Save, search, and optimize the prompts you send to AI.
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Cue is a desktop app for saving and reusing the prompts you send to AI tools like Claude Code, Codex, and ChatGPT. Save a prompt with a hotkey, search for it later, and click it to copy.
Two things set it apart: optimize any prompt with the AI of your choice — OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, OpenRouter, or your local Claude Code / Opencode / Antigravity CLI — and copy a long prompt as an image to spend far fewer input tokens.
Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Launcher: Open with a global hotkey, search, and click an item to copy it.
- AI prompt optimizer: Rewrite the prompt you're editing in one click, using OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, OpenRouter, or a local Claude Code / Opencode / Antigravity CLI. Pick a provider and model in Settings.
- Copy as image: For a long prompt, copy it as a dense PNG instead of text. An image's token cost depends on its size, not its character count, so pasting it into a multimodal model can cost far fewer input tokens — a technique that's catching on.
- Projects: Group prompts, with an "All" view across them.
- Markdown: Each prompt supports Markdown, and you can switch between editing and preview.
- Organize: Search, pin, drag to reorder, and a context menu (rename, copy, preview, edit, pin, delete).
- Always on top: Keep the window above other apps.
- Backup and sync: Export and import all data as one JSON file, or sync to a private Git repository you own.
- Themes and languages: Light and dark themes, accent colors, text size, and 14 languages.
- Local-first: Prompts live in a local SQLite file. The optimizer sends a prompt only to the provider you pick, Cue checks GitHub for a newer release on launch, and nothing else leaves your machine.
| Action | Default |
|---|---|
| Show / hide (global) | Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + Space |
| Save clipboard as new item (global) | Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + S |
| Move selection | ↑ / ↓ |
| Copy selected | Enter |
| New item | Ctrl/⌘ + N |
| Focus search | Ctrl/⌘ + F |
| Clear search | Esc |
| Save (in editor) | Ctrl/⌘ + Enter |
The two global shortcuts are configurable in Settings.
Prebuilt installers are available on the Releases page.
Prerequisites: Node.js, pnpm, Rust, and your platform's Tauri prerequisites.
pnpm install # install dependencies
pnpm tauri dev # run in development
pnpm tauri build # build release installers
pnpm build # frontend type-check + build only (tsc && vite build)- Tauri v2 (Rust backend)
- React 19 + Vite + TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS v4, lucide-react icons, zustand state
- SQLite via
tauri-plugin-sql - Plugins:
global-shortcut,clipboard-manager,autostart,single-instance,dialog,window-state
src/ Frontend (React)
components/ Header, Sidebar, SearchBar, ItemList/ItemRow, Editor, Settings, ContextMenu, Dropdown, Toaster
lib/ db.ts (SQLite), tauri.ts, i18n.ts, search.ts, markdown.ts, drag.ts, platform.ts
store.ts zustand store (state + all actions)
types.ts
src-tauri/
src/lib.rs tray / global hotkeys / window control / SQL migrations / git sync
tauri.conf.json window (frameless) + plugin config
capabilities/ permissions
Your data is stored in a local SQLite database (cue.db) under the OS app data directory, for example %APPDATA%\com.cue.app on Windows. Cue reaches the network only to: send a prompt to the AI provider you choose when you run the optimizer, check GitHub for a newer release on launch, and — if you turn on Git sync — push to the private repository URL you provide with your own git credentials.
Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.