Lightning Assist is a desktop productivity application that automates repetitive typing and combines text expansion with AI features. It is aimed at professionals, developers, and teams.
Core features
Text expansion and snippets
Users create reusable text snippets (resources) with custom triggers and hotkeys. Short abbreviations expand into full text such as addresses, email signatures, code snippets, and canned responses. Expansion works in any application.
AI-powered commands
Custom AI prompts generate context-aware text, code, emails, or other content on demand.
Voice-to-text (push-to-talk)
The AI Speech feature provides real-time voice transcription. Users speak while holding a hotkey; on release, the transcribed text is pasted into the active field. Supports 50+ languages.
AI Enhance
Selected text can be improved via AI: grammar, clarity, tone, or expand/summarize, triggered by a hotkey.
Quick Access
A global hotkey (e.g. Alt+C) opens a search window to find and execute any resource from any application, with real-time filtering as you type.
Resource management
Resources can be previewed, have multiple replacement variants, and be run in sequence. They can be organized in folders. Teams can share and sync resources.
Platforms
Native apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with cloud sync across devices.
Use cases
Customer support (canned responses, templates), developers (code snippets, terminal commands, documentation), sales (email templates, proposals), content creators (templates, AI-generated content), multilingual users (voice transcription), and teams (shared resources and consistent messaging).
Pricing
14-day free trial with all features. Paid subscription from $5.99/month. AI features consume credits, which are purchased separately.