How Prompt Petal compares
Prompt Petal keeps the instructions you give AI on a small flower button. Click it, pick one, and it lands where your cursor is. On a phone it is a keyboard. Here is how it sits next to the tools people use for the same job, with every fact about them taken from their own sites on September 15, 2026.
| Prompt Petal | TextExpander | Text Blaze | AIPRM | Espanso | Raycast | Promptty | Promta | Promptzy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android | Mac, Windows, Chrome, iPhone and iPad | Chrome, Edge, Windows and Mac; no phone apps | A Chrome extension for ChatGPT and Claude | Windows, Linux and macOS | Mac, Windows and iOS | iPhone, iPad and Mac | Mac with Apple silicon, iPhone and iPad | Mac |
| How you insert one | Click the flower button or press Option and Space, then pick a petal. A keyboard on phones. | Type an abbreviation, or search | Type a shortcut | Pick a prompt from its list inside the ChatGPT or Claude page | Type a keyword, or search with Alt and Space | Type a snippet's keyword | A keyboard on iPhone and iPad; copy and paste on Mac | A menu bar app with a hotkey on Mac; a keyboard on iPhone | Search with Command, Shift and P, or a shortcut per prompt |
| Free | Five prompts of your own, fully editable, used as often as you like | 5 active snippets | A free plan | A free plan with its public prompt library | Free and open source | The core app, snippets included | 10 prompts | Up to 25 prompts | 10 skills and one connected AI app |
| Paid | $3.99 a month, $29.99 a year or $59.99 once on our website ($4.99, $34.99 or $69.99 in the App Store and Google Play) | Pro $60 a year ($6 a month, billed annually), which includes its MCP server | Pro $2.99 a month billed yearly, or $3.49 monthly; Business $6.99 a user a month billed yearly | Paid plans, priced on aiprm.com | Nothing to pay | Pro $10 a month or $96 a year, with AI | $0.99 a month or $9.99 a year | $4.99 a month, $24.99 a year or $49.99 once | $5 once |
When another tool is the better fit
TextExpander suits a team sharing a large library of snippets, and anyone who wants to type an abbreviation rather than reach for a button.
Text Blaze suits people who work in a browser and on a computer, and want low cost templates with forms; it has no phone apps.
AIPRM suits people who only use ChatGPT or Claude in Chrome and want a large public library of other people's prompts.
The AI app's own features suit people who use one AI app: Gemini can save prompts as Skills in Chrome, Claude has Projects, and ChatGPT keeps custom instructions. Each works only inside that app.
Espanso suits somebody on Linux, or anybody happy to keep their snippets in text files, and it costs nothing.
Raycast suits people who already live in a launcher and want snippets beside everything else it does.
Promptzy suits somebody on one Mac who keeps prompts as Markdown files and wants them kept in step with Claude, Cursor and other AI tools.
Promptty and Promta suit people who only use Apple devices and want a prompt library with search, kept in step over iCloud.
Where Prompt Petal is different
It is built for the handful of instructions you give AI all day, not for a library of hundreds. The prompts are one click from wherever you are typing, it runs on Windows and Android as well as Apple devices, and Pro keeps them the same on all of them, end to end encrypted, and brings in the prompts you already keep in Markdown files, notes, Word or Excel. Groups put variations of one prompt behind a single petal, and your petals can change with the app in front.
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