Ask Mio features span five very different jobs: tools it uses mid-answer, experts it can become for a whole chat, ready-made file generators, read-only connections to your own accounts, and account-level modules you switch on. Together that is 104 discrete capabilities, and knowing which of the five you actually need is the fastest way to get a useful answer out of the assistant instead of a generic one.
This page walks through all five sections the way they appear on the Ask Mio features page, explains what each one is for, and links out to a deeper article on each section if you want the full list with one honest line per item.
The Five Sections, in One Paragraph Each
Everything Mio can do falls into one of five buckets. Tools (#plugins) are things the model reaches for by itself in the middle of a normal chat reply — it decides to check a currency rate or open a web page without you asking for a “tool.” Experts (#skills) are personas you pick, or that Mio picks for you, that steer an entire conversation toward a role: lawyer, accountant, developer, teacher. Ready-made jobs (#templates) are short forms that produce a finished file — a slide deck, a spreadsheet, a PDF flyer — instead of a chat reply. Connectors (#connectors) let Mio read your Google Drive, Gmail or GitHub, always read-only, when you ask it to look something up. Modules (#modules) are account-level switches — things like Agent Skills support or a memory system — that change how the whole account behaves, not just one chat.
Tools Mio Can Use — 20
These are the pieces the model calls on its own while composing an answer. You never open a “tools menu” — you just ask a normal question, and if the question needs a live exchange rate, a page read, or an exact calculation, Mio reaches for the matching tool and folds the result into its reply. The list covers a live Chromium browser, a plain web page reader, web search, Wikipedia lookups, a calculator, currency and crypto and stock price checkers, a domain/DNS checker, a page & SEO auditor, a QR code generator, an RSS reader, a code runner (Python/Node sandbox), a translator, weather, date & time math, public holidays, news headlines, an e-mail drafter, and a “remove AI marks” cleaner for uploaded files. The full breakdown, with what each one is honest about and where it falls short, is in AI Assistant Tools: The 20 Things Mio Uses Mid-Answer.
The test for whether you need to think about tools at all is simple: if your question has a factual, checkable, or computable answer — “what’s 240 EUR in USD today,” “does this domain have an MX record,” “what’s bitcoin trading at” — a tool is probably already doing the work behind the scenes.
Experts — 39
An expert changes the frame for the whole conversation, not just one reply. Pick “Legal assistant” and Mio explains contracts and risk in plain language for every message that follows, instead of you re-explaining the context each time. The 39 cover legal, financial, and marketing roles (accountant, financial analyst, marketing strategist, SEO specialist, copywriter), technical roles (senior developer, DevOps engineer, data analyst, system administrator, security reviewer), creative and lifestyle roles (chef, fitness coach, travel planner, storyteller), and a few specific ones like a Lithuanian business letter writer tuned to the register local institutions expect. See AI Assistant Experts: How Mio’s 39 Personas Work for the full roster and how picking one differs from just writing a longer prompt.
Ready-Made Jobs — 24
Sometimes you don’t want a conversation — you want a file. Ready-made jobs are short forms: fill in a few fields (topic, audience, tone, length) and Mio returns a finished .pptx deck, an .xlsx spreadsheet, a PDF flyer, an HTML slide file, or a structured SEO article, rather than a wall of chat text you’d have to reformat yourself. The 24 span slide decks, interactive HTML slides, spreadsheets, image/poster generation, PDF flyers, SEO articles, social media packs, e-mail replies, meeting-notes summarizers, research briefs, code review, CVs, business plans, contract checks, product descriptions, quotes/invoices, data analysis, study plans, trip plans, ad copy, website page copy, diagrams, menus, and document translation. Full detail in AI File Templates: 24 Ready-Made Jobs in Ask Mio.
Your Own Files and Accounts — 12
Connectors let Mio look inside accounts you already use — Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Dropbox, Notion, Slack, Trello, Todoist, PostRSS, and Talkmio — strictly to search and read when you ask a question that needs them (“what did the invoice from March say,” “what’s on my calendar Thursday”). Every one of the 12 is read-only by design on the free and Chat tiers; paid plans can additionally turn on write actions for connectors, per the pricing page. The distinction matters more than it sounds — see AI Assistant Connectors: Read-Only Access Explained for what read-only actually protects you from.
How Mio Works — 9
Modules are switches at the account level rather than the chat level. Agent Skills support lets you load personas written in the open SKILL.md format — the same format used by other assistants — so a skill you or someone else wrote elsewhere can be picked inside Mio too. Skill creator lets you build your own expert without writing SKILL.md by hand. Automatic skill picks the closest expert for a question when you haven’t chosen one, instead of defaulting to a generalist. Headroom compresses long conversations (shortening repeated file dumps and quoted text) so long chats stay affordable and don’t hit context limits. Setup assistant looks at your usage and suggests what to turn on next. Document memory keeps uploaded files searchable in later chats without re-attaching them. Mail to myself lets Mio send routine reports to your own address without asking every time. Remove AI marks strips provenance metadata from files you upload — with an important limit explained below. Photo privacy strips personal metadata (GPS, camera serial, author) from photos while deliberately keeping AI provenance marks intact.
One honest caveat worth repeating here because it is easy to oversell: Remove AI marks strips metadata (C2PA, XMP, EXIF) and invisible text-marker characters, but it does not remove a watermark drawn into the pixels themselves, such as SynthID — no metadata tool can do that. EU law requires AI-generated content to be marked, so this module is meant for content you own and are legally free to publish unmarked, not for stripping disclosure off someone else’s work.
