Ask AI can be wrong. Check anything important.
Ask a question and get a real answer — then ask the next one. Ask AI is a free AI chat assistant that holds a conversation: it remembers what you already said, so you can push back, narrow the question, ask for a simpler version, or change the subject entirely. Attach a document and ask about it. Turn on Search and get an answer backed by sources you can open. And because it is built into this toolkit, it is the one AI chatbot that can also tell you which of these writing tools does the job you are describing.
Three steps, and no sign-up to get through the first two.
Ask anything — a fact you need, a decision you are weighing, a concept you never quite got, an awkward message you have to send. Plain language is fine; you do not need to phrase it as a prompt.
Answers stream in as they are written, so you can start reading immediately instead of watching a spinner. Longer answers arrive with headings, lists and tables where those genuinely help.
Three suggested follow-ups appear under every answer, or ignore them and ask your own. The conversation keeps its context, so the second question does not need the first one repeated.
Most AI tools take one thing in and give one thing back. Real questions are not like that.
Attach a file, then ask what you actually want to know about it.
Press the + beside the message box and attach a PDF, Word file, text file or Markdown file. The text is read in your browser — the file itself never leaves your machine — and then you can ask about it in plain language.
Contracts, terms, tenancy agreements, insurance policies. Ask for the notice period, the renewal date, the penalties, or what happens if you leave early — and ask it to quote the clause so you can find it yourself.
Research papers, reports, whitepapers. Ask for the claim in plain English, what evidence supports it, what the sample was, and what the authors admit they did not test.
A brief, a spec, a policy, a set of meeting notes. Ask what is unclear, what contradicts itself, and what a careful reader would want answered that is not in there.
Every AI model has a training cut-off. Search is how you get past it.
Ask the assistant about the tools, the plans or your limits and it answers from the site itself.
Not on our servers, and not in anyone’s training data.
A short answer, a long explanation, a second opinion, or a way out of a blank page.
Not the dictionary definition — the version that actually lands. Ask for an analogy, ask for a worked example with real numbers, ask what people usually get wrong about it, then ask it to check whether you have understood by explaining it back.
Renting or buying, this job or that one, which loan to clear first. Ask for the case on both sides, ask what would have to be true for each to be right, and ask what you have not considered.
How to open a difficult email, how to say no without burning the relationship, how to structure an argument. When the job is really a rewrite, it will send you to the Paraphraser or the Tone Changer instead.
Paste your plan, your argument or your calculation and ask where it is weakest. Asking an AI to argue against you is more useful than asking it to agree.
Small changes to the question make a large difference to the answer.
“Explain it to someone who has never studied economics” produces a different and better answer than “explain it simply”. The audience tells the assistant which details to keep.
Real numbers, real constraints, real dates. “I have £4,000 and eight months” gets you an answer you can act on; “I have some savings” gets you a general one.
A table, five bullet points, a paragraph, a checklist, a step-by-step. If the first answer is not the shape you needed, just say so — you do not have to start again.
“That is too vague”, “give me the counter-argument”, “show the calculation”. The follow-up is not a repair for a bad answer; it is how you get to a good one.
If the answer depends on this year’s figures, this month’s rules, or who holds a role now, switch Search on and check the sources it lists.
Treat an answer as a well-briefed colleague’s opinion, not a citation. For anything with money, health or legal consequences attached, verify it before you act.
They solve different problems. Using the wrong one is the usual reason people are disappointed.
| You want to | Best choice | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Understand a concept, or think a decision through | Ask AI | You can keep asking until it makes sense. A search engine gives you ten pages; this gives you an explanation you can interrogate. |
| Find a specific page, product or current price | A search engine, or Ask AI with Search on | Retrieval is what search does best. With Search on, Ask AI does the retrieval and hands you the sources. |
| Shorten a long article you already have | Summarizer | Purpose-built: several summary styles, length control, and it can quote the source sentences so you can check it. |
| Rewrite a passage in different words | Paraphraser | Keeps meaning while changing wording, across a whole document rather than one reply. |
| Fix grammar and spelling | Grammar Checker | Shows every issue in place with a one-click fix, instead of handing back a rewritten block. |
| Change how a message lands | Tone Changer | Adjusts register while showing you exactly what moved. |
| Ask what a document means | Ask AI | Attach it and ask in plain language. The other tools transform text; this one answers questions about it. |
Everything on this site shares one daily allowance, and it counts what you send.
Yes. You can start asking straight away with no account, within a daily word allowance shown under the message box. A free account raises that allowance several times over, and Pro removes the daily cap entirely. The allowance counts what you send, not what the AI writes back.
No. Guests can ask questions immediately. An account is only needed for the larger allowance and for web-backed answers, and it takes a few seconds with no card.
Yes, within each conversation. You can say “make that shorter”, “why?” or “now do it for Spain” and it will know what you mean. Every conversation is listed on the left, so you can come back to one days later and carry on.
Yes. Use the + button beside the message box to attach a PDF, DOCX, TXT or Markdown file, then ask about it — what it says, what it commits you to, what is missing, or simply what the difficult paragraph means. The file is read in your browser and sent with your question; it is never stored on our servers.
Yes. Turn on Search next to the message box and the answer is grounded in current web sources, listed underneath so you can check them. Web search needs a free account, and Pro has no daily limit on it.
Yes, and this is the part most AI chatbots cannot do. Ask which tool fits your job, what a plan includes, how the daily limits work or what happens to your text, and it answers from this site’s own published pages and the limits the server actually enforces — not from a guess.
It is the same kind of thing: a conversational assistant you can ask anything. It is not those products, and it does not pretend to be. What it adds is that it is part of a writing toolkit — when a question is really a writing job, it will point you at the tool that does it properly.
No, and no AI chat is. Models can be confidently wrong, and they can be out of date. Check anything that matters, use Search when a question depends on current facts, and treat an answer as a well-informed starting point rather than a citation.
Your conversations are stored in your own browser and nowhere else. They are sent with each question so the model has context, and then discarded — we keep only the word counts that enforce your daily allowance. Clearing your browser data clears them, and they do not follow you to another device.
Ask in the language you want the answer in and it will reply in that language. It handles the major world languages well; for a careful translation of a specific document, the Translator is the better tool.
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