The questions people actually ask.

No. You need at least one of OpenAI, OpenRouter, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini or Ollama. Ollama runs on your own machine and costs nothing, though you will want a cloud image model to actually draw thumbnails.

The text half can: briefs, titles, edit interpretation and vision analysis all run on local models. No local model generates images to the standard a thumbnail needs today, so the drawing step still wants a cloud provider. Turn on local-only mode and Re-Prompter refuses every cloud provider and disables what it cannot do, rather than quietly rerouting.

Because it cannot. Claude reads images and writes structure; it has no image-generation endpoint. Re-Prompter uses it for the brief, the reference analysis and the edit interpretation, and routes the drawing to whichever image model you configured.

Not in the default mode. The artwork is generated with no lettering at all and your exact headline is typeset on canvas afterwards, so the characters are the ones you typed. AI-rendered text is still available for when the wording does not matter.

No, and it is built so it cannot be. The vision model is instructed to describe arrangement and light only — never the people, brands, products or wording, and never to transcribe visible text. You supply the subject and the headline, and every result carries a note saying it was built on a reference structure and is not the original.

Three thumbnails a day, ten title runs a day, the full editable creative brief, deterministic headline typesetting, one saved style, three projects, every provider including local models, and PNG, JPEG and WebP export. It is a working tool, not a demo.

No daily limit, Recreate from reference, natural-language editing with masks and history, personas, face swap, batches, the canvas, per-task routing and full data export. Twenty-five dollars once, three browsers, lifetime updates.

Three. Work Chrome, home Chrome, and whatever is on the laptop. Free a seat yourself from the manage page when you move machines.

Either in the browser's session storage, cleared when Chrome closes, or encrypted with AES-GCM under a passphrase you type. A browser extension has no keychain, so encryption stops a casual read and a synced profile leaking them in plain text — it is not hardware-grade, and the settings screen says so.

Never. There is no Re-Prompter server between your browser and your provider. The only request the extension makes to us is licence activation, which carries a key and a random device id.

No telemetry of any kind. No usage counts, no prompts, no error reports.

Because it only needs the hosts you actually use. The only standing permission is this website, for licence activation. Provider hosts are optional and requested when you enable that provider. There is no all-sites permission and no background content script.

Whatever your provider charges for one image, plus two short text calls per thumbnail. Run the text half on Ollama and that part is free. Where a provider publishes prices, the panel estimates before a batch; where it does not, you can enter your own; where neither applies it says the cost is unavailable rather than guessing.

Yes. None of the five built-in providers offers dedicated face replacement, so the adapter is yours to point at any endpoint that takes two images and returns one. Without one, Re-Prompter falls back to an identity-preserving image edit and tells you it is less exact.

Impersonation, identity fraud, implying a political endorsement nobody gave, fabricating evidence, and sexual imagery. Face swap needs an explicit confirmation that you hold permission for the face, and every result is marked as manipulated. Those checks live in the feature, so redrawing the interface does not remove them.

All of it, as JSON, with or without the image data. Import it back on another machine. API keys are excluded by construction; an encrypted credential backup is a separate, deliberate action.

Yes. Anything Chromium-based at version 116 or newer, with a side panel.

Say so within 30 days and you get your money back. The key is revoked and the extension drops to the free tier at its next quiet re-check.