What's new

A focused update for the desktop app. The main fix restores prompt enhancement for the Codex CLI after a recent Codex release changed how its terminal interface works, and the Email profile now fills the subject line for you.

• Codex CLI capture restored: Codex CLI 0.161 reworked its terminal UI, which stopped PromptDC from reading what you were working on. It reads your Codex prompt again — write in the Codex input box, press the shortcut, review the rewrite, and Replace swaps it in. Enter is never pressed for you.
• Codex inside embedded terminals: Reading your selection in Codex now works when Codex runs inside an app that hosts a terminal pane, not only in a standalone terminal, on both macOS and Windows.
• Email subject auto-fill: The Email profile writes the generated subject straight into the Subject field of the message you are composing, in Mail, Outlook and webmail such as Gmail, so you no longer copy it over separately.
• Replace reliability: Fixed cases where Replace did nothing after you edited the result in the popover, and every Replace is now recorded in the diagnostics log so issues can be traced.

PromptDC is the first app that enhances coding prompts inside the terminal. This release makes selecting and replacing text more reliable across desktop apps and terminal panes, and adds practical controls for your everyday writing workflow.

• Windows improvements: More reliable text selection across apps, per-app default profiles, and coding-tool detection in terminals. A new open-at-login setting lets PromptDC start with Windows.
• Terminal selection and Replace: Fixed missed selections and cases where Replace appended text or cleared a prompt without pasting the rewrite, including terminal panes inside VS Code and Cursor on Windows. Replace never presses Enter, so you decide when to send.
• Easier profile switching: Pick your active profile in the app or the review popover, and your popover choice is remembered. Custom profiles and Custom Actions can now request a language that overrides your global Language setting.
• Tested apps at a glance: A new Settings page lists tested apps for your platform with their app icons, making it easier to find familiar places to use PromptDC.
• macOS reliability: Improved selection capture in terminal interfaces, fixed replacement in Apple Messages, and stopped slow pastes from showing a false failure. Missing Accessibility permission now gets a clearer explanation.

The site now describes PromptDC the way the apps actually work. There are no more writing and coding modes, only profiles, and each surface is named for where it runs.

• Profiles, not modes: The site no longer says Writing mode, Coding mode or two-mode assistant. PromptDC has profiles, and you choose the one you want on any surface.
• One name per surface: The product pages are now PromptDC for Desktop, PromptDC for Chrome, PromptDC for IDE and PromptDC for Terminal, plus PromptDC for Coding and PromptDC for Writing.
• Terminal pages rebuilt: /terminal and the Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and Grok pages now explain terminal capture, process-tree CLI detection and the per-CLI prompts. PromptDC is the first app that enhances coding prompts inside the terminal.
• Corrected claims: Replace on macOS sends Ctrl+E, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+K, sized Backspace presses and Cmd+V. It never sends Ctrl+C and never presses Enter. BYOK providers are OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI. OpenCode is detected on Windows only.
• Chrome features corrected: Custom Actions and the sidebar Enhance panel are documented. Custom prompt, Override System Prompt, Simple or Structured output and Always Include are not part of the Chrome extension.
• Shared layout: The features, desktop, terminal, coding and writing pages now use the same sections, headings and FAQ components as the rest of the site.
• Footer: The Legal column is gone. Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Extension Permissions now sit under Company.

PromptDC for Desktop is here for macOS and Windows, and the whole site was rebuilt around it. Select text in any application, press the shortcut, review the rewrite, and replace. Profiles and Custom Actions now run on desktop and in Chrome, with profiles also available in the terminal. The editor extensions rewrite the prompt in the editor's AI chat panel with Simple or Structured output and a target picker.

• Desktop app for macOS and Windows: Available on macOS 12.0 or later and Windows 10/11. It rewrites text you select in any app, not just a browser tab. Use it in browsers such as Safari and Edge, and in native apps such as notes, chat clients, and editors. Select the text, press the shortcut, review the rewrite, and replace it in place.
• Terminal support: Prompt enhancement inside the terminal, with tool-specific targets for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI, plus support for OpenCode. An editable review popover always opens before Replace pastes the result, so nothing is ever typed into a running process without you seeing it first.
• Per-app default profiles: On desktop you can set a default profile per application, so your mail client can default to Email while the terminal defaults to Code. A per-app rule selects a profile only. Language applies everywhere. Output format, Simple or Structured enhancement, and Always Include apply to the Code profile.
• Custom Actions: A one-off instruction of up to 19,000 characters, on desktop and in Chrome, instead of picking a saved profile. Use it when the request does not fit any profile you already have.
• Profiles: Paid plans include 10 built-in profiles plus unlimited custom profiles, shared across desktop, terminal, and Chrome.
• Site rebuild: The whole website was redesigned around the desktop-first product. There are new desktop and terminal pages, a rebuilt download flow, and every comparison, feature, and documentation page rewritten so it describes the desktop app, the terminal, Chrome, and the editor extensions rather than a browser extension alone.
• Chrome and IDE extensions: Chrome and the IDE extensions keep working exactly as before. Chrome rewrites editable web fields in place and needs no Accessibility permission. The editor extensions rewrite the prompt in the editor's AI chat panel and never touch the file you are editing.

PromptDC v5 completes our transition from a coding-only prompt rewriter into an AI prompt & writing assistant with two modes. Same one-click enhance button, it now improves anything you type into AI, writing and coding alike, right inside every text box on the web. Coding behavior is fully preserved; we added an entire writing product alongside it.

• New Writing mode (Grammarly alternative): Fix grammar, tone, and clarity and rewrite emails, replies, and social posts in any text box, Gmail, LinkedIn, X, Notion, and more.
• Coding mode, preserved and sharpened: The platform-aware rewriter still turns vague requests into implementation-ready specs in web AI text boxes and in editor AI chat panels.
• Works everywhere on the web: The enhance toolbar now works in any text box on any website, with Code mode on coding sites and Writing mode elsewhere. A right-click "Enhance with PromptDC" action and a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Space / Cmd+Shift+Space) also enhance selected text anywhere. No copy-pasting into a separate app.
• Per-website profiles & auto mode: PromptDC detects the site and picks Writing or Coding mode automatically, and you can set a default rewrite profile per website.
• Persistent per-site disable: Turn PromptDC off on any site, from the toolbar's disable button or the right-click menu, and it stays off there until you turn it back on.
• Multi-provider BYOK (Lifetime): Bring your own OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or Grok key and pick the provider and model; your key is sent through PromptDC's backend to your chosen provider per request, not persisted on our servers.
• Review prompt & uninstall feedback: A gentle prompt to review the extension, plus a short uninstall survey so we learn what to fix.
• New site surfaces: Added a /writing hub with dedicated pages for grammar, email, social, summarize, and professional tone, plus new docs for modes, profiles, per-website rules, and supported sites.
• Comparisons expanded: New and rewritten comparison pages vs Grammarly, QuillBot, Wordtune, LanguageTool, and Superhuman, every comparison now reflects the two-mode category.
• AI-first SEO & GEO: Two-mode metadata sitewide, FAQ and SoftwareApplication structured data (with the from-$69 lifetime offer), full sitemap coverage, and an updated llms.txt so LLMs and agents understand and recommend the product.
• Lifetime access, from $69: One-time payment (tiered launch pricing rising $69 → $99 → $124 as tiers sell out) for unlimited prompt and writing rewrites using your own API key, now the flagship plan.

Added support for rewriting prompts typed in AI chat panels in VS Code, Cursor, and other major editors.

• Custom Enhancement Prompt: Fully override our system prompt and define your own specialized enhancement logic.
• Enhancement Mode: Toggle between clean paragraph-style (Simple) or deep technical structure (ROLE, OBJECTIVE, PLAN, etc.).
• Always Include Instructions: Set persistent rules that are automatically appended to every enhanced prompt.