LinguaAI Pro Help

Getting Started

LinguaAI Pro is an AI assistant that lives in your menubar (macOS) and works across your Apple devices. To use it, you'll need API keys from your chosen AI providers.

Setting Up Your API Keys

What is "Bring Your Own Key" (BYOK)?

LinguaAI uses a BYOK model, which means you provide your own API keys from AI providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Mistral. This ensures:

How to Get API Keys

Using LinguaAI on Mac

Keyboard Shortcut Access

The fastest way to use LinguaAI is with keyboard shortcuts. Each shortcut can be customized and assigned to a specific prompt:

  1. Select text in any application
  2. Press your keyboard shortcut
  3. LinguaAI processes the text with your assigned prompt and either replaces it or opens in chat

Configure your shortcuts and their assigned prompts in LinguaAI settings. There are no default shortcuts - you create the ones that work for your workflow.

Menubar Access

Click the LinguaAI icon in your menubar to access the full chat interface, manage prompts, switch models, and configure settings.

Using LinguaAI with Virtual Machines

If you're running Windows applications through Parallels or another virtual machine, you may notice that LinguaAI's default three-key shortcuts don't trigger properly when the VM is in focus. This appears to be a limitation in how virtual machines handle keyboard input from macOS.

The workaround is simple: set your LinguaAI shortcuts to use only two keys instead of three. For example, instead of ⌃⌥T, try ⌃T or ⌥T. You can change your shortcuts in LinguaAI's Settings under Shortcuts.

Make sure your chosen two-key combination doesn't conflict with shortcuts in your Windows applications. Trados and MemoQ both use plenty of keyboard shortcuts, so you may need to experiment a bit to find combinations that work for your setup.

Using LinguaAI on iOS

Apple Shortcuts Integration

LinguaAI provides powerful Shortcuts actions that let you:

In-App Chat

Open the LinguaAI app on your iPhone for a full-featured chat interface with access to your entire prompt library, synced from your Mac via iCloud.

Using LinguaAI on Apple Watch

Raise your wrist, open LinguaAI, and ask your question. The app provides quick access to AI without needing to pull out your phone. Perfect for quick lookups, translations, or brief queries on the go.

Key Features

Prompt Library

Save frequently used prompts for quick access across all devices. Your prompt library syncs via iCloud, so creating a prompt on Mac makes it instantly available on iPhone and Apple Watch.

Personal Styles

Define custom response styles to match your communication preferences. For example, create a "concise" style for brief answers or a "technical" style for in-depth explanations.

Memory Context

Enable memory to allow the AI to maintain context across conversations, providing more relevant and personalized responses.

Temperature Control

Adjust the temperature setting to control response creativity:

Prompt Caching

For supported models (Claude and GPT-5), enable prompt caching to reduce costs and speed up responses when reusing similar context.

Extended Thinking

Enable extended thinking mode for complex problems that require deeper analysis and reasoning.

Web Search

Grant LinguaAI access to web search for queries requiring real-time information.

Privacy & Security

Your data never passes through any intermediary servers. API keys are stored securely in your device's keychain, and all AI requests go directly from your device to the AI provider. LinguaAI cannot access your prompts, conversations, or API keys.

Support

For additional help or questions, please reach out at info@linguaai.net

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