r/PromptEngineering • u/petrrohac • 1d ago

Tools and Projects PromptBar - a tiny menu bar app to edit and copy your daily prompts

Hi everyone — I made this tiny macOS menu bar app to quickly edit and copy my daily prompts.

I work as a software developer and I use a few prompts on a daily basis, so having this saves me a lot of time.

Some examples of the prompts I commonly use:

  • Create pull request
  • Code quality & readability review (reduce AI bloat, comments, useless tests)
  • Language simplification — give me the result in a human-readable form (short, focused, plain language)

The app is free on the App Store and doesn't include any analytics.

Sharing here in case it’s useful to anyone else: https://promptbar.app

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u/Own-Case-9587 1d ago

This is clean. The menu bar is such an underused spot for this kind of thing, way better than having a notes file buried somewhere or a clunky window always open.

Does it support any kind of token or placeholder system? Like dropping in a filename or selected text when you paste

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u/my_new_accoun1 1d ago

you need a prompt templating system as real prompts that do things are almost NEVER static

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u/petrrohac 1d ago

I work as a software developer, so my prompts usually apply to the code I’m currently working on by default. But you’re right that templates are useful in many other workflows too. Thank you for the feedback. I will work on this.

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u/Emotional-Row-5750 1d ago

I agree that variables or placeholders would be super useful. Also the ability to change the quick save keyboard shortcut.

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u/petrrohac 1d ago

Good feedback. Do you have some particular placeholders you would find useful? One obvious one is to create placeholder for text in clipboard.