Drop in notes, a document, a policy or an FAQ, then ask in plain language. On-device AI finds the passages that actually answer you — by meaning, not just keywords.
The free tool searches one block of text at a time. Pro turns it into a multi-document knowledge base you can question all at once and quote with confidence:
Want to try it first? Use demo code AV-PASTEASK-PRO-DEMO to preview every Pro feature on this device.
Paste & Ask turns any text into something you can question. It breaks your text into passages, converts each one into a numerical “meaning fingerprint” (an embedding) using a small AI model running on your device, and does the same to your question — then ranks the passages by how closely their meaning matches. The result feels like search that understands you, with none of your content ever leaving the browser.
Find-on-page only matches exact words. This matches meaning: ask “how do I get my money back” and it can surface a passage about “returns and refunds” even if your exact words never appear. That makes it ideal for long documents, FAQs, research notes, policies, contracts and meeting transcripts — anywhere the answer is buried in wording you can’t predict. Switch the result depth between the top 3, 5 or 8 passages, and matched terms are highlighted so you can see why each passage was chosen.
Most “chat with your documents” tools upload your files to a server. Paste & Ask keeps everything on your machine. With Pro you can save many named sources — a handbook, a set of research notes, several contracts — into an on-device library, then ask a single question across all of them at once. Every result is tagged with the source it came from, so you always know where an answer lives. Because the library is stored only in your browser, sensitive and confidential material never travels anywhere.
When you need to act on what you find, export your question and its ranked matches — complete with match percentages and source names — to TXT, Markdown, CSV or JSON. Drop the Markdown into a report, open the CSV in a spreadsheet, or copy any single passage with a citation line attached for quoting. It closes the loop between finding the right passage and using it.
The embedding model (about 25 MB) downloads once and caches, then everything runs locally at no cost. Nothing is uploaded, so it’s safe for sensitive notes and confidential documents — and there’s no account to create and no usage limit to hit.
Pair it with the rest of the AppVitamins on-device AI kit: