An iOS app for intellectual honesty

Your beliefs,
stress-tested.

Contra is an AI counter-argument engine. State what you believe. It surfaces the strongest case against it in under ten seconds — so you stop arguing with people who already agree with you.

Free to startNo account requirediPhone & iPad
CONTRA№ A4F1
YOUR POSITION

Remote work makes teams more productive than in-office work.

THE CASE AGAINST

The premise treats productivity as the right metric — it isn't. Remote parity studies measure legible output, not the illegible coordination cost that compounds over months in mentorship density and tacit knowledge transfer.

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How it works

Three steps. Ten seconds. One uncomfortable mirror.

  1. 01

    State a belief

    Type the thing you hold to be true — the louder the conviction, the better. One sentence is enough.

  2. 02

    Contra confronts it

    An AI counter-argument engine reframes the premise, builds the strongest case against it, and asks one disqualifying question.

  3. 03

    Decide what you keep

    Hold your ground, update your view, or go deeper. Track which beliefs survive contact and which collapse.

Why Contra

Social media tells you you’re right.
Contra tells you when you’re not.

Discipline

Steelmen, not strawmen.

Contra builds the version of the counter-argument you would have to actually answer — not a caricature you can dismiss.

Speed

Ten seconds, not ten threads.

No tribe, no replies, no quote-tweet performance. Just the opposing view, delivered in the time it takes to defend yours.

Memory

Track what survives.

Mark whether your belief held or fell. Over weeks, see which of your convictions are load-bearing and which are decoration.

Confrontation cards

Every reframe ships with a shareable card.

One tap exports the confrontation as a 1080×1080, story, or 4:5 image — caption pre-written. Built for X, Threads, and Instagram. Distribution is part of the product.

CONTRA№ A4F1
YOUR POSITION

Productivity is the right metric for knowledge work.

THE CASE AGAINST

Productivity measures legible output. The illegible coordination cost — mentorship density, cross-team flow — is what compounds, and what your dashboard never sees.

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CONTRA№ A4F1
YOUR POSITION

AI won't take my job.

THE CASE AGAINST

Your assumption hinges on the fallacy that work is a static set of tasks rather than a dynamic economic output. The question isn't whether AI replaces you. It's whether your employer keeps paying for the gap.

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CONTRA№ A4F1
YOUR POSITION

I just need more discipline.

THE CASE AGAINST

If discipline alone worked, you'd already have it. Twelve months of trying and failing is evidence the system is wrong, not the operator. Find the constraint, not the willpower.

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FAQ

Common counter-arguments to Contra.

What is Contra?
Contra is an AI counter-argument app for iOS. You write a belief; it returns the strongest case against it, plus a question designed to surface whatever you were taking for granted.
Isn't this just ChatGPT with a prompt?
ChatGPT is trained to agree with you. Contra is trained to disagree — with structure. Every response follows a discipline: identify the load-bearing premise, attack it, surface the disqualifying question. No hedging, no both-sidesing.
Who is this for?
Founders pressure-testing strategy. Writers stress-testing arguments. Anyone who has noticed that being surrounded by agreement is making them dumber.
Does Contra store my beliefs?
Confrontations live on-device by default. You can wipe everything with one tap. Nothing is posted, ranked, or recommended unless you choose to share a card.
Is it free?
You get a confrontation a day for free, no account. Heavy users subscribe to remove the limit and unlock 'go deeper' and 'flip' modes.
What's a confrontation card?
Every confrontation can be exported as a polished image — square for X and Threads, 9:16 for Stories, 4:5 for Instagram feed. The hook caption is pre-written. Drop it anywhere.
Stop being agreed with.

Confront a belief
in the next ten seconds.

Free to start. No account required. The first confrontation usually stings — that’s the point.

Get it on the App Store