Support & FAQ

Apple's speech recognition runs on your iPhone and turns what you say into words. Fold Cue matches those words against your script and moves the script to the line you are on. When you pause, it waits for you.

If you ad-lib, it holds its place until you come back to the script. Spoken commands only count when you say them on their own, so a line in your script that contains the word "cut" gets read, not obeyed.

The status next to the script always says what voice follow is doing, so it never just stops without telling you.

Listening means it has not heard you yet in this take. Following you means what you say matches the script. Lost you means you have been speaking for a few seconds but the words do not match the script, usually because you went off script. Paused means you tapped pause or said "hold on".

Keep reading. As soon as your words match the script again, it picks up from there.

You can also move it yourself. Tap the word you are on, or drag the script up or down by whole lines. If you would rather not rely on your voice at all, tap Steady under the script and it scrolls at an even pace instead. Tap Voice to switch back.

Each script has its own language, set in the script's settings. Voice follow works in every language Apple's on-device speech recognition supports. The first time you use a language, iOS downloads a speech model for it, and after that it works offline.

If a language is not supported yet, the app says so and uses steady scroll for that script. The app itself is in English and German.

Say them on their own, with a short pause before and after:

"Cut" saves the take. "Again" stops and starts over from the top, with the countdown. "Keep" or "keep that" stars the take you just saved. "Hold on" pauses the script, and saying the next line carries on. "Steady" switches between voice follow and steady scroll.

For German scripts the words are "Schnitt" (or "cut"), "nochmal", "behalten", "warte" or "Moment", and "gleichmäßig". Scripts in other languages use the English words.

With Pro, the commands are trimmed out of the finished video.

Yes. Any Bluetooth keyboard or page-turner that sends arrow or Page Up and Page Down keys works.

Down arrow, right arrow and Page Down move to the next line. Up arrow, left arrow and Page Up go back a line. Space starts recording or pauses. VoiceOver users can move the script with the adjust actions too.

Before the countdown, Fold Cue waits until it can actually hear you, then starts the countdown by itself. That way you do not film a whole take with a muted or disconnected mic.

Record anyway and Cancel are always there. If the app heard you in the last 30 seconds it skips the check, and you can turn it off in Settings with Check the mic before recording.

Tap the microphone button on the capture screen to open the iOS input picker, and choose AirPods, a USB-C mic or a wired mic. The mic check listens to whichever one you picked.

The video is written in short pieces while you record, so a phone call, a crash or a flat battery keeps the take up to that moment. The next time you open Fold Cue, the take is back in your list.

Rehearse runs the prompter and voice follow without recording anything. It is amber instead of red, so you can tell at a glance that nothing is being filmed. When you finish, it tells you your pace in words a minute.

Yes, in Settings. You can set the size by hand, or turn on Size text for my distance, which uses the camera's face detection to measure how far away you stand. The size only changes between takes, never while you are reading.

Mirror text is there for beam-splitter teleprompter rigs.

Save a take to Photos or share it anywhere from the share sheet. There is no watermark and no time limit, free or Pro.

Open the phone and stand it on a table with the backs toward you. The script shows on the outer screen, right beside the main camera, so your eyes stay close to the lens while the 48MP camera films you. The inner screen, facing away from you, becomes a director's view with the framing, the sound level, your takes and a copy of the script.

While you set it up, the stand guide on the inner screen shows the hinge angle and tells you to open or close it a little. It aims for 145 to 160 degrees.

iOS decides when an app may show something on the outer screen during capture. When it cannot, Fold Cue shows the script on the inner screen instead, and recording carries on as normal. You can also turn the outer screen off with Show the script on the outer screen in Settings.

Yes. Switch to the inner front camera and the inner screen turns into a reading layout. The script sits on its own on the right page, with the line you are reading just under the camera.

An iPhone with iOS 26 or later. Fold Cue is an iPhone app and does not run on iPad.

The outer-screen prompter, the director's view and the stand guide need iPhone Duo with iOS 27.1. On every other iPhone the script sits at the top of the screen, just under the front camera.

Free: scripts, voice follow, recording, spoken commands, the mic check, Rehearse and export to Photos, with no watermark and no time limit.

Pro: captions from your script, burned in or as SRT and WebVTT files, spoken commands trimmed out of the video, take scoring and picking the best take, 4K recording, iCloud sync of your scripts, and Final Cut Pro export.

Pro is a single purchase. The launch price is $9.99 until November 6, 2026, and after that it is $14.99. There is no subscription and no ads. Pro is not shared through Family Sharing.

Open Settings in Fold Cue and tap Restore purchase in the Pro section. Make sure you are signed in with the Apple Account you bought it with.

Turn on Sync scripts with iCloud in Settings (Pro). It takes effect the next time you open Fold Cue. Only scripts sync, to your own private iCloud. Takes and videos stay on the iPhone that recorded them.

A folder with the video, a Final Cut Pro project and an SRT caption file. The project has your cuts as edits, a marker at every paragraph of the script and the captions. Send the folder to a Mac and open the project in Final Cut Pro.

No. Speech is recognised on your iPhone, and your audio, scripts and videos are never sent to us.

The app can send anonymous usage counts, like "a take was saved", but only if you turn on Share anonymous usage counts. It starts off. The privacy policy lists exactly what that includes.

Delete the app. Scripts, takes and settings are stored on your iPhone and go with it. If you used iCloud sync, your scripts are also in your iCloud, and you can remove them in the iOS Settings app. Takes you saved to Photos stay in Photos.