Cue vs Orate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cue
This app helps creators and presenters film themselves by displaying scripts that scroll at a controllable speed and size. It offers modes for direct viewing or use with teleprompter glass, and allows recording with the front camera while reading lines.
- Adjustable scroll speed and font size
- Reader mode and mirror mode
- Record with front camera
- Paste or import scripts
- Customizable themes (Pro)
- Watermark-free recordings (Pro)
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Cue is a fast teleprompter for creators, presenters, and anyone who films to camera. Paste your script, set scroll speed and font size, then read while you record. Use reader mode or mirror mode for a teleprompter glass. Film with the front camera so your lines stay on screen while you talk. WHY CUE • Clean scrolling teleprompter — no clutter • Speed, font, colors, and countdown you control • Mirror / reverse text for glass setups • Front camera + record while you read • Paste from clipboard or import text • Privacy-first — no account required FREE Save a couple of scripts and use the core prompter and recording tools. CUE PRO Unlimited scripts, custom themes, and watermark-free recordings. Subscribe monthly or yearly. Restore purchases anytime. Built for YouTube, Reels, TikTok, voiceovers, speeches, and everyday on-camera work. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kick-start.ai/cue-teleprompt/cue-teleprompt-privacy-policy/
Orate
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Look at the lens, not the script. Orate is a video teleprompter that holds your script in a narrow band directly beneath the front camera, so your eyes stay where the lens is. Most teleprompter apps spread your script across the whole screen. Your eyes travel to read it, and everybody watching can see them move — it is the tell that separates talking to someone from visibly reading at them. Orate keeps the words under the lens instead. Turn the device and the lens changes edge, so the band follows it. The band is 45% of the screen by default, and anywhere from 15% to 100% if you want it another way. WHAT PEOPLE FILM WITH IT Reels and short social video. YouTube videos, product walkthroughs and demos. Lessons, client updates, investor updates, announcements and voiceovers — anything where you are talking to a camera and would rather not memorise it. Some people call this an autocue, or cue cards on a screen. Same job, and this is a teleprompter app built for doing it on a phone. A CRASH COSTS YOU SECONDS, NOT THE TAKE The file on disk is playable the whole time you are recording. A call, a flat battery, the system reclaiming memory — being killed mid-take costs you at most the last couple of seconds, instead of a file that will not open. Measured on a handset: a take killed at 3:58 recovered 3:56. IT KNOWS HOW YOUR LANGUAGE READS Read time comes from the writing system, not an English word count. The same three hundred words are two minutes of English, 2:18 of Hindi and 2:37 of Tamil — and Orate tells you which before you start. Chinese, Japanese and Thai are counted in characters instead. A PROMPTER YOU CAN ACTUALLY SET UP Scroll speed, mirror mode, font size, reading window height, text and background colour. A countdown before the take starts, so the first seconds are not you reaching for a button. Read without recording when you only want to rehearse, or record the voice alone with the camera off. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No account, no sign-in, no upload. Your scripts and your recordings stay on the device, and the whole app works with the network switched off. There is no server to send anything to — that is the architecture, not a policy that could quietly change. Anonymous diagnostics can be turned off in Settings at any time, and in the UK and Europe nothing is collected until you turn them on. THREE SCREENS, AND THAT IS THE WHOLE APP A library, a recorder, and a short settings screen. Write or paste a script, pick it, record. Trim the result and crop it to the shape the platform wants, then save it to Photos or share it. WHAT IS FREE • The whole teleprompter — speed, mirror mode, reading window, font size, colours • Crash-safe recording at 1080p • Prompter-only and audio-only modes • Export, share, and save to Photos • Three saved scripts • No watermark, on any tier WHAT PRO ADDS • Recording up to 4K • HDR • 60fps • Unlimited saved scripts Reliability is never behind the paywall. "The teleprompter that doesn't lose your take" cannot be a paid add-on, and export is not either — there is no fee to get your own video out, and nothing is stamped in the corner. FIFTEEN LANGUAGES, TRANSLATED IN FULL English, हिन्दी, বাংলা, मराठी, தமிழ், తెలుగు, Español, Português (Brasil), Bahasa Indonesia, ไทย, العربية, עברית, Čeština, Dansk and Deutsch — including right-to-left layout, which is a separate thing from the prompter's mirror mode. Terms of Use: https://orateapp.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://orateapp.co/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Orate at every 2 days against Cue's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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. Cue sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Orate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cue ships an update every 2 weeks, Orate every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cue | Orate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kickstart Ai LLC | Gajendra Singh Rathore |
In-app purchases
Cue
- Cue Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Cue Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Orate
- Monthly3 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Lifetime$79.99









