Telegram, Gmail, OurFamilyWizard and TalkingParents PDFs and more. Or pick screenshots. For a few messages, paste them into its free text check, which has no daily limit.
3.Where your messages go
Toxicity
Its listing says screenshot text is read on your phone and images are never uploaded, and that the text is analyzed in the cloud, never stored and never used to train AI models. No account is needed, and it says it has no ads and no tracking.
Verity
The file is read and analyzed in your browser. The messages are not uploaded, including when you buy. You can check this by turning off the internet once the page has loaded.
4.What you get back
Toxicity
A toxicity score for the text, the patterns found, a short explanation and reply suggestions, on screen.
Verity
A free on-screen preview with a 0–100 health score, the patterns found and one flagged message in full. Paid PDFs: a numbered list of every message in date order, and reports quoting each flagged message with its date and the messages around it.
5.Price
Toxicity
Three messages a day free. Premium, monthly, annual or lifetime, unlocks unlimited scans, deeper analysis and all six reply tones.
Verity
Free preview and free text check. One-time: $19 numbered message list, $99 Standard report, $149 Detailed report. No subscription. On Android, Verity Lite shows the results on screen for a one-time $19.99.
6.What neither one claims
Toxicity
Says it offers insight, not diagnosis, that AI can misread context, and that it is no substitute for professional advice.
Verity
Says the same: its reports are supporting documentation, not a diagnosis or a legal finding.
We ran both on the same chat
On October 25, 2026 we installed Toxicity 1.4.1 on a Pixel phone and gave it ten lines from a fictional co-parenting chat between “Taylor” and “Alex”, as much as its 1,000-character box would take. No real messages were used, and nothing was bought.
Toxicity scored the lines 75% toxic (“High Toxicity”) and tagged gaslighting and DARVO, with a short summary that was accurate. Two of the ten lines were threats: “You'll regret this” and a line about making sure the judge hears what kind of parent Taylor is. Its result did not mention them, or the control (“You're not allowed to take her to your mom's”) or the shutdown at the end.
Verity read the whole 51-message export with its dates, using its wording and timing patterns without the on-device meaning model. It flagged gaslighting three times, coercive control three times, threats twice, DARVO, stonewalling, minimizing twice and deflection twice, gave a health score of 43, and also counted three messages of appreciation and one of accountability on the healthy side.
One small test is not a benchmark, and both apps can change. But threats are what a judge or a protective order hearing asks about first, so it is worth checking that whatever tool you use catches them.
Which one fits your situation?
Use Toxicity when one text has you rattled and you want a quick read on its tone, or help wording a reply. Use Verity when you need the whole history organized with dates for a lawyer or a hearing, or you would rather the messages stay on your own device. For a few messages, Verity's free text check also gives a calm way to answer each flagged one. For the six apps we tried side by side, see red-flag scanner apps, tested on the same chat.
This is general information, not legal advice, and Verity is not a law firm. We make Verity. Toxicity's features, prices and data handling are as its Google Play listing (updated August 29, 2026) and the app itself described them on October 25, 2026, and can change; check the listing before relying on them.
See what Verity finds in a whole conversation
Try it on a sample conversation, or check your own export free. It is read in your browser and is not uploaded.
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