Cursor Crane overview

Cursor Crane is a highly customizable keyboard-driven navigation and automation utility for macOS. Unlike many hint-based tools that focus mainly on UI elements, Cursor Crane extends keyboard-first interaction to windows, multi-window workflows, mouse actions, and text editing.

Its dedicated modes use predictable hints rather than arbitrary labels, making frequently used targets easier to learn and repeat. Cursor Crane can be operated through both traditional Keyboard Shortcuts and Command Sequences, a command-oriented interface for switching modes, performing actions, and running scripts.

Text editing is also treated as a first-class part of the workflow, with shortcuts for consistent text cursor navigation and selection across apps, plus Text Area Portal for editing focused fields in an external editor.

For advanced workflows, Cursor Crane includes declarative automation and JavaScript-based scripting. Scripts can perform custom actions, implement interaction logic, and create interactive panels with controls and user input.

Key features

Predictable hint-based navigation
Hint navigation across more areas of macOS
Window and multi-window workflow navigation
Keyboard Shortcuts and Command Sequences
Keyboard-controlled mouse movement, clicking, and scrolling
Text-area shortcuts for cursor navigation and selection
Text Area Portal for editing focused fields in an external editor
Element Menu for contextual actions such as copying and UI capture
Declarative workflows
JavaScript scripting for custom actions and logic
Script-built interactive panels
OCR and grid-based fallback navigation
Extensive customization of shortcuts, commands, hints, modes, scripts, and navigation behavior

Cursor Crane is designed for keyboard-heavy macOS users who want more than a simple hint overlay and prefer to shape their own interaction workflow.

What's new in version 1.3.6

New

After selecting recognized text in the Text Selection Panel, you can now press Command + Return to select the corresponding text in the original window.

Improvements

Improved responsiveness when opening the Element Menu’s copy submenu and copying element selectors.
Improved drag positioning: trigger command.toggleDrag to start dragging, then prefix a click command sequence with the numeric parameter 0 to locate the destination in Element Mode, Find Mode, or Grid Mode while keeping the mouse button held. Trigger command.toggleDrag again to drop. For example, if f is assigned to command.moveCursorToElementAndLeftClick, enter 0f and choose an element to drag to it without clicking or releasing the drag.

Fixes

Fixed a crash that could occur when typing in Cursor Crane’s input fields.
Fixed Action Palette search result updates overwriting newly entered text.
Fixed the Action Palette losing input focus when search results appear or disappear, and corrected result scrolling after the query changes.
Fixed up and down arrow keys interfering with input method candidate selection in the Action Palette, while preserving result and history navigation.
Fixed compact searches failing to match later words or phonetic syllables in the Action Palette. For example, newchat or nc can now match “Start New Chat”.
Improved accessibility element detection, including recognition of menu items as clickable targets and more reliable detection of elements under the pointer.
Fixed Element Mode failing to collect menu bar, desktop, and other window elements when no window is focused, according to your element collection settings.
Fixed screenshots and OCR failing or capturing the wrong region in sheets and dialogs, including element screenshots from the Element Menu.
Attempted to fix pointer movement getting stuck in Element Mode and other modes.

Cursor Crane for Mac

Cursor Crane overview

Key features

What's new in version 1.3.6

New

Improvements

Fixes

Cursor Crane for Mac

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