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Beamo Search Docs

Beamo Search is a fast, private search engine with a Google-grade set of instant answers, interactive tools, live data cards, an AI Overview, and an AI Chat. This is the complete guide to every feature — and the quickest way to use each one.

Getting started

Search the web, get an instant answer, or ask a question — all from one box.

Keyboard shortcuts

Press / anywhere to jump to the docs search, Enter to leap to the first match, and Esc to clear it. Every result link is keyboard-navigable with Tab, and each example chip below opens that search on Beamo in a new tab.

Make Beamo your default

Set Beamo as your browser’s default search engine so every address-bar search comes here. The setup guide has one-tap steps for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, Safari, Android, and iPhone.

Dark & light mode

Use the theme toggle in the header to switch between light and dark. Beamo remembers your choice, and — when you’re signed in — syncs it across your devices.

AI Overview

A concise, cited AI summary at the top of your results — when it actually helps.

It only appears when useful

A lightweight model decides show or skip before your results even finish loading, so simple lookups (a stock price, a conversion) stay clean and clutter-free while genuine questions get a summary.

Grounded in real page content

Beamo doesn’t just read search snippets — it safely fetches and reads the most relevant pages, ranks the best passages, and grounds the overview in that real content for more accurate, specific answers. On the Medium and Deep tiers it can read a source deeper when the excerpt isn’t enough, pulling more from the page before answering.

Feedback & controls

Rate an overview with the thumbs control, expand its model/source details, or open AI Chat to keep asking follow-ups grounded in the same sources.

AI Chat

A conversational assistant that searches the web for you and cites what it finds.

Chat from results or home

Open Chat from any results page to keep asking about your topic in a two-pane view (conversation on the left, a live sources sidebar on the right). Or start a fresh conversation from the home page.

Conversation history

Signed in
Your past conversations are saved so you can continue, archive, or delete them. Signed in, threads sync across your devices automatically.

Smooth, resilient streaming

Answers stream in with a gentle per-word reveal. If an upstream hiccups mid-answer, Beamo silently retries so you get a complete response instead of a dead stop.

AI answer tiers

Choose how much thinking goes into your AI answers, from instant to in-depth. Access scales with your plan: Fast for everyone, Medium with a free account, and Deep with Beamo Search Pro.

Fast

Free
The quickest tier — great for everyday questions and quick summaries. It streams almost instantly and shows a “Searched the web for…” cue when it grounds an answer. Available to everyone, no sign-in required.

Medium

Signed in
A balanced tier that reasons more carefully for tougher questions while staying responsive. Unlocks with a free Beamo account.

Deep

Pro
The most thorough tier for research and multi-step questions — it reads more and reasons longer before answering. A Beamo Search Pro feature.

Choosing a tier

Pick a tier from the control next to the AI Overview or Chat. The tier you can use scales with your plan and is enforced server-side: signed out gets Fast, a free account gets up to Medium, and Beamo Search Pro unlocks Deep — plus priority access so Pro is never downgraded under load, and can default to the deep overview automatically.

Instant answers

Ask a factual or tool-shaped question and Beamo answers it directly at the top of the results — a calculator, a live stock chart, today’s weather, a translation, a map. Most tools run entirely in your browser (no data leaves your device), and every live data card uses a free, key-less public source. The sections below list every one. Tip: use the search box above to jump straight to the tool you need.

How instant answers work

Beamo detects the shape of your query on the spot. A math expression opens the calculator; “100 usd to eur” opens the currency converter; a ticker opens a stock card. For clean, single-answer queries Beamo shows just the answer; otherwise the module sits above your normal web results.

Everything is free & private

FreeKeyless
All instant answers and tools are free, with no sign-in required. The interactive tools compute locally in your browser, and the live cards call open, key-less data providers — so you get answers without ads or tracking.

Calculator & math

A full scientific calculator plus purpose-built solvers for numbers and equations.

Converters & units

Convert anything — measurements, currencies, colors, and codes.

Stocks, crypto & finance

Live markets, company data, crypto, and the economy — key-less and Google-parity.

Weather & nature

Forecasts, air quality, sun and moon times, and computed astronomy — all key-less.

Astronomy: moon, eclipses, meteors & tides

Computed astronomy events: the current and next moon phases, upcoming meteor showers, solar and lunar eclipses, and the next solstices and equinoxes — plus live tide times (high/low tides for the nearest NOAA station) and quick links for ISS passes, aurora forecasts, and which planets are visible tonight.

Trynext full moon (opens in a new tab)when is the next solar eclipse (opens in a new tab)meteor shower tonight (opens in a new tab)summer solstice (opens in a new tab)tide times in san francisco (opens in a new tab)iss pass (opens in a new tab)

Sports

Live scores, schedules, and standings across the major leagues — key-less via ESPN.

Maps & local

A built-from-scratch interactive map, place search, and turn-by-turn directions.

Directions & distance

Keyless
Ask for directions or the distance between two places and get a direct answer card — driving time and distance (computed key-less via OSRM), the straight-line distance, and a “Get directions” link. When no start is given, your approximate location is used. Selecting a place in the map pack also draws the route on the map, and place popups can show hours, a website, and a call button.

Trydirections to LAX (opens in a new tab)how far is Boston from NYC (opens in a new tab)distance between Denver and Aspen (opens in a new tab)drive from LA to Vegas (opens in a new tab)

Language & words

Translation, dictionary, thesaurus, and writing tools.

Time & dates

World clocks, time-zone math, timers, and date calculators.

Health & fitness

Body metrics, training zones, and wellness calculators — all computed locally.

