Your templates,
one keystroke away.
Press Ctrl+Shift+Space from any app. Search your saved templates. Text appears instantly in any focused field. No cloud. No accounts. Just speed.
How it works
From trigger to text in seconds.
Trigger
Press Ctrl+Shift+Space from any app — email, Slack, IDE, browser. CueDraft appears instantly as an overlay.
Search
Type a few characters. Full-text search finds your template in under 50ms. Filter by category or scroll with arrow keys.
Injected
Hit Enter. Text appears in your focused field — no clipboard, no paste. If the template has variables, you're prompted to fill them first.
Features
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Global hotkey
Trigger the picker from any application — browser, terminal, IDE, email client. Configurable hotkey, registered at the OS level.
Instant FTS5 search
SQLite FTS5 full-text search returns results in under 50ms. Prefix match on title and content — no loading spinner.
Template categories
Organize templates into categories like Work, Personal, or Code. Filter the picker to the right context instantly.
Variable substitution
Use {{variable}} tokens in templates. Before injection, CueDraft prompts you to fill each variable — great for names, dates, and project codes.
Privacy-first
All data lives in a local SQLite database. Zero network calls, zero telemetry, zero analytics. Your templates never leave your machine.
Windows & Linux
Native text injection on Windows (SendInput) and Linux (X11 via robotjs, Wayland via xdotool/wl-copy). Works with any keyboard layout.
Your data never
leaves your machine.
CueDraft was built for people who care about what happens to their text. No accounts to create, no servers to trust, no telemetry to opt out of. It just works — locally.
Download
Download CueDraft
Free. No accounts. No subscriptions.
.AppImage Runs on any Linux distro. No install needed — just mark executable and run.
.deb Install system-wide with dpkg. Integrates with system package management.
.exe NSIS installer. Installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\CueDraft. Launch at startup optional.
All releases are available on GitHub Releases.