Your prompts, one click away: from a grid, from the search, or from a floating button over any app.
A tiny, fully offline prompt manager for Windows. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
- Faster than a notes file: click a tile, the text is in your clipboard.
- Always within reach: pin prompts as floating buttons that stay on top of every other window.
- Yours alone: everything lives in a local file. The app only goes online if you let it check for updates.
| Grid & views | Free placement on a per-view grid (1×1 up to 20×20), drag tiles anywhere, drop on an occupied cell to swap. Up to 20 named views, each with its own size and layout. Drop a tile on a view tab to move it into that view, Ctrl to copy it there instead |
| Library | Every saved prompt in one searchable list: copy, edit, drag onto the grid, filter by color or type |
| Search & sort | Typo-tolerant search ("promt" still finds "prompt"), sorted by most used or recently used |
| Saved searches | Star a query, its tag filters and sort to bring it back with one click from a chip above the search field |
| Search everything | A toolbar icon or Ctrl+K opens an overlay that searches prompts, copy history, attachments, views, settings and help at once, arrow keys move across the groups, Enter runs the fitting action for whatever is highlighted |
| Library tiles | Switch the library from a list to big preview tiles, name below, same click/select/right-click behavior either way |
| Tags | Label prompts with your own colored tags and narrow the library down to any combination of them |
| Archive | Set a prompt aside without deleting it, hidden from the library and grid but still findable by search and included in export and backups |
| Private notes | A notes field per prompt for context you keep but never copy, searchable and shown in the tooltip |
| Favorites | Star prompts for a live favorites view |
| Batch editing | Multi-select in the library to recolor, favorite, move between views, export or delete in one go |
| Undo | Deleting a prompt (single or batch), deleting a view, clearing the copy history, deleting or merging tags, or a batch tag change offers an Undo button right on the confirmation |
| Duplicate finder | Finds near-identical prompts, shows them side by side, keeps the one you pick; the same threshold also drives a quiet "similar to..." hint right after saving a prompt |
| One click | Click a tile and the text is copied; a bubble confirms it |
| Floating buttons | Pin any prompt as a frameless, always-on-top pill. Drag to move, right-click for size, edit or remove; positions survive restarts |
| Auto-paste | A fast second click (or Enter) copies and pastes into the app you were just in |
| Placeholders | Write {?Name} placeholders and fill them in on copy, or {?tone|formal, casual} for a dropdown; an optional fixed-value list suggests a value for a name you use often, shown only as a placeholder |
| Self-filling | date, time, weekday, clipboard and uuid fill themselves in, no dialog, in your language |
| Rotation | Give a prompt a list of texts instead of one: each copy serves the next rotation text, in order or shuffled, with a small badge showing where you are |
| Prompt hotkeys | Give a prompt its own global key combination that copies, and optionally pastes, from any app, with a small keyboard badge on its tile |
| Tray menu | Copy a recent or favorite prompt straight from the tray, without opening the window; a filter field at the top searches every prompt as you type |
| Drag-out | Ctrl-drag a tile, library row or floating button into any other app to drop its text |
| Folders | Drag one floating button onto another, or one tile onto another, and they merge into a folder that opens in place |
| Chaining | Combine several prompts into one clipboard entry, with a strip that shows what each picked step needs and fills before you start it; the expert menu sets what goes between two steps |
| Copy formatted | For a prompt with real Markdown syntax: a second copy that puts the rendered version on the clipboard too, so Word, Outlook or a browser shows the formatting while a plain text field still gets the Markdown source |
| Copy history | A tab of the library listing recent and most-used prompts, with optional timestamps and adjustable retention; with the watcher on it also records copies from other apps, filterable by source |
| Images, GIFs & videos | Save a picture from the clipboard or a file and paste it anywhere with one click |
| Video player | Looping previews on tiles and floating buttons, with scrubber, loop and volume, remembered per prompt |
| PDF & files | Attach any file by path; a PDF's first page becomes the button's image. A plain text, Markdown, JSON or CSV attachment also previews its start in the editor, as plain text, never rendered |
| Screenshot tool | Capture a region or a whole window, even protected ones like the Task Manager |
| Screen recording | Record a window, a dragged region or the whole screen to MP4, with system and microphone audio (both on by default, each mutable live from its own button on the control bar without dropping the track), a small floating control bar with optional stop/pause hotkeys and tray entries, and an optional conversion afterward to WebM, GIF or AVI. Drag the bar itself to move it anywhere, including onto another monitor; it then stops following the recorded window for the rest of that recording, and follows again on the next one. A region recording gets a thin frame around the recorded area (never part of the video), which the expert menu can switch off or recolour |
