Cue

A teleprompter that lives in your notch

Read your script.
Keep eye contact.

Cue puts your notes right under your MacBook camera, so on video calls and livestreams you look at the people you're talking to, not at a second window. It scrolls when you speak, pauses when you stop, and stays out of your screen shares.

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Free · macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon · 2.4 MB · No account, no network

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The prompter hangs from the notch, right under the camera. Your eyes stay where the lens is.

Made for live calls

Everything a teleprompter needs to be when you can't afford to look away.

Hugs the notch

Cue finds your notch and camera, then hangs just below them, above the menu bar. No notch? It sits right under the camera. Or float it anywhere.

Scrolls when you speak

Voice mode listens to your mic level and moves only while you talk, easing to a stop when you pause. It ignores fans and room noise. Constant and manual modes are there too.

Hidden from screen shares

The overlay is excluded from screen capture, so you can share your whole screen and the people on the call won't see your notes.

Never steals focus

It stays on top of everything, full-screen calls and every Space included, without ever taking keyboard focus from your call app.

Global shortcuts

Play, pause, speed up, jump a sentence or restart while your call app is focused. Every shortcut can be changed.

Offline & private

No account, no analytics, no network requests. Audio levels are measured on your Mac and never recorded. Scripts stay on your disk.

Your notes stay yours

Share your entire screen: you see the prompter, and the people on the call don't.

On your screen
What they see

We tested this on macOS 26 with ScreenCaptureKit, the capture system that Zoom, Teams, Meet in Chrome, OBS and QuickTime use. Capture behavior can vary between apps and macOS versions, so try it once with your own setup. The safest option is always to share a single window instead of the whole screen.

Write, import, rehearse

A simple editor with **bold** emphasis and paragraph breaks as pause markers. Import .txt and .md files, keep as many scripts as you like, and every script remembers where you stopped. Font, size, width, colors, opacity, a reading guide, edge fades and a 3-2-1 countdown all preview live on the prompter.

The Cue editor: a script list, the script text, playback controls with a live microphone level meter, and appearance settings.

Drive it without looking

Global shortcuts work while your call app is in front. The defaults avoid clashing with system text selection and with Zoom and Teams.

⌘⇧SpacePlay / pause
⌃⌥↑ ↓Faster / slower
⌃⌥← →Back / forward a sentence
⌃⌥HShow / hide prompter
⌃⌥RRestart from the top
⌖Hover over the prompter to pause

Install in a minute

  1. Download

    Get the latest release, open the .dmg, and drag Cue into Applications.

  2. Open it the first time

    Cue isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS may block the first launch. Right-click Cue → Open → Open, or go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

  3. Allow the microphone

    When you first use Voice mode, click Allow. Cue only measures loudness to decide when to scroll. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.

Using an Intel Mac, or want to build it yourself? Cue is a small Tauri app: npm install && npm run tauri build. See the README for details.