Response types
Choose the right answer mode.
See how the desktop organizes its response modes and how account access changes the available choices.
On this page
The modes shown on Home
Home presents five standard answer cards: Answer, Summarize, Translate, Rewrite, and Explain. Each card identifies its purpose and shows the shortcut assigned to that mode.
- Answer
- Respond directly to selected screen content.
- Summarize
- Reduce selected content to its key points.
- Translate
- Translate selected content into the language chosen in the desktop.
- Rewrite
- Create a new version of selected text.
- Explain
- Make selected material easier to understand.
- Custom Prompt
- Apply a saved instruction to a selection. Configure it from Settings and use it with Pro access.
Mode access follows the account
The service returns the modes available to the signed-in account, and the desktop uses that state to present locked or available controls.
- Free
- Answer and Summarize are available.
- Basic
- Answer, Summarize, Translate, Rewrite, and Explain are available.
- Pro
- The standard modes remain available and Custom Prompt is added.
If a mode is not available, LowLighter identifies the plan required in the relevant control instead of treating the missing mode as a configuration error.
Keep the mode and engine separate
A mode describes the response you want. An engine describes how the captured screen is processed. For example, you can use Summarize with Auto, or Translate with Vision when the selection contains visual context.
Configure the response first. Choose the mode that matches the task, then choose Fast, Auto, or Vision when you need to control the processing path.