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CuedropPRO
Two hosts. One phone. Studio sound.
Drop the cue.
Not the mic.
Every other prompter app on Android drops your mic — it literally cannot see a USB microphone, so whatever you plug in, you still get phone audio. Cuedrop records the microphone you actually plugged in. One voice or two, on separate channels, from one phone.
You can’t re-record an interview.
Every other part of a bad take is fixable. You can relight it, reframe it, cut it down. You cannot go back and capture audio that was never captured — and by the time you find out, the other person has gone home.
What happens now
- You plug in a good mic and get phone audio anyway. Almost every phone prompter is a web page in a wrapper, and on Android a web page cannot see a USB microphone at all.
- Two people, one track. One voice is too hot, the other too quiet, and there is no way to fix one without wrecking the other.
- So you carry a second recorder — and spend the edit lining up two files by hand.
- You find out afterwards. No meters while you shoot means the first time you hear the problem is the first time you can’t solve it.
What Cuedrop does instead
- Captures your microphone natively — plug in a RØDE, pair a DJI. The mic you chose is the one being recorded.
- Two people, two channels, one phone. Fix one voice in the edit without touching the other.
- Live meters in real dBFS with a target band and clip warnings, so you know the take is good before you stop rolling.
- Play it back before it saves. Keep, retake or discard while everyone is still in the room.
Why nobody else does this: native USB and Bluetooth capture, and two-channel A/B recording, are things a browser-based app physically cannot do on a phone. That is not a feature they have skipped — it is one they cannot reach.
Everything you need while you’re rolling, on one screen.
Design renderings of the shipping build — the teleprompter, the two-channel meters and the review step, as they look while you record a podcast.
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The record screenScript, camera and both channels in one view. The read line sits high so your eyes stay near the lens.
Review before you commitPlay the take back with both levels shown and clipping flagged — then keep, retake or discard.
The cue drops. The mic doesn’t.
You talk. The script follows. Read at whatever pace feels natural — CueLock listens through the microphone you’re recording with, not the phone’s, and keeps the words with you.
It hears what your listeners will hear
Other prompters listen on the phone’s mic while your good one does the recording. CueLock listens on the mic you’re actually using — so it hears you the way your audience will, and follows you just as well when you drop your voice.
It works with no signal
Add a language pack once and CueLock runs entirely on your phone. A basement, a car, a back room with one bar — the script still follows you, and nothing you say is sent anywhere. The panel always tells you which is running.
The script waits for you
Miss a word, cough, lose your place — the script stays where you are instead of jumping somewhere wrong. Say the next few words and it picks you back up. Or tap any word on screen to go straight there.
Voice-following is the feature this whole category charges for — on the biggest competitor it is the entire paid tier. CueLock is the only one that listens through your studio microphone while it records you.
Audio is the hero, not a settings screen.
Both channels metered in real dBFS, in the record chrome, while you shoot. The green band is the target — land inside it and the edit is easy.
Aim between −18 and −12 dBFS. Channels are labelled A and B as well as coloured, so the reading survives sunlight, a screenshot, or colour-blindness.
The numbers the teleprompter is designed around.
Script sits within four degrees of the lens — the window where a viewer still reads it as eye contact. Drift wider and you look checked out.
Short enough to take in with one glance, so your eyes travel down rather than sweeping across and off the lens.
Speed set in words per minute, not an arbitrary 1–100 slider — the single most common complaint about every other prompter.
Everything here exists to protect the take.
| Capability | What it’s called | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Two-person A/B channels | Dual-Host Recording | Record you and your guest on separate tracks — clean edits, no crosstalk. |
| Pro USB & Bluetooth mics | Real-Mic Ready | Plug in your RØDE. Pair your DJI. Studio sound from the mics you already own. |
| High-quality native capture | Studio-Grade Capture | Broadcast-quality audio and video, recorded on-device. |
| Review before save | Playback Before You Commit | Watch it back and re-record before it ever hits your library. |
| Virtual backgrounds | Instant Studio Background | Look like you’re in a studio, anywhere — no green screen. |
| Teleprompter + WPM speed | Never Lose Your Place | Read naturally at your real speaking pace; keep your eyes on the lens. |
If you record two people talking, this was built for you.
Cuedrop is not a general video app. It is for people whose audio has to be right the first time — and it is deliberately narrow about that.
- Two-person podcasts recorded in the same room, on a phone. Host on channel A, guest on channel B, no second recorder and nothing to line up afterwards.
- Interview shows where you need to read your questions and still watch the person answering them.
- Journalists and field interviewers working somewhere with no signal. CueLock runs on your device; nothing needs a connection.
- Solo creators who bought a decent microphone and are tired of every phone app ignoring it.
If you shoot short vertical clips on the built-in mic, the free version is genuinely all you need — and it always will be. Cuedrop Pro is for the podcast, the interview and the long take.
Being narrow about that is the method, not a limitation: find the person the standard product ignores, then build the thing that serves them specifically. The rest of the work →
One payment. No subscription. Ever.
Every other serious prompter app rents you the feature that matters. Cuedrop sells it to you once. The free version is a real teleprompter, not a demo — and every install gets seven days of everything, so you can test it with your own microphones on a real take before you decide.
Free
$0 forever
One person, one mic. No watermark, no ads.
- The full teleprompter — continuous and cue-card modes
- Every reading aid: eye line, guide line, focus window, mirror
- Three saved scripts, editor, bookmarks
- Record up to 15 minutes on the phone’s mic — fine for clips, short of a podcast
- Review your take before it saves
No account. Nothing expires.
Cuedrop Pro
$49.99$79.99
Founding price for the first 90 days. Yours permanently.
- Your USB and Bluetooth microphones — the whole point
- Two people, two channels, with independent gain, mute and live meters
- CueLock — the script follows your voice, heard through your own mic, processed on your device
- Unlimited recording length and unlimited scripts
- 4K, virtual backgrounds, caption files
Seven days of Pro on every install, with three saved exports. Buy it once and it stays with your Google account — new phone, same unlock.
Why one payment and not a monthly fee: the subscriptions in this category are paying for someone else’s cloud — AI credits, hosted storage, subtitle rendering. Cuedrop runs on your phone and costs us nothing per recording, so there is nothing to meter and no reason to charge you rent.
IN DEVELOPMENT · ANDROID
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