| Recording folder cleanup | The expert menu's recording-folder row shows how many videos are in it and how much space they use, with a "Clean up…" button that lists files older than 7, 30 or 90 days and the space it would free before deleting anything |
| Key overlay | Optional, off by default: records which keys are pressed anywhere on the screen during a recording as identifiers and timestamps only, never any text, skipping a focused password field entirely, so the video editor's "Keys" overlay can show them afterward |
| Camera recording | Optional, off by default: a "Record camera" entry on the record button's right-click menu opens its own window with a live preview, Start/Pause/Stop, audio source, resolution and target folder; the window (or its status dot in the recording bar) is always visible while the camera runs. Recorded to its own file, so it can be positioned freely later; if a screen recording runs at the same time, both share one start point and the video editor opens them aligned, the camera as an overlay |
| Batch export recordings | The recording folder's cleanup dialog can export several finished recordings at once: check which ones, then pick one format, quality and destination folder for all of them, with a final count of how many finished and how many failed |
| Video editor | Trim, crop, change speed, fade, resize (width/height/percent fields, an aspect-ratio lock, and presets from 4K down to 25%) and add image/freeze-frame/text/pixelate/focus area/keys/video overlays on a recording or any attached video (the keys overlay offers four keyboard-layout presets plus a free selection of keys, filled from a recording's own key data), on a zoomable filmstrip-and-waveform timeline with a live preview (itself zoomable and pannable) and no processing until export; drag a crop box or overlay and it snaps to the frame edges, its centre and other overlays; right-click an overlay to duplicate or delete it, nudge or resize a selected one with the arrow keys, and each overlay kind remembers its last colour, thickness, opacity and font size for the next one; "Add a video" can also splice a second video in as a whole extra section at the start, the end or the current position, normalized to the main video's own size, rate and sound; a toolbar button (or the V key) compares against the untouched source, held for a peek or tapped to lock it on; exports to MP4, WebM, GIF or AVI; the destination is an editable field ("Save as…" for a full path, "Export to…" to keep the file name and change only the folder), and "Export and copy" exports into a self-cleaning temporary copy and puts it straight on the clipboard |
| Screenshot editor | Opens right after a capture: crop, pen, marker, line, arrow, rectangle, ellipse, text (black on white by default, with a choice of no background, white, a translucent plate or an outline behind the letters), step numbers, pixelate, focus area, resize (the image's actual pixel size, with width/height/percent fields and presets) and a hand tool to pan while zoomed in, with undo/redo, snapping to the image edges, its centre and other shapes, a right-click menu to duplicate or delete a shape, arrow keys to nudge or resize a selected one, and a toolbar button (or the V key) to compare against the untouched capture. A bottom bar copies, saves, saves as (with a format choice), turns the shot into a button, recognizes its text, starts a new screenshot or closes and keeps the result (Esc and Enter close too). Either editor can also open an existing picture or video (right-click the screenshot/record button or a library attachment), never touching the original: it works on a copy and asks where to save the result |
| Text recognition (OCR) | Pull text out of a screenshot or an image file with Windows' own on-device recognizer, fully offline with nothing uploaded. On by default; needs a Windows language pack, which the app offers to install for you (needs administrator rights, including for the listing itself, on systems where Windows demands them) |
| Voice dictation | Speak into the composer or the editor with Windows' own on-device speech recognizer, fully offline with nothing uploaded unless you allow online recognition. Spoken punctuation and formatting commands, auto-capitalization and a global hotkey included. On by default; shares OCR's language-pack dialog |
| Color picker | A pipette freezes the screen, magnifies the pixel under the cursor and copies it as hex, rgb or hsl |
| Markdown preview | Render a prompt in the editor: headings, lists, quotes and syntax-colored code, toggled or side by side |
| Full-screen viewer | Click any preview to open it full-screen: scroll to zoom up to 8×, drag to pan |
| 7 themes | Light, dark and system (live OS detection), plus Programmer, Neon Violet, Ocean and Cyberpunk, or build your own in the theme editor |
| Custom themes | Build your own on top of any built-in one: a color per value, grouped and previewed live |
| Colors & fonts | Tint tiles and pills from a palette or a color picker; 20 fonts, per prompt if you like |
| Readable text on color | Tile, folder, view-tab and message text picks black or white automatically from the color underneath; switch it off or move the brightness cutoff in the expert menu |
| Auto-fit text | Tile text grows to fill the button, or pick a fixed size |
