Introducing RefineIQ: refine prompts, privately

We've all sent a half-baked prompt. You know the shape of it: three thoughts mashed into one sentence, the actual question buried at the end, no hint of the format you want back. The model answers the prompt you wrote instead of the one you meant, and you spend the next two messages cleaning up.

RefineIQ fixes that before you hit send. It's a Chrome extension that rewrites a rough draft into a single, clearer, better-structured prompt. It is built to preserve your intent, add no facts or requirements you didn't state, and keep the result plain text. It is deliberately not a chatbot. It rewrites prompts, it doesn't answer them.

Where it lives

Everywhere you type. Select text in any field, on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any site with a text box, and a small Refine pill glides in next to your selection. Click it, review the rewrite, hit Replace. Prefer the keyboard? Alt+Shift+R refines your selection, or the whole field when nothing is selected. And when a site's editor fights automatic replacement, the scratchpad in the toolbar popup always works: type, refine, copy.

You can also skip typing entirely. Voice Draft (Alt+Shift+V) lets you speak your rough draft into any prompt field. The transcript lands at your cursor, pre-selected so Refine is one tap away.

Private by handling, not by promise

Most prompt tools keep your text, log it, or train on it. RefineIQ does none of that. The rewrite runs on a secure RefineIQ backend: you sign in, each rewrite spends a credit, and your text exists only for the millisecond it takes to rewrite. It is never stored, never logged, and never used to train any model.

Voice is held to a stricter standard, and it stays on your device. Speech is transcribed on-device by a small multilingual model running in your browser. Audio is never stored and never uploaded. Only the transcribed text is sent to the backend to be refined. RefineIQ deliberately avoids the browser's built-in speech recognition because Chrome implements it with a server-side service.

Two modes, your voice intact

Pick how hard it pushes. “Sound Human” is the default: it makes a draft read like a person wrote it, with no “delve” and no “leverage”. “Clean up” is lighter and just fixes the grammar and cuts the filler. Either way it sharpens your own words. It never adds fake typos.

Free to install, credit-based to run

RefineIQ is free to install, with no ads. Rewrites run on the backend and use a simple credit system tied to your account. You pay for the rewrites you actually use, nothing else.

Install it, select your messiest draft, and see what comes back. The two-minute guide covers setup through voice dictation. The whole point is that you'll stop noticing it's there.