Using Quarter Inch · Help
What Quarter Inch’s AI Help does, and what it sees
Help works from your words and suggests changes for you to accept. Here is exactly what it does, what it never does, what a model sees, and what we keep.
The short answer
Help suggests; you decide: no change reaches your quilt until you accept it, and every number comes from the engine, never the model. A model sees your words and the quilt, never your name, email or other quilts. Descriptions are deleted within 30 days, and we never use your quilts to train AI.
What Help does
Help is the part of Quarter Inch that works from your words. It’s there only when you ask for it. Nothing in the app starts with Help, and you can design every quilt without it.
- Describe it. Say what you’d like to make, and Help shows a plan, asks you at most a couple of choices, and builds a draft quilt in the designer while you watch. Describe it, step by step.
- Help me choose and Do the rest for me in the guided start, when you’d like a hand with one step or the rest.
- Ask Help in the designer: point at squares and ask for a change, or hand it a job such as borders or a second colorway. Just tell it makes one plain-English change to the quilt. Ask Help, Just tell it and Check my quilt.
- Make it with help, when you make a pattern: Help fills in the pattern’s tabs and shows you each change first. Make a pattern.
What Help never does
- It never changes your quilt without you. Every change Help suggests waits in a card until you choose Accept (or Change the quilt, or Use it in a pattern). A quilt Help builds is marked Draft until you choose Keep it.
- It never works out a number. Help only chooses: a block from the library, a layout the app has, a size by name, a color for each part. The same code that draws your cutting chart works out every size, yardage and count. If a model writes a measurement in its words, the app takes it out or replaces it with the engine’s figure.
- It never does anything the app’s own tools can’t. Help’s changes are the same changes your own clicks make, one step each in History, labeled as Help’s, so Undo works on them as on anything else.
- It never buys fabric, changes My fabrics, or publishes a pattern. In a pattern, Help stops before Versions: publishing, exporting and tester copies are yours alone.
- It never draws characters or logos. Ask for one and Help makes an original design with its feel, and says so.
Names are data, not instructions. A quilt, block or fabric name from a file is passed to Help as plain data. Whatever a name says, Help can only suggest changes for you to accept.
What an AI model sees
Help’s requests go from our server to OpenRouter, an AI provider that passes each one on to the model that answers it. Your browser never talks to a model directly. Each request carries only what that job needs:
| When you use | The model is sent |
|---|---|
| Describe it, Help me choose, Do the rest for me | What you wrote and chose on the form; the names and colors of your My fabrics, and how much you have of each in your stash; the Quarter Inch Solids color card; and anything on your What Help has noticed list that you left on. While Help designs, it is also shown pictures of the quilt it is drawing, to check its own work. |
| Add a picture (colors from a photo) | A small copy of the photo, re-made without its location or camera details. It isn’t kept. Also your My fabrics and what Help has noticed. |
| Ask Help, jobs, Check my quilt | Your question, the squares you pointed at, and the quilt itself in words: its blocks, layout, borders, and fabric names and colors. Also your My fabrics and what Help has noticed, as for Describe it. |
| Just tell it | Your request, and the quilt in words. |
| Make it with help (a pattern) | The quilt in words, the pattern’s fabric names, and what you chose in the brief. If you choose an earlier pattern under Sound like, the words of that pattern too. |
A model is never sent your name, your email address, your account details, or your other quilts. The one exception you choose yourself: an earlier pattern’s words, when you ask Help to sound like it.
What we keep, and for how long
- What you type into Describe it is deleted from Help’s records within 30 days. The plan made from it, with your description, is deleted after 7 days.
- A photo for its colors is used once and not kept. A photo you save to My fabrics stays there until you delete it.
- What you ask Help about a quilt, and what it suggested, is kept with that quilt, and goes when the quilt is deleted.
- Just tell it and Make it with help keep no copy of your words. We count how many requests you’ve used this month, and a pattern keeps a record of what Help suggested and whether you used it, so a published version can show how it was made.
- A quilt Help built has a short summary of what Help chose, decided and assumed. It’s kept with your account, even after you delete the quilt, so this month’s builds still count, and it goes when your account does.
- Everything Help has noticed stays until you forget it: see below.
Export everything includes your Help settings, what Help has noticed and the quilts it made for you. Deleting your account deletes all of it.
Training: never
We never use your quilts or designs to train AI, and nothing in Quarter Inch trains on them, so there’s no setting for it. Help works from what each request carries, as listed above.
Our AI principles say it in writing: we never train AI on your designs, and measurements always come from our math. The privacy policy says what Help sends and keeps, and covers everything else we collect.
Your switches
All of Help’s settings are on one card. Choose your name, then Account and settings, and find the card called Help.
- Show Help is on for a new account. Turn it off and Describe it, Help me choose, Ask Help, jobs, Just tell it and Make it with help are hidden everywhere, and none of them runs. Check my quilt still measures your quilt, without Help’s words.
- What Help has noticed lists the sentences Help is told with every request, such as how you like to work. Turn any one off, choose Forget, or Forget everything Help noticed. Forgotten means deleted.
- This month shows how many quilts Help has built for you, and how many are left.
Turn Help off, and what it remembers has the steps.
How much Help you get
Describe it builds 3 quilts a month on Free and 60 on Quilter. Asking Help, jobs, Check my quilt and Help me choose don’t use up builds. Just tell it gives Free 5 requests a month; Quilter gets 200 Help requests a month for Just tell it and Make it with help, which comes with Quilter. When an allowance is used, everything else keeps working.
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Questions
Short answers.
Something else? A real person replies.
hello@quarterinch.app
Does Help change my quilt by itself?
No. Every change waits until you accept it, and a quilt Help builds stays a draft until you choose Keep it. Each change is one step in History, so you can undo it.
Can Help get a measurement wrong?
Help never works out a measurement. The same code that makes your cutting chart computes every size and yardage, and numbers a model writes are removed from its words.
Is my quilt used to train AI?
No. We never use your quilts or designs to train AI, and nothing in Quarter Inch trains on them, so there’s no setting to turn on.
Does the AI see my name or email?
No. A model is sent your request and the quilt it’s about, in words, never your name, email address, account details or your other quilts.
Can I turn Help off?
Yes. Turn off Show Help in Account and settings, and Describe it, Help me choose, Ask Help, jobs, Just tell it and Make it with help are hidden everywhere.