Cue

A teleprompter for video calls: your talking points float above every window, and nobody you share your screen with can see them.

⬇ Download Cue for macOS · macOS 13+ · all releases · Русская версия

The panel sets NSWindow.sharingType = .none, so macOS cuts it out of screen capture. Zoom, Meet, Teams, QuickTime recording and system screenshots all go through that capture, so the panel doesn't show up in them.

Install

1. Download Cue.dmg.
2. Open it and drag Cue into Applications.
3. Launch Cue from Applications.

Cue lives in the menu bar (a lines-of-text icon at the top of the screen), there's no Dock icon. Requires macOS 13 or later.

"Apple could not verify Cue is free of malware"

On first launch macOS shows this warning. It's expected: Cue is open source but not notarized by Apple (that requires a paid Apple Developer account). macOS shows this for every app downloaded from the internet without notarization. You only need to allow it once.

macOS 15 Sequoia and later

1. In the warning, click Done (not "Move to Trash").
2. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll down.
3. Next to "Cue was blocked to protect your Mac", click Open Anyway.
4. Confirm with your password or Touch ID, then click Open Anyway again.

macOS 13 Ventura and 14 Sonoma

1. In Finder, open Applications.
2. Right-click (or Control-click) Cue → Open.
3. Click Open in the dialog.

Any version, via Terminal

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Cue.app

This removes the "downloaded from the internet" flag, the one that triggers the warning.

After that Cue opens normally, and in-app updates install without the warning.

Updates

Cue checks GitHub Releases at launch and offers to install a newer version. Manually: menu bar → Check for Updates…

Hotkeys

⌃⌥P	show / hide the panel
⌃⌥V	paste notes from the clipboard
⌃⌥↑ ⌃⌥↓	scroll
⌃⌥Space	auto-scroll
⌃⌥1 … ⌃⌥9	switch between open files

If a shortcut is taken by another app, Cue says so in the first line of its menu — Carbon refuses silently, otherwise the hotkey just "doesn't work".

The mouse wheel scrolls the text, the panel drags from anywhere and resizes from the edges. Hover to reveal buttons: font size, to top, paste, open files, next file, hide. Edit the text from the menu bar → Edit Text…

Several files

Open Files… takes as many as you like: pitch, Q&A, numbers. Open files show as tabs above the buttons on hover; switch with a click or ⌃⌥1…9. Each file keeps its own scroll position. Reopening a file refreshes its tab instead of adding another. Close one from the menu bar → Close Current File.

Voice-paced scrolling

The mic button on the panel (or menu bar → Voice-Paced Scrolling): the text moves while you talk and stops while you're silent. There's no speech recognition — people paraphrase their notes anyway.

Mic permission is requested when you switch this on, not at launch. The threshold adapts to the room noise; if it triggers on the air conditioner or misses quiet speech, tune sensitivity in VoiceGate.swift.

Build

./scripts/make-dmg.sh             # dist/Cue.app, Cue.dmg, Cue.zip
.build/release/Cue --selftest     # logic checks: layout, scrolling, files, font, updates, voice gate
swift scripts/check-invisible.swift   # with Cue running: panel is on screen

CI builds and runs the self-test on macOS 14, 15 and 26 for every push.

Release

git tag v1.1.0 && git push origin v1.1.0

CI builds Cue.zip and Cue.dmg and publishes the release; installed copies pick it up on the next launch.

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