Typing long, detailed prompts into a terminal gets old fast. PromptPaste is a new Windows app that lets you hold a hotkey and dictate prompts directly into Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex CLI, or any terminal window.
The pitch is simple: push a button, talk, and your words appear as text at your cursor position. Speech recognition (the process of converting spoken audio to text) runs entirely on your device - no audio gets sent to a cloud server. That's a meaningful privacy detail for anyone dictating prompts that might contain proprietary code or business logic.
What It Supports
- AI coding CLIs: Claude Code, Codex CLI
- Terminals: Windows Terminal, PowerShell, cmd, VS Code integrated terminal
- Other workflows: Git commit messages, kubectl commands, SQL clients (psql, dbt, BigQuery, Snowflake)
Beyond voice, PromptPaste also handles screenshot pasting into supported apps - useful for sharing error messages, UI mockups, or terminal output with vision-capable AI tools.
The app uses standard input simulation to inject text at the cursor, which means it works with essentially any text input field on Windows, not just the tools listed above.
Pricing and Availability
PromptPaste costs $3/month or $30/year and is available through the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and 11. There's no Mac or Linux version.
The Windows-only limitation is the obvious gap. Claude Code and Codex CLI both have large Mac and Linux user bases, and those users will need to look elsewhere. But for Windows developers who spend their day talking to AI coding tools, three dollars a month to skip the typing is a reasonable ask.