Podium Notes vs Cue Cards

Podium Notes keeps your words in front of you — and now reads them back to you. Built for anyone who speaks from prepared text: preachers, lecturers, best men, keynote speakers, students rehearsing a presentation. PRESENT - Large, readable text with adjustable size and typeface - A highlight band that tracks where you are, sized to suit you - Set your speaking pace and see how long your talk runs - Themes for bright stages and dark rooms LISTEN — new in 2.0 - Hear your talk read aloud in a natural voice - Works entirely offline: the voice runs on your device and nothing is uploaded - Scrub to any point in your text and playback starts there - Picks up where you left off, even after closing the app - Plays through CarPlay, headphones and Bluetooth, with lock screen controls VOICE FOLLOW - Turn on the microphone and the text scrolls as you speak - Speech recognition runs on your device GETTING YOUR TEXT IN - Share from Notes, Mail, Pages, or any app with a share sheet - Import plain text and PDF files - Type or paste directly PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account, no sign-up - Your notes stay on your device and in your own iCloud - The speech voice ships inside the app, so nothing you write is ever sent anywhere Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Notes apps weren't built for speaking. Cue Cards is. Free to write. Build as many decks as you like, use every editor tool, and let the on-device AI turn your notes into cards. Unlock Play once, and you can run any deck at full length forever. Write your talk as a deck of cards - one beat per card - then hit Play. Your talking points appear huge and glanceable on a black screen built for stages, podiums, and studios. Tap or swipe to move between cards. No scrolling, no losing your place, no squinting at a Google Doc. MADE FOR SPEAKING - Podcast episodes and interviews - Wedding toasts and best-man speeches - Conference talks, sermons, lectures, pitches - Anywhere you'd rather glance at beats than read a script TIMERS THAT KEEP YOU ON PACE - One continuous deck timer - count up, or count down from your time slot - Per-card timers ("this story gets 90 seconds") - Auto-time cards from your script length - The screen flashes when a card's time is up - silent, unmissable - Timer colors shift green to yellow to red as time runs down AN EDITOR THAT GETS OUT OF THE WAY - Write like a notes app; bold, italics, colors, and bullets - Paste a speech from any app and split it into cards in one tap - Reorder cards with a touch and hold - Set text size from S to XL - or pinch, mid-speech WRITE IT WITH AI, ON YOUR DEVICE - Talk it through out loud and it writes your cards for you - Paste a brief, run of show, or notes and have them formatted into cards - Or just describe the talk and get a starting deck with the timings set - Runs on your iPhone using Apple Intelligence. Nothing is sent to a server. BUILT FOR THE MOMENT - Screen stays awake while you speak - Works in portrait and landscape, iPhone and iPad - Your decks stay yours - synced through your own iCloud, never our servers. No account, no tracking, nothing to sign up for One payment unlocks Play for good. No subscription, no account, nothing to sign up for. From the team behind Cuer, the rundown software broadcast teams run their live shows on.