Ask Bearly what to buy

Best Pick is now available on Bearly's paid plans. Ask what to buy in a chat and Bearly answers with one product: its price and store, the evidence behind the choice, and a button that opens it at the store.

How a pick is made

Bearly searches review sites and stores at the same time. It reads the expert reviews it finds, collects store listings and owner ratings, and groups the listings that are the same product. Each candidate gets a quality score from 0 to 100, built from what the reviews and ratings say. A fixed scoring rule then picks the product that gives the most quality for its price, within your budget and requirements. AI models read the pages and write the explanation; they don't choose the product.

Bearly doesn't test products itself. It weighs published expert reviews and owner reviews, and lists its sources on the card. Except for handmade goods, a product has to appear in at least one expert review to be picked. That review doesn't have to recommend it; when none does, the card says the pick rests on owner ratings. A product is ruled out if a page Bearly reads reports a recall, if a leading reviewer advises against it, or if owners report a recurring safety problem.

A vacuum under $300

A cordless stick vacuum for a one-bedroom apartment with a cat. Under $300, and it has to run at least 40 minutes on a charge.

Bearly uses Best Pick on its own when you ask what to buy. To make sure it does, type /bestpick and describe the product.

While it works, the card shows your request as a headline, such as "Cordless stick vacuums up to $300", and each requirement as a tag, such as the 40-minute runtime. Anything Bearly filled in because you didn't say is marked Assumed. Counters show how many expert reviews Bearly has read and how many store listings it has checked, and a clock shows how long the pick has taken. A pick stops at 90 seconds; if none is ready by then, the card says so and offers Try again.

Once the pick is decided, the card shows the product's photo, brand, name, and price. View at followed by the store's name opens the store's own product page. Bearly doesn't add affiliate links, and it strips common affiliate and tracking tags from store links. Best Pick recommends; it doesn't buy anything.

Beside the button, the card says when the price was checked and that the store's checkout price applies. If you come back to the card more than a day later, the price is dimmed and shows the date it was checked; Check current price refreshes it when Bearly can read the listing again. If Bearly can't confirm the product is in stock, the card says so.

Below that:

• How many expert reviews recommend the product, its average owner rating, and what owners praise and complain about most.
• How it compares, a chart of the products Bearly weighed, placed by price and quality score, with your budget as a dashed line. Spend less and Spend more name a cheaper and a pricier option and what each one trades. When another product scored close to the pick, it's marked Close call.
• Why this one, two or three sentences written from the scores. Bearly checks every number in them against its own figures.
• What owners say, with praise and reported problems as shares of the reviews Bearly read.
• Sources, the expert reviews, stores, and forums the pick rests on, with dates.

Refine it in the same chat

Reply in the chat: "Make it under $250," or "It needs to be quiet." Or use the buttons under the card: Cheaper, Worth spending more, Not this one, and up to two suggestions for that kind of product. If one of Bearly's assumptions is wrong, select its Assumed button to rule it out, or reply with what you want instead.

Each refinement shows a new card. Bearly keeps what you asked for earlier, including the 40-minute runtime, and looks first at the products it already found. It searches again only when none of them fit. The pick stays if it still fits and still comes out ahead. When Bearly can answer from those products, its reply says whether the pick changed and why.

When nothing is worth recommending

For the vacuum, a card with no pick would read Nothing up to $300 is worth recommending. A line under it gives the reason, such as too little evidence from separate sources, and buttons offer to raise the budget or drop a requirement.

When nothing meets every requirement, Bearly can set requirements aside, starting with the one you stated last, and pick from what's left. The card names each requirement the pick doesn't meet. A price limit is never set aside.

What it covers

Best Pick is for physical products bought new, from stores in your country, with prices in its currency. It reads store listings in 46 countries; elsewhere it checks fewer stores, and the card says store coverage is limited. It doesn't cover services, travel, cars, homes, or used and refurbished items. It doesn't pick medications, supplements, infant car seats, or firearms; ask for one and Bearly says the category isn't covered.

Availability

Best Pick is available on Pro and higher plans, in chats on the web, including phone browsers, and in the desktop app. On the Free plan, asking for a pick shows an upgrade prompt instead. Each pick uses your plan's allowance.

Team admins can turn Best Pick off in a policy under Web & Research. It also needs Web and Chat web search turned on.

The Best Pick guide covers every part of the card and each message it can show.