CuePilot is a free menu bar app for Mac. It sends the text you select to the AI provider you pick, then pastes the result where you were typing.
Free. For Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 13 or later.
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Highlight a sentence in Mail, Notes, Slack, or a text box on a web page.
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Type a few letters to filter the list. "gram" finds Fix Grammar & Spelling.
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The answer streams into a small panel under your selection. When it finishes, CuePilot pastes it over the text you selected. In a web browser it waits, so you can read it before you insert it.
Improve Writing, Fix Grammar & Spelling, Slack Style, Reply, Make Longer, Paraphrase, Email Reply, Summarize, Explain this, and Find action items. Reply and Email Reply write in the tone you pick: professional, friendly, casual, or concise.
The panel shows your text and the new text with each changed word marked. Press ↵ to insert, ⌘C to copy, or ⌘R to try again. Type an instruction such as "shorter" or "more formal" to refine the answer. Press Esc to stop it. You choose per app whether CuePilot pastes at once or waits for you. Web browsers wait by default.
Turn on Read the Slack conversation in the Replies tab. Then, in the Slack app, pick Reply, and CuePilot reads the messages Slack shows on screen. That can be a channel, a DM, or a thread with its first message. It removes passwords, tokens, and keys it finds, and sends the rest to your AI provider with your draft. Reply then polishes your draft, answers the message you selected, or writes the next message when the box is empty. Write a few lines about how you write under Your voice, and Reply follows them. Press ⌘K in the palette to leave the conversation out of one request. The setting is off until you turn it on.
Use OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter with your own API key. Or run a model on your Mac with Ollama or LM Studio, or point CuePilot at any server that speaks the OpenAI API. Pick the model from the provider's own list, and give an action its own model if you want, such as a faster one for Fix Grammar & Spelling. Your text goes from your Mac to that provider and nowhere else.
Add up to 20 actions with your own prompt. Write {text} where the selection goes. Press ⇧⌘Space to ask one of seven assistants: Software Developer, Coding Assistant, Technical Writer, Blog Writer, Sales Assistant, Customer Support, and General Assistant. In any text box, type gpt: and a question, then press ⇧⌘G. CuePilot pastes the answer after your question. You can change all three shortcuts.
Actions you used recently move up the palette, and the ones you used in the current app move up the most. Pin favourites with ⌘P, and pick the first nine with ⌘1 to ⌘9. Typing in the palette also searches your last 200 results, which stay on your Mac. Copy or insert any of them again.
Free. Version 2.0.0, for Macs with Apple silicon.
Download for MacOpening it for the first time? macOS asks you to confirm once, and CuePilot asks for Accessibility.See the steps
Yes. CuePilot costs nothing. You pay your AI provider for what you use with your own API key, on your own account with them. With Ollama or LM Studio on your Mac, there is no provider bill.
CuePilot is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
After it opens, CuePilot shows a sign-in screen. Click Continue with Google, finish in your browser, and come back. CuePilot then lists what is left to set up: Accessibility, an AI provider, and shortcuts.
No. When you run an action, your Mac sends the text straight to the AI provider you picked, using your key. With Local, the text goes to a server on your own Mac.
CuePilot's only server is its sign-in service. It never receives the text you select, the results, your history, your API keys, the actions you run, or the apps you use.
For some actions the request to your provider also holds the name of the app you are in. If you turn on Slack reading, it holds the Slack messages on screen, with secrets removed. The privacy policy lists each case.
CuePilot is free, and sign-in is how Suraj counts how many people use it. The sign-in service stores your name, your email, and your Google account details. Each day you open the palette, CuePilot sends one request that adds that day to your account. The request holds your sign-in token and nothing else.
You sign in once, in your browser. If Google's page shows an address ending in supabase.co, that is the sign-in service CuePilot uses.
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You pick the model from the provider's list in the AI tab. You can also give one action its own model. Each provider keeps its own key, so you can switch between them.
No. CuePilot is built for Apple silicon only.
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