CueTray

Privacy

Updated October 24, 2026

CueTray is a desktop app that keeps your cues on your own computer.

It has no account and no ads, and it never sends your cues, screenshots, file names or project names anywhere.

It goes online for three small things: it checks GitHub for new versions of CueTray; once you've entered a license key, it checks once a day whether that purchase was refunded; and it sends anonymous daily counts, only if you say yes. This page explains what it stores, reads, sends and changes.

What CueTray stores

  • Your cues, in a .cuetray folder inside each project you save a cue to: the messages you type and your screenshots, plus a few small files CueTray uses to keep them in order. The folder is kept out of your git commits.
  • Your settings, in CueTray's folder in your Windows user profile: your preferences, the projects you added to or hid from the list, when your trial started, your license key once you add one, and your answer about usage counts.
  • The date your trial started, also in the Windows registry under your Windows user. It holds nothing else, and it's left behind when you uninstall CueTray.
  • Usage counts, only if you said yes, until they're sent (see below).

What CueTray reads

  • Your screen, only when you snip. Only the area you select is kept; the rest is thrown away.
  • Which folders you work in, to suggest projects: the folders open in your code editor (VS Code and editors built on it, such as Cursor and Windsurf) and the folders you've recently used with Claude Code or Codex. CueTray reads only what it needs to find those folders and keeps nothing else from them: not your code, and not your conversations.
  • Your clipboard, only when you paste into a cue or click the cue box's Clipboard button. The Copy button puts a cue's message and screenshots on the clipboard.
  • The name of the program in front, only when you press the paste cue shortcut, to tell a terminal from a chat. It isn't kept or sent anywhere.

What CueTray sends

Never your cues, screenshots, file or folder names, project names, or anything else about your computer. It goes online for these three things only.

Update checks, to GitHub

About 30 seconds after it starts, every 4 hours, and when you click Check now in settings, CueTray checks the CueTray releases on GitHub for a new version, and downloads it if there is one. It's an ordinary download request. The only thing CueTray adds is a fixed value that is the same for every copy, so it can't tell copies apart. GitHub sees the request the way it sees any download, as described in GitHub's privacy statement. Trial and licensed copies both check.

A refund check, only while a license key is entered

Once you've entered a license key, CueTray asks its server, at most once a day, whether that purchase was refunded. It sends only an ID that is part of the key. The server matches it to the purchase record (see Buying CueTray), answers yes or no, and keeps nothing about the check or your IP address. Trial copies never send it. If you're offline or the server can't be reached, your key keeps working.

Usage counts, only if you say yes

CueTray asks once, after you've saved your first cue, and you can change your answer any time with the Usage counts switch in settings. They help decide what to build next.

If you say yes, CueTray sends anonymous daily totals to its server: how often features such as snipping, drawing, hold and copy were used and how many cues reached your AI tool, the app version, and whether it's on trial or licensed. They're tagged with a random ID that isn't linked to your name, email, license key or computer. It never sends cue text, screenshots, file or folder names, project names, your license key, or anything else about your computer, and the server doesn't keep your IP address.

Switching usage counts off deletes the counts that haven't been sent and forgets the random ID. Counts already sent can't be traced back to you.

Feedback emails, sent by you

CueTray doesn't send feedback itself. Send feedback opens a draft in your own mail app, with CueTray's version and your Windows version at the bottom. You can change or delete them, and nothing goes anywhere unless you send the email. If no email app is set up on your computer, CueTray puts the address on your clipboard instead, for you to paste into your email.

Buying CueTray

Payment is handled by Stripe, and CueTray never sees your card. After you pay, CueTray's server keeps a record of the purchase: the checkout and payment references, your email address (so a lost key can be found again), the amount, the license key made for you, and whether the purchase was refunded. What Stripe itself keeps is covered by Stripe's privacy policy.

Activating your license key happens on your computer and sends nothing. You can get a refund within 14 days of buying; a refunded key stops working, which is what the daily refund check above is for.

The Mac waitlist

If you join the waitlist for CueTray for Mac, CueTray's server keeps the email address you entered, that it's for the Mac version, and the date. Nothing else, not even your IP address, and the address never appears in the server's logs. It's used to email you when CueTray for Mac is ready, and may be used to invite you to try it before it's released. Nothing else: it isn't shared, and it isn't used for marketing.

Your address stays on the list until you ask to be taken off. Write to info@made4uo.com at any time and it's deleted.

What CueTray changes outside your projects

  • Clicking Install in settings adds the cue command to that AI tool (Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI) as one small file in the tool's own settings folder. It also replaces the command from CueTray's earlier versions, if you had it.
  • Switching on Start with Windows adds a startup entry for CueTray.
  • The paste cue shortcuts press paste for you in the window in front: in a chat, once for a cue's message and once for its screenshot; in a terminal, once for the message with the screenshots' file paths. The last thing pasted stays on your clipboard. It all happens on your computer.
  • An update replaces CueTray's own program files when CueTray restarts. Your cues and settings stay as they are.
  • If you used CueTray's earlier version, CopyNote, CueTray moves each project's old cue folder to the new one and copies the old settings over.

When your AI tool reads a cue

CueTray itself doesn't upload your cues. When you run the cue command (/next-cue in Claude Code or Gemini CLI, $next-cue in Codex), the AI tool reads the cue and its screenshots, and they become part of that conversation, which the tool's maker handles under its own terms: Anthropic for Claude Code, OpenAI for Codex, Google for Gemini CLI. The same goes for anything you paste after using Copy.

This website

cuetray.com uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people find useful. It records the pages you view, the page that sent you here, your browser and device, and your approximate location, which Google works out from your IP address. It sets cookies (_ga and one starting with _ga_) that recognize a returning browser for up to two years. Advertising features are off. The thanks page's address, which identifies your purchase, is removed before anything is sent.

Visitors in the EU, the UK and Switzerland are asked first, and Google Analytics doesn't load until they accept. Anyone can change their choice with Cookie settings at the bottom of every page, or block Google Analytics on every site with Google's opt-out browser add-on. How Google uses this data is covered by Google's explanation for sites that use its services.

The company that hosts the site may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses and the pages requested. The checkout page you reach from Buy is Stripe's.

Deleting your data

  • Delete cues in CueTray, one at a time or several at once, or delete their folders. CueTray moves deleted cues to the Windows Recycle Bin, so empty it to remove them for good.
  • Delete a project's .cuetray folder to remove all of that project's cues.
  • Uninstall CueTray from Windows Settings, then Apps. This leaves only the date your trial started, in the Windows registry.
  • Delete the CueTray folder in your Windows app data (type %APPDATA% into File Explorer's address bar to find it) to remove your settings, your license key and any unsent usage counts. Keep a copy of the key first if you'll want it again.
  • To remove the cue command from an AI tool, delete the next-cue skill or command from that tool's settings folder.
  • To have your purchase record removed from CueTray's server, write to info@made4uo.com from the email address you paid with.
  • To be taken off the Mac waitlist, write to info@made4uo.com and your address is deleted.

Changes to this page

If what CueTray stores, reads or sends changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top will say when.