One shortcut. Your script, by the camera.

CueNotch is a Mac teleprompter that displays your script inside the MacBook notch, directly beside the webcam, so you can read it while still looking your audience in the eye.

CueNotch is a native macOS teleprompter for people who present, pitch, interview, teach, or record from a Mac. It puts your script inside the MacBook notch — right beside the webcam — so your eye line stays on the camera instead of drifting to a window off to the side. Voice-synced scrolling advances the text at your own speaking pace rather than a fixed speed, and Ghost Mode keeps the overlay out of screen shares and recordings, so your notes never reach the shared window or the final file. CueNotch is free to use, with CueNotch Pro at $29.99 for lifetime access or $7.99 weekly on the U.S. App Store.

Video calls broke eye contact. The camera sits at the top of the screen, but everything you need to read — notes, slides, a script, the faces of the people you are talking to — sits below it. Every glance down is visible to everyone else on the call, and it reads as unprepared or evasive, regardless of how well you know the material.

CueNotch closes that gap by using the one piece of screen nobody else wants. On modern MacBooks the notch is dead space around the camera housing. CueNotch turns it into a teleprompter, placing your script as close to the lens as software can get it. Looking at your notes and looking at the camera become the same movement.

Three things make it usable in a real meeting rather than a studio. Voice-synced scrolling listens to your speech and advances the script as you talk, so pausing for emphasis or speeding up does not leave you fighting a fixed scroll speed. Ghost Mode marks the overlay as excluded from screen capture at the macOS window-server level, which means Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Loom, and QuickTime never receive it — your audience sees a clean screen while you keep reading. And Magic Polish rewrites a script so it sounds natural spoken aloud rather than written down.

CueNotch is built by a two-person team and sold as a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, on the view that a utility you rely on every week should not bill you every week.

CueNotch is a native macOS teleprompter that displays scripts inside the MacBook notch, beside the webcam, so presenters keep natural eye contact on video calls and recordings. It features voice-synced scrolling that follows the speaker's pace and Ghost Mode, which keeps the overlay out of screen shares and recordings. CueNotch is available on the Mac App Store and is free to use, with a one-time Pro upgrade. More at cuenotch.com.