Flare: Ask AI & Web Copilot

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Flare — Ask AI & Web Copilot

Highlight any text on any website and instantly ask AI. Summarize articles, translate passages, explain concepts, or rewrite content — all with a single click.

How it works:
1. Highlight text on any webpage
2. Click the Flare "Ask" button that appears next to your selection
3. Add an optional custom prompt (or use the text as-is)
4. Choose your preferred AI provider — Grok, Perplexity, or ChatGPT
5. Flare opens a new tab with your query pre-loaded and ready to go
No copy-pasting. No context switching. No sign-ups.

Why Flare?
Privacy-first by design. Flare never collects, stores, or transmits your personal data. It doesn't make API calls or route your queries through any intermediary server. It simply constructs a URL and opens it directly in your browser. Your selected text goes straight to the AI provider you choose — nothing more, nothing less.

Features:
• Instant text selection — Highlight any text and a floating "Ask" button appears automatically
• Multi-provider support — Choose between Grok, Perplexity, and ChatGPT with one click
• Custom prompts — Add your own instructions: summarize, translate, explain, rewrite, or anything else
• Include page URL — Optionally share the source URL with the AI for better context
• Smart UI — Frosted-glass floating pill that expands into a compact card with smooth animations
• Viewport-aware positioning — The widget adjusts to always stay visible on screen
• Dark mode & themes — Light, dark, or follow your system theme
• Syncs across devices — Your settings follow you everywhere via Chrome sync
• Keyboard shortcuts — Press Enter to submit, Escape to dismiss
• Lightweight — No dependencies, no build tools, minimal resource usage

Perfect for:
- Researchers scanning long articles and papers
- Students looking up explanations for complex topics
- Developers debugging documentation or error messages
- Writers and editors rewriting or improving copy
- Translators working across languages
- Anyone who reads online and wants instant AI assistance
Permissions explained:
- Tabs — Opens a new tab with your AI query. No tab data is read or collected.
- Storage — Saves your preferences (provider, theme, settings) and syncs them across devices.
- All URLs (host) — Injects the floating "Ask" button on every website so you can select text anywhere. No network requests are made to any page.
Flare is open source, built with vanilla JavaScript, and runs entirely in your browser. No accounts, no API keys, no tracking, no bloat.
Start using AI where you already read. Install Flare and ask away.