Instructions

Before you begin

• Windows 10 or 11
• A valid license key (from your purchase email)
• Controller and/or keyboard — use whichever input you play with

Install the app

1. Download and run the installer from the downloads page.
2. After setup, look for Custom Quick Chats in the system tray (near the clock).
3. If you do not see the icon, click the ^ arrow to expand hidden tray icons.
4. Double-click the tray icon anytime to open Edit Quick Chats page.
5. Triple-click the tray icon to open Controls / Keybinds.
6. Four clicks open Options. Five clicks open Updates.

Activate your license

1. Right-click the tray icon → Activate.
2. Paste the license key from your purchase email and confirm.

Basics

• Custom Quick Chats allows you to send custom messages from your controller and/or keyboard while you game.
• The app runs from the Windows system tray. You can double-click the tray icon to open the Edit Quick Chats page.
• Triple-click the tray icon to open Controls / Keybinds.
• Four clicks open Options. Five clicks open Updates.
• Custom Quick Chats and the overlays only work while your game is the active foreground window.

Sending a quick chat

• Under Controls / Keybinds → Chat Controls, bind Chat Keys to match your game's Public, Team, and Party chat keys (Rocket League defaults are often Y, U, and T).
• Bind each Chat Trigger direction under Controller Triggers or Keyboard Triggers — use whichever input you play with.
• Primary chats: press two Chat Trigger directions (usually on the D-pad) in a row — for example Left, then Up.
• Secondary chats: hold, single-press, double-press, or triple-press your Secondary Menu binding first (set under App Controls), then press your first and second Chat Trigger directions.

Tray menu (right-click the icon)

• Enabled checkbox — turn Custom Quick Chats operations on/off without closing the app.
• Next Preset — switch to the next customized preset in your list.
• Switch Chat Type — cycle between Public, Team, and Party chat types (only if enabled).
• Controls / Keybinds, Edit Quick Chats, and Options open the main setup pages.

Controls / Keybinds

Open Controls / Keybinds from the tray menu.

Edit Quick Chats

• The grid is 4×4 per menu: Primary and Secondary menus, four category rows, four direction columns — up to 32 messages per preset.
• Presets are separate message sets — click to edit, drag to reorder, use the checkbox to enable or disable.
• Recall Preset Shortcut — click Listen on a preset and press a keyboard key or controller button. In-game, that shortcut jumps to that preset.
• Give two or more presets the same shortcut to cycle only those presets.
• If a Recall shortcut uses the same key as Next Preset, Previous Preset, or Cycle Preset, the Recall shortcut takes priority.
• Mode (per preset): Switchable follows your Public/Team/Party tray toggle; Public/Team/Party force that chat for every message; Custom lets you set Public, Team, or Party per message.
• When a preset mixes chat modes, the overlay status shows CUSTOM and the chat mode type is not switchable.
• Right-click in the preset area to Create New Preset, Save as New Preset, Cut, Copy, Paste, Rename, or Delete presets.
• Double-click a preset name to rename it.
• Import — adds presets from a file to your list without replacing your current presets.
• Export — saves selected presets to a file (or all presets if none are selected).
• Print — prints a reference table of the selected preset’s messages.
• Reset All to Defaults restores every preset to factory Rocket League messages.

Game Session Counter

• Tracks a running win/loss net score for your game session. Shown on the Game Bar overlay when enabled.
• Turn the win/loss Game Session Counter overlay on or off from Options.
• Set hotkeys under Controls / Keybinds → Game Session Counter.

In-game flow:

1. In-game, press the Unlock hotkey. The overlay arms and shows your current net score with "..." after it.
2. Once armed, press + for a win or − for a loss. Type the number you want to adjust the score by.
3. Press the Commit hotkey to apply (default: Enter). Esc cancels. Entering 0 applies no change.

Options

• First Press Timeout — how long the on-screen chat menu stays open between direction presses.
• Sound chimes — audio cues when an app operation is used in-game. Toggle each chime and adjust volumes individually.
• Choose between Dark and Light theme for the Custom Quick Chats app.
• Toggle on/off the win/loss Game Session Counter Game Bar overlay.

Overlay

Xbox Game Bar widgets — highly recommended but not required for sending chats.

• Overlay widgets show app status, custom message menus, and the game session counter.
• The overlay widgets are automatically installed with Custom Quick Chats.

1. Ensure Xbox Game Bar is installed on your PC.
2. Press Win+G to open Xbox Game Bar.
3. Check to make sure Compact Mode is off. Settings → Compact Mode → set to off. Pinning widgets is not available in Compact Mode.
4. Click the Widget Menu (the icon with the four squares) in the top menu bar.
5. Look for the three Custom Quick Chats widgets in the list and open each of them.
6. Once they’re open, click the pin icon on each so they stay visible while you’re playing.
7. Reposition them on screen to your liking, then press esc to exit the Game Bar.
8. Launch your game and the widgets should appear once your game is in the foreground.

Backup/Restore

• Every save creates a timestamped settings snapshot automatically.
• Open Backup/Restore from the tray menu to browse backups, open the backup folder, or restore a previous snapshot.
• Your current settings are backed up automatically before any restore.
• Select a backup and click Restore Selected, or use Open Folder to view files on disk. Click Refresh to update the list.

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Common fixes

If something still is not working, try the matching fix below.