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One key. The prompt an expert would write.

Pimp My Prompt reads the screen in front of you, asks only what is still missing, and rewrites your draft in any app on your Mac.

Download for macOS Press ⌥⇧P in any app. Works with your own Anthropic key.
A full-screen code editor on a Mac with the Pimp My Prompt panel floating over it. The panel shows the finished prompt: Role, Goal, Context, Task and Quality bar sections, with a field that reads: Change something, or press return to insert into Code.

What happens when you press the key

Press ⌥⇧P and it reads the screen in front of you

Your draft comes from the field you are typing in. The conversation around it comes from one screenshot of the front window, so it works in VS Code, Cursor, Slack or a browser, in full screen too.

The Pimp My Prompt panel over a code editor, reading: Reading Safari, with the amber ring running around its edge.

When something is missing, it asks, three questions at most

A gap check works out what the model still needs and has not already learnt from the chat. Each question comes with answers you can tap, type or say.

The panel asking: What is the page for, and what should a visitor do on it? With four tappable answers: Sign up for a waitlist, Buy a product, Book a demo or call, Download an app.

You get the prompt an expert would write

Role, goal, context, task, quality bar, output. Nine words in, a brief out.

BEFOREi want to build a landing page
The panel streaming the rewritten prompt into place over the editor, section by section, with a cursor at the end of the text.

Built to be trusted with your words

It changes your text only when you say so, and it never makes things up.

The editor's chat box now holds the full rewritten prompt, ready to send.

Insert and undo. Press return and the prompt replaces your draft in the field you were typing in. Undo puts the old text back. It never sends for you.

The finished prompt with one default labelled assumed and two bracketed placeholders for what could not be known.

Nothing invented. Facts come from the screen and your answers. Anything unknown is a visible placeholder, or a default labelled as assumed.

The panel floating over a full-screen editor with a question and tappable answers.

Say it instead. The mic understands you in context: also make it TypeScript revises the prompt, for developers answers the question. One click undoes it.

Works wherever you typeVS CodeCursorClaudeChatGPTSlackNotesMail

The finished prompt in the panel.

Measured, not promised

59%

Preferred answers

On 37 test conversations, the answer to the rewritten prompt beat the answer to the raw draft 59% of the time, tied 24%.

75%

On first messages

Cold starts gain the most. A one-line request becomes a full brief with a role, a quality bar and a done-when.

<1¢

Per spoken edit

A full press costs a few cents of API usage on your own key. A spoken change costs well under a cent and lands in about a second.

Frequently asked questions

How do I install it?
Open the downloaded file and drag Pimp My Prompt into Applications, then open it from there. The app is not notarised by Apple yet, so the first launch is stopped with a message that Apple could not check it. Choose Done, open System Settings, go to Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway next to Pimp My Prompt. macOS asks this once. The app lives in the menu bar, not the Dock. It needs macOS 13 or later and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
What happens to my screen and my text?
On each press, the draft and one screenshot of the front window go from your Mac straight to Anthropic's API with your own key, and the rewritten prompt comes back. Nothing is stored or routed through a server of ours, because there is none. You can also hide the panel itself from screen sharing.
Which permissions does it ask for?
Accessibility, to read the field you are typing in and write back into it, and Screen Recording, to see the conversation in the front window. Voice adds Microphone and Speech Recognition, which runs on-device when your language supports it. macOS asks once for each.
What does it cost?
It runs on your own Anthropic API key. A full press costs a few cents of API usage, and a spoken edit costs under one cent. The price of the app itself is [REPLACE: app price or free].
How is this different from a prompt enhancer in a browser?
Enhancers make a prompt longer. Pimp My Prompt reads the whole conversation first, works out which of goal, audience, format, constraints and success criteria is missing, asks only when it matters, and then writes the prompt an expert in that field would write. It also works in every app, not one site.
Does it send messages for me?
No. It writes the rewritten prompt into the field you were typing in and stops. Sending is always your action, and Undo restores what was there before.
Which apps and languages work?
Any app with a text field. The chat is read from the screen, so the app needs no integration. Voice uses macOS speech recognition in the languages your Mac supports, and the rewrite comes back in the language you wrote in.