All 104 Features at a Glance
| Section | Count | What it’s for | Reach for it when… |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tools (#plugins) | 20 | Mid-answer facts, checks and calculations | You need a live, verifiable number or page read |
| Experts (#skills) | 39 | A persona that steers a whole chat | You want consistent framing across many messages |
| Ready-made jobs (#templates) | 24 | A finished file from a short form | You want a deliverable, not a conversation |
| Connectors (#connectors) | 12 | Read-only lookups in your own accounts | The answer lives in your Drive, mail or repo |
| Modules (#modules) | 9 | Account-level behaviour switches | You want to change how the account works generally |
How the Five Sections Work Together
In practice these layers stack. Say you’re preparing a quarterly report: you might pick the “Financial analyst” expert (skills) for the whole session, ask Mio to pull numbers from a spreadsheet in your connected Google Drive (connectors), have it check a current EUR/USD rate for one line item (a tool, automatically), and finish by generating the actual slide deck through the PowerPoint template (ready-made jobs) — all in one chat, with Document memory (a module) keeping the spreadsheet searchable next time you open a new conversation about the same report.
None of this requires you to know the plumbing. The point of listing all 104 is orientation: when an answer feels shallow, it’s often because the relevant expert wasn’t picked, or the connector that holds the source document was never asked to look. Knowing the five categories exist is usually enough to fix that.
Who Reaches for Which Section
A freelancer juggling four clients typically lives in experts and connectors: switching to “Copywriter” for one client’s landing page, then to “Data analyst” for another client’s spreadsheet, while Gmail and Google Drive connectors mean neither project requires re-uploading the same brief twice. A solo developer leans on tools and ready-made jobs — the code runner catches a bug before it ships, and the “Code review / fix” template turns a messy pull request into a structured list of issues. A marketing team tends to use experts and ready-made jobs together: “Marketing strategist” or “SEO specialist” for the thinking, then the “Social media pack” or “SEO article” template for the actual output that goes out the door. An operations person debugging a broken mail server after a domain move is almost purely in the tools layer — the domain & DNS check plugin answers “did the MX record actually propagate” without opening a terminal.
None of these are exclusive. The same person can use all five sections in one working day, and the assistant does not ask you to declare which mode you’re in before it decides whether a tool call, an expert framing, or a file template is the right response to what you typed.
What Changes Between the Free Plan and Paid Plans
The free plan gives you Chat and Write modes with 600 points a month, which is enough to try the tools layer and a range of experts without a credit card. Ready-made jobs that produce files, the code execution sandbox, image generation, and connector write actions are gated behind paid tiers, because they draw on the stronger, costlier models the free tier doesn’t route to. The Chat plan at €5/month adds Research mode, file uploads and memory; Coding at €12/month adds the code sandbox; Design at €12/month adds image generation; Business at €29/month adds team seats, API access and write-capable connectors. None of this changes which of the 104 features exist — it changes which ones your account is allowed to call and how many points you have to spend calling them. Full numbers are on the pricing page.
Where to Start
If you’re new to Ask Mio, start with a plain question in Chat mode and see which tool it reaches for on its own — that’s the fastest way to understand the plugin layer. Then try picking one expert for a task you repeat often (support replies, code review, SEO writing) and notice how much less you have to re-explain. Ready-made jobs are worth trying the first time you’d otherwise open PowerPoint or Excel from scratch. Connectors are worth setting up once you’re tired of re-uploading the same files. Modules are mostly set-and-forget — Document memory and Headroom, in particular, are worth turning on early since they make every later chat cheaper and more accurate.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a tool and an expert in Ask Mio?
A tool (plugin) is invoked automatically by the model mid-answer to check a fact or run a calculation, and it applies to a single response. An expert (skill) is chosen for an entire conversation and changes how every subsequent message is framed — closer to hiring a specialist than to running one calculation.
Do I need to choose a plugin manually?
No. Plugins are called automatically when a question needs them — a live currency rate, a page read, a QR code. You just ask the question normally; there is no separate menu to open for the 20 tools.
Are connectors able to change or delete my files?
No. All 12 connectors listed on the features page are read-only for searching and reading — Gmail, Microsoft 365 and the rest explicitly say read-only. Paid plans can add write actions for connectors as a separate capability; the base connection itself never edits your files without that being turned on.
How many features does Ask Mio actually have?
104, split as 20 tools, 39 experts, 24 ready-made jobs, 12 connectors and 9 account-level modules, per the features page.
Can I combine an expert with a ready-made job?
Yes. Picking an expert like “Financial analyst” shapes how Mio reasons about a request, and you can still ask it to output that reasoning as a ready-made file, such as a spreadsheet or a slide deck, in the same session.
What does “Remove AI marks” not do?
It strips metadata (C2PA, XMP, EXIF) and invisible text markers, but it cannot remove a watermark embedded in the pixels of an image, such as SynthID — no metadata tool can. It’s meant for content you own, not for hiding AI disclosure that the law in the EU requires.
Is there a free way to try all five sections?
The free plan includes Chat and Write modes, so you can try plugins and a subset of experts immediately at no cost. Ready-made jobs, connectors and several modules are unlocked on paid plans — see the pricing page for exact limits per tier.
The Bottom Line
Ask Mio’s 104 features aren’t 104 separate products to learn — they’re five simple layers that combine depending on what you’re trying to get done: a fact mid-chat, a persona for a whole conversation, a finished file, a read from your own accounts, or an account-wide setting. Start with a plain question, try one expert that matches your daily work, and generate one file the old-fashioned tools would have taken you twenty minutes to build. If that’s useful, the free plan is enough to keep exploring before you decide whether a paid tier’s extra points and modes are worth it.