Ask anything
The box, the answer, and everything you can do with both.
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Ask
Type into the box and tap the arrow to send. On a keyboard, Enter sends and Shift and Enter start a new line. There is no special way to ask: write the way you would to a clever friend. Say what it is for, who it is for, and anything that matters, such as the length or the tone. To set how long answers are for a whole chat, or for every new one, use Answer length.
Try typing
What should I ask at a first flat viewing?
Make this message sound friendlier: I need the report by Friday.
Plan a three-day trip to Lisbon for two, on a budget
Why does bread go stale faster in the fridge?
Turn these notes into a tidy email to my team
Then keep talking. askr reads the whole chat, so a follow-up can be as short as "shorter", "in Spanish" or "a version for my boss".
askr Pro
Every new chat starts on askr Pro. It reads your message and picks a model for it: one that writes well for a letter, one that codes for code, one that searches for today's news, one that paints for a picture. It picks within the level you set: Cheap, Balanced or Performance. The top of each answer names the model and why. How askr picks the AI.
The + button
+ on the left of the box holds every choice, so the box itself stays simple. Tap it and you see three rows:
- Add a photo or file
- Attach a picture, a PDF, a document, a spreadsheet, a voice note or a video. askr reads it with your message. Photos and files.
- Choose a model
- Pick the model yourself, or set how much askr Pro spends: Cheap, Balanced or Performance. Answer length, under them, sets how much this chat's answers say. How askr picks the AI and Answer length.
- Make
- Make a picture, a clip, a song or a website, ask about a file, or put what you made together. Make.
What you choose shows as a chip above the box, such as Make a picture. Tap the x on the chip to go back to askr Pro.
While it answers
- The answer streams in word by word. You can read it, scroll back, or leave the page: it keeps going and is there when you come back.
- Some models think before they write, so the first words can take a while. A clip can take a few minutes.
- To stop it, tap the square beside the box. You pay for what was written up to then.
- A very long answer can be cut off before it finishes. The newest answer then says so, with Continue: tap it and askr carries on from where it stopped, as a new message priced like any other. For a website, Preview puts the pieces back together into one site.
Under each answer
- The price
- What this answer cost, in dollars. It shows once the answer is done.
- Preview
- On an answer that built a website: opens it, working. Websites and code.
- Copy
- Copies the answer. On a picture it copies the picture, and on a clip, its link.
- Try again
- On the newest answer: asks again. Under askr Pro, after a failure, a different model answers.
- More
- Everything else, below.
More holds:
- Try another model. Runs the same message again on a model you pick. askr Pro stays on for your next message.
- Shorter and Longer. On the newest answer: writes it again one length shorter or longer, and the chat stays at that length. Answer length.
- Read aloud. Reads the answer in your browser's own voice. It costs nothing.
- Remember this. Keeps it in this chat's memory. What askr remembers.
- Continue in a new chat. Takes the chat up to this answer into a new chat of its own, so you can go another way without losing this one.
- Reply. Answers this message in particular.
- Save. Downloads a picture, a clip or a song. A clip also has Copy link.
- Details. Which model answered and why askr Pro chose it, when, what it cost, any free credit it used, how many web searches ran, and its answer length when that is not Normal. When askr wrote the request for a picture, a clip or a song for you, Prompt used shows the exact words the model was given.
The menu on a message
Right click any message, or tap it on a phone, and its menu opens: Reply, Copy text, Edit on a message of yours, Pin in a chat you started, and on an answer everything that is under it as well. A click with a mouse does nothing, so you can select words as on any page.
- Quote. Open the menu and choose Quote: the message's words open large. Tap the first word you want, then the last, and tap Quote. Your next message answers exactly those words, and askr is told which ones you mean. It opens with the whole message picked, so Quote straight away quotes all of it. On a computer you can also select the words first and right click them: Quote then takes them at once.
- A picture, a clip or a sound has the same menu: hold it on a phone, or right click it. A tap still opens the picture or plays the clip.
- Copy selected text copies only the words you selected.
- On a phone, swipe a message to the left to reply to it.
- On a keyboard, move to a message with Tab and the arrow keys, then press the menu key or Shift and F10.
- A right click on a link, a picture or a clip opens your browser's own menu, as usual.
Change what you asked
Right click a message of yours, or tap it on a phone, and choose Edit. On a computer the pencil beside it does the same. Edit your newest message and askr answers again with the new words: the button says Save and ask. Edit an older one and only the words change. An edited message is marked Edited.
Search the web
- When a question needs today's facts (news, prices, opening times, the latest version of something), askr Pro searches the web on its own.
- It runs up to three searches for an answer and reads the pages it finds. The answer marks each fact with a number, and the numbered sources let you check each one.
- A search costs less than $0.01, on top of the answer. Details says how many ran.
- With a model you chose yourself, the globe beside the box turns web search on or off for that chat. To start every new chat with it on, turn on Search the web in new chats in Settings, Account.
Make
askr Pro makes a picture, a clip, a song or a website when your message asks for one. To be sure, choose it yourself from +, Make. Make.
Speak instead of typing
Tap the microphone beside the box and talk. Your words appear in the box for you to check, then you send. It works in Chrome, Edge and Safari. Your browser turns speech into words: askr never gets the sound, and it costs nothing.
Your chats
- Every chat is kept on your account and named after what it asks. Open Chats in the menu to see them all, newest first, and search what was said.
- Rename or delete a chat from its menu on the Chats page. A chat someone else started has Leave instead.
- Download all your chats, or delete them all, in Settings, Account, under Your data.
- Nothing you type is used to train a model.
Long chats
A long chat keeps working. When it is more than a model can read at once, the model reads the newest messages, and askr Mind's notes carry what was decided earlier. For a fresh start on the same subject, use Continue in a new chat or start a new one.
If something goes wrong, the chat says what happened in plain words, with a button to fix it. Something went wrong.