Menu bar panel
One click or one shortcut opens it. It drops right under the menu bar.
Your prompts,
one keystroke away.
Outbound keeps your prompts in the menu bar. Type a few letters. Press Return. It pastes where you type.
Save a prompt once. Use it anywhere.
Outbound is made for macOS 26. It is small and fast, and it stays out of the way.
Return to paste
Pick a prompt and press Return. It lands in the app you were using.
Search that forgives
Type a few letters. cdrv finds Code review.
Categories as dots
Sort prompts into categories. Each one is a dot or an icon.
Keyboard first
Search, pick, edit, and switch categories. No mouse needed.
Undo anything
Delete without a warning. ⌘Z brings it back.
Import a folder
Bring in text files. Each subfolder becomes a category.
One plain file
Your library is one JSON file. Read it, back it up, or sync it.
No tracking
No account. No analytics. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Open source
Anyone can read the code. It is free to use and change.
Find any prompt in a few keys.
Titles rank first, then text. The best match is already picked.
Search
Type part of a title, a word from the text, or just the first letters. Press Return to paste.
- Polish emailWriting↩ Paste
- Email replyWriting
- Cold emailWork
- Summarize threadNo categoryIn text
Use Outbound your way.
Click, shortcut, or keys. You choose.
Click
Click the icon in the menu bar. The panel drops down.
Shortcut
Set your own shortcut. Open it from any app.
Keys
↩ pastes. ⌘↩ copies. ⌘E edits.
Download
Free and open source. Yours to keep.
Outbound
Free for Mac
The app, ready to run.
- Menu bar panel
- Search and paste
- Categories and icons
- Global shortcut
- Import a folder
Open source
MIT licensed
Read every line.
Star on GitHubFAQ
You need a Mac with macOS 26 or a newer version. To build it yourself, you also need Xcode 26 or a newer version.
So it can paste for you. After you press Return, it sends one ⌘V to the app you were using. Without it, Outbound copies the prompt and you paste it yourself.
In one JSON file on your Mac, at ~/Library/Application Support/Outbound/Library.json. You can read it, edit it, and back it up.
Yes. Move the file to a synced folder and leave a symlink in its place. Outbound keeps the link when it saves.
No. It has no account and no tracking, and it makes no network requests. Your prompts stay on your Mac.
Yes. It is free and open source under the MIT license.