Fold Cue is a teleprompter that records you. It listens on your iPhone, scrolls as you speak, and waits when you stop. On iPhone Duo your script faces you on the outer screen, right next to the main camera.
Fold Cue is a teleprompter app for iPhone that records video while the script scrolls with the speaker's voice. Speech is recognised on the device with Apple's speech framework, so no audio, transcript or script leaves the phone, and the script waits when the speaker pauses or ad-libs. A status line always says whether it is listening, following or has lost its place, and the speaker can switch to steady scroll, tap a word or use a Bluetooth page-turner to move the script by hand. Spoken commands save a take ("cut"), start over ("again"), star a take ("keep") and pause the script ("hold on"). Before each take a mic check waits for sound, and a picker chooses the microphone, including AirPods and USB-C mics. On iPhone Duo the script shows on the outer screen beside the 48MP main camera while the inner screen becomes a director's view. Export to Photos has no watermark and no time limit. A single Pro purchase, $9.99 until 6 November 2026 and $14.99 after, adds captions from the script, command trimming, take scoring, 4K, iCloud script sync and Final Cut Pro projects. Fold Cue needs iOS 26 or later, runs on iPhone only, and has no subscription and no ads.
A small version of the prompter, running in your browser. Talk and it moves. Stop and it waits for you.
What this page hears. Only how loud the room is, measured in your browser. Nothing is recorded, stored or sent anywhere. The real app goes further: it recognises the actual words on your iPhone, so it knows exactly where you are, skips ahead when you do, and notices when you ad-lib.
Stand the Duo up like a book, with the backs toward you. The outer screen sits beside the 48MP main camera, so your eyes stay on the lens while the camera that matters films you.
The outer screen keeps the reading line near the camera, with a LENS mark pointing at it. The line you just read disappears, so your eyes have nowhere to go but up.
Whoever's filming gets the framing, the sound level, the takes and a copy of the script across the inner screen.
Pick the inner front camera and the inner screen turns into one big page of script, with the reading line just under the lens.
Fold Cue reads the hinge and shows whether the angle is in the range we expect to stand steadily. That range is a starting point until we've measured it on a real iPhone Duo. Recording never depends on the outer screen: if it isn't available, the inner screen carries the script.
The backs face you. The script sits on the outer screen, with a LENS mark pointing at the camera.
Rendered from a 3D model built to Apple's published dimensions, not a photo. The screens are real Fold Cue captures from the iPhone Duo simulator. Drag the phone or the slider to fold it. The stand guide uses the same angles and wording as the app.
The things that go wrong halfway through a recording are the things Fold Cue spends its effort on.
The corner of the screen always says what the prompter is doing. If it loses you, it says so and asks for the line again, instead of quietly freezing mid-sentence.
Tap a word to jump there, or drag the script by whole lines. Bluetooth keyboards and page-turner remotes work, and so does VoiceOver. A nudge before a take sets where the take starts.
The countdown waits until it can hear you, so a muted mic never costs you a take. It skips itself if it heard you in the last 30 seconds.
Choose any input iOS offers, straight from the capture screen. AirPods work as a proper high-quality mic.
Video is written in two-second pieces. A phone call or a crash keeps everything up to that moment.
A run-through records nothing, stays amber the whole time, and ends with your pace in words a minute.
It estimates how far away you are and sets the text size to match. It only changes between takes, so you never lose your place to a reflow.
Save to Photos or share anywhere. The free app has no watermark and no time limit.
Say it between lines and Fold Cue does it. It only listens for commands where you're off the script, so a line that happens to contain the word "cut" stays a line.
Saves the take.
Ends this take and starts again from the top.
Stars the take, so you can find the good one later.
Holds the script where it is until you carry on.
Real screens from Fold Cue 1.0 on a 6.9-inch iPhone. iPhone Duo shots follow once the hardware is out.
No subscription and no ads, ever. Everything you need to record a script is free for good, and Pro is a single purchase that's yours to keep.
The whole prompter and recorder. Not a trial.
Nothing on this list will ever move behind the paywall.
Launch price until 6 November 2026, then $14.99. One purchase, no renewals.
Bought once, restored on any iPhone signed in to the same Apple Account.
Speech is recognised by Apple's on-device speech model, which downloads once per language and then works offline. No audio, transcript or script is sent anywhere.
Analytics are off until you opt in, and you can switch them off again in Settings. They never include script text, titles or file names.
Sync puts your scripts in your private iCloud database, where only your devices read them. Videos never sync.
Worth knowing before you plan a shoot around it.
Voice follow needs Apple's speech model for the script's language. Where there isn't one, the script uses steady scroll instead and tells you why.
Spoken commands work in English and German. Scripts in other languages use the English command words.
The outer-screen prompter and the director's view need iPhone Duo on iOS 27.1. On every other iPhone, Fold Cue is a front-camera prompter with the script just under the camera.
iPhone Duo goes on sale on 23 October, so the Duo layouts were built with Apple's developer tools and checked in its iPhone Duo simulator. We'll film on a real one as soon as we can and update the app from what we learn.
It trims commands and adds captions. For anything more, Pro hands the take to Final Cut Pro with your cuts and markers already in place.
Fold Cue is planned for 23 October 2026, the day iPhone Duo goes on sale. It works on any iPhone with iOS 26 from the same day.