Your questions, answered.

CueCard Teleprompter is a free teleprompter app for iPhone and iPad that floats on top of every other app. Your script sits in a small window above the camera, Instagram, TikTok, a video call or anything else, auto-scrolling while you speak, so you never have to switch away from what you are recording in. It is on iPhone and iPad today, and the Android app is still being built.

CueCard opens a small window that stays above your other apps. You start the script scrolling, switch to your camera or whichever app you are recording in, and the window stays on top where you can read it. Because it sits on your screen and not in front of the lens, your camera never records it.

Not when you are filming with the camera. The prompter is a window on your screen rather than something in front of the lens, so the camera records you and your background and nothing else. Screen recording is the one exception: a screen recording captures your whole screen, prompter included, so close the prompter first if that is how you are recording. On a Mac or PC it works differently — the desktop app really is left out of screen capture.

Yes. The prompter floats above Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Facebook, X and your phone's own camera app. Record where you normally record; the script comes with you.

Yes. CueCard is free on iPhone and iPad, with no subscription, no trial and no paid tier, and the project is open source under the MIT licence on GitHub.

Not yet. The Android app is still being built. The iPhone and iPad app is free and out now, and so is the app for Mac and Windows.

Yes, and the iPad is the best screen CueCard runs on. Read the script full width at arm's length like a studio prompter, or shrink it into a floating window over the app you are filming in. See CueCard Teleprompter on iPad.

An iPhone or iPad running iOS 16.6 or later, iPadOS 16.6 or later.

Yes. The prompter behaves the same whether you are recording, going live or on a call, and it stays above whatever is in front of it — the camera, social apps, streaming tools, meeting apps, a browser — for as long as you want it there.

A cue is a note to yourself in the middle of the script — [cue smile], [cue slow down], [cue hold for two]. CueCard draws it in its own colour so you take it in as a direction rather than reading it aloud. Tap Add Cue, or just type [, and the tag is written for you. Pick the colour every cue is drawn in from Settings.

Most people speak somewhere between 120 and 160 words a minute, and read comfortably a little under that. CueCard sets the pace in lines per minute so you can nudge it up or down between takes until it matches how you actually talk, rather than making you speed up to catch it.

Yes. Pause it, start it again, or move the speed up and down while it is running. If a sentence needs more room than you gave it, you do not have to start the take over.

Yes. Set a start delay and CueCard counts you in before the script begins to scroll, so the first line is not the one you fumble while reaching for the record button.

Yes. Set a length in minutes and seconds and the timer runs while you speak, so you find out a take is running long while you can still do something about it, rather than in the edit.

Yes. You can make it wide, square or tall, set its own text size, and drag it anywhere on screen. Make it big enough to read at arm's length and small enough to leave your face and the rest of your shot clear.

Yes. Small, medium and large presets are available for both the in-app prompter and the floating one, so you can read comfortably at whatever distance you have set your phone up at.

Move the floating window as close to the front camera as you can and make it small. The smaller the window and the nearer it sits to the lens, the shorter the glance away — on camera it reads as someone thinking, not someone reading.

Yes. Save a script with a name and it stays in your library, ready to open, rename or run again.

Yes. You can set the app to light, set it to dark, or let it follow whatever your phone is already set to.

You sign in with Google to use the app. Your scripts and settings live on your device, and you can delete your account from Settings whenever you like. See the privacy policy for the details.

A hardware rig puts a mirror in front of your lens and costs real money to buy and carry. CueCard puts the script on the screen you are already holding. It is not identical — a beam-splitter rig puts your eyes dead centre on the lens — but for a phone shot filmed anywhere, at no cost, it gets you most of the way there.

Yes. CueCard for Mac and Windows keeps your speaker notes on your screen and out of your screen share on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Paste your notes in to use it with any deck, or add the browser extension so notes from Google Slides follow your slides. See the desktop app.

Yes. CueCard is designed to be undetectable on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and similar apps: it is excluded from screen capture, so your speaker notes stay off the shared screen while your deck goes out normally. Run one practice call to confirm it behaves as you expect with your setup.

No. On Mac and Windows the CueCard window is left out of screen shares and screen recordings by the operating system itself. If you want to be sure before a call, check that Ghost Mode is turned on in Settings and try one practice share.

Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack huddles, Discord — anything that shares a screen or a window. The notes are hidden at the operating-system level, not per app, so it is not a list you have to be on.

macOS and Windows. Both builds are on the downloads section and on the GitHub releases page.

No. Type or paste your notes straight into CueCard and present from anything you like — PowerPoint, Keynote, a PDF, a browser, or nothing at all. Google Slides sync is one extra way to use CueCard, not something it needs to work.

Yes. CueCard runs alongside whatever you present from — it does not need to know what your deck is. Paste your notes in and present as usual.

Two things have to be installed: the CueCard app for Mac or Windows, which is the window your notes appear in, and the CueCard browser extension, which reads the notes out of your deck. With both in place, open your presentation and the notes for the slide you are on show up in CueCard and change as you move through the deck.

Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

A cue is a reminder to yourself about how to say the next part, rather than another line to read. Write [cue slow down] or [cue pause here] in the middle of your notes and CueCard draws it in colour, so you take it in as a direction instead of reading it out. Cues are optional.

Yes. Set how long you have on the Set Timer pill and CueCard counts it down on screen while you talk, so you find out a slot is running long while there is still time to do something about it.

Yes. Turn Ghost Mode off in Settings and CueCard appears in the share like any other window, for when you want to walk people through the notes themselves.

Yes. There is a slider in Settings that fades the CueCard window back over your deck, so it can be as faint or as solid as you want it, and there are keyboard shortcuts for it too. Settings is also where you switch between light and dark.

Yes. Put CueCard on whichever display you like — it stays out of the shared screen either way, so it does not matter which one you are sharing.

Yes. Anything that captures the screen — a webinar platform, a Loom, a QuickTime recording, OBS — gets your deck without the notes.

Your notes and Google tokens stay on your device and are not uploaded. See the privacy policy for the full details.

Yes. CueCard for iPhone and iPad is a teleprompter that sits on top of the camera, Instagram, TikTok or any other app while you record, so you never have to switch apps in the middle of a take. Android is still being built. See the phone app.

Yes. CueCard is completely free on mobile and on desktop, and open source under the MIT licence. Read the code on GitHub — and a star is always welcome.

Yes, MIT licensed, on GitHub. An app that can see your script is one worth being able to read the source of.

On your device. Your notes are not uploaded to us. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is and is not kept.

Open an issue on GitHub, or email hello@thisisnsh.com. Both are read.