Xgest: Ask Your Manuals

Cars, appliances, tools, parts

Only for iPhone

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.

iPhone

Now Xgest does appliances too. Snap the rating plate to set one up, then ask “what’s that error code?” — answered from your own manual, with the exact part a tap away. A light comes on in your dashboard. An amber horseshoe with an exclamation mark in it. You have no idea what it means — and no idea what it's called, which means you can't look it up. Your manual knows. It's 532 pages, it's in the glovebox, and it calls that thing a TPMS indicator, a phrase you have never heard in your life. Xgest closes that gap. Ask "what's the orange horseshoe light?" and it works out you mean TPMS, finds the page, and tells you what your manual says. Then it shows you the page. ASK IN YOUR OWN WORDS You don't need to know the right term. That's the whole problem — the manual speaks manual, and you don't. Searching a Honda HR-V manual for "orange horseshoe light" matches zero of its 532 pages. Xgest translates first. NO WORDS AT ALL? PHOTOGRAPH IT A symbol on a dial. An unlabelled button. A light you've never seen. Point the camera at it instead of trying to describe it. EVERY ANSWER CITES A PAGE Tap the citation and the real page opens. Not a summary of the page — the page. So you never have to take our word for it. THE ONE IN THE DRAWER Some manuals were never a PDF and never will be. The card that came with the dishwasher. The booklet for the mower. The folded insert in the box. Photograph the pages and Xgest reads them, on your phone. Older scanned PDFs — pictures of pages with no text behind them — work the same way. ONE THING, SEVERAL MANUALS The owner's manual and the nav supplement. The use-and-care guide and the installation sheet. Keep them together under the thing they belong to. ASK YOUR WHOLE SHELF (Plus) Don't know which manual has the answer — or which appliance is even beeping? Ask once. Xgest searches every manual you own and tells you which one each part of the answer came from. Unlimited manuals and shelf-wide ask come with Xgest Plus, a one-time purchase. YOUR MANUALS STAY YOURS Xgest reads and indexes your manuals on your phone. They are never uploaded. When you ask a question, what leaves is your question and a few paragraphs from the handful of pages your phone picked — never the manual. Pages you photograph never leave at all. No accounts. No sign-up. No ads. Nothing tracking you.

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Now Xgest does appliances, too — and setting one up is a single photo. SCAN THE PLATE Point your camera at an appliance's rating plate (the sticker on the back, base, or inside a door) and Xgest reads the brand, model, and serial right off it. No typing a 14-character model number by hand. FIND THE MANUAL, IN THE APP Don't have the PDF? Xgest searches for it without leaving the app. When the real manual is on screen, one tap pulls it in and files it under the right appliance. ADD AN APPLIANCE, MANUAL OR NOT Snap the plate to add something you own even before you've tracked down its manual — and get pointed to the exact parts for that model when you ask. Also: smoother backup and restore, and a "remove permanently" for things you're done with. Your manuals still never leave your phone.

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    Seller
    • Don Bonaddio
    Size
    • 1.9 MB
    Category
    • Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 2.6 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    16+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Don Bonaddio