Questions about Tare

Tare reads an Amazon product's reviews from your browser. It sets aside the ones that say nothing about the product, then counts what the rest say goes wrong and what holds up. Every count opens to the reviews behind it.

A kitchen scale has a button called tare. Press it with the empty bowl on, and the scale forgets the bowl, so you weigh only what's inside. Tare does the same with reviews: it sets aside the ones that say nothing about the product and weighs the rest.

No. Tare reports what a review says, not who wrote it or why. It sets a review aside when the reviewer got it free, when it says nothing specific, when it is about a different product, when it mostly points you to another brand, or when it is about shipping or the seller.

They say how much Tare set aside. Under 5% is Mostly useful, 5 to 15% is Some filler, and over 15% is Lots of filler. The share is weighted by how many reviews Amazon shows at each star level.

Fakespot closed in July 2025. Tare does not grade a listing with a letter. It names what goes wrong and how many reviews say so, and every count opens to its reviews.

Amazon's “Customers say” summary tells you what shoppers like and dislike, including problems, with a count for each topic, beside the same star rating. Tare sets aside the reviews that say nothing about the product, rates it from the rest, and shows you what it set aside and why.

Tare also finds the month a problem took off, a listing reused from another product, and a rating for each size. These did not appear in the 17 Amazon summaries checked in November 2026, and Amazon can change its summary. Amazon's counts can cover far more reviews, because Tare reads 15 review pages at most.

Many review checkers ask whether you can trust the reviews, and answer with a score, a grade or an adjusted rating. Tare asks what goes wrong with the product. It gives a rating too, but it leads with the named problem and how many reviews report it, and every count opens to those reviews.

Product pages, review pages and search results on amazon.com and amazon.in. amazon.co.uk is next, and Walmart product pages are in testing. See where Tare is coming

Chrome and the other Chromium browsers on a computer, such as Comet, Brave, Arc and Vivaldi. Tare is tested in Comet and Chromium. Edge runs it once you turn on “Allow extensions from other stores”. Tare does not work in Firefox or Safari, or on phones.

No. Tare is free, and it has no ads, affiliate links or accounts.

When you are signed out, Amazon hides most reviews behind a sign-in page, so Tare says “Sign in to check reviews” and waits. Tare never signs in for you and never sees your password.

Tare reads at most 300 Amazon pages a day, so its reading stays light. When it reaches that, it stops until the next day and keeps what it already read.

Amazon's terms limit automated access, so Amazon may slow the pages Tare reads or show a check. Tare stops when that happens and keeps what it read.

For each review: its title, text, stars, date, badges, the version bought and the country shown, with the product's title and bullet points. Tare's server passes these to TypeSafe's Jev, which judges what the review is about.

Tare does not send your name, your Amazon account, the product's Amazon ID or the reviewer's name. The privacy policy has the whole list.

Remove the extension in chrome://extensions. That clears everything Tare keeps on your device. Tare's server keeps Jev's answers for 3 days under a one-way hash and daily counts for 2 days, with nothing that points to you. If you wrote to Tare, ask and your messages are deleted.

Write to Tare with the product's link and what looks wrong: report a wrong read

Wrong? on a review only marks it as wrong for you, on that page. It sends nothing.