| Scaling | Separate size control for UI, popups, icons and buttons, from 50 % up |
| Distraction-free | Hide the top and bottom bars; the grid takes over the freed space |
| 11 languages | Auto-detected from the system: EN, DE, ES, IT, PT, PL, ZH, JA, NL, TR, RO |
| Backups | Rotating local snapshots, compressed and encrypted, on a schedule you can change or switch off. Diagnostics, a restore list and a storage breakdown (database, attachments, screenshots, recordings, backups, temporary files, error log, each with its own folder) live in their own window. The usage statistics (prompt count, copies of the last 7 days, most used and never used prompts, exportable as CSV, TXT or JSON with the full numbers) have a window of their own in the settings. Each snapshot's row can open its full content: entry, view and tag counts, the version that made it, encryption status, and a searchable, sortable list of every prompt it holds with a restore for just that one |
| Smart retention | Keep a plain number of snapshots, or a number per day, week, month and year |
| Backup password | Optional: protects new backup files with a key derived from your password |
| Versions | Every prompt keeps its earlier versions; preview and restore any of them |
| Editor draft autosave | The open editor saves its text every few seconds so a crash or a closed window never loses unsaved work; a save or cancel removes the draft, and the next start asks once whether to restore one it still finds |
| Import / export | One backup file with prompts, views, layouts, colors, styles and language. Plain CSV, TXT or JSON export for the texts alone, picked from one Export button and a format dropdown; JSON also carries the full rotation texts of a prompt with rotation, tags, notes, hotkey and colour, which CSV and TXT cannot. Import decides CSV or JSON from the file's own content, never its extension |
| Import from a folder | Turns a folder of .md/.txt files into tiles, one per file, read only; subfolders become tags and a short first line becomes the note |
| Careful resets | "Delete data" and "Reset settings" are separate, both guarded, both with an optional safety backup |
| Data folder lock | Pointing the data folder at a synced folder (OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Nextcloud) shows a one-time warning about the risk of two computers writing to the same database at once. A small lock file then guards it: a second computer that finds another machine's fresh lock opens read-only instead and says so, until that lock frees up or goes stale and is taken over automatically |
| Expert menu | Six tabs with an on/off switch for every feature and a parameter for everything adjustable. Settings that are not self-explanatory carry a tooltip. |
| Demo mode | An expert-menu switch swaps the whole window to a bundled sample library covering most features at once, with a permanent marker while it is on. The real data is never touched; anything changed during the session is discarded, with a confirmation first, when switching back |
| Runs in the background | Optional minimize-to-tray, autostart at login, global hotkey |
| Guided first run | A short walkthrough on first launch covering the basics; it changes no setting. Reopen it anytime from the expert menu |
| Auto updates | Asks once on first launch; if you agree, checks for a new version on start (switchable off) with one-click install, verified against a published checksum |
| What's new | A small notice after an update lists what changed since the version you last saw, from a list shipped with the app; reopen the current version's list anytime from the About dialog |
| 100 % local | A single local database, sealed with Windows' own per-account encryption so no other account on the PC can read it. On the rare machine where Windows refuses to encrypt (a damaged user profile), saving keeps working in readable form rather than losing the data, and the app says so on startup and permanently in the privacy settings, until the next successful save seals it again. No account, no telemetry, no network traffic except the update check (which you can switch off), the "What's new" refresh you start yourself and, only when needed, a one-time download you explicitly approve: the Microsoft WebView2 runtime if it is missing, or ffmpeg for video export. A single prompt can also be marked confidential, encrypting its text with its own vault password; forgetting that password means those entries are lost for good |
| Command line | prompt-saver.exe <command> ... for scripts: list, get, copy, add, edit, delete, restore, tags, views, search, export, import, backups, one setting. Talks to an already running copy over its own channel, or runs alone with no window otherwise. --yes guards every change, --json switches the output. Full list: prompt-saver.exe --help |
| Small | ~39 MB installer including FFmpeg, ~30 MB portable exe (Rust / Tauri), using the Windows WebView2 runtime |
From the latest release:
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
Prompt.Saver_<version>_x64-setup.exe |
Installer: all users or current user only, optional desktop / start-menu shortcuts, upgrades keep your data |
prompt-saver.exe |
Portable: one standalone exe, no installation, keeps its data next to itself |
Both need the Microsoft WebView2 runtime (preinstalled on Windows 11 and current Windows 10; the app offers Microsoft's installer if it is missing).
