Free dark-pattern review tool
Answer yes/no against a checklist of known manipulative UX patterns around cancellation, subscriptions, privacy, and purchasing, and get a scored risk report from your own answers.
Your entries remain in this browser session and are not sent to MVPHub.
Your inputs
Enter one check per line as Check | present in your product (yes/no).
Your calculated result
Planning score
Each checked item is weighted by how directly it disadvantages the user for the business's benefit — asymmetric cancellation friction and hidden fees weigh the heaviest, since they cause direct financial or trust harm.
The more severe patterns present, the lower the score — this becomes a single trackable number as you clean up flagged patterns over time.
Patterns increasingly scrutinized by regulators (like asymmetric cancellation and forced consent bundling) are surfaced first, since they carry both user-trust and compliance risk.
No — this is a UX self-assessment based on commonly recognized dark patterns, not a legal audit. Consult legal counsel for regulatory compliance (e.g. FTC, GDPR, state subscription laws) specific to your jurisdiction.
Asymmetric cancellation — where signing up takes one click but canceling requires calling support or navigating many steps. It's also one of the most actively scrutinized by regulators.
Only if it's misleading — a fake or resetting countdown to manufacture urgency is a dark pattern; a genuine, accurate deadline is not.
DarkPattern Guard broadly reviews for manipulative patterns across cancellation, billing, and consent; ConsentUX specifically designs a genuinely clear and compliant consent experience.
| Capability | MVPHub | An unstructured internal review | A general-purpose AI assistant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uses a documented, repeatable checklist | ✓ | × | — |
| Weighs patterns by manipulation severity | ✓ | × | × |
| Produces a ranked risk report | ✓ | × | — |
| Instant, no legal engagement required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
MVPHub applies a consistent, transparent checklist to your own answers. An unstructured review varies reviewer to reviewer; this tool is a UX self-check, not a substitute for legal review.