Everyday & money calculators

Tips, loans, taxes, pay, and home projects — the numbers you need day to day.

Developer & data tools

Encoders, decoders, generators, and reference — everything runs locally in your browser.

Utility generator

Offline
Generate UUIDs, strong passwords, random numbers, dice rolls (with an animated die), and random picks (spun on a visual wheel that lands on the winner); encode/decode Base64 and text ↔ binary/hex; and compute Web-Crypto hashes — all offline, nothing leaves your browser.

Trygenerate uuid (opens in a new tab)random password (opens in a new tab)base64 encode (opens in a new tab)text to binary (opens in a new tab)sha256 hash (opens in a new tab)roll a dice (opens in a new tab)pick one of red, blue, green (opens in a new tab)

Text & encoding tools

Transform, encode, and analyze text — plus some fun ciphers.

Reference & fun

Quick facts, science reference, and a few playful extras.

Travel & shipping

Flights, airports, and package tracking, with links to official sources.

Network & official data

Your connection details and quick links into authoritative public data.

Live earthquakes & official data

Keyless
Recent earthquakes as a live list — magnitude, place, time, and depth from the keyless USGS feeds (earthquakes today, significant earthquakes this week, earthquakes above 5) — plus fast paths into other authoritative public data: power outages, air-travel status, lottery results, and holidays, each with the official source cited.

Tryearthquakes today (opens in a new tab)significant earthquakes this week (opens in a new tab)earthquakes above 5 (opens in a new tab)power outage map (opens in a new tab)powerball numbers (opens in a new tab)

Accounts & sync

A free account keeps your preferences, history, and chats with you across devices.

Create a free account

Free
Sign up with email to unlock cross-device sync and personalization. Accounts are handled with secure, industry-standard authentication.

What a free account gives you

Free
Signed in, you get site preferences (pin/boost/block domains), cross-device sync of your settings and theme, saved AI Chat threads, Medium-tier AI answers (on by default when you sign up), and AI Research mode — all at no cost.

AI Research mode

FreePro
Press Research in the results toolbar and Beamo turns your query into a deep-dive report: it plans several diverse web searches, runs them in the background, reads the top pages, and writes one long, structured report with numbered citations — watching each step (planning, searching, reading, writing) live. Every signed-in account gets 10 research runs a month on the Medium tier; Beamo Search Pro gets 20 runs a month using your selected answer tier, up to Deep. A quiet counter appears when you’re down to your last few runs; the quota resets on the 1st.

Settings

Manage everything from Settings — organized into General, Profile, Security, Billing, and Data tabs.

Your data & privacy controls

Review and export your data, clear your local history, and manage what Beamo stores from the Data tab and the Your data page.

Beamo Search Pro

Upgrade for priority AI and power-user controls. $8/month or $79/year.

Priority AI

Pro
Pro keeps you on Beamo’s top model with priority access, so you’re never downgraded to a lighter model under load — and your deep AI Overview can default on automatically.

Custom AI instructions

Pro
Save a personal answer-style preference (tone, length, format) that Beamo applies to every AI Overview and Chat response, synced across your devices.

Ask about this URL

Pro
Point Beamo at any web page and ask questions about it. Pro safely fetches the page and uses the fast tier to summarize it or answer your questions about its content.

More advanced research

Pro
AI Research mode is free for every account — Pro doubles it: 20 research runs a month (free accounts get 10) synthesized at your selected answer tier, up to Deep, instead of the free Medium tier. Same live pipeline, deeper reports.

Search watches — alerts when results change

Pro
Press Watch in the results toolbar (or add a watch in Settings) and Beamo monitors that search for you: a daily runner re-checks the results, an AI judges whether the change is actually meaningful — a new top result, breaking news, materially new information, never a mere reshuffle — and you get an email alert summarizing what’s new plus the change noted on the watch in Settings. Watch up to 10 searches; pause or remove them any time.

Manage your subscription

Pro
Billing is handled securely through Stripe. Upgrade, change plans, or cancel any time from the Billing tab in Settings.

Personalization

Make Beamo look and behave the way you want.

Theme & appearance

Switch between light and dark mode from the header. Signed in, your theme follows you across devices.

Search & AI preferences

Tune SafeSearch, result region/language, your default AI tier, weather units, and other behavior from Settings.

Consent & region controls

On your first visit, Beamo shows a region-aware consent notice (GDPR/CCPA) so you control optional data use from the start.

Apps & extension

Take Beamo everywhere — browser extension, mobile app, and default-engine setup.

Browser extension

The free Beamo Search extension works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Firefox, and Safari. It can set Beamo as your default search engine and gives you a Beamo home page on every new tab.

New-tab page & sign-in sync

The extension’s new-tab page mirrors the Beamo home page. When you’re signed in on beamosearch.com, the new tab reflects it (display-only — your session stays on the site).

Mobile app

The Beamo mobile app (iOS and Android) wraps a fast omnibox and an in-app browser, so you can search and browse the web from one screen.

Make Beamo your default

Follow the step-by-step default-engine guide for your exact browser and OS. Beamo also registers via OpenSearch, so many browsers list it automatically after one search.

Privacy & security

Fast answers without the tracking — here’s how Beamo treats your data.

Local-first tools

Offline
Every interactive tool (calculators, converters, generators, decoders, device info) runs entirely in your browser. The input never leaves your device.

Key-less public data

Keyless
Live cards (weather, sports, maps, currency, dictionary) use open, key-less public data sources through Beamo, so you get answers without third-party ad trackers.

Secure by default

Beamo serves everything over HTTPS with strict security headers (CSP, HSTS), hardened sessions, and origin checks on every request. Full details are in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

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