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Babbily can show more than plain text when a visual answer helps. Depending on the model, tool mode, plan, and your request, replies can include maps, charts, stat cards, weather cards, QR codes, code blocks, code diffs, citations, pictures from web search, Canvas artifacts, generated images, and videos.
Be direct about the format you want. For example: “Show this as a bar chart,” “Create a QR code,” or “Map these locations.”

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What Babbily can show

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Ask for a map

Maps work best when you give Babbily clear locations. Good prompts:
  • Map these office locations and label each one.
  • Show a map of these addresses and summarize the travel pattern.
  • Find public locations for these venues and map them.
If Babbily returns text instead of a map, make the locations more specific or ask again with “show this as a map.”

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Turn data into charts or stat cards

Charts need clean labels and numbers. Stat cards work well for a small group of headline metrics.
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Provide the data

Paste a small table, attach a file, or describe the values clearly.
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Name the visual

Ask for a bar chart, line chart, pie chart, table, or stat cards.
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State the comparison

Tell Babbily what matters: trend, ranking, percent change, totals, or outliers.

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Create a QR code

Use QR codes for public links and non-sensitive text.
Do not put passwords, verification codes, private keys, payment details, or confidential information in a QR code. Anyone who can scan the image can read what it contains.
When a search-backed answer is about something you can see, such as a place, landmark, building, product, artwork, animal, vehicle, or dish, Babbily can add a strip of up to three pictures above the answer.
  • First question in a chat: Babbily decides whether pictures help. Asking what something looks like also lets Babbily decide, even later in a chat. A chat continued from a News article or Finance page starts fresh for this purpose.
  • Follow-up questions: Babbily adds search pictures only when you ask to see them.
  • Direct requests: Say “show me photos of,” “pictures of,” or “diagram of” to ask for pictures at any point.
Pictures appear once the written answer starts, not before it. Babbily filters out logos, icons, ads, tiny thumbnails, and pictures whose captions do not match your question, so some searches show no pictures even when you ask. Open a cited source when you want to see more from that page. Search pictures are different from generated images. A request such as “create an image of a cat” uses image generation instead. Deep Research reports cite text sources and do not include search pictures.

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Review sources, media, and Canvas artifacts

Search and research replies can include citations so you can open source material directly. Search pictures appear in a strip above the answer once the written reply starts, and a source with a picture may show a small preview in the sources list. Deep Research streams its planned report into Canvas, tells you when source coverage is partial, and preserves an incomplete report if writing ends early. Generated images and videos may include save, download, preview, or fullscreen controls depending on the output and your account state. Select an image in the thread to open it in a full-screen viewer, and press Esc or choose Close to return. Canvas artifacts may include editing, version, export, download, or plugin actions depending on the artifact type.

Deep research and search

Learn when to use search and deep research for source-backed answers.

Image and video generation

Create media with better prompts and understand usage impact.

Canvas and artifacts

Edit generated work in Canvas and export or send it when supported.

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Troubleshooting visual replies

If a visual reply does not appear:
  • Ask for the format explicitly.
  • Ask to see pictures directly, such as Show me photos of this landmark, if a search reply has none.
  • Switch to a model that supports the visual or tool you need.
  • Use Manual tool mode and choose the relevant tool.
  • Provide cleaner labels, values, locations, or source files.
  • Ask for a Canvas artifact if you want an editable draft, table, code file, or structured output.
  • Check your API usage budget before running image or video generation again.
  • Verify important outputs against the original data or cited source.
Babbily may answer in text when the requested visual or Canvas artifact is unsupported, the data is not structured enough, or the selected model cannot use the needed tool.
Last modified on October 7, 2026