Cue puts animated annotations on top of any Windows app: boxes, arrows, step numbers, text. Each one is an object you can move, restyle or animate, and it stays on screen while you keep working in Excel, PowerPoint or the browser.
On a shared screen, people are always one step behind. They can't see where you're pointing, and by the time they find it you've moved on.
Cue puts clear, animated cues on top of any app, keeps them there while you work, and lets you move or fix them at any time.
Every annotation in Cue is a real object with its own animation, style and place on screen. It comes in, holds attention and leaves when you say so, and you can change it at any moment.
Entrance, emphasis and exit animations, with the speed you choose. Lines can be solid, dashed or dotted, with moving textures.
Select, move, resize, recolor or retype anything already on screen. Undo and redo every change.
Annotations stay on screen while you keep working underneath. Nothing disappears until you clear it, erase it or set a timer.
Save four presets of tool, color, weight and animation, and call each one with a single shortcut.
Switching modes takes one key, so annotating never gets in the way of the app you are explaining.
Cue takes the mouse or pen and creates annotations. The app underneath gets no stray clicks.
Select, move, resize and restyle what's already on screen.
Annotations stay visible and keep animating while your clicks go straight to Excel, PowerPoint or the browser.
Built for Excel training, live demos, teaching and recorded tutorials. Works with a mouse, a pen or a Wacom tablet with pressure.
Rectangles, ellipses, arrows and lines that draw themselves in, pulse and fade out.
Number each step of a procedure and show exactly where to click.
Type a note right where it belongs, then resize it or change its text color.
Bands for rows and columns, a focus area that dims everything else, and solid boxes that hide sensitive data.
Check and cross stamps for exercises and reviews, and a countdown timer for practice time.
Freehand ink with pen pressure, and a whiteboard when you need a clean page.
Magnify a small part of the screen next to it, still or live, or zoom in on the whole screen.
Make the pointer easy to follow on a large or shared screen.
Shows the shortcuts you press, never what you type.
A live copy of a window or screen area on another monitor, cursor included. Handy when you present on a shared screen.
Cue lives in the system tray. Every shortcut can be changed in Settings.
Free for Windows 10 and 11. No account. Your annotations, settings and boards stay on your PC.
Download for WindowsWindows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Installs for your user only, no admin rights needed, and updates itself from the tray menu. Cue is not yet code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may ask you to confirm: choose More info → Run anyway.