Chats
A chat is a conversation with Gelim. Add files, your selection or a screenshot, let it search the web, and carry on from any device: every chat is saved to your Gelim Account.
1. Start a chat
Press ⌘N, or click + next to Chats. From any app, press ⌘Space, then ⌘8.
Home is a new chat. In the drawer, tap + next to Chats. In any app, tap Chat in the Gelim keyboard.
Open gelim.ai/app, or click + next to Chats.
2. Add what it should read
Click a chip above the composer — your selection, the Finder selection, the browser page, the open email — or open Context for the clipboard, Choose files… (⌘O) or Capture an area of the screen…. You can also drop files on the composer.
Tap Add for Picture or screenshot or A file. Tap Context for A recording or From the clipboard.
Click Add files, paste, or drop files on the composer.
3. Choose how it answers
Beside the composer:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search | Lets Gelim search the web when a question needs it. On by default; it's a setting of each chat |
| Deep research | Sends your next message as a research report with sources (more) |
| Model | Automatic, or a model you choose (Models) |
| Effort | How hard the model thinks: Low, Medium or High, for a model that has one. It's in the model picker; on the Mac and the web, ⇧⌘/ changes it |
4. Send and read the answer
Press ⏎ to send (⇧⏎ for a new line). The answer appears as it's written; while it searches you'll see Searching the web for "…" and Reading a site. Every [n] is a link, and Sources lists them under the answer.
Use an answer
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Copy answer | Copies it as text |
| Share | Copy as Markdown or plain text, send to another app; on iPhone also as an Image or PDF |
| Regenerate | Writes the last answer again |
| Insert into … | Mac only: puts the answer at your cursor in the app you came from |
Files you can add
| Mac | iPhone | Web | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per chat | 3 files | 3 files | 3 files |
| Images per message | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Kinds | Text and code, PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PNG, JPEG | PDFs, text, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images | Text and code, PDFs, PNG, JPEG |
| Size | 8 MB (20 MB for Office and scanned PDFs) | 20 MB | 8 MB |
Good to know
- A chat writes one answer at a time. If another device is answering in the same chat, the composer waits.
- Answers keep going if you close the window or leave the app; they're there when you come back.
- Chats you started in the iPhone keyboard show "· keyboard" in the list.
- If a request runs out of credit, the text so far is kept, with Add credit in your Gelim Account.
Rename, pin, archive or delete
Use the chat's menu (the title menu on the Mac and the web, More on the iPhone) or the row's menu: Rename, Pin, Share…, Copy link, Archive, Delete…, and Open in new window on the Mac (Open in new tab on the web). On the Mac, a new chat has no menu until you send its first message. See Your library.
Next steps
- Search and deep research: answers with sources.
- Canvases: when one chat isn't enough to understand something.
- Chat in the launcher and in the keyboard: chat from any app.