Avocado vs. CueNotch
Both sit in the notch, both vanish from screen shares, both scroll with your voice. What separates them is what you get before paying — and what happens when the job is bigger than one person at one Mac.
| Feature | Avocado | CueNotch |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free · $7.99/mo · $79.99/yr | $29.99 once |
| Usable free tier | Permanent, no card | No |
| Notch placement | Free | Yes |
| Invisible on screen shares | Free | Yes |
| Voice-activated scrolling | Free | Yes |
| Adaptive speed | Free | No |
| Remote control by a second person | Pro | No |
| Prompt on up to 5 devices | Pro | No |
| Rehearsal history & coaching | Free | Rehearsal coaching |
| PowerPoint (.pptx) import | Free | No |
- Free
- included in Avocado's free tier
- Pro
- needs Avocado Pro, $7.99/mo or $79.99/yr
- No
- not available
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Why professionals choose Avocado over CueNotch
A free tier you can actually live in
CueNotch is $29.99 up front with no free mode, so the only way to learn whether it suits you is to buy it. Avocado's free tier is permanent: unlimited words-per-minute scrolling, notch and floating modes, screen-share invisibility, Focus Guide, Script Markers and PowerPoint import, with no card and no expiry.
It reaches past your own screen
Director Mode hands play, pause, scrubbing and markers to a producer on their own phone over your local Wi-Fi. The Teleprompter Viewer casts the same script to up to five devices at once through a plain browser. CueNotch stops at your Mac.
Feedback that accumulates
CueNotch offers rehearsal coaching, so this is the one place the two genuinely overlap. Avocado adds run-over-run history per script, session receipts with pace and completion, a weekly recap, and on-device Delivery Coaching.
Adaptive speed, not just voice detection
Beyond following your words, Avocado learns your natural pace in real time and adjusts the scroll to match — so there's nothing to chase when you speed up to land a point.
When to pick CueNotch instead
If you only ever prompt yourself, on one Mac, and would rather pay once than subscribe, CueNotch is a good app at a fair price — $29.99 works out cheaper than Avocado Pro inside about four months. Choose Avocado if you want to try before paying anything, or if a second screen or a second operator is ever part of the job.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Avocado or CueNotch better for Mac?
- They tie on the mechanics — both use the MacBook notch, both exclude themselves from screen capture at the macOS level, both scroll with your voice. Avocado is better if you want a permanent free tier, prompting across several devices, remote control by another person, or rehearsal history. CueNotch is better if you specifically prefer a one-time purchase.
- Does CueNotch have a free version?
- No. CueNotch is a $29.99 one-time purchase with no free tier, so you buy first and find out afterwards. Avocado's free tier is permanent and needs no card — unlimited constant-speed scrolling, notch and floating modes, screen-share invisibility, Focus Guide and Script Markers, plus three full-Pro passes every week.
- Are both invisible on Zoom and screen shares?
- Yes. Both use the same documented macOS capability — a window can set its sharing type so the system excludes it from every screen-capture API. Neither is doing anything the other can't; it's table stakes for notch prompters in 2026.
- Which is cheaper over time?
- CueNotch, if you need Pro features. $29.99 once is less than Avocado Pro at $7.99/mo or $79.99/yr beyond about four months. But Avocado's free tier costs nothing indefinitely, so for many people the honest comparison is $29.99 against $0.