It scrolls when you speak. It waits when you don't.

What gives reading away is not the script, it is the chase: a fixed-speed scroll runs ahead or falls behind, and your eyes track sideways while your voice fights to match a machine. Cuefyr moves at your pace instead, so you can slow down on a number and hold a beat without anything drifting.

For the eyes themselves, the rule is distance: the closer the text sits to the lens, the less your eyes travel. Float the window over the app you are recording in, size it narrow, and put it right under your camera. You can also move the read line up or down so the line you are speaking sits at lens height rather than at the bottom of the screen.

Nothing breaks. Cuefyr matches what you say against the whole script rather than assuming you are on the next word, so you can improvise a sentence, skip a paragraph, or restart a line you fluffed and it finds where you actually are. Stop talking and it waits. This is the part a fixed-speed prompter cannot do at all, and the reason most takes have to be restarted.

No. Speech recognition, and in Pro the camera and voice analysis, all run locally on your machine. Cuefyr sends nothing to any server. There is no account and no upload.

No. Cuefyr is software: the script floats over whatever is already on your screen, so a laptop and its webcam are enough. If you do own a beamsplitter hood or a second monitor, it works there too, since the window can be moved, resized and made click-through like any other.

Yes. For prompting, Cuefyr floats over OBS, Streamlabs, Zoom, Teams or Meet and never enters the video, so whatever those tools capture is unaffected.

For recording a take inside Cuefyr, it uses any camera and microphone your system exposes, which includes a DSLR or mirrorless body connected through a capture card or the maker's webcam utility. Pick the one you want in Settings, Devices. If you would rather record in OBS, do that and use Cuefyr purely as the prompter.

No. The overlay is on your screen only. When recording with OBS, capture the specific window or scene rather than the full display and the prompter stays out of the recording.

Paste it, type it, or drag a plain text file onto the editor. Scripts are stored as plain text on your machine, so there is nothing to import or export and nothing locked into a format you cannot read elsewhere.

Yes. Most clickers send the same keys a keyboard does, so Space starts and stops the read and the arrows step a line at a time. Overlay and click-through have global shortcuts that fire even when another app has the keyboard, which is what you need mid-call.

It measures things that are countable: your pace line by line, the pauses you held or skipped, filler and crutch words, pitch and volume range, and on camera your eye contact, steadiness and expression. It is not a human coach and does not pretend to judge whether the argument landed.

It errs on the side of saying less. A filler only counts if the speech engine still has it after its final pass over the take, because the engine commits guesses while you read and corrects them afterwards, and a guess it withdrew is not something you said. The most useful number is not any single score but the trend across repeat reads of the same script.

Yes. After installation, Cuefyr needs no internet connection at all. A Pro licence checks in quietly about once a day when you are online, and keeps working while you are not.

English, Urdu, and Hindi. Urdu displays right-to-left in a true Nastaliq typeface. Mid-sentence English and Urdu code-switching is on the roadmap.

No other desktop teleprompter voice-tracks all three. The few apps that handle Hindi or Urdu at all are browser or phone based and send your audio to a server to do it; Cuefyr does it on your own machine.

Yes. One codebase, same features, same sync engine on both. The two are built separately, so one can occasionally be a release ahead of the other for a few days.

Very little. The whole prompter is free, including recording, with no watermark, no time limit, and no script-length cap. Coaching is where Pro sits: free gives you your first 3 reports in full, then each later read shows one real metric and keeps the rest for Pro. Pro makes the reports unlimited and adds the on-camera analysis, the voice analysis, trends across past reads, and delivery cues on the script.

No. There is no clock and no expiry on it. Your 3 coaching reports sit there until you use them, and the teleprompter itself stays free whether you ever use them or not.

Yes. A licence covers several machines: activate the same key on each in Settings, Licence. If you replace a machine or reinstall, use Deactivate this device to free that slot first. If a licence ever lapses, Cuefyr drops back to the free teleprompter rather than locking you out of your own work.

Because the builds are not certificate-signed yet. On Windows, SmartScreen says the publisher is unknown: click "More info", then "Run anyway".

On Mac, Gatekeeper blocks it because the app is signed with our own certificate rather than an Apple-issued one. Open System Settings, go to Privacy and Security, and click "Open Anyway" next to the Cuefyr message. If macOS instead says the app is damaged, that is the same block wearing a different message: open Terminal and run xattr -cr /Applications/Cuefyr.app, then open the app normally.

Code signing is planned on both platforms, and the warnings disappear once it lands. Updates the app installs afterwards are cryptographically signed and verified either way.

The installer is about 41MB. On first launch it fetches the English speech packs once, with a progress bar. Hindi and Urdu are separate downloads you start from Settings only if you read in them.

Yes. Cuefyr checks quietly once per launch and offers the new version with its release notes. You can also check any time in Settings, where the full version history lives, or read the changelog here.

Yes, and it ships inside the app so it works offline. You can also read the full guide here: scripts and stage directions, the prompter, overlay, recording, the report, the film room, and troubleshooting.