Work smarter with AI.

UseAIBetter sits in your menu bar and quietly upgrades how you use every AI tool — better prompts, better habits, better output. Reads from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and your terminal (toggle each on or off). Needs the Claude or Codex CLI installed locally to run the critic.

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macOS 14+ · Free 7-day trial · No credit card.

How it works

Private by design

No telemetry. No analytics. Your prompts never leave your machine — they're scored locally by your own AI CLI, the same one you already use.

Cheap to run

Critiques run on the AI CLI you already pay for, and the providers' prompt caches mean each one costs cents. No second account, no separate subscription.

Runs in parallel

UseAIBetter never holds up your prompt. Your message fires immediately; the critique runs alongside in the background.

Notifies you the moment it spots something

Every time the critic finds a clearer phrasing, a missing constraint, a feature you forgot, or a wasteful paste — you get a short system notification with the fix.

Self-updating, signed

Sparkle auto-updates straight from this site. Every release is EdDSA-signed and verified on your Mac before install.

Install

Pre-release. Download the zip, drag UseAIBetter.app into /Applications, launch it, then click Install in the menu-bar settings panel to wire up the AI CLI hook.

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Pricing

Try it free for a week, upgrade when you're ready.

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Free Trial
FREE 7 days

No card required. Sign in with email or Google, the clock starts on day one.

  • All critique sources: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, terminal
  • Notifies you on problematic prompts
  • Uses your local AI CLI auth — no API key needed
  • Auto-updates via Sparkle
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Pro
$3.99 /mo $5.9/mo

Billed annually — $47.9 / year. Cancel anytime.

  • Everything in Free Trial
  • Full fix in every notification — exact rewrite, command, or config to use next time
  • Helps you fundamentally improve how you work with AI tools — Skills, MCP servers, external CLIs, project setup, and other workflow upgrades that compound across every session

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