Full version history: CHANGELOG.md
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Save a prompt | Type it in the input line → Save → name + color (Ctrl+Enter works too) |
| Copy a prompt | Click its tile |
| Move a tile | Drag it to any grid cell; drop on an occupied cell to swap, or onto a view tab to file it there (Ctrl to copy) |
| Edit / hide / pin / delete | Right-click a tile; deleting takes one click and shows an Undo notice |
| Library | List icon in the header: search, edit and place every prompt |
| Screenshot | Camera icon: drag a region or click a window to open it in the screenshot editor (copy, save, or turn it into a button) |
| Screen recording | Record icon next to the camera: pick a window, region or the whole screen, then Stop to save, copy, edit or discard |
| Video editor | Edit button in a recording's result dialog, or "Edit video" on any video prompt's right-click menu |
| Floating button | "Toggle floating button" in the tile menu; right-click the pill for options |
| Views | Tabs next to the title: + adds one; right-click a tab to rename, resize, recolor or delete |
| Settings | Gear icon: theme, language, fonts, sizes, autostart, hotkey, import/export, updates, reset |
| Backups | Backup manager in the settings: schedule, retention, password and restore list; Usage statistics in their own window |
| Help | Help button in the settings: what every feature and setting does, also readable at docs/help.md; a handful of articles add a small diagram next to the text, switchable off in the expert menu |
The command line (prompt-saver <command> ...) lets a script drive Prompt Saver
without a human at the keyboard. It is documented, with a full command
reference, JSON response shapes and worked examples, at
docs/automation.md.
Requirements: Node.js, Rust (MSVC toolchain).
PDF previews are rendered by PDFium, which is compiled into the exe. Download
pdfium.dll (x64) from pdfium-binaries
and put it in src-tauri/ before building, since the build fails without it.
Video export/conversion shells out to ffmpeg, which the installer ships as a
plain file rather than compiling in. Download the gyan.dev "essentials" build
(currently pinned to release
9.0.1), extract
ffmpeg.exe from the zip's bin/ folder and the zip's root LICENSE file (save it as
ffmpeg-LICENSE) and put both in src-tauri/ before building, since the installer
bundle step fails without them (the portable exe still builds fine; it offers to
download ffmpeg itself on first need instead). The installer carries the license text
beside ffmpeg.exe, and the notices list the source of the pinned build.
build.batThis is the canonical build path: it regenerates the app icons, builds both the
portable exe and the NSIS installer, writes a .sha256 sidecar next to the
installer (checked by the in-app updater), and copies everything into dist/.
or manually:
npm install
npm run build # portable exe + NSIS installer
# -> src-tauri/target/release/prompt-saver.exe
# -> src-tauri/target/release/bundle/nsis/Prompt Saver_<version>_x64-setup.exedocs/screenshot.png (shown at the top of this file) and the in-app help's
own picture both come from the bundled sample library, never a real one. To
refresh either: turn on Demo mode in the expert menu (System tab, Troubleshooting group), resize the
window to a fixed size, then take the screenshot the normal way.
cargo test --lib # in src-tauri/
node --check ui/main.js # and every other ui/*.js
node tests/i18n_check.js
node tests/terms_check.js
node tests/voice_check.js
python tests/source_hygiene.py # no process traces in shipped source
python tests/flag_polarity.py # no feature gate that can never fire
python tests/expert_menu_check.py
python tests/tooltip_check.py
python tests/layout/modal_scroll_test.py
python tests/ui/smoke_test.py
python tests/perf_hot_paths.py # times four hot paths against 1000 promptsA large library behaves differently from a handful of prompts. python tests/gen_perf_corpus.py writes test-data/data.db: 500 prompts, 60 of them
carrying a full-size stored image, so the grid and the library can be measured
against a realistic store instead of a demo one. test-data/ is ignored by git;
point the app's data folder at it, or copy the file next to the portable exe.
Tauri 2 (Rust backend, WebView2 frontend) · vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, no bundler, no framework · SQLite store · arboard (clipboard), rfd (native dialogs), pdfium-render (PDF previews), winreg (autostart), windows (on-device OCR, WASAPI audio), zip (ffmpeg/ffprobe download extraction).
Third-party components and their licenses: THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md
© 2026 BGCoding. You may modify Prompt Saver and share it, original or modified, free of charge for non-commercial use; commercial use needs written permission. Full terms: LICENSE.