Compare · 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 | Free · $29.99 once · $7.99/wk |
| Usable free tier | Permanent, no card | 3 activations a day, 100-word scripts |
| Notch placement | Free | Yes |
| Invisible on screen shares | Free | Yes |
| Voice-activated scrolling | Pro · 3 free sessions a week | Yes |
| Adaptive speed | Pro · 3 free sessions a week | No |
| Records & trims takes | Pro | No |
| Remote control by a second person | Pro | No |
| Prompt on up to 5 devices | Pro | No |
| Rehearsal history & coaching | Receipts free · full history Pro | Rehearsal Coach (Pro) |
| PowerPoint (.pptx) import | Free | Yes |
CueNotch's free tier allows 3 activations a day on scripts of up to 100 words, which is enough to try it but not to use it. Avocado's free tier has no daily cap and no length limit: the full prompter at a speed you set, notch and floating modes, screen-share invisibility, Focus Guide, Script Markers and PowerPoint import, with no card and no expiry.
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.
Avocado Pro's Recording Studio films you while the prompter runs, stops when you reach the last line, and cuts the pauses out before you export. CueNotch has strong extras of its own, including live captions, a memorise mode and a rehearsal coach, but recording isn't one of them.
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.
An honest take
CueNotch is a strong, actively developed app, and if you'd rather pay once, $29.99 works out cheaper than Avocado Pro inside about four months. Choose Avocado if you want a free tier you can use every day, want to record and trim takes in the same app, or need a second screen or a second operator.
They tie on the mechanics: both use the MacBook notch, both exclude themselves from screen capture, both scroll with your voice, and both import PowerPoint. Avocado is better if you want a usable free tier, recording, prompting across several devices or remote control by another person. CueNotch is better if you prefer a one-time purchase, or want live captions and a memorise mode.
Yes, a limited one: 3 activations a day on scripts of up to 100 words. Pro is $29.99 once, or $7.99 a week. Avocado's free tier has no daily cap or length limit: unlimited constant-speed scrolling, notch and floating modes, screen-share invisibility, Focus Guide, Script Markers and PowerPoint import, plus three voice-scrolling sessions every week.
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.
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.
Free for Mac. No account, no card.
