Write your prompt, dispatch in one tap.

A calm, paper-like scratchpad beside your coding agents — write, autosave, dispatch.

One tap. It lands where you were typing.

Leave your cursor in the target input and summon CuePad. Hit dispatch — the text lands right where you were typing. Pin your favorite target, and let auto-send press Enter for you.

Terminal · iTerm · Zed · VS Code — pin a target, auto-send presses ⏎

100% local — every card lives in one SQLite file on your Mac. No account. No cloud. No telemetry.

From idea to prompt in three moves

  1. Write like on paper

    Full-screen cards with light styling for headings, lists and code blocks. Plain text in, plain text out — every keystroke autosaves.

  2. Summon from anywhere

    CuePad lives in the tray and hides instead of closing. One global shortcut brings it back, right over your work.

    ⌥ Space
  3. Dispatch, cursor intact

    Send the whole card, or split it into blocks and dispatch any single one — numbered if you like.

    ⇧ ↵

Everything a draft needs

A full-screen card that gets out of the way

Immersive editing with gentle styling for ## headings, - lists, code blocks and {{variables}}. Split a draft into blocks with Shift + Enter, then copy or dispatch the whole card or any single block.

  • Plain text in, plain text out
  • Per-block copy & dispatch
  • Optional block numbering
A draft split into dispatchable blocks

Fill the blanks at send time

Draft with {{variables}}; CuePad asks for the values right before you copy or dispatch — and each card remembers your last answers.

  • Reusable prompt templates
  • Per-card memory
Filling variable values before dispatch

Find anything in a keystroke

⌘ F searches projects, cards and tags from anywhere. Enter jumps straight to the card.

Global search across projects, cards and tags

Loose ends, parked

A horizontal project bar, global favorites, floating to-dos — and a trash that forgives.

Floating tasks beside the card board

A quiet desk for loud ideas.

Calm after dark

Light, dark, or follow the system — the paper stays easy on your eyes.

CuePad card board in dark theme

Download. Open. Write.

CuePad is free and open source under Apache-2.0. One click gets the latest Apple Silicon build.

macOS · Apple Silicon Apache-2.0 100% local

Ad-hoc signed, not notarized — on first launch, right-click the app and choose Open.

Prefer building from source? Three commands on GitHub →