Show HN: Promptive – A native macOS utility for system-wide AI actions

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Tired of jumping between apps and websites just to get help with your text? Promptive brings AI right to your fingertips. Simply highlight any text anywhere on your Mac, then get instant help to improve writing, fact-check information, or explain complex topics.

No more browser tabs. No more copy-pasting. Your personal AI toolbox is always just a right-click away.

How It Works

Getting AI help with your text is as simple as highlighting and clicking

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Highlight Any Text

Select text anywhere on your Mac—in any app, website, document, or email. Promptive works system-wide.

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Right-Click or Use Shortcut

Access your AI tools instantly with a simple right-click or your custom keyboard shortcuts. No app switching required.

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Get Instant AI Help

Improve writing, fact-check information, explain complex topics, or use your custom prompts. You choose: replace text or review suggestions.

AI Help That Actually Fits Your Workflow

Stop juggling browser tabs and switching between apps. Get smart text assistance right where you need it.

Highlight text in any app, website, or document. Get AI help without leaving your current task or opening new tabs.

Right-click or use keyboard shortcuts for instant access. No waiting, no app switching—just immediate AI assistance.

Choose whether to replace your text directly or review suggestions first. Create custom prompts for your specific workflows.

Access top AI models from Google, OpenAI, Claude, and more. Get high-quality results every time.

Bring Your Own API Keys (BYOK)

Connect directly to your preferred LLM providers for maximum privacy and control

Maximum Privacy

Your data never touches our servers. Promptive connects directly to your chosen LLM providers, ensuring your prompts and responses remain completely private and secure.

Direct Provider Connection

Use your existing API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other providers. No intermediaries, no data collection—just direct, secure communication with your preferred AI models.

Full Control

Choose which models to use, manage your own API quotas, and control your costs. Your keys, your data, your complete control over your AI workflow.

Supported Providers

Enterprise Ready: Perfect for organizations with strict data privacy requirements and existing AI provider relationships.

Stop Wasting Time on Repetitive Tasks

Promptive cuts out the extra steps that slow you down every day

Stop opening ChatGPT, copying text, waiting for responses, then copying back. Get AI help directly where you're already working.

Replace your text directly for quick fixes, or review suggestions first for important content. You're always in control.

Access the best AI models from Google, OpenAI, Claude, and more—all from one place. No more managing multiple subscriptions.

Privacy First

We don't collect, store, or access your prompts, user input, or personal data. No analytics, no tracking.

Read our Privacy Policy

What You Can Do

From improving your writing to fact-checking information, Promptive helps with all your text-related tasks

Improve Your Writing

Transform confusing sentences into clear, easy-to-understand text. Perfect for emails, documents, and presentations.

Instantly improve readability and impact

Make your writing more professional, casual, friendly, or concise—whatever fits the situation.

Perfect tone for every audience

Catch errors and improve flow without switching to another app or website.

Professional writing, instantly

Get Quick Answers

Quickly verify details without opening a browser. Perfect for research, emails, and fact-checking.

Instant verification without leaving your work

Get easy-to-understand breakdowns of technical jargon, complex concepts, or confusing text.

Make the complicated simple

Extract key points from long articles, meeting notes, or documents in seconds.

Get the gist, skip the fluff

Your Custom Toolbox

Create a custom prompt to turn messy meeting notes into clean, actionable summaries.

Transform chaos into clarity

Build prompts that translate technical jargon into plain English for different audiences.

Bridge the communication gap

Create unlimited custom prompts for any task. Set them to replace text or just show suggestions.

Infinite possibilities, one click away

Contextual Prompt Application

Apply any of these prompts, or your custom ones, through a right-click context menu or single keyboard shortcut on selected text. Works seamlessly across all applications - browsers, word processors, code editors, and more.

Ready to Transform Your Workflow?

Join users who've eliminated friction from their AI workflows with Promptive

Free download • Native macOS app • No subscription required

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