Prop Screen vs Cue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prop Screen
This app transforms your iPhone into a customizable screen prop for film and TV production. Create realistic mock phone interfaces, including call screens, message threads, and notifications, to enhance your visual storytelling. It offers offline functionality and is designed for professional use on set.
- Customizable call screens
- Simulated messaging conversations
- Prop notifications
- Full-screen playback
- Green screen mode with tracking
- Home screen designer
- Offline functionality
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PropScreen is the professional prop device simulator built for film and television production. Stop fighting with personal phones, paper green screens, or post-production fixes. Prop Screen turns an iPhone or iPad into a fully custom screen prop that adapts to your script. Every tool was designed by working filmmakers to solve real problems on set. WHAT'S INSIDE • Prop Call Screens — custom contact name, photo, ringtone, era-specific layouts, outgoing and unknown-number calls, lose-signal effects, volume-button trigger for hands-free cueing • Prop Video Calls — pre-recorded video for the remote caller, live front camera framing your actor • Prop Messaging — full blue- and green-bubble threads with photos and locations, played live or staged for actor delivery • Prop Notifications — bundled and custom app icons, banner or lock-screen layouts, stackable to tell a story • Prop Screen Playback — lockable fullscreen playback for any screen recording your production needs • Green Screen Mode — chroma screen with built-in tracking markers for VFX compositing • Prop Home Screen Designer — build any home screen layout, export as a transparent PNG • Project folders to keep a show organized Recent Update: • Director Mode — Pair a second device and run the performance phone remotely. Cue scripts beat by beat, watch typing mirrored live, trigger prop calls and notifications, and drive every prop app while your actor performs on a script-locked keyboard. Bluetooth clicker remotes supported. • Prop Security — A simulated camera wall with tap-in live views, event lists, and running timestamps. • Prop Maps — Repeatable navigation and driving directions with custom markers. Stop swapping screens between takes in a picture car. • Prop Social Messages — Chat props in five social platform styles. • Prop Live — A simulated livestream with an auto-generated, scene-reactive audience you can cue from Director Mode. • Prop Social Feeds — Scrollable photo, video, and story feeds built from your own posts. • Prop Mail - Create incoming and outgoing mail messages. • Prop Tube — Customize popular online video hosting services. • Prop Dating — Swipe left, swipe right, mock a dating experience for your scene. • Clean Mode — One switch loads an original app set with custom per-project names and icons. • 12 on-camera languages — Set each project's phone language independently, including Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, and Russian, each with its real keyboard. App interface now in 11 languages (beta). • Export for edit — Send prop message and social conversations to After Effects or DaVinci Resolve as transparent video, every bubble editable, typing animated. Import scripts from spreadsheets. • Backups you own — Automatic backup to your own iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive. Three named versions per device, one-file project export, nothing on our servers. • Built for iPad — A native iPad layout, not an upscaled iPhone build. • Adds cross platform support in Director Mode. BUILT FOR PRODUCTION Everything stays local to your device. Prop Screen does not place calls, send messages, or transmit any content. It is a self-contained visual prop tool, designed exclusively for staged content creation in film, television, theater, and photography. PROPSCREEN PRO • Every prop screen in the app • Unlimited saved projects across every tool • Custom imports — contact photos, ringtones, app icons, posters, screen recordings • Director Mode and volume-button trigger control • Works fully offline once installed • No ads, no accounts, no data collection WHAT'S NEXT Prop Screen ships regular updates driven by crew feedback. Need something for your next production? Tap the info icon in the app to email us directly. Designed for use on professional film and television productions. Built by Game Night Films & Film Swag. By downloading PropScreen, you agree to Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Cue
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Somebody always ends up running the screen. At a conference, a service, a quiz night, a wedding — someone at the back is making the next thing appear. Cue is built for that person. Your iPad becomes the whole booth — the job that used to take a media server, a laptop at the back, and an operator manual. Build the show from photos, videos, PDFs, song lyrics, and timers, plug into a projector or TV (or AirPlay to it), and drive everything live. The audience sees one clean, composed picture. You see your library, a preview, and a big GO button. • Three layers, composed live. A background, words over it, a countdown on top. Each switches on its own, so changing the slide never kills the video behind it. • Cue mode. Stage the next slide, background, and timer, then commit everything at once with GO. The audience never sees you working. • Scenes. Save a full look — layers, positions, everything — and bring it back in one tap. • Songs that behave. Paste lyrics, get slides. Cue points jump straight to the chorus, from a tap or a number key. • Timers and scoreboards. Countdowns, count-to-time, clocks, and live scores, styled to match and layered over anything. • Instant switching. Staged videos pre-roll and images pre-warm, so GO lands on the first frame, not a black flash. Cue works offline and needs no account. Your shows and media stay on your device. It's free to use with a small watermark on the output; Cue Pro removes it with a monthly or yearly plan (3-day free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase. Made for iPad first. Fits in your pocket on iPhone. Privacy Policy: https://cuepresenter.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://cuepresenter.com/terms
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Verdict
Prop Screen and Cue are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Prop Screen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Cue sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Prop Screen ships an update weekly, Cue every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prop Screen | Cue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Game Night Films | Joseph Regalado Siscar |
In-app purchases
Prop Screen
- Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$89.991 Year
- Lifetime$999.99
Cue
- Cue Pro Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Cue Pro Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Cue Pro Lifetime$29.99









