Frequently asked questions

A voice-first web app that turns one spoken or typed request into ten ready-to-use ideas, then sends the option you choose straight to your favorite AI chat tool or search site. Lites generates the ideas and uses the Web Speech API for the voice layer.

Ships with thirteen defaults: SecureMyName (pinned at top), then alphabetical: ChatGPT, Claude, Dynadot, GoDaddy, Google Gemini, Google Search, Grok, Namecheap, Perplexity, Spaceship, Unstoppable Domains, X (formerly Twitter). Any site that accepts a URL query parameter can be added in Settings as a custom template.

Yes. Every voice action has a typed equivalent. You can type your request, type a selection like “select 8”, or click the option directly.

Yes. The same flow handles domain names, product names, headlines, search terms, and fully written prompts. Lites matches the format and length of each option to what the request is asking for.

Bulk check sends all 10 generated ideas to SecureMyName in one click instead of looking each one up one at a time. Pick SecureMyName as your service in either dropdown and a Bulk check toggle appears next to it. Tick the toggle, generate your 10 ideas as normal, then click Check 10 on SecureMyName in the Ideas card header. SecureMyName opens in a new tab with all 10 names already pasted into its bulk-search box and availability checking starts automatically.

Your last-used TLD on SecureMyName is remembered, so the check runs against .com, .io, or whichever extension you used there last. Bulk check is SecureMyName only today; more registrars are coming as their bulk-availability endpoints come online.

Cloud history is the server-side record of your last 25 successful generations, the request you made and the 10 ideas Lites returned. It appears in the header as a Cloud button once you’re signed in, and entries follow you across devices because they live against your account rather than on a single browser. Viewing is a Subscriber feature: Subscribers and Admins open the modal directly. Free Guest accounts have their generations silently saved to the same record, they just can’t open the modal until they upgrade, at which point the full backlog appears. Anonymous use does not save to Cloud at all; those visitors only get the local History modal which stores entries in the browser’s localStorage and disappears if they clear cache or switch devices.

A mode that skips the 10-ideas step and sends your typed or spoken request straight to the selected service. Useful when you already know what you want to ask and just need it routed to a specific tool quickly. Toggle the Passthrough checkbox above the Generate button; the button label flips to Send, and the inline dropdown next to the checkboxes shows which service it will send to. Passthrough is off by default and the setting persists across sessions.

A companion to Passthrough. When both are on, the moment your voice transcript arrives the app sends it to the selected service immediately, no Send click required. Tap Speak, say your question, and the destination opens. Typed input always requires a click. Automatic only has an effect when Passthrough is also on, so the checkbox stays disabled until you turn Passthrough on. Both settings are off by default and persist across sessions.

Both modes call the same browser command, but timing matters. When you tap Send (Passthrough), the browser sees an active touch and grants full navigation rights, including the iOS universal-link handoff that opens X in the X app, ChatGPT in the ChatGPT app, and so on. In Automatic mode the open call fires a few seconds later, after speech recognition finishes, by which time the browser no longer attributes the navigation to your touch. It treats that as a programmatic open and falls back to the in-app web view inside the PWA, skipping the native-app handoff. This is a built-in browser security rule (the same one that stops sites from opening popups out of the blue), not a Lites setting. To force the native app, leave Automatic off and tap Send yourself once the transcript appears.

Yes for most of the AI tools. Lites delivers your idea or full prompt as a URL parameter to whichever service you picked (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Grok, X). Those services then need you to be signed in to your account at their site to actually run the prompt or post the message. If you’re not signed in, the destination usually shows its login screen with the text preserved, ready to fire once you authenticate.

Search engines (Google Search) and domain registrars (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Dynadot, Spaceship, Unstoppable Domains, SecureMyName) don’t require any sign-in, they search or look up immediately. The fastest setup is to keep tabs open and signed in at the AI tools you use most so the handoff from Lites is seamless every time.

Open the site in Safari. Chrome and Firefox on iOS cannot install web apps, only Safari can. Tap the Share button in the bottom toolbar (the square with an up-arrow), scroll the share sheet, and choose Add to Home Screen. Confirm the name and tap Add. The Lites icon appears on your Home Screen alongside your other apps. Tap it to launch in standalone mode (no Safari URL bar, full screen, respects the notch on newer iPhones).

Yes. In Chrome, Edge, or any Chromium-based desktop browser, an install icon appears in the address bar (look for a small monitor or plus icon). Click it and the app installs as a standalone window. The same flow works on Android Chrome.

Voice input uses the Web Speech API. It works in Chrome, Edge, and Opera on all platforms, and in Safari on macOS and iOS. Firefox does not implement the API at all. Brave technically exposes the API but strips the Google API keys that authorize transcription, so voice input fails with a network error there. In any browser that cannot run the API, typed